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DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...

DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...Continuing Saga to show how great D* is now adayFrom a 7+ year customer and I am a paper thin from calling it for D*.http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=133090RE: DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...I've been with DTV since December 1994. I am also a FCC certified card carrying...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, DirectTV, Ma'am, Well HERE, DirecTV, closet

Discussion threads 2008-07-20

Power costs and responses

Power costs and responsesDistributed is the way to goOne rack of servers maybe none per building or floor coupled with Linux workstations on desktops is the most efficient way to go. (User education and IT SLAs are key in this environment. Users that like to reboot should be shown the...

Tags: global warming, server, closet, POWER COSTS, user hostility

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Additional Resources

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?

Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Can Mozilla's security metrics project end the patch-counting nonsense?

In partnership with indie security consultant Rich Mogull left Mozilla has launched a valuable Security Metrics Project that could help to -- we can only hope -- put an end to the silly notion that patch-counting helps to determine a product's security posture. The idea is...

Tags: Mozilla Corp., Rich Mogull, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Perhaps never has the Detroit auto industry faced such a challenge. Not from the small cool VW beetle in the 1960s. Not from the onslaught of Datsun and Toyota a decade later. Not from the Honda Civic in the Nineties. This time the challenge is not...

Tags: Industry, Gasoline, Therapy, General Motors Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Would Microsoft ever split itself up?

Would Microsoft ever split itself up?they couldThey could, but they'll never do that. Micro$oft is too greedy. In my perfect world I want to see Microsoft as a software company and another branch as a hardware company for actual computers, Phones and other devices, like Music Players, GPS, and Car-Support.The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Major Projects, Micro$oft, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Global warming is a security issue say American spies

Sixteen American spy agencies combined their intelligence to report to the nation on global warming...as a security threat. To everyone's great surpise the spies found that our future is perilous...and we need continuied spying...to forestall governments toppling, more terrorist attacks by folks driven to violence by hunger, etc. etc....

Tags: Security, Global Warming, Spy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Cheat High Tech Cheaters

Cheat High Tech CheatersOld-fashioned wayOh, heck, consider the old-fashioned way. Years ago a Japanese father got caught dressing up as a girl to take his daughter's exams that are used to determine which high school the child can enter. Of course, the best universities basically only take students...

Tags: Laziness, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

It's the last day of school!

So what do I need to do? A few things, actually. It's time to make a list. Several thin clients have hit hardware snags surprising since they have so little actual hardware to fail; others need to just be reimaged those darned kids. Right...

Tags: Thin Client, Teacher, Thin Clients, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Google colors their ads for Gay Pride week

Google colors their ads for Gay Pride weekAbsolutely SICKENING!homosexuality & lesbianism as well as all forms of pornographry is what has placed this once great God fearing nation right down the toilet. The rainbow was a promise from God unto Noah that he would not destroy the earth by water...

Tags: Google Inc., Gay Pride, Gay Pride week, gay brother, homosexuality, Christ, sin, sister, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02

Enterprise 2.0 is over for another year and despite a poor start, the event turned out well. I attribute the poor start to the performance of Oracle and Microsoft: two of Jevon MacDonald's 'drag queens.' Both seemed tired, dated and out of touch with the mood of the new generation...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Groupware, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-13

The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?

The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?Netbooks and SmartphonesThose keyboards on the smartphones are just too small for me to use effectively. I'll take a netbook and a cheap cellphone.RE: The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tI still see netbooks and smartphones as...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Notebooks, Handhelds, Netbooks, Laptop cannibalization, cannibalization, Smartphone, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumors

Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumorsI don't think soYou know, I'd rather have the doctor there so, if something went wrong, there was no delay with the information. Relying on secure internet, or satellite communication is too slow, IMO. I don't want someone making decisions based on...

Tags: Robots, Space Shuttle tech work, tech work, space shuttle, robot

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Iomega releases leather-wrapped 250GB external HD

Sure, it looks like an overpriced flask, but hey -- to each his own. Iomega posted the 250GB Brown Leather eGo Hi-Speed USB 2.0 portable hard drive on their website today, and it looks to be a fine way to show that your geekitude in neurotically backing...

Tags: Iomega Corp., Web Site Development, Internet, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Google losing cellphone battle?

Google losing cellphone battle?Well, the idea is that CUSTOMERS will choose their phone, just like theychoose their PC. Dell does not need to do deals with internet service providers for instance. But, YES, right now, the carriers are the ones that select the phones that you can use with their...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Tea Vui Huang, Google Inc., phone, LiMo Foundation, Linux, carrier, cell phone

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Combined HP-EDS can explore missing methodology around how to offload IT to the cloud(s)

HP's now official pending EDS buy for just shy of $14 billion positions the combined companies to organize and manage the hosted/on-premises mix to maximum efficiency and lowest TCO. It's a great goal to shoot for because all they have to do is beat IBM. With this...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., End Goal, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-13

HRH Prince Penguin

Did anyone else happen to notice that Prince Charles is a closet Penguin? On our UK-based sister site, ZDNet.CO.UK our British colleague Andrew Donoghue quoted His Majesty as follows: "Many of the case studies we received highlight the...

Tags: Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Questioning IT

Questioning ITLose the rhetoric = better articleYou started out strong, but you lose everyone when you slide into what appears to be a vendetta against CIPS. What does "their Windows only website and addiction to hiding important email in floods of junk" have to do with business continuity? ...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, disaster recovery, Questioning IT, IBM SVC, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

GizMac updates small Xserve enclosures with air filtration system

To little surprise given its company name, GizMac has targeted Mac-centric applications such as digital video production for its line of XRackPro2 rackmount server cabinets with noise dampening capabilities. Now, its smaller 4U and 6U come with air filtration, previously available as options on its larger 12U and 25U server...

Tags: Apple Xserve, Enclosure, XRackPro2, XRackPro2 Price Tag, Servers, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-14

For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff

For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuffNot sure of the point hereThe article didn't state much. Are they wanting to ban the sales on these items? If so, i wholely disagree. Nothing listed in this article is illegal. Nore should it be. If it was...

Tags: Government, uniform, MRE, biological protection, eBay Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-11