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- Chess master Kasparov takes on tech execs...and Putin
- At the Disruptions 2005 technology conference put on by Deloitte in San Francisco today, world renowned chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov gave a brief speech and then simultaneously played against about 20 of the executives attending the conference. I talked to Udi Manber, CEO of Amazon’s A9 search engine, who proudly...
- Tags: Garry Kasparov
- Blog posts 2005-09-16
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- Jailing political opponents for Microsoft?
- Here's a story that has been flying around the Internet today. According to Marina Litvinovich at LiveJournal the link is to a version translated by Google Russian police came into the home of Boris Batyi in Rostov-on-Don and arrested him for having an unlicensed version of Windows. (The portrait, according to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Excuse, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Government, Internet, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Singularity Summit 2007: The Pell iCan brief
- Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...
- Tags: Brain, Robot, Mr., Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Build a $2,500 supercomputer
- Supercomputing Costco-style In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Today you can build a more powerful machine for less than $2,500 in an 11" x 12" x 17" box. That works out to less than $100 per gigaflop as of January, 2007 ...
- Tags: Performance, Supercomputer, Microwulf, Millicomputing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Pew Report notes, part three: He shoots, he scores... telling the story that makes a winner
- Pew Report notes, part three: He shoots, he scores... telling the story that makes a winnerReflections.People already know themselves. If they wanted more of their own company they'd sit under a tree in the shade with a tall cool drink when that's appropriate to the weather and let their...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Pew Report, sacrifice, Garry Trudeau
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Pew Report notes, part three: He shoots, he scores... telling the story that makes a winner
- The Pew Internet & American Life Projects report, A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, has raised a lot of questions in the mediasphere in the past couple days. Despite the concerns that social media, or "Web 2.0," are not catching on with rapidly or broadly enough, the report...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- EarthLink CEO Garry Betty passes away
- EarthLink CEO Garry Betty passes awaySorryAnyone know what form of cancer this was. We need to cure this modern day plague.great guyGary was a great guy and solid logical business mind, he will be missed
- Tags: Garry Betty, EarthLink Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-03
- EarthLink CEO Garry Betty passes away
- EarthLink announced CEO Garry Betty passed away due to complications from cancer. He was 49. Betty, who joined the company in 1996, was an all around good guy--I interviewed him a few times--and Im sure EarthLink will miss him. Mike...
- Tags: Garry Betty, EarthLink Inc., Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Optimize the performance of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM): Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the DTS package
- Microsoft Operations Manager MOM uses the DTS package to transfer data from the OnePoint operational database to the SystemCenterReporting archive datawarehouse database. Archiving old data from the OnePoint database to the SystemCenterReporting database keeps the OnePoint database small and streamlined, thus improving the performance of MOM....
- Tags: Monitor, Performance, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Corp., DTS, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Download resources 2006-12-19
- Kasparov Chessmate (exe)
- Kasparov Chessmate is an exciting simulation chess game. Whether you're a novice or a Grandmaster you must improve your skills to advance your level of play. Enjoy a chess challenge that guarantees fun and learning no matter what your experience level. Note: The Download Now link will download a small...
- Tags: Level, Kasparov Chessmate, Games, Desktops, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-12-11
- British banks to cancel cards used for Net child porn
- British banks to cancel cards used for Net child pornGood for the UKSomeone somewhere is going to say this is a violation of someone's privacy though.I however do not agree with that concept. People who are downloading child pornography need to be stopped and bank/credit card terms of use...
- Tags: child pornography, Net child-porn, British Bank, card
- Discussion threads 2006-07-20
- Time Warner packages AOL with Road Runner
- Time Warner packages AOL with Road RunnerRoadRunnerThere prices are very very high. I live in a area that does not have fiber optic and cannot get any DSL from any company. BellSouth will not update our phone system. There are about 600 phone users in our area but they say...
- Tags: DSL, Network technology, Broadband Internet, Roadrunner, Road Runner, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-17
- Why muni Wi-Fi is so important to Earthlink
- For companies like Earthlink, which have been dependent on telephone and cable companies to provide access to their networks, municipal wireless is becoming an increasingly important strategy, for the very reasons that cables and telcos are so opposed. Muni Wi-Fi is the creation of alternative infrastructure, which just possibly...
- Tags: Garry Betty, EarthLink Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-18
- Chess grandmaster to battle supercomputer
- Chess grandmaster to battle supercomputerBoring!!Why Kasparov LostKasparov allegedly lost because he tried to play to the machine's weakness. It was said he was clued into some of the shortcomings of the software's strategies and basically tried to outpsyche the machine and instead of actually playing the game, found himself losing...
- Tags: supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2005-06-22
- Windows 2000 users to miss out on IE 7
- Windows 2000 users to miss out on IE 7Why, Sure!Why not skip over the most used OS and Browser in the corporate world.More forced upgrades. You just gotta love this company.Tis a mistake IMHOI don't know quite what the thought process behind this is but the installed base of...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows 2000 Users, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2005-06-02
- Regulatory compliance touches databases
- Organizations need to achieve a higher level of data privacy to comply with regulatory standards, so they are shifting their emphasis from encrypting the data that is in transit over their networks to encrypting the data within their databases. But encrypting data “at rest” raises questions: What fields must be encrypted?...
- Tags: encryption, database
- Blog posts 2004-08-18
- IBM sells climate research supercomputer
- IBM sells climate research supercomputerRight on!This kicks arse! It's insane what these systems can do. Wasn't the system that beat Gary Kasparov designed to model supernovas or something insane like that? I just need to find a way to cluster together a bunch of Palm Zires... then...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Zender, supercomputer, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-02-10
- Microsoft stuck with Mikerowesoft mess
- Microsoft stuck with Mikerowesoft messDMCA *Copyright* infringementFrom his site:"I received an email from Smart & Biggar, Microsoft's Canadian lawyers, informing me that I have been committing COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT against Microsoft. "Maybe you guys overlooked this. At best it was a trademark infringement, but an extremely weak one, yet Microsoft lawyers...
- Tags: Games, Microsoft Corp., DMCA
- Discussion threads 2004-01-20
- Kasparov-'X3D Fritz' draw first game of VR chess match
- Kasparov-'X3D Fritz' draw first game of VR chess matchKasparov will winKasparov will win 2 1/2 to 1 1/2. Kasparov should have beaten all of his past computer opponents, and this time they've dressed him funny, but I believe he's got the programmers' number. Kranmik was also the true...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, game, Kasparov, computer, chess
- Discussion threads 2003-11-12
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