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- Photos: A Bay Bridge for all seasons
- The eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is being fitted with a fancy new self-anchored suspension.A Caltrans model of the self-anchored suspension SAS bridge that will be the major new element of the eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The new bridge span, which connects Treasure...
- Tags: photograph, eastern span, eastern side, span, suspension.A Caltrans, skyway, suspension section, self-anchored suspension section, new skyway, barge, south, bedrock, agency, San Francisco, transportation, California
- Image galleries 2007-08-13
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- Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
- The Linux creator has some harsh words for creators of the OpenBSD operating system, as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centered behavior in the IT security industry Linux creator Linus Thorvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys",...
- Tags: Information Technology, Industry, OpenBSD, Bug, Attack, Linux Creator, Torvalds, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux, Security, Software, Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel, Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia
- News items 2008-07-17
- Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot'
- With all eyes on what Microsoft is doing in the online-advertising space, it's easy to give short shrift to the datacenter and back-end infrastructure that is powering not just adCenter, but all of Microsoft's various Live services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reminded Wall Street analysts earlier this...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Word, Data Center, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., AutoPilot, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- A robotic Meridian to fly over the poles
- The Meridian unmanned aerial vehicle UAV is a single-engine research aircraft with fixed landing gear designed by engineers at the University of Kansas. According to Technology Review, it will be used to see what happens beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Two units are currently built for a cost...
- Tags: Technology Review, Mean, Adobe PDF, Kilogram, Aircraft, Radar, Meridian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-16
- How to make millions from hacking
- How to make millions from hackingThe even simpler way....... is to buy penny stocks - lots and lots of them, send out 30 million emails that stock XXXX is on the rise. A surprising number of plebs buy the stock. Get a 5-10% rise and sell your shares, then wait...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Spam, Alex Rumptian, United, PC, spamming, hacking
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- NYC wants a YouTube: 911
- Call it 911 2.0. Well, maybe thats a little awkward but the idea is right. New York City wants to change its 911 system so that citizens can upload digital photos and video, mostly from cellphones, Newsday reports. "If you see a crime in progress or a dangerous...
- Tags: Government technology, Law enforcement, Web, Emergency, cell phone
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Seeking the true meaning of SaaS
- Seeking the true meaning of SaaSLooks like no one is interested.I would say you should ditch the subject. 7 years is a long time to wait for it to become important. No one cares. Find something else to write about.SAAS was a bad idea years ago and worse now.SAAS :...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Internet, software-as-a-service, What-If
- Discussion threads 2006-12-04
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 10: Systems Management
- While business depends on reliable information systems, hardware and software platforms are the bedrock on which these systems are based. With an ideal combination of hardware and operating systems, IT managers can concentrate on providing applications and services that meet strategic business requirements. Unfortunately, such platforms present businesses with numerous...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Platform, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Systems Management, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Management, Software
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Microsoft, NYT partner on newspaper software
- Microsoft, NYT partner on newspaper softwareI trust the demonstration...... ran on a pc loaded with one of the programs that eliminates all ads, especially animated advertisements from web pages.There are current programs which rearrange the page after eliminating the ads, though they worked so slowly that I haven't used them...
- Tags: Channel management, Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, New York Times Co., Microsoft Corp., container app, Web, advertisement, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-04-28
- Dan Rather on the state of American media
- Last night on the UC Berkeley campus, CBS News icon Dan Rather discussed the state of American media with Orville Schell, dean of the Journalism school. Rather discussed his lifelong love for journalism and his career, which was upended in 2005 due to the dust up over President Bush's service...
- Tags: CBS Broadcasting Inc., journalism, Orville Schell
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- Is there really life on Earth?
- Obviously, the answer is yes. But if we compare topographic maps of Earth and Mars, the answer is less evident, according to researchers from the University of California at Berkeley. They've found that landscapes on the two planets are often very similar, from rounded hills to meandering stream channels or...
- Tags: erosion
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Is the Earth elastic?
- Scientists from Brazil and the U.S. think so. In a surprising discovery, they've found that a GPS station in Manaus, near the center of the Amazon River basin, showed that the Earth level was going up and down by almost 3 inches (75 mm) every year with the seasonal floods...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon River
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- Building Relationship Capital: Client Relationship Management for the Capital Markets
- Current market trends in both investment banking and equity sales, trading, and research demand a rapid and sophisticated response, not just in terms of corporate strategy, but in the technologies and processes put in place to support these strategic moves. Without the proper technology bedrock - one that builds and...
- Tags: Capital Market, Relationship, CDC Software, Investment, Financial Services, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Finance, Sales, Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Pro Evolution Soccer 5 demo (zip)
- Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (known as Winning Eleven 9 in North America) expands on the realism and total control that has become the bedrock of the popular series and has earned it a legion of fans. Also returning in improved form will be the Master League, wherein players can build...
- Tags: Team, Konami Corp., Team Management, Management
- Software downloads 2005-09-16
- What the boss knows -Misrepresentation and The Economist
- Britain's The Economist is one of the most thoughtful and generally intelligent magazines found on the coffee tables in executive areas. My wife and I subscribe to it mainly for the quality of its writing and the breadth of its coverage - and we look to it for information and...
- Tags: Economist, Intel Corp., software
- Blog posts 2005-07-28
- War of the worlds
- As if the software world was not facing enough threats, the hardware world now threatens to undermine software business models left and right. New chip architectures and other hardware trends now raise the prospect of software industry upheaval. "The real losers," according to a recent piece in The Economist, could...
- Tags: software
- Blog posts 2005-07-15
- More on software patents
- Software patents are still in the news. The European patent directive continues to lumber forward, despite overwhelming opposition from groups on all corners -- excepting the big software companies that will win big if sofware patents become law in Europe as well as the U.S. Not surprisingly, Richard Stallman has...
- Tags: software, software patent, patent
- Blog posts 2005-06-22
- The benefits of patents
- Richard Stallman doesn't like the proposed EU directive which would legalize software patents in the European Union. That's not surprising, because the software libre movement he founded and the software license, the GPL, he wrote aim to remove all entanglements from the software development process, whether based on a secret...
- Tags: benefit, patent, software
- Blog posts 2005-06-21
- What is the biggest problem with open source?
- What is the biggest problem with open source?Birth mark or birth defect?I remember an observation from a prior discussion: there won't be any $ billion open source companies.In this stage of maturity of a category like IT, companies consolidate and a few big corporations predominate. Companies based on...
- Tags: Novell Inc., programmer, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2005-06-06
- No honor among thieves?
- "It is to laugh" -that's the French idiom captured in English by the word "risible" and often the only response to the pearls of wisdom dropped on an unsuspecting public by people who should know better. Unfortunately some of these have real consequences. Two weeks ago, for example, Apple's market...
- Tags: Intel Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-06-01
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