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Uncle Sam: less wasteful?

At first thought, the idea of ......disconnecting elevators to the first six floors sounds like a great idea, but what about the handicapped - there would have to be a way to let them use the elevator ... universal access to all places and all that jazz ...LudoThis blog is...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, Uncle Sam, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Obama picks Bolden for NASA

Obama picks Bolden for NASARE: Obama picks Bolden for NASARemember "Sputnik" America? If you don't go foward, someone else will.More debt and printing worthless moneyPrint more money, heck who cares he is clueless and has no goal of doing nothing other than brining his own socialist agenda since his 'wife'...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, NASA, Obama, Bolden

Discussion threads 2009-05-24

China cracks down on porn

China cracks down on pornChina cracks down on pornNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!RE: China cracks down on pornI think this is great! I only wish that the U.S. could implement mandatory porn filtering.RE: China cracks down on pornChild porn is still one of the biggest problems, much of it from the Far East. As...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Network technology, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Tyrannos 1.0 (Mobile)

Tyrannos is a turn based game with a simple simulation of life as a dictator in ancient Greece.

Tags: Dictator, Mobile, Greece, Fernado Pereira, Tyrannos, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-01

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Defrag your disk like a dictator

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Defrag your disk like a dictatorWll try on VirtualPCi use AUSlogics - free and fast. Will try this on a Virtual Machine - but i won't know about possible problems on a production system.If anyone installs on an actual machine - please post all your results.

Tags: Gadget Guidance, dictator, disk

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Defrag your disk like a dictator

...by telling it exactly where to put what. How's that for optimization? Put your high-priority programs and files in the most easily-accessed parts of your hard drive -- the outer edge -- with UltimateDefrag, a free Windows utility. The program does all the normal data-ordering of a...

Tags: Dictator, Disk, UltimateDefrag, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-23

Blogger says Cuba blocked access to her site

Blogger says Cuba blocked access to her siteWhere's the American Media on this?The American mainstream media has such a love affair with Cuba, which I often don't understand. You'd think they'd be aghast about a country that not only runs the media, but openly suppresses any form speech. ...

Tags: Cuba, media, Blogger

Discussion threads 2008-03-25

Moore's second law proves need for open source

Moore's second law proves need for open sourceOr at least slows down...I don't know that innovation "stops" without open source, but it would definitely grind to a crawl. Can you imagine what life would be like if the only tools to build software were commercial products? Ugh! OSS...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Java development tools, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, OSS, tool, open source, dictator, environment, Microsoft Visual Studio, software

Discussion threads 2007-06-22

Dictator 0.1.2 (Mac)

A simple tool for making and updating dictionaries in format used by Dict OS X (see http://dictosx.sf.net/ for more info; see also dict.org).

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dictator, Dictionary, Karel Benes, Productivity, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-12-18

Gates addresses spam, security flaws at Comdex

Gates addresses spam, security flaws at Comdex20 years?>Gates kicked off his talk showing a few slides from his first keynote 20 years ago. At the time Microsoft was focused on software that presented no surprises, software that was understandable and trustworthy.Only about half that work is done, Gates said. "Those...

Tags: dictator, security, software, systemic issue

Discussion threads 2003-11-16

Additional Resources

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

Google and the universe"Say what you will about Murdoch?s empire, ethics and politics, but you can?t argue about the fact they employ over 60,000 people in an era when shedding jobs is the ?Wall Street juice? of a jobless ?recovery?."This may be true, but it is a lousy argument. We...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...

Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...

Tags: oil, Bakken

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

The stupid network will get a hearing

Leave my bits aloneIf I pay for unlimited service up to a certain speed that's what I expect to get. The fee I pay is supposed to cover the level of service I order. If a company is investing in a service I didn't buy, they neeed to get their...

Tags: ROI/TCO, carrier, network

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Mac OS 10.6.2 breaks hackintoshes

Author's views please ...... does the ZDNET author of this post care to say:1. Whether the 'hack' in 'hackintosh' is morally acceptable and/or legal?2. Whether there is any merit in Psystar's case that OSX is tied to Apple hardware? i.e. the vendor makes it a condition of purchasing the OS...

Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Mac OS 10.6.2, PC, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Friday Challenge: What can your OS do that mine can't?

My OS can break 5% global desktop market share!Sorry Mac and Linux! :PBetter/Larger Hardware/Software SelectionMy operating system Windows has a better and larger library of available applications, and a larger ecosystem of supported hardware.Why do you insist in behaving as an idiot?Hope what they're paying you is enough to compensate...

Tags: Operating systems, MSF, OS Installed, operating system, Ubuntu, Linux, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Microsoft drops 'Family Guy' special

Viewers watch Family Guy because they want tonot because it's forced in to their cubicles at work.That doesn't fit with the Windows brand, indeed.MSFT tried to alter the content of the show"Microsoft sent MacFarlane and Fox several notes expressing their concern over the show's content but ultimately decided just to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Family Guy, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Was Windows 7 totally your idea?

W7: Whose ideas?It is pretty clear that Apple and Microsoft "borrow" from each other. I don't think that's a problem, all competitors "borrow" each others' ideas and the consumer wins.What is clear, though, is that Microsoft did listen to alot of people but it wasn't those people that use...

Tags: Desktops, Crispin, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19