Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Brief: 3
- Brief: 3GoodDon't use the term "no brainer." It seems like a nitpick, but it's jarring when the rest of the writing is up to higher professional standards.Footnotes/endnotes for sources? For instance, I would be curious to know the basis for the assertion that"Almost everything known about information integrity...
- Tags: Construction, Defenestration
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
Additional Resources
- The search engine conundrum
- I was looking through the Channel 8 Students Union earlier on and noticed an important point concerning search engines. It's widely known that search engines are the most viewed websites on the Internet because they are the starting point to look for something. We may even know the direct link...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Student, Live Search, Search, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works better
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works betterIt is one thing to lie ....... to the people here but don't lie to yourself. You are most definitely against Windows and Intel. You have made enough anti-Microsoft and anti-Intel statements to prove that point beyond doubt.All niceBut you almost...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Is software a form of applied mathematics?
- Is software a form of applied mathematics?Eh??!?!?!!Maple is a tree.Mathematica is a typo (those "A" and "S" are just too close...);-)Not quite rightBoth M's are symbolic manipulators built on other languages.That doesn't mean they're not scripting languages, it does mean they differ in nature from APL.Maple and Mathematica not computer...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, patent, computer language, software, mathematics, MAPLE, Mathematica
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
- Another 10-Q gem
- Another 10-Q gemDistinction without difference:Apple:In most instances, the Company's products are released soon after technological feasibility has been established. Microsoft:We have determined that technological feasibility for our software products is reached shortly before the products are released to manufacturing.This does not appear worth a blog entry, except, of course, as...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system, hardware, feasibility, OS Wars
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Futures and alternatives
- Futures and alternativesPricesSunRays are CHEAP (at least the 1.0 versions). You can buy them for less than $10 each - shipped (no keyboard, mouse or monitor - which you probably do have). Even a LTSP solution requires a PC - and I don't think you can find a PC for...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., SunRay, video
- Discussion threads 2006-08-04
- Packing and moving
- Packing and movingXcuse me Murphy, but..."Specifically, the publisher I'm talking to is talking to Sun about co-sponsorship and I'd like them to get the message that this thing could sell at least a couple of hundred million copies. "It smells in here Murphy... Do you need a larger pair of...
- Tags: Thin clients, Insurance, Microsoft Windows, Sun Microsystems Inc., thin client
- Discussion threads 2006-07-24
- Morally Wrong, eh?
- Morally Wrong, eh?RITFLMAO:)))Given this one a lot of thought, have ya… See it’s got you staying up late. Me thinks maybe you’re thinking too much. Stop it Murphy… You’re starting to sound like the legend in your own mind:)And what's George gonna do then?Write a blog about how...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Anton, Unix, SCOx
- Discussion threads 2006-05-12
- Morally Wrong, eh?
- Last week I stumbled across a facinating May 2nd writeup by James Dickens on planetsolaris.org on using ZFS for the home computer and went on from there to read a number of other entries. I'm fully among the converted and evangelical when it comes to ZFS but an...
- Tags: ZFS
- Blog posts 2006-05-12
- The cheapest Ray of Sunshine
- One of my defenestration guide readers sent me an email last week asking for advice on transitioning from Linux application services delivered on older PCs via xdmcp to doing the same thing with Sun Rays and Solaris 10. He lists a number of specific concerns, ranging from culture shock to...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray
- Blog posts 2005-10-27
- The Unix business architecture
- Today's IBM mainframe represents the continuation of a computing revolution that began with the application of ideas from the 1877 Jacquard loom to the 1890 US census. That evolution has focused on counting things, usually after the fact, usually within Finance, and usually cost justified on clerical replacement. The other...
- Tags: Unix, Unix Business Architecture
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
- Network Computing: the Enterprise answer
- Last week's talkback discussions on what Linux needs to do to gain significant market share produced a wide range of interesting ideas -including a few I hadn't thought about before. In response I plan to try to produce a synthesis - a longer article that pulls it all together and...
- Tags: mainframe, Carl Rapson
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- Reversing Outsourcing
- Reversing OutsourcingSo true, so trueOutsourcing is just plain dumb. If it made any sense, then the companies that utilized it would be touting its benefits - NOT just the companies that are selling it. IBM Trivoli has the same story here - it controls EVERYTHING for you is the sales...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, outsourcing, administrator
- Discussion threads 2005-05-19
- Blog, incumbent and electoral are words of the year at Merriam-Webster
- Between the Lines reports on Merriam-Webster's most popular words for 2004. The report is based on the number of lookups for specific word definition on Merriam-Webster Web site.blogincumbentelectoralinsurgenthurricanecicadapelotonpartisansovereigntydefenestration
- Tags: Merriam-Webster
- Blog posts 2004-11-30
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
