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- HP vs. Compaq: the 100,000 foot financial view
- Here are three extracts from a September 4th, 2001 New York Times story about HP's plan to acquire Compaq: Investors in both Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have suffered in the current decline in technology stocks, although Compaq's woes have taken a greater toll. That stock...
- Tags: Vistabulations, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Reflections on the command line
- Inspired by a Mike Cox click by shamming. Lets play a game: try to imagine having these two conversations. Version 1.0: You: "Nice day, isnt it?" Friend: "Did you say "Nice day, isnt it?"" ...
- Tags: Vistabulations, Security, General, Enterprise Policy, Disaster avoidance
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Linux, Microsoft, and the $3 desktop
- As most of you know Mr. Gates went to China last week to announce a $3 license package. Heres the bullet as reported by cnets Ina Fried: Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost...
- Tags: Vistabulations, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Is Java the missing lever in comparing Windows to OpenBSD?
- In thinking more about the business of ranking one OS as better than another Ive reached an odd conclusion: specifically, that its perfectly reasonable to do this with respect to any set of business conditions as long as the evaluation is limited to factors affecting ...
- Tags: Vistabulations, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- x86 Security
- I, ah, blush to admit this - but when last weeks revelations about the Windows .ANI cursor hole appeared, I thought someone was pulling an April fools joke. Apparently not, but the mess led me to wonder just how something like this could happen. ...
- Tags: General, Vistabulations, Security, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Not Steganography anyway...
- From a news story last Thursday: Top-secret data on an advanced US military system was leaked because Japanese officers were swapping porn files at work, a newspaper said Thursday. Japan is questioning a naval officer on charges he obtained confidential...
- Tags: Vistabulations, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- OS ranking - confusion to the nth
- Last week I got into a talkback discussion with frequent contributor "bportlock" first over a throw away comment about the PC having been substandard at its introduction and being substandard now - and, then, more interestingly, about ways of ranking operating systems. ...
- Tags: Vistabulations, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- What users want (5)
- Jacob Nielsen is probably the pre-eminent spokesman for research on web usability and much of what he says applies about equally well to other applications too. Among his discussions is one labelled Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers. Some excerpts: From #3: "The 3D UI:"...
- Tags: What users care about, Vistabulations, Enterprise Policy, Development, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- What users care about (2)
- One of the oddest things about a lot of discussion going in in media blogs like this one is that our stereotypical user is someone whose characteristics we all know, but no one actually defines. Why? because we know that real users arent like us: we care...
- Tags: Sun, Vistabulations, General, Development, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- What users care about (1)
- When we talk about system or application performance, user perception of that performance tends to be the unseen elephant in the room. User perception is, of course, driven by three things: expectations, software, and hardware. Of these the hardware is the easiest to understand and expectations the hardest,...
- Tags: Apple, Development, Enterprise Policy, General, IT Retardants, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Your expense = my revenue
- I was browsing somebodys third hand list of 25 bad things about vista compared to Linux when I ran across this anonymous comment in response to that list: The thing is, as much as I enjoy Linux, I have to keep windows around to run various...
- Tags: General, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Decisions, Decisions
- Suns Piazza died, at least temporarily, with the MAJC desktop dream but has a nice interface: the video caller annoying you just kinda fuzes into reality on your screen and you can slam your virtual office door on him if you want to. Wish I had... ...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- What for 2007? guilt, monopoly guilt
- For 2007? Guilt Its that time of year when everyone sets out to assimilate the lessons of 2006 and make new resolutions and new predictions for the coming year. In IT the big changes for 2006 were foundational - theres sweeping change coming in both hardware and...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy, Vistabulations, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-01
- Why Microsoft will distribute SuSe
- Back on Nov 3rd Microsoft announced that it would distribute 70,000, presumably free, copies of SuSe Enterprise Server among some of its strongest supporters. Strategically this is pre-positioning for a strike at IBM in anticipation of an SCO settlement, but its also something else: a case of...
- Tags: server, General, Linux, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Microsoft Vista and security
- Microsofts pending "Vista" desktop OS release has a number of "in your face" "security" in the PC sense of that word features that cant be ignored on even the most cursory review. These may or may not prove effective in use, but certainly seem a little over the top...
- Tags: Vistabulations, Enterprise Policy, General, security
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- A reason for Unix sysadmins to thank Microsoft
- That Microsoft "get the facts" site is just chock full of fun stuff - and oddly enough I actually want to be positive about something I found there last week. Specifically, an IDC study on the choices people make when considering Unix/Linux or Windows as a migration target...
- Tags: Unix, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Vistabulations, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-23
- Looking beyond the facts
- The Microsoft "get the facts" report I discussed yesterday wasnt the only one I read - todays subject, a case study on a decision by people at the University of Cincinnati Genome Research Institute GRI to migrate their HPC clusters from Unix/Linux to Windows, is another winner. Heres...
- Tags: General, Linux, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- Reviewing a Microsoft anti-Linux case study
- As most people know Microsoft has an anti-Linux program called "Get the Facts" featuring case studies arguing the Windows case. When one of those, wearing the title: London Stock Exchange chooses windows over Linux for reliability, arrived in my email last week, I was sufficiently intrigued by the relative...
- Tags: General, Linux, Vistabulations
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Protected by Microsoft
- From the Calgary Sun for Nov 10/06: On Oct. 22, the computer was taken in a break-in at the northwest home of a CHR Collaborative Mental Health staffer. The laptop was carrying contact, mental health and parental data on 1,000 Calgary-area children up to six years of...
- Tags: General, Vistabulations, American Insurance Group, computer, password
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
Additional Resources
- The end of Zune? It's not just the music anymore
- Is this the beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune? In a story about Microsoft's quest to beat Google, the Financial Times writes that Steve Ballmer seems "all but ready to throw in the towel on the Zune," which hasn't come close to being an iPod killer. The piece...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune, Music Player, Microsoft Corp., Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Media Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
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