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- e-Madness - MAC OSX (zip)
- e-Madness is an amazing new software application, designed and built exclusively to facilitate casual sports tournament bidding between friends. This application requires you to install a free web server on your machine to enable you to host private sports auctions from your home computer. If you are typically the commissioner...
- Tags: E.piphany, e-Madness, Apple Mac OS X, Web Servers, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Internet, Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-07-31
- e-Madness - Windows (zip)
- e-Madness is an amazing new software application, designed and built exclusively to facilitate casual sports tournament bidding between friends. This application requires you to install a free web server on your machine to enable you to host private sports auctions from your home computer. If you are typically the commissioner...
- Tags: E.piphany, e-Madness, Web Servers, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-03-21
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- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 2
- Again, sorry for the late updates. Vegas is the kind of place that demands a lot of a person. Too many parties make it difficult to find time to blog on the conference. Pictures of the even are a bit sparse, due to consistently forgetting to bring my camera, but...
- Tags: black hat, microsoft corp., applet, image, vegas, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- 'Making available' argument rapidly dying well-deserved death
- I'm passing along Ray Beckerman's post on two recent cases that show the RIAA's attempt to use a "making available" theory to show copyright infringement is clearly on the way out. The Copyright Act clearly requires a showing that the defendant transferred the content to someone else; the RIAA has...
- Tags: RIAA, Judge, Statute, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99
- Best Buy to sell Ubuntu for $19.99stop the madness"the learning curve is steeper for those wanting to do more with the any OS"Dre`, once you realize that you are a 'Windows power user' and NOT a computer expert, you would not fail so often.I tend to agreethat 60 days would...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, WINDOWS USERS, Ubuntu, Best Buy Co. Inc., Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 1)
- Here at ZDNet, we all get on most of the time and I'm lucky to be working with some absolutely lovely people. Behind the scenes, we have a discussion group, and I've been bitching about my lack of Internet the last week or so. My editor-in-chief, Larry, asked me a...
- Tags: House, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, British Telecommunications, Cable, Tiscali, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Houston we have a problem
- Regular readers don't need me to repeat the oft held view that enterprise wide application implementation is often slow, cumbersome and expensive. But are we really getting anything out of it at the end of the day other than some marginal cost efficiency? Rather than throw brickbats at any particular...
- Tags: Customer Service, Houston, Sam Lawrence, CIOs/CTOs, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Microsoft says it's time to stop worrying about Vista - Does that make you feel any less worried?
- Microsoft says it's time to stop worrying about Vista - Does that make you feel any less worried?There are still issues...Network performance still needs work.File copy performance still needs work.The ghost town that is Ultimate Extra's needs to start giving us what we were promised and paid $100 extra for.I...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?
- C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?C doesn't have memory corruption flawsC provides access to memory and leaves it as an exercise for the developer to program appropriately.Welcome back, pointer madness and memory leak.We web developers love to trade productivity, garbage collection and code maintainability /...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, C, browser scripting language, scripting language, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security. Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...
- Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Stop the madness: 10 steps to kill failures
- Are you too pussy-footed to pull the plug on projects that will inevitably fail? If so, you're not alone. Whether through fear, denial, or ignorance, many organizations don't kill their doomed projects fast enough. It's a darn shame because these lousy things can drive everyone crazy while burning scarce resources....
- Tags: Project, Failure, Corporate Governance, C/C++, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Don't download Firefox 3 yet (updated)
- Firefox 3 download day is June 17th, so if it's June 17th in your time zone now should you download it? No! Ok, go ahead now if you can get in. In what I can only describe as a monumental screw-up,...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Internet, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- 2008 Audi A5
- Photo gallery:2008 Audi A5One of the prettiest coupes around, the 2008 Audi A5 comes in with excellent handling, thanks to the standard Quattro all-wheel-drive system. Its 3.2-liter engine produces adequate power, but you'll have to step up to the Audi S5 for real fun. Our test car came with a...
- Tags: Digital music, Cable, Digital media, MMI, iPod Interface, Audi AG, Audi A5, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-06-03
- Stop the spectrum auction madness
- Stop the spectrum auction madnessnice thought but...There is nothing to prevent wireless carriers, Apple, Google or M$ to get a free ride on the free spectrum with locked devices.Open spectrum would mean nothing without an open protocol to use it and enforced by the FCC.You're absolutely rightYou enforce non-interference with...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, spectrum auction
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Stop the spectrum auction madness
- Before one more colleague speculates on rules for spectrum auctions, can I make one suggestion? Stop. Over the last several years we've had auction-after-auction, all ostensibly designed to provide competition to the Wireless Trust. Has it? No, it hasn't. The Trust...
- Tags: Hardware, Spectrum, Auction, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Google losing cellphone battle?
- Google losing cellphone battle?Well, the idea is that CUSTOMERS will choose their phone, just like theychoose their PC. Dell does not need to do deals with internet service providers for instance. But, YES, right now, the carriers are the ones that select the phones that you can use with their...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Tea Vui Huang, Google Inc., phone, LiMo Foundation, Linux, carrier, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
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