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- Tech consultant rips off PCs, sells them on eBay
- Here's an enterprising school consultant. Donald W. Meritz worked as a tech consultant for the Sachem NY School District, where he stole 24 computers and 10 network switches, then sold them on eBay, NewsDay reports. "This is another sad chapter in the story of Suffolk County schools," State Comptroller...
- Tags: computer, networking switch, Donald W. Meritz
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
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- The Apprentice Los Angeles (zip)
- Compete for the opportunity of a lifetime with the legendary Donald Trump and his children, Ivanka and Don Jr. Play against 12 of your favorite contestants. Battle it out in the boardroom. Combine Action and Strategy to Win! Serve customers efficiently. Oversee a team of helpers. Manage your time and...
- Tags: Legacy Interactive, Team Management, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Literate programming
- Literate programming*blink*Full time programers don't do this? I learned FORTRAN around 1980 and the text required "a structured and disciplined style." That may not be the same thing as "literate programming" but it seems close. I know I have a hard time getting statisticians to document their project specific analysis...
- Tags: Development tools, programming, programmer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...
- Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains
- Dell CEO Michael Dell saw his total compensation in fiscal 2008 fall to $2.33 million from $4.5 million in 2007 as his stock option awards fell. However, Dell's security bill topped $1 million for the second year in a row. According to Dell's proxy statement filed with the SEC...
- Tags: Security, Compensation, Dell Computer Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Ghostly ring found circling dead star
- An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. According to NASA, a magnetar is 'a highly magnetized neutron star and the...
- Tags: NASA, Star, Ring, Magnetic Field, SGR, Magnetars, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- (OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta)
- (OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta)be very caefulI had a crash and had to reload my OS (Windows XP. That went okay, but I had no backup for Windows Offoice. I was on deadline so I downloaded had no backup for Office so I downloaded Open Office 2.3. When...
- Tags: OpenOffice, OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta, OpenOffice.org 3.0, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, object-oriented
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Working in a small business can make you sick
- One of the biggest problems with linking health care access to employment is it's unfair to employees of a small business. This must be true, because whenever the subject of insuring everyone, or mandating employer coverage, comes up, small business starts whinging they can't afford it. ...
- Tags: Health Care, Small Business, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Explaining science with drawings
- A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation NSF mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to explain scientific concepts to high school students. As says Felice Frankel, a Harvard University researcher who is leading...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, Web Site Development, Productivity, Investment, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?
- Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?Not seeing thisI have not seen this on any of my Intel Macs. I have also not seen an issue reported with having Windows on a FAT32 drive and not showing up in the boot manager. Shows up fine for me (option key at...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, PERIOD!!! BootCamp, Bootcamp, Apple Macintosh, PRAM, Apple Mac OS X, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- New WiFi from Intel improves rural communications
- New WiFi from Intel improves rural communicationsRe: "New WiFi...improves rural communications"Great!!! Glad to hear about the technology.HOWEVER...What's this talk about Africa and Asia? What about here in the U.S.?ANYONE who is outside the reach of Cable is going to be CONDEMNED to years more of the Internet via...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, INTERNET, Network technology, rural communication, Wi-Fi, POTS, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Adobe clarifies CEO's iPhone Flash comments
- Adobe clarifies CEO's iPhone Flash commentsExpect to see many of these type of trial balloons..Doesn't it seem clear that part of what Adobe is doing is playing the court of public opinion to get Apple to play ball?On the Apple side, this is a great test of the control v....
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., phone, Macromedia Flash Player
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Time to out drug test reviewers?
- Pfizer is suing the New England Journal of Medicine, aiming to learn the names of anonymous reviewers who conducted peer reviews on its pain relief drug Celebrex. Donald Kennedy, outgoing editor of Science Magazine right, says this is a direct threat to all science. Anonymity...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Fact, Anonymity, Reviewers, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen)
- Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen)See-through ...Sorry, but that is not a "see-through screen". It is just an optical illusion.Just take a closer look at the pictures and you will see that the there is nothing "see-through" about an color LCD monitor with the image of...
- Tags: Lucid Touch, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- 2008 Volvo XC70
- Photo gallery:2008 Volvo XC70Right on the heels of our 2008 Volvo V70 review comes the 2008 Volvo XC70, basically the same car but with some off-road gear. The V70 impressed us with its performance and considerable high-tech safety options, and the XC70 has similar attributes, but where the V70 was...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Digital music, Processors, Volvo XC70, Volvo V70, Volvo
- Product reviews 2008-02-26
- Microsoft Reorg: Who's Out -- Scott Di Valerio (Slideshow on Microsoft's Valentine's Day Reorg: Who's Hot and Who's Not)
- Microsoft Reorg: Who's Out -- Scott Di Valerio (Slideshow on Microsoft's Valentine's Day Reorg: Who's Hot and Who's Not)RE: "Microsoft Reorg: Who..."It all sounds good. Except for ONE change not yet reported (if it ever happens, that it...):Steve Balmer is STILL the CEO of Microsoft. PLEASE report that...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Reorg
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Some+won%27t+have+to+wait+until+March+for+Vista+SP1%2C+after+all
- Some+won%27t+have+to+wait+until+March+for+Vista+SP1%2C+after+allIf the code is final, why not release it? ntnt = no textWhat a comical bunch of carp...NTWhy not just get from the web:?No link, this will be deleted. If you are truly that anxious to get RC1 though, you don't have to wait.TripleIIMS: we hate windows usersthey hate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - Installation (Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery)
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - Installation (Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery)pictures, schmictures what about the blue circle of wait?and the ever present 'not responding' when doing the simplest things in Explorer?Just for FunI think it would have been funny if you had snuck a Blue Screen of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Vista Service, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery, Microsoft Windows, screenshot gallery
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Breaking: Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo!
- Breaking: Microsoft offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo!Bad newsYet another site with a "Works best with Windows" sticker on it."Microsoft knows how to run a tight ship and Yahoo! could do with more effective financial management."That's a joke isn't it? Microsoft have just had an impossibly huge luck with Windows and...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Instant messaging, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Microsoft replaces one Scott with another as CIO
- Microsoft replaces one Scott with another as CIOSince he worked for DisneyHe should be right at home in another Mickey Mouse organization.Replace one mickey mouse job with another.I suppose more H1Bs would instantly do the trick; but plenty of displaced American workers would not only clean up Vista's mess, but...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Office, Benefits, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
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