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- The perfect computer?
- I have to admit...that I did not read past the title. Suffice it to say that there is no such thing as the perfect woman, perfect car, perfect meal, perfect computer or perfect anything. Individuals' needs and tasted are just too varied. Too trueTo mirror the above post, there is...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Brownouts, computer, perfect computer
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
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- IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft
- Their timing is quite goodRight at this moment, the Internet infrastructure in Central Africa is being upgraded with new underwater fiber optic cable links that will ultimately bring Africa's broadband capacity on par with the rest of the world by late 2010. Their timing couldn't be better.Why not red hat...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Divide-and-conquer, netbook, Language Support, Debian, Canonical, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Will Office Web Apps overcome cloud biases?
- [i]since GAPE Google Apps for Education is right up there with sliced bread in my book.[/i]Of course it is, all your blogs ever do is profess your undying love for all things Google. We already know how your next blog is going to turn out. You are going to...
- Tags: cloud computing, Web application, Office Web Apps, Office Web, Google Inc., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- 'Mericans say: "Gimme a plug-in"
- Pay more, yes...Pay more than the gas price we would save over the life of the car, no. That's the issue now, you do not save more in the long run. Once we get to the point where we would merely break even, then I would seriously consider a plug-in.Electric...
- Tags: Plug-in car, car, plug-in, electric car, battery, commute, No.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- CK-12 Foundation dominates California e-textbook search
- Still not sure how it saves money.While I get that the digital books can be kept updated to the minute, I still don't think they can save a school money. The reader or computer required to USE them will cost more in TCO than textbooks would ever cost, IMHO....
- Tags: ROI/TCO, CK-12 Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- AT&T aims to allay iPhone exclusivity worries
- AT&T aims to allay iPhone exclusivity worriesBlog Bellyaching?Ok.. How about this. Take a Blackberry Bold on AT&T and a Blackberry Tour on Sprint (Basically the same as far as the phone goes..with the exception of GSM vs. CDMA) to Downtown Manhattan. Make Calls on both. If...
- Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, exclusivity worry, iPhone exclusivity worry
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- We interrupt this blog for a rant about UPS technology
- One of the most disrespected, or maybe just misunderstood, pieces of technologies in many data centers or under your desk for the matter is the uninterruptible power supply UPS, that lovely piece of equipment that provides a battery boost if you have a surge or an outage. Certainly, UPSes have...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Blog, Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-12
- Wind and sun--how important will they be to our energy future?
- Wind and sun--how important will they be to our energy future?Answer to your questionThey will be extremely important. In a very bad way for the simple fact that environmentalists, gripped by the irrationality of their anti-capitalist nature worship will foist this crap on us, totally oblivious to the laws of...
- Tags: energy future
- Discussion threads 2009-01-21
- Avaya Case Study: Altamonte Springs, Florida
- When the City of Altamonte Springs decided to fund a major upgrade of their communications system, they particularly sought to achieve survivability for the remote sites, uninterrupted service during brownouts or total power loss, elimination of the long periods of downtime they'd experienced due to failed equipment on older technology...
- Tags: Telephony, Avaya Inc., VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- So the net routes around censorship? Tell it to China
- So the net routes around censorship? Tell it to ChinaEver talk to a Chinese student?Talk to someone actually in China, particularly younger people. The "Great Firewall of China" is considered a joke by most people I've talked to, and in practice appears more like brownouts then any effective censorship organ....
- Tags: INTERNET, net route, censorship, Chinese People
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Analysts debate role of governance and 'total management' in the dawning era of SOA
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Tidal Software. I recently had the pleasure of participating in a live discussion now a podcast at the Harvard Club of Boston with Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at analyst firm ZapThink, on the current state and future outlook for...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Survey, Management, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweaking
- SF power outage reveals disaster recovery plans need tweakingThat's what I was thinking as wellGranted, the major web service providers (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) all have more robust, redundant systems in place than a lot of smaller players. But even then I can't count how many times I've tried to...
- Tags: Data centers, Manufacturing, E-mail providers, cloud concept, disaster recovery, outage, downtime, uptime
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Choosing the right PSU for your PC
- Choosing the right PSU for your PCAnd oh, yeah . . .And oh, I forgot - I do indeed use a UPS. Needed to, I was getting brownouts in my neighborhood, and that killed my first power supply collapsing magnetic fields cause spikes in transformers.So now I use a UPS...
- Tags: PC, power supply, PSU, PC Power, Cooling, Antec
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Storing wind power in cold stores
- Storing wind power in cold storesOff Peak storageOff peak storage has been an ongoing issue for the nuclear power industry. They aren't like a hydrocarbon plant, wich can be throttled back. The nuclear reaction is a constant heat source.Water is the cheapest method to store kinetic energy. India developed using...
- Tags: Digital Clock, Wind-Power, Westinghouse, load balancing, cold calling
- Discussion threads 2007-02-10
- The IPCC Climate Change Report (Mobile)
- Untitled DocumentKiller heat waves, constant brownouts, scarce drinking water, devastating hurricanes, drought, massively higher food prices, coastal cities inundated by the sea, and oceans made of acid. These may sound like scenarios from a bad science fiction movie, but they're not, they're real, and they're all documented in the Intergovernmental...
- Tags: Mobile, Carbon Dioxide, eReader, Temperature, Sea Ice, E-books, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-02-04
- The long green
- The long greenPower MathThese very same power and cooling costs have kept the blade server from becoming the next great thing. The idea is sound - make servers as small as possible and make it easy to add more when you need to. In practice, the hundreds of power and...
- Tags: Servers, Blade servers, Utility computing, Network technology, server, Paul Murphy, Sun Ray, Al Gore, rack, Sun Microsystems Inc., blade
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- The long green
- It may not be obvious to most of us yet, but theres a green revolution on its way into our data centers and onto our desktops. Now I dont mean one based on global environmental consciousness or the latest mass media insanity - complete with the usual media intolerance...
- Tags: data center
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- One more reason to skip Vista (for now)
- By now you have probably heard reports that Windows Vista may slow down Internet traffic (Will Vista stall Net traffic?). Microsoft doomsayers (of which I'll admit, I used to be one) will tell you that the latest OS out of Redmond will doom the Internet to miserable congestion and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, DNS
- Blog posts 2006-09-10
- Verizon heeds call of fuel cells
- Verizon heeds call of fuel cellsThe NSA should look into this.Recently, it was reported that the NSA's spying programs would suffer if a blackout occured. Worse yet, BGE is going to jack off... I mean, jack [i]up[/i]... electrical rates some 72% since price caps expired. As of July,...
- Tags: Fuel cells, fuel cell, Verizon Communications Inc., NSA, natural gas, BGE, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
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