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Will bloggers get to cover Libby trial?

Will bloggers get to cover Libby trial?OT Merry Fitzmas everyone!And a happy Scooter frog march to you all!Much champagne will be served tonite.:o)CheneyCheney will be nextWhat a waste of everyone's timeOnce again, the bigger fish set out to sea while letting a smaller underling get fried. Let's be serious here:...

Tags: Government, Valerie Plame, Libby, background check

Discussion threads 2005-10-28

Police blotter: Bogus laptop salesman loses appeal

Police blotter: Bogus laptop salesman loses appealThis losershould get more than two years just for the assualt on the officer the fire extingusiher. As for the fraud, 2 years for EACH COUNT is reasonable. Either way, I hope this clown ends up on the bad side of a...

Tags: Litigation, community service, background check, laptop computer, Police Blotter, Background Check

Discussion threads 2005-09-09

Men sued for spam pushing fake diplomas

Men sued for spam pushing fake diplomasStory missed some important facts!I first read this story on a home newspaper and laughed my ares off. This article does it no justice. Past the URL below...With this school, I am applying for a PHD in physics for Arthur Tull, my...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Performance management, mill, background check

Discussion threads 2004-12-07

Additional Resources

Services capability. Check. Financing arm. Check.

National Wind, the wind development company focused on encouraging local investment and ownership for its wind projects, has completed its purchase of investment banker Delphi Financial. Given how quickly National Wind is signing new projects, the company figured it made sense to acquire its own renewable energy...

Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Borland Delphi, Financing, Programming Languages, Financial Accounting, Development Tools, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-06

Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome

Google demos speed benchmarks for ChromeGoogle Chrome - resource hog .....I know some one who has trialed "Chrome", and was taken initially by the speed, but in less than one day was back to using FireFox as Chrome became a resource hog! Once you have more than a few browser...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Mainstream media writes Windows obit

Wow, a tough day for Windows. BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world's biggest PC company, is so troubled by Vista's 'tepid reception' and Apple's resurgence that it is developing its own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog that Windows is "already...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.

I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...

Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...

Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

The Importance of Dissent

Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...

Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

[ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser are beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to...

Tags: Google Inc., Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, ModSecurity, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!

Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial ... vague, baffling and unfunny, but highly riffable!It was OKThe ID made me laugh. Not being a Seinfeld fan, I'll assume there were other jokes that I just didn't get.The Apple ads tell you as much about OSX as this did about Windows, but this ad...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Seinfeld-Gates TV commercial, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?

XO sold through Amazon this year...Who cares?Mostly valid points Christopher, but, you should give OLPC more credit fortransforming the market. And, I would like to see more OLPC features in computers like the Dell Mini. I DO want a sunlight readable screen. I DO want a more durable laptop. I...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

5 things that suck about working in IT (and 5 things that don't)

Working in IT is one of the world's most challenging jobs -- which is sometimes bad and sometimes good. TechRepublic Editor in Chief Jason Hiner offers five reasons why working in IT can really suck sometimes and five reasons it can be really great.This download is also available as entries...

Tags: Information Technology, Jason Hiner, Strategy, Management

Download resources 2008-09-05

HLP Free Memory Optimizer (exe)

HLP Free Memory Optimizer monitors your system in the background and frees up memory whenever needed to increase the performance of your computer. If the available physical memory gets too low, HLP Free Memory Optimizer causes the system to swap old data to the paging file to free up memory...

Tags: Memory, HLP Software, Flash Memory

Software downloads 2008-09-05

BackGround Manager (exe)

Set a different picture for each day of week, choose from tile stretch or center picture format. Automatically changes your picture for each day of week. BackGround Manager will change your background for you. Set only once. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Picture, Squidge Software

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Seinfeld & Gates: Was this ad supposed to be funny?

The long-awaited $300 million ad campaign that Microsoft launched to counter Apple's successful "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" campaign aired during the Thursday night kickoff to the NFL season. Did you see it? I missed it on TV but caught it on YouTube. I don't get...

Tags: Advertisement, Mall, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jerry Seinfeld, Apple Mac OS X, Productivity, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Comcast challenges FCC authority

Comcast challenges FCC authorityMore FUD from Comcrap...Kind of funny that its taken them a little over a month to "disagree" with the FCC order that was handed down the 1st of LAST month. They knew once their plans became "public knowledge" that their customers would defect and raise all sorts...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Should political postings stay or go? A survey.

I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...

Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the games on NBCSports.com right now. It looks like they used Flex to build the player and I assume they're using...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NBC, NFL, Video, Live Streaming, Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

How important is boot performance?

How important is boot performance?Boot performance is very importantA computer should only take as long to get to working state as a television - 10 seconds tops - with either the option of restoring the exact shutdown state or a fresh rebooted OS.Moderate importance overallBootup speed is not really a...

Tags: Performance management, PRODUCTIVITY, Patches, Operating systems, boot time, performance, computer, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-09-04