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Presentation Quality Forecast Visualization With SAS/GRAPH

A statistical forecast is useless without sharp, attractive and informative graphics to present it. SAS/GRAPH can produce superior results without resorting to exporting the data and drawing in Microsoft Excel. This paper demonstrates this simplicity using a few macros that make it possible to generate production quality forecast, confidence interval...

Tags: Visualization, SAS Institute, ANNOTATE Facility

White papers 2007-05-14

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'Spam King' escapes from federal prison

[ UPDATE:  Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...

Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

COPA is unconstitutional

COPA is unconstitutionalgovernment censorshipNow that Andrew Cuomo AG NY has had most of the ISP's Eliminate ALT* Bineries newsgroups. Does this action, which is like finding a book in the library and burning down the complete facility . Eliminate Cuomo's actions and allow the ISP's to again carry ALT Bineries...

Tags: Regulations, Child Online Protection Act

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose

The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...

Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-22

California greenlights two renewable energy development projects

Southern California Edison has received the thumbs-up from the California Public Utilities Commission to contract to buy clean energy from two new alternative energy projects. The first, the Granite Wind development in San Bernardino County, will see the construction of a 41-megawatt wind farm slated to come...

Tags: Renewable Energy, California, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...

Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Researcher claims thousands of identities stolen during Social Engineering pentests

Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading, reported on research conducted by Joshua Perrymon, hacking director for PacketFocus Security Solutions and CEO of RedFlag Security, who has been performing social engineering exploits for numerous clients in the past year and has apparently stolen thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. ...

Tags: Social Engineering, Identity, Dark Reading Article, Identity Theft, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Google ships open-source Web security assessment tool

The Google security team has released a free, open-source Web app security assessment tool capable of flagging vulnerabilities and potential security threats in Internet-facing applications. The tool, called Ratproxy, is described as a passive Web application security audit tool designed to analyze legitimate, browser-driven interactions with tested Web...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Application, Web Security, Tool, Google Security Team, Productivity, Open Source, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Brightening outlook for solar energy?

Wanted to add another couple of links related to Harry's post yesterday about SolarCity. The actual news of the day is the company's new 8,200-square-foot facility in Phoenix, from which it will run its SolarLease program. One thing that Harry didn't mention in his post is...

Tags: Solar Energy, Investment, Utility Solar Assessment Study, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership

Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadershipIt's GovernmentWhy should anybody put any effort into any government project. There is no penalty for failure. The pay checks keep on rolling.The oversight Congress are a bunch of self serving fossils, who for the most part are clueless.However, the public...

Tags: Six Sigma, Government, brain drain, bad leadership, CMMI, leadership

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Photos: How UPS Next Day delivers

News.com's Daniel Terdiman takes a late night excursion to UPS' mammoth Worldport facility in Louisville, Ky., to check out the tech involved in getting overnight packages to your doorstep. by CNET News.com

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-06-23

Terremark on target with green data center buildout near nation's Capitol

This represents my final post this month about green data center buildouts that have been pitched to me in the past several weeks. I actually first wrote last fall about the facility in question, Terremark Worldwide's new NAP of the Capitol Region in Culpepper, Va. The new information in this...

Tags: Data Center, Terremark Worldwide, Reserve, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-22

Savvis gets savvy-er about when to retrofit and when to start anew with data centers

Welcome to my latest post in the Greenest-Data-Center-of-them-all blog series. This brief entry comes courtesy of my chat last week Jim Kozlowski, vice president of hosting service for data center operator Savvis, which just opened a new facility in the Chicago area. The actual press release detailing the opening of...

Tags: Data Center, Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-21

Microsoft earmarks another $200 million for Windows advertising

Microsoft earmarks another $200 million for Windows advertisingI'd say adress the non OEM market.$399 for Ultimate was crazy. When you can purchase an entire computer with Ultimate for $599, you know the OEMs are getting a huge break. Over time, MS has "encouraged" people to buy from OEMs...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, marketing, Microsoft Windows, WinMobile

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Teachers want more training...no kidding

Teachers want more training...no kiddingThe new OpenSUSE 11 has an education software sourceYou may want to check out the new OpenSUSE 11 released yesterday: it has an education software source which you can turn on easily. :-)Important new feature: Yast has become a whole lot faster.It's standard long term...

Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, Ning.com, Moodle, Novell OpenSuse, training, OpenSUSE 11

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Smart Favorites (zip)

Smart Favorites is a bookmark management solution to organize, annotate and check your favorite Internet pages. Smart Favorites efficiently handles up to millions of links by using a database; is a useful and easy-to-use tool that helps you to store, organize and quick access to your favorite Web pages. It...

Tags: Internet, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-06-20

IBM lays claim to 'greenest' data center title, at least here in North America

OK, by the time this next week is out, you will be as weary as I am of all the "greenest" "more energy-efficient" data centers ever built news that I will report. The good news is that no matter WHICH claim to be the greenest is true, there is some...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Photos: A detour to Geek Squad City

At the computer repair company's giant facility just south of Louisville, it's all PC fixes, all the time. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Detour, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-06-19

Can Silicon Valley's San Jose find its way?

San Jose suffered a massive calamity just a few years ago that cost it 225,000 jobs - nearly one quarter of its entire population - the worst job loss anywhere in the US since the Great Depression. The dotcom dotbomb from 2001 to 2003 was a period...

Tags: San Jose, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Mac and PC are at it again

The decision-making about how to roll out new technology in our district's elementary schools continues. While the decisions have been fairly straightforward at the middle and high schools, such is not the case at our elementaries, where religious wars are breaking out. It actually feels a little bit...

Tags: School, Apple Macintosh, PC, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-17