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(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Government is killing Silicon Valley innovation

I just spoke with Bob Ackerman, founder of Allegis Capital, and he is very concerned about innovation in Silicon Valley, primarily because of the cumulative impact of US government actions and regulations. Here are some notes from our conversation: -...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Venture-capital Company, Darwin, Venture Capital, Government, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-07

News to know: FTC vs. botnets; Microsoft; Apple WWDC; Twitter

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP. FTC statement Patch Tuesday heads-up: Critical Windows, IE fixes coming Typo'd Google domains in Top...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, WWDC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., FTC, NEC Corp., Twitter, Darwin, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telephony, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Monitors & Displays, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Accounting for success? Darwin meets the green eyeshade world…

Have you really looked at your options for finance & accounting lately? BPO business process outsourcing for Finance and Accounting has been going on for a time. The industry owes some part of its success to the shared services efforts of larger firms. When businesses created shared...

Tags: Software, Accounting, Firm, Darwin, F&A, F&A Executive, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-04

The Microsoft Store? Here???s my design!

The Microsoft Store? Here???s my design!Going nowhere.....Linux distro's are the future....#10 Apple shrineLove your work. I'd add#10 Apple shrine : A place to pay homage to the creator of most MS "innovations" perhaps with a fee or Apple tax to enter.You described Loverock's wet dream!and the first customer will be...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Leadership, Operating systems, UNIX, Darwin, Microsoft Corp., Linux Distro, Apple Inc., innovation

Discussion threads 2009-04-19

A new method to study origin of life

A new method to study origin of lifeStart from the other endStart with a conclusion, then only accept/invent things that support that conclusion. The kool-aid is so much smoother that way. ;)Phylogenetic algorhythmsAn evaluation of the worth of the methodology should start with examining how the analysis is accomplished.You may...

Tags: Biotechnology, kool-Aid, Darwin

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thing

Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingYahoo's open source bet is a long run thingBad for Google, great for everyone else!"In the long run we're all dead......and for a long time."RE: Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingIs there anything open source at all about what...

Tags: MS API, Open sourcing, open source, Darwin, Apple Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure

Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failureUp The ChainI'm not sure identifying projects that are doomed to fail, either because they are too hard or have a delusional value proposition, are usually pretty easy to identify.But you do you convince the guy a few layers up that not only is...

Tags: Development tools, Agile Development, programmer, early warning, Darwin

Discussion threads 2007-11-25

Hacking tools don't hack, hackers do

Hacking tools don't hack, hackers doLaws as ToolsI seem to recall then US Attorney General John Ashcroft constantly use the word "tools" in his sales pitch for the USA Patriot Act. Presumably, he meant tools to be used to go after "bad guys" who couldn't be proven guilty by...

Tags: SECURITY, Darwin, Notepad, hacking tool, hacking, tool

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Apple plugs critical holes in Darwin Streaming Server

Apple has released a new version of the open-source Darwin Streaming Server to plug a pair of security flaws that could cause code execution attacks.The more serious of the two bugs -- a stack buffer overflow in the Darwin Streaming Proxy -- could allow a remote attacker to use maliciously...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Responsible disclosure, Privacy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Open source, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Apple

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Nokia World day two - Geoffrey Moore

Im writing this on the last leg of my journey home from Amsterdam and the Nokia World conference. Having narrowly averted the attempt of the self-professed road warrior sitting in front of me who apparently hasnt yet logged enough miles to figure out the courtesy of not slamming the seat...

Tags: Mobility, Nokia World, Productivity, Geoffrey Moore

Blog posts 2006-12-03

SGI's Unix variant fading into history

SGI's Unix variant fading into historyOSX is not UNIXOSX is not UNIX. It is not "the most widely used Unix." It is not Unix. Period.It is, like Linux, a Unix-like system. To be Unix, it must be certified as Unix by the Open Group. ...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., SGI Unix, OSX, Darwin, BSD Unix, Unix, Silicon Graphics Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-08

Why I was wrong about Steve Jobs

Why I was wrong about Steve JobsSupporting Open & Industry StandardsIt's not open, and it's not industry standard or industry certified.Depends on your definition. Darwin is Open source and industry standards-based. Most of the technology in OS X is based on open technology/standards like FreeBSD, OpenGL, PDF, Quartz, JAVA, Apache,...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Xserve, Darwin, Steve Jobs, Unix

Discussion threads 2004-05-12

Additional Resources

Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.

fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...

Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Internet Firechrome Safari: A browsing identity crisis

Chrome + Extensions = ^_^I am glad this article was written. I managed to rid myself of Internet Explorer 9 months ago, and haven't needed it since. My college campus has firefox pre-loaded onto every machine, and with Windows 7 "udpates" being handled within explorer instead of the IE browser,...

Tags: Web browsers, Internet, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Peek-a-Boo 2.8.2 (Mac)

Peek-a-Boo has been described by one long-time user as "the utility I didn't realize I needed, until I'd used it for awhile." Peek-a-Boo focuses on two things: clarity and flexibility. From the moment you first launch Peek-a-Boo, it will be clear what is happening with processes on your Mac....

Tags: Process, Apple Macintosh, Utility, Peek-a-Boo, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Components

Software downloads 2009-10-08

Psystar's Thermopylae: The Nightmare Hypervisor Arrives

Miami, Florida-based Psystar, which is currently under litigation from Apple for producing Mac-compatible clones and is counter litigating the company for monopolistic practices, has announced that they are OEM licensing their virtualization technology and ICAP so that any PC vendor may easily produce Mac clones. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Apple Mac OS, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-05

iODBC Driver Manager, Administrator, SDK 03.52.0709.0909 [3.52.7] (Mac)

iODBC stands for Independent Open Database Connectivity. Commonly considered to be specific to Linux or UNIX platforms, iODBC is a truly platform-independent Open Source implementation of ODBC. The iODBC effort is managed via the iODBC project, http://www.iodbc.org, which is maintained and supported by Openlink Software. iODBC and ODBC are...

Tags: ODBC, Apple Macintosh, Administrator, SDK, OpenLink Software Inc., iODBC, iODBC Effort, Apple Mac OS, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-09-17

Snow Leopard launch seems to have been a smooth one

PICNICAfter many years supporting various systems, I am positive that theroot of the majority of issues can be described with the acronym PICNIC...Been running Snow Leopard since last Friday with absolutely no problems - even my HP PhotoSmart printer works really well!Then maybe we should...Then maybe we should ship your...

Tags: Web browsers, Printers, E-mail, E-mail servers, Snow Leopard, CS2, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.5.2

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Should open source hate Apple?

Apple Doesn't Have Control?Apple created an entirely closed marketplace for music through iTunes and the iPod that no other product has successfully done! The point that one device was more than 60-70% of the market kills innovation, let alone that it was laced with DRM for years and still is...

Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-31