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- Can asbestos help us understand nanotoxicity?
- Can asbestos help us understand nanotoxicity?PhilosilicatesBoy this takes me back - WAY back to college and my geology studies. Asbestos is a string of silica tetrahedrons (SiO4). Looking under a microscope it looks like a miniature CHAIN SAW at least the BLADE of a chainsaw. Since Silica is actually GLASS,...
- Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, asbestos, carbon, blade, bond
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Can asbestos help us understand nanotoxicity?
- Today, it's unknown if nanomaterials under development are dangerous to human beings or to our environment. Some people think that nanoparticles can move to our lungs or our brains, presenting a significant threat to our health. Other scientists think there is no danger because we have been exposed to nanoparticles...
- Tags: asbestos
- Blog posts 2005-10-19
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- How to make sweet lemonade out of sour Vista lemons
- In a previous article I talked about some of the ways Microsoft might be able to learn from its mistakes with Windows Vista and deliver a winner with Windows 7. I also hit pretty close to home with a number of readers when I talked about the real world problems...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Who kicked up the cell phone scare?
- His name is Vini Khurana right. Doctor Khurana to you. Best known until now for having performed the first brain keyhole surgery with the patient awake, he has now compiled a review of all the data he could find on cell phones and brain cancer. (The last...
- Tags: Phone, Dr., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Server 2008: The Windows Workstation we always wanted
- As discontent over Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1) continues to swirl, Microsoft is gearing up to launch on February 27 the "other" Windows: Windows Server 2008. Even though it is built from the same core as Vista, Windows Server is different from Vista in a number of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, General Motors Corp., Jason Perlow, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Workstations, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Review: Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
- After his last foray into the "Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product" space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008. Although Hyper-V is still in beta and isn't slated to ship...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Disadvantage, Operating System, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, News, VMWare ESX, Hyper-V, Jason Perlow, Virtualization, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Microsoft breaks the perpetual licence covenant
- Many people fondly believe — in common with Talkback poster jim_d to my previous post — that when they pay a one-time fee to buy a 'perpetual' licence to use conventional software, then that's their only cost. But as I pointed out in my riposte, that fails to take into...
- Tags: Cost, Licence, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Security, Management, Office Suites, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- ZDNet reader: If Carbon Black were really that carcinogenic, we'd all be dead
- ZDNet reader: If Carbon Black were really that carcinogenic, we'd all be deadOn Carbons...As responsible car owners we also some responsibilities to check on especially on the kind of smoke our car is expelling.We make sure that our vehicles exhaust system=m particularly our opel catalytic converter for example is in...
- Tags: Chlorine, Sodium, particle, lung, carbon
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Don't trash your laser printers just yet!
- Don't trash your laser printers just yet!At home, switch it off when not printing.......that's what I do with my laser printer (HP 1018)! :-)Don't panicFor corn sake, don't panic.Where's the evidence?Anecdotal evidenceWell, I'll provide a bit of anecdotal evidence, although nothing as serious as lung cancer. I have asthma,...
- Tags: Printers, laser, printer, laser printer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- HP on potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: Our printers no riskier than toasters
- HP on potentially dangerous laser printer emissions: Our printers no riskier than toastersGet real, pleaseThere are more things in your house that can cause cancer than a laser printer. Your cell phone can cause tumors, the TV, the monitor on your PC, the list goes on and on. A laser...
- Tags: Printers, laser, laser printer, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., particle
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- An argument for laptop carts
- Laptop carts are handy in any setting, but it can be difficult to justify the cost. While laptop prices continue to fall rather drastically, it still remains cheaper to set up a desktop or thin-client lab than purchase 20-25 laptops and a rolling cart to hold and charge them...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- With IE 7, green means go for legit sites
- With IE 7, green means go for legit sitesSounds like Opera 9.1's Fraud Protectionwhich uses TrustWatch to verify sites.Microsoft and it's continuing saga of innovations . I do recall an extension that does the same on Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 6 , and it goes by the name of...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, phishing, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
- Visto wins patent suit, plans to challenge RIM
- Visto wins patent suit, plans to challenge RIMI liked this one"Under the law, which protects consumers from products that contain infringing technology ...".So it's the consumers who demand these lawsuits!Ha, ha, ha, ha that even beats M$ B.S. today!... fastest growing industry ...patent lawsuits!It's deja vu all over againNo wonder...
- Tags: Visto Corp., patent, NTP, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-01
- Viruses 'trained' to build tiny batteries
- Viruses 'trained' to build tiny batteriesInteresting stuffSome of the things we are capable of doing really amaze me.Is it just meor does this seem like the prologue to a really bad science fiction movie?Don't let PETA here about thisBoo hoo, the poor little virusesHow Funny That We Can Do This...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, humanity, battery, virus
- Discussion threads 2006-04-07
- Sony offers removal and replacement for rootkit DRM
- Sony offers removal and replacement for rootkit DRMMac & Linux SystemsThe Sony rootkit DRM has no effect on Mac & Linux systems -- they are immune to it, and the CDs function as ordinary audio CDs. YET ANOTHER REASON TO SWITCH TO MAC OR LINUX. Even though I use a...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Linux, Rootkits, Spyware, adware & malware, Games, Cyberthreats, rootkit, digital-rights management, Sony Corp., CD
- Discussion threads 2005-11-03
- Making paper waterproof--and writable
- Making paper waterproof--and writableVolleyball nets?Not to be distracted by minutia in the article, but "They say the process can be used to spray a waterproof, writable surface on . . . volleyball nets and other items." Will they also come out with a Sharpie fine enough to write on...
- Tags: landfill, storage
- Discussion threads 2005-08-09
- Wi-Fi, cancer, and legal liability
- Wi-Fi, cancer, and legal liabilityPractical ParanoiaTo recap my own experience:I wore a pager for 10 years, always on the right hip. Once day I pass a kidney stone THE most painful thing that can ever happen to anyone. In the ensuing investigation, the doctor finds ... nothing! No more stones...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, tradeoff, trade-off, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2005-07-25
- Big Brother watches and security companies profit
- Big Brother watches and security companies profitAnother clue – why the government fears you more than terrorists.They are afraid you may figure out that the government ARE those terrorists who they are “trying” unsuccessfully to catch. To make this ugly picture to look good in the eyes of the beholder...
- Tags: Government, security, Skull, Adolph Hitler, SATAN, Moloch
- Discussion threads 2005-04-05
- Big Cellcos: Big tobacco repeating itself?
- Big Cellcos: Big tobacco repeating itself?Tell The Whole StoryWhere's the meat? in this story Has it been dissolved by the constant exposure to microwave radiation like the skulls and brains of those I see in the cancer clinics everyday? Some published Whistle Blower should insist on telling the whole...
- Tags: Cellular phones, cell phone, cell, phone, health care, microwave, DNA
- Discussion threads 2005-03-11
- Linux lasting longer against Net attacks
- Linux lasting longer against Net attacksNo surprise here nt.I guess the M$hills fail math... in addition to security.Linux is growing exponentially- so it should last less time according to the M$hills..Some monopolies never learn..So kiss a little longer, longer with fresh breath!"All I need are some tasty waves and cool...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, media, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2004-12-22
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