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- Arizona's Fastest-Growing School District Moves to Offer Laptops in the Classroom
- Dysart USD is the fastest growing school district in Arizona. This case study examines how the district protects their investment in technology by effectively managing thousands of HP laptops. Learn how Dysart gets up-to-the-minute status of every computer's location, virus protection, software and hardware configuration, and how...
- Tags: District, Absolute Software, Laptop Computer, Arizona, Dysart USD, Notebooks, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Security
- Case studies 2008-03-01
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- Why does open source need a villain?
- Why does open source need a villain?It doesn't need a villianIt just needs competition. And Apple provides some, but they also leave the door open for F/OSS given their restrictive policies.villain or hero?Linus Torvalds"By giving away his software, the Finnish programmer earned a place in history""Some of Torvalds' supporters portray...
- Tags: open source, villain, open source need, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- The Techie Hall of Shame
- The Techie Hall of ShameThe Florida architectural firm rampagehttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/24/disgruntled_employee_silent_rampage/RE: The Techie Hall of ShameAs far as this system in S.F. - If you have physical access to the machine, you should be able to get admin/root access. I'd be curious to know what OS they are talking about.RE: The Techie...
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Most IT folk, Techie Hall, VSB
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Canadian court shutters torrent tracker
- Canadian court shutters torrent trackerJust Walk AwayI realize that most of the people on the internet are content junkies but the best way to deal with a for profit company that relies on sales to survive is to not buy their product. Don't download illegally and don't buy physical content....
- Tags: E-books, INTERNET, Intellectual property, Well Let, tracker, e-book, music
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- What happens when you patch the Internet?
- What happens when you patch the Internet?Most home users do *not* have a router...and they are the largest number of systems exposed to the network. Corporate systems are already protected, and are likely not running Zone Alarm anyway.For the home user Windows XP's firewall is less than secure --...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Patches, Domain names, ZoneAlarm, Internet, patch, server, DNS server, security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain
- Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it's still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn't have the best operating system on the planet....
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Radeon HD 4850 - Another GPU that fails to keep up with the aging 8800 GTS
- Radeon HD 4850 - Another GPU that fails to keep up with the aging 8800 GTSThis is a great surpriseAMD said that the new 4XXX graphics card range would give movie realistic gameplay...guess it's marketing...Well...I have to say, that GTS is a great card! I've used it in my work...
- Tags: AMD GPU, Radeon HD 4850, Radeon HD, Radeon, GPU, GTS, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?All software eventually expires and is upgraded.The operating system is no different.Personally, I think that this entire conversation has been missing the point.Most people, by which I mean consumers not IT staff, don't care what operating system is on their computer. They will use...
- Tags: Service Pack 1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- See your potential future salaries
- See your potential future salariesHere @ MexicoInteresting post!Here at Mexico an average employed software developer earns between 12K-23K USD.And there is a lot developers out there working in US companies.Become an astronaut ...I haven't checked the website mentioned, but the basic logic shown in the blog article is flawed. ...
- Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, Web site development, future salary, salary
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Who's behind the GPcode ransomware?
- In one of these moments when those who are supposed to know, don't know, and those who don't realize what they know aren't reaching the appropriate parties, it's time we get back to the basics - finding out who's behind GPcode, and trying to tip them on the consequences of...
- Tags: Payment, Encryption, GPcode, John Dow-ish Daniel Robertson, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- iPod touch 2.0 anyone?
- iPod touch 2.0 anyone?He's probably stressed it more than you haveI've crashed mine a few times, too doing stuff it was never intended for. Like using data URLs to create 4MB bookmarks. That will bring an iPod touch to its knees pretty quickly.NOT MOVIES??!!??!![i]I've thrown everything at it and have...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Archos, Archos 605
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail now
- Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail nowSelf-flagellation or propaganda?I actually agree with some of the basic sentiments expressed at times here.But it's like opposing the Iraq war - one may oppose it, but it's miserable to be lumped in the with the kooks, addle-minded airheads, and unreformed, aging hippies that...
- Tags: industry, General Motors Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?
- Mac OS 10.6 to be Intel only?64-bit is the future64-bit is the future anyway so no problem with releasing a 64-bit only OS. It might seem painful but it's good given that it's just going to pave a way for people to switch from 32-bit to 64-bit as if the...
- Tags: Desktops, Network technology, Operating systems, 64-bit, Apple Macintosh, Mac OS 10.6, Intel Only, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Intel Corp., hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Netbooks - Too little, too late, and way too expensive
- Netbooks - Too little, too late, and way too expensiveany performance benchmarks?may be the 'netbook' has better performance or is less power hungry.Or may be it is just a gimmick for the uninformed!You're missing the point.A $500 MSI Wind isn't competing with a $500 15" Dell - it's competing with...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Notebooks, Marketing research, Netbooks, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Waiting for the right netbooks
- Waiting for the right netbooksASUS even plans an iMac rival....G*d, I love ASUS... :-)http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146605/asustek_to_launch_imac_rival_in_september.htmlHopefully again with the option of a preinstalled Linux. If not, you can always install it yourself:http://ubuntutip.googlepages.com/(not for you, Chris! You already know how)But I suppose they'll have a Linux in the BIOS anyway, being...
- Tags: Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Linux, ASUS, XO-2
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?FUD?While Chinese owned companies (and being Communist, the government owns those companies) has been responsible for some things, no doubts there as the pet food and tooth paste can confirm, shouldn't a proper distinction be confirmed before empty blaming?How do we know the guilty hackers aren't...
- Tags: Hacking, INTERNET, blackout
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Blog fight: on dumping email servers
- Blog fight: on dumping email serversHa ha ha..is it April Fool's again already?Geeze and I thought it was April Fool's all over again! What absolute drivell of an assumption.Look, what planet are you guys seriously living on? Have you ever actually worked in an enterprise?And as if gmail is going...
- Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, e-mail server, blog, HERE IS, Google Inc., e-mail, server, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 2nd excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: T Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction The IBM mainframe or data...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Citrix Synergy Announcements
- Today is the first day of Citrix's Synergy Conference and the company has come out with a gaggle of announcements. (As an aside, do announcements come in gaggles, coveys, pods, or packs?) The centerpiece is Citrix's announcement that XenDesktop is now available. Another important announcement is that Citrix now is...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- They died for Reddi-Wip?
- They died for Reddi-Wip?No - They died for scienceThis is the first time I have ever been disgusted by an official ZDNet post.Aside from the atrocious use of [b]bold[/b] for the quotes, the post belittles the lives of the astronauts and the worthwhile experiments that take place in space. ...
- Tags: Notebooks, NASA, Reddi-Wip, Jason Perlow
- Discussion threads 2008-05-11
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