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Initial Core benchmarks look dire for AMD

Initial Core benchmarks look dire for AMDThat would explain the Int-hell FUD I smell.After Skype, I've been casting a cautious eye on the little i. Now these "benchmarks" seem to cast even greater doubt over i's performance claims, especially when I compare the machines.Note how Int-hell's machine was made...

Tags: Semiconductors, Processors, NOW HERE, Intel Corp., Int-hell FUD, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Doper Duped Anand, Woodcrest, Conroe, chip

Discussion threads 2006-03-10

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Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018

Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...

Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Don't doubt Deputy Dan

Well, it would seem that Tom Ptacek may have figured out something to do with Dan Kaminsky's earlier DNS flaw, and this may actually be the vulnerability to fear that we had originally heard.  Let's just say this, I've read Tom's postings on the Matasano blog for quite some time...

Tags: DNS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Did open source make Green go at VMWare?

Did open source make Green go at VMWare?No such thing as a free lunch....While I don't lay all the blame on open source, I do blame open source for many of the problems with VMWare’s business model. It is very difficult to plan when you have “free” products in the...

Tags: open source, VMware Inc., programmer

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Email Extractor (zip)

Email extractor is a very powerful and reliable tool to extract e-mail addresses from all kind of files. It retrieves absolutely all valid e-mail addresses and generates an output file with de-duped emails. Just point the program to a folder or drive containing email address and the program will do...

Tags: E-mail Address, St. Andrews Software, Email Extractor, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-07-03

(Photos: A detour to Geek Squad City)

(Photos: A detour to Geek Squad City)I hate Geek FraudI've never heard *anything* positive about Geek Squad and have heard a number of nightmarish problems that people have had.They hire incompetent techs for the stores at least.I wonder how many poor people get duped by them . . .RE: (Photos:...

Tags: Geek Squad City, detour, Geek Squad, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

America Last: the official marketing policy of the auto industry?

America Last: the official marketing policy of the auto industry?A one year waiting listsounds like a business failure to me. Or another government-induced shortage.Oh, and drop the stupid "unfortunately Americans are known..." crap. Your practice of feeling morally superior through self-loathing is getting old.American imageTry living in another country for...

Tags: Government, marketing, industry, efficient car

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Dems ready to cave on telecom immunity

Dems ready to cave on telecom immunityGood.It's disgusting to go after telecoms for helping the United States government track overseas telephone conversations with known terrorist groups or nations sponsoring terrorists.Or were you one of the duped who thought this was actually about spying on Americans?Bad.we need to impeach, imprison, and...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Dems, telecommunications, telecom immunity, USA IS

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Peter Norvig on Google's mistrust of machine learning

Peter Norvig has been at Google for a long time now -- he was, until recently, the Directory of Search Quality; the guy who made sure every time you submitted a query, you usually got what you wanted. He has since moved into the Director of Research role, but...

Tags: Algorithm, Google Inc., Peter Norvig, Anand, Engineering, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-05-25

RSA finds new malware enhanced phishing technique

RSA said Monday that it discovered a new phishing technique that uses elements of a malware attack to swipe personal information. The discovery illustrates a series of attacks from the Rock Phish group, which is a gang reportedly based in Russia that has been targeting financial institutions...

Tags: Technique, RSA Security Inc., Malware, Attack, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Sales-driven IT failures

  The roots of enterprise IT failure often lie in the sales process: Sales guy promises the world to customer Customer naively believes sales guy Project fails and customer is shocked Sales-driven IT failures happen all the time, sometimes...

Tags: Information Technology, Project Manager, Failure, Sales-driven IT Failure, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Intel's Atom chips to fuel Mobile Internet Devices; Who's buying?

Intel on Wednesday unveiled its Atom processors and the refrain is familiar: These chips will power a bevy of mobile Internet devices MIDs. The larger question: What kind of future will MIDs have? Let's face it--MID is an acronym largely cooked up by Intel to sell more...

Tags: Processor, Mobile, Internet Device, Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Mobile Internet Device, Chip, Intel System Controller Hub, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-02

Promises, promises: A look at Waste Management's case against SAP

Waste Management's lawsuit against SAP for a "complete failure" of a $100 million software implementation boils down to promises. What did SAP promise Waste Management? And how much responsibility does Waste Management bear for believing those promises? As background, news surfaced last week that Waste Management filed...

Tags: Software, SAP AG, Waste Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking

Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is tickingRe:IMHO, it should get standardized as technically it's superior again anyone will argue so I'll say it's supports a superset of features than ODF and can accomodate all the features Office offers. But I doubt it will be standardized by ISO. Foolish Governments...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), ISO standards, Process improvement, Open XML, FUD, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, ISO

Discussion threads 2008-03-28

How Managed Services has Changed Remote Infrastructure Management

In today's distributed computing environment, critical Information and Communications Technology ICT equipment can be located anywhere in the world. These arrangements possess unique challenges for the companies that need to access, manage, and monitor these critical systems 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Register now...

Tags: Security, Managed Services, Infrastructure Management, ITC Infotech, It Services

Webcasts 2008-03-26

Dumping Windows might be a good idea

Dumping Windows might be a good ideaMicrosoft dumping WindosDon't much care what Microsoft does now. Am well on my way to Mac . . . keeping XP only to run a couple things I can't do without that only run on Windows. Virtually 95% of my stuff has been moved...

Tags: Operating systems, Dumping Windows, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Intel christens Silverthorne as "Atom"

Intel has officially announced its new branding for the "Silverthorne" processor and the "Menlow" platform.  The Silverthorne processor will be called the "Intel Atom".  The Menlow platform will be called "Intel Centrino Atom".  The Intel Atom processor will be used in the Intel Centrino Atom platform.  The new Atom logos...

Tags: Anandtech, Intel Corp., Silverthorne, Atom Logo, Intel D201GLY2, Processors, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-03-02

The great man isn't any more

Partly in reaction to my Sun funny, a Microsoft evangelist named Anand Iyer wrote a defense of Steve Ballmer to which another journalist quickly attached a version of my headline. Leave Steve Ballmer alone. Iyer's point: I think people have to realize that...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Iyer, Open Source Project, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs

Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programsNYT ReaderI had the NYT Reader installed when I ran the SP1 package. I also kept all my peripherals (7 USB devices) connected during the upgrade and it went surprisingly without errors and finished in 19 minutes. NYT Reader and all my other apps...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NVidia Corp., Dxdiag, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"

As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-01-31