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Novell Responds to Clarify Announcement Messages

After I published Novell offers virtual machine driver pack my friends at Novell responded quickly to clear up my confusion about their announcement. Wow, guys, that was fast!Here's the text of their response. A clarification from Holger Dyroff, vp of SUSE Linux product management at Novell...The SUSE Linux...

Tags: virtualization, virtual machine software

Blog posts 2007-06-22

Improved Error Reporting for Software That Uses Black-Box Components

An error occurs when software cannot complete a requested action as a result of some problem with its input, configuration, or environment. A high-quality error report allows a user to understand and correct the problem. Unfortunately, the quality of error reports has been decreasing as software becomes more complex and...

Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Clarify, Error, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2007-04-08

Clarify project roles with this simple responsibility matrix

In a large project, you may have many people with some degree of responsibility for completing certain deliverables. It might be just one person writing a document and one person approving it. But it's often more complicated than that, with several people having a hand in the creation and others...

Tags: Person, Clarify, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Tools & templates 2006-06-08

Clarify project work assignments with the help of this checklist

If you ask project team members what they're responsible for completing in the next two weeks and their answers aren't what you expect, it might be time to examine how clear and thorough your instructions are. One of the basic responsibilities of the project manager is to...

Tags: Team, Clarify, Team Member, Team Management, Management

Tools & templates 2006-02-07

Rapid Implementation of Oracle a Perfect Fit for PrinterOn

PrinterOn Corporation provides secure Internet printing, viewing and faxing products and solutions. PrinterOn was experiencing substantial growth and expected this to continue at an exponential rate. It required an enterprise-wide ERP application that could accommodate the anticipated growth and work towards achieving the company's business goals and objectives. PrinterOn wanted...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Capgemini, Clarify, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

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HP to jump into smartphones. Why?

HP to jump into smartphones. Why?Been in the smartphone market for a couple yearsActually, HP has been making Windows Mobile Smartphones for a couple of years now with their iPAQ 6000, 500 and 900 series. The 500 series was actually a device that looked more like a phone than a...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Compaq iPAQ, smart phone, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'

All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'Cracker is the term people are looking for.Though script kiddie would be more applicable.RE: All signs point to state senator's son as Palin 'hacker'I saw this information on www.michellemalkin.com and a few other blogs. Nothing in the main stream left wing...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Palin, hacker, knowledge, Cracker

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

An Android, far from the Android

An Android, far from the AndroidLOL @ GoogleNothing will get you Oooohs and Ahhhhs like whipping out your phone and patiently explaining to someone that it's the next great thing because it's made by google, because it's running android, because, because, becase...I don't own any Apple products, but the reason...

Tags: INTERNET, Telecom & Utilities, Channel management, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, phone, Internet client, Apple Inc., Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Royal Society educator resigns, advocated creationism in science class

Prof. Michael Reiss has been forced to resign his position as education director of the Royal Society, after making controversial remarks that creationism should be taught in science classes, the Times of London reports. The Society originally stood by Reiss but eventually came to feel his...

Tags: Education, Professor, Director, Society Educator, Michael Reiss, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalition

Microsoft's digital-rights-management strategy on the consumer/device side of the house has been a constantly changing, murky one. Microsoft's latest move in joining a new digital-media coalition is doing little -- so far at least -- to clarify the situation. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Google on search: The real work is just starting

Google's Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, reckons that today's search is a 90 percent solution. But the remaining 10 percent of the search equation will require more than 90 percent of the work ahead if search is to be perfected. Those comments...

Tags: Google Inc., Marissa Mayer, Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Stephen Hawking: LHC vital, absolutely safe

Stephen Hawking: LHC vital, absolutely safeLHC "vital"?I think Dr. Hawking is overstating the case just a little, but I agree that fears that the LHC will create an earth-swallowing black hole that would require a lot more matter than is available are way overblown.I think the media just likes the...

Tags: LHC, Stephen Hawking

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Flipping the switch saves The Planet about $140K annually

(Updated to clarify air-conditioning policy.) The results of The Planet's "lights out" pilot are in: By adopting a workday-hours lights-on policy and shutting off the lights after hours, the hosting company is saving roughly $140,000 per year across its six data centers in Houston and Dallas. The...

Tags: The Planet.com Internet Services Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?

Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?God help your state’s taxpayers.God help your state’s taxpayers. Anyone who would take your view of client side protection in a school is incompetent.Since I use Linux for servers and clients...I only use ClamAV to scan inbound email.RE: Anyone bothering with client-side AV anymore?Do...

Tags: Flash memory, client side

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?

Another view: do we spend too much time trying to sell SOA to the business?? What is SOA and Howc can I buy it?That's the problem.The "how" is importantThe "how" has been neglected from day one with SOA. Yes business focus is absolutely necessary as with all IT solutions but...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

NetApplications Aug 08 data - Big gains for Firefox and iPhone

NetApplications Aug 08 data - Big gains for Firefox and iPhoneGreat to see Safari, Firefox gaining. That will mean it is more likely thatthe Internet will stay mostly free and open.Both FF and iPhone are keeping up with trendsIt is not surprising at all both of these 'product' are gaining....

Tags: Web browsers, INTERNET, Quality, Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, NetApplications Aug 08, standards, Apple Safari, Web browser, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in Poland

Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in PolandNice spin on the headlineimplying that Apple is the one paying people to stand in line.RE: Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch in PolandThat is just pathetic that they have to pay people to pretend to want an iPhone....

Tags: Apple iPhone, IPhone Launch, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-22

Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers

Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire InStranet, which provides knowledge management software for call centers, and integrate its technology with its existing CRM customer service and support offering. Simply put, Salesforce.com is acquiring traditional enterprise software for $31.5 million and turning it into a service in an effort to...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc., Software-as-a-service, Falcione, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Are NVIDIA G92s and G94s failing prematurely too?

The Inquirer is reporting that in addition to the NVIDIA G84 and G86 GPUs being bad and failing due to thermal issues, the G92s and G94s are also affected. If you haven't been following the story, the short version, up till now, is that all G84 and G86 chips...

Tags: NVidia Corp., Chip, GPU, Inquirer, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Indictments in huge hacking & theft case

Indictments in huge hacking & theft caseNo sympathy on my partThere's something terribly ironic that hackers "concealed the data in encrypted computer servers that they controlled in Eastern Europe and the United States." I thought information was suppose to be free...I'm not interested in hearing about good hackers and...

Tags: SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Retail, hacker, hacking, huge hacking, wireless, Manifesto, theft case

Discussion threads 2008-08-05