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Torture Testing - The big case test - Part 3

Torture Testing - The big case test - Part 3Torture Testing ... the next phaseOK, you've seen the torture testing so far, but I thouhgt I'd let you into the final phase - what does it really take to break these cases? I have some ideas, but if you...

Tags: Construction, Anvil, Torture-Testing, tire, wall

Discussion threads 2007-07-27

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ReactOS no threat to Windows

ReactOS no threat to WindowsBugs[i]Which brings up a final point. Bugs. Is React going to copy Windows’ bugs?[/i]They have to, for compatibility reasons. If they don't they're dead in the water.Of course if they do, they're shark bait. They can't get away with the same bugs Microsoft does,...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT, ReactOS, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Dodge That Anvil (exe)

The sky is falling, Eastwarren's rabbits have been forced underground, and only one brave harvester stands between them and starvation. Travel through bountiful fields while unraveling the mystery of the perilous anvil storm. Be clever, be quick, and dodge that anvil. A unique 3D action platform game with cartoon physics,...

Tags: Sky, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-12-27

Seven Traffic Myths Exposed (zip)

New report reveals never-before-told truths behind seven of the most shocking traffic myths that will drop your search engine rank like an anvil if you fall victim to them. Take the next 5 minutes and read this shocking report to discover the truth behind these traffic myths and what you...

Tags: Search Engine, Traffic Myth, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-11-16

Will Apple miss the virtualization boom?

Will Apple miss the virtualization boom?A happy compromiseI understand not allowing virtualization on other hardware, but it would be nice to be able to run OS X under Parallels on my Mac.Another compromiseHave OSX check to see if it is running in Parallels or VMWare or whatever. That theoretically...

Tags: Utility computing, Storage management, Desktops, Apple Inc., hardware, virtualization, OSX, PC

Discussion threads 2007-09-20

Liquid crystal burning bright, saves poor Leo from his plight

Don't you hate it when that happens? Right in the middle of an emergency appendix operation, BAM!, all the power goes out. According to an article in Reuters, Leonardo Molina was on the operating table on July 21st when everything went dark.TIGER, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the...

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Surgeon, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Caught on tape: Supposedly user-friendly label printing foiled by Microsoft and Avery

I'm at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley where I'm running Mashup Camp and, in true DIY do it yourself fashion and in an effort to keep costs low, I take care of printing the badges on my own. Where ever I go to run these events, an HP...

Tags: Video, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Events

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Dreaming up a new defence contractor

On August 22, 1963 a guy named Joe Walker flew the Bell X-15 experimentalspaceplane to 354,200 feet - a record not equalled until Brian Binnie flewSpaceShipOne to 367,442 feet in October of 2004.What happened at NASA in between was basically that the nationalurgency put into the moon missions forced...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Dodge That Anvil (dmg)

The sky is falling. Eastwarren's rabbits have been forced underground, and only one brave harvester stands between them and starvation. Travel through bountiful fields while unraveling the mystery of the perilous anvil storm. Be clever, be quick, and dodge that anvil. A unique 3D action platform game with cartoon physics....

Tags: Sky, Eastwarren, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2007-03-09

Anvil: VDP Segmented Workflow Toolset

The segmented workflow approach and the Anvil toolset provide substantial advantages compared to current Variable Data Print VDP workflow solutions. Explicit separation of concerns and a more flexible interaction between the different parties involved are key aspects. The Anvil plugins for layout tools allow designers to create more sophisticated VDP...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Workflow, Adjustment, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2007-02-07

MacTel: "the real story"

MacTel: "the real story"Backwards CompatibilityBackwards compatibility is important for the most widely used operating system in the world. Gee, go figure... All the haters out there continue to criticize MS but we would not be where we are today without Microsoft. What most likely you are going to see is...

Tags: Processors, Games, Backwards-Compatibility, Intel Itanium, Cell, Intel x86, Microsoft Corp., PPC, Sun Sparc, performance, river, Sony PlayStation 3

Discussion threads 2006-12-15

MacTel: "the real story"

As I discussed yesterday, Robert Cringley has spent a lot of PBS Pulpit time trying to find the gold in Apples MacTel decision. Now, personally, I rather think people, even people like Steve Jobs, make mistakes - but, lets consider an alternative theory. This one starts with Microsoft...

Tags: PPC, Microsofts, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-12-15

El Airplane (exe)

This game is a spoof on popular scrolling shooters. You are to pilot the most unusual airplane in the world. Actually, the flying chariot is a more appropriate word. Your goal is to get to the finish, destroying the enemies on the way. Your ammunition will consist not of bullets,...

Tags: Enemy, Airplane, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-11-30

HP regains spot as No. 1 PC maker worldwide

HP regains spot as No. 1 PC maker worldwideShowing the way"The bright spot in the gloomy U.S. market was Apple Computer's better-than-expected quarter. Gartner tallied the Cupertino, Calif. company's growth at 31 percent since the third quarter of 2005, its U.S. market share jumping to 6.1 percent."And we shouldn't forget...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-10-18

Google now baby-steps away from eBay-like auction service

Google now baby-steps away from eBay-like auction serviceClarificationsThe reason why the current price of an eBay item doesn't automatically jump up to your max bid amount when your max bid doesn't meet the reserve is because it would be pointless to do so, when your max bid doesn't meet the...

Tags: Google Inc., eBay Inc., auction service

Discussion threads 2006-07-03

Monday morning massacre: 17 employees fired for forwarding porn

Monday morning massacre: 17 employees fired for forwarding pornThe 21st Century Inquisition has begun.nuff saidI was fired for forwarding from my home...to a coworker's home account. That coworker printed it at work and they fired ME!and we should care because?Absent of information about what was sent, how should we...

Tags: e-mail, media

Discussion threads 2006-05-03

Boot Camp: end of the beginning or beginning of the end?

When Apple announced, last week, release of a utility allowing MacTel machines to boot and run Windows/XP we saw two basic kinds of reactions: some people immediately announced that this was the beginning of the end as MacOS X would now give way to Microsoft Vista, while other people concluded...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Computer Inc., MacOS X, Apple Mac OS, hardware, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-04-12

Image Anvil (exe)

Image Anvil is a complete image management tool, offering intuitive viewing, editing, renaming and converting image files, supporting all common image files types including multi-page tiff, jpeg, gif, wmf, wbmp, and pdf. Image Anvil offers high-speed renaming, batch renaming and conversion, including output to single or multipage pdf files. Image...

Tags: Image Management, Image Anvil

Software downloads 2006-02-09

War of the words between CRM overlords

This past May, I wrote about how Bruce Cleveland who heads up Siebel's ASP-delivered CRM offering (officially "CRM OnDemand") had emerged from his bunker, apparently ready to take on with a vengeance CRM ASP poster-child Marc Benioff and his outfit Salesforce.com (see Siebel's on-demand chief now available on demand). ...

Tags: total contract value, Salesforce.com Inc., Siebel Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-08-09

Coder group: H-1Bs behind women's decline in IT

Coder group: H-1Bs behind women's decline in ITIn other newshttp://money.cnn.com/2005/06/24/news/fortune500/ibm_india/index.htm?cnn=yes" IBM is planning to hire more than 14,000 new workers in India this year, even as the company proceeds with layoffs of up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the United States""People who say this is simply labor arbitrage don't...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Outsourcing, H-1B, women, brainpower, information technology

Discussion threads 2005-06-27