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- The Oracle Tax is progressive
- The Fortunate 1000 are far more likely to pay the "Oracle Tax" of a proprietary database than other firms, making this one of the few true progressive taxes in our business system. (The picture is of Oracle's headquarters, aka the Ellison Kremlin, the Capitol of LarryWorld.) ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Tool, Oracle Tax, Fortunate 1000, Graham, Productivity, Storage, Taxes, Databases, Open Source, Hardware, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
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- 10 hard drive disasters
- 10 hard drive disastersAt what cost?"pays to have your damaged hard drive or storage device evaluated because the chances of recovery are good." Pays who? $1000.00 plus to have your hard drive recovered? I know it's hard to put a price on pictures but a good backup...
- Tags: Backups, Storage, hard drive, hard drive disaster
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Apache's open source governance model
- Apache's open source governance modelI give Murph a 10 on this onentMike Cox couldn't beat this one...NTIIS dominates the market, of courseThough Apache has almost half the web servers in use, the more important number is the Fortune 1000 result. There Microsoft has 55% vs Apache's 25%, with Microsoft...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Liquid metal-cooled CPU outperforms air- and water-cooled systems?
- UK-based Bios Magazine is reporting that the world's first commercially available liquid-metal based CPU cooler is about to ship -- and that Danish company Danamics says that its LM-10 outperforms standard air-cooled heatsinks and most watercooled systems with a power draw of just 1W: The liquid metal is a...
- Tags: Metal, CPU, Liquid Metal-cooled CPU, Liquid Metal, BIOS, Processors, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soon
- Microsoft Fiji beta over; final 'TV Pack' due soonMedia Center may be best MS appMedia Center is by far the app I use most on my PC. When you're in MC, you don't even realize you're using a computer. Yes, there are some missing features, but it a joy to...
- Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), TVs, Digital media, TV Pack, Fiji, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TV, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Center TV Pack
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- JosephusCS (exe)
- JosephusCS is a program that solves the Josephus Permutation problem. Original Problem: 1000 slaves in a circle, numbered 1 to 1000, are all to be shot except one lucky survivor. The order of shooting is 1, 3, and 5, always alternating, and always immediately removing the fallen bodies. Once a...
- Tags: Body, Circle, Harry J. Smith, JosephusCS
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?
- DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?DIRECTV postJason - Sounds like an incredibly frustrating experience. I am really surprised the DirecTV employee would suggest disconnecting your service. The "D-word" should never be initiated or used by the employee -- Call Center...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DirecTV, TiVo Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Now I know what to do with those Eees!
- I'm really enamored of the Asus line of Eees. I really want one for myself (I'd much rather take a cheap 7" Eee on vacation next week than my Macbook since I just want a place to download pictures, write, and catch up on homework), but I have a...
- Tags: Class, Laptop Computer, Computer, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Check out the bionic neck
- I've told you about my disc replacement surgery, but I've never shown you. Here's an X-ray from my most recent follow-up appointment with the doctor who did the surgery. As a trial patient, I have agreed to go back after three weeks, six weeks, three months, six months, a year...
- Tags: Surgery, Blogging, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Slava Proxy Server (exe)
- The product was developed for shared access to Internet with the help of LAN. It is used at the necessity of shared access through proxy connections. Protocols supported: HTTP/HTTPS, SOCKS, port mapping. The main functions of the SLAVA proxy-server are: access to Web-sites by HTTP and HTTPS protocols (with SSL...
- Tags: Protocol, Server, IP Address, Proxy Server, SlavaSoftware, Internet, Productivity, Network Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-07-09
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a monthWith collaberative suites like Zimbra....why pay MS a dime. Even the smallest IT departments from 1 person on up can install Zimbra on a Linux box, spend $1000 or less on the hardware(for small business, a little more fore medium size...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., service subscription
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Shirtcity Shopping Mall (gadget)
- Introducing the Shirtcity and Google search bar gadget. At Shirtcity you can create and order your own individual T-shirt, underwear, cap, lanyard, cup, teddy bear and much more with an exact preview. For designing they offer more than 50 stylish products, besides your own graphics - 80 typefaces and more...
- Tags: Graphics, Gadget, Sidebar Gadgets
- Software downloads 2008-07-07
- Mental4 (exe)
- Mental4 is a game of adding and subtracting. Object: of the game is to match numbers as two pairs or a three of a kind. For example: two 10s and two 6s. Structure: A game is five puzzles. Their scores are added together as a game-score which is added to...
- Tags: Score, Julian Bury, Mental4, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
- Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...
- Tags: Servers, server, VMware Inc., Sun Ray, Costing Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- BenQ V2400W
- The BenQ V2400W is the fourth 24-inch LCD we've reviewed this year and the third we'd recommend. The $600
- Tags: BenQ Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-07-01
- Distributed decision making in IT
- Distributed decision making in ITMoving the SPOF rearrainging deckchairs.Lets make something clear - that the central SRSS/DumbRay server IS a SPARC. x86 just doesn't cut it for hosting so many users. SO please don't do the same thing as big blue and pull the old bait and switch - OF...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, information technology, server, decision-making
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Offshoring: India still No. 1
- Bangalore remains on top as the global outsourcing leader but with prices on the rise in India, locations like Beijing and Auckland are catching up fast. Bangalore has retained its position as the ideal global delivery location for businesses, according to a new report from IDC. The...
- Tags: India, City, Beijing, International Data Corp., Delivery Location, Government, Vertical Industries, Outsourcing, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, offshoring, China, Vivian Yeo, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-06-27
- Fired up for new coal plant in Virginia
- Fired up for new coal plant in VirginiaCoal in Tampa BayWe've got coal here as well. Since moving here, they've put scrubbers on it and other sort of things to clean the exhaust. It's not my favorite type of power generation, but it has the benefit of buffering...
- Tags: Middle Eastern Oil, coal
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to roll
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to rollActually...You should ask THAT to Apple, not Microsoft...Because Apple's usage agreement only allows OSX to run on Apple hardware?And while Psystar might be avoiding a lawsuit, it's very unlikely that Apple would hold back if MS tried to enable it's customers to easily...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, non-Windows OS, hardware list, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, VMware Inc., virtualization, innotek VirtualBox, virtu
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
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