gnat

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Modern maladies: I have the attention span of a gnat

Modern maladies: I have the attention span of a gnatCompelling ??? Really ???Last I checked, it's called "impulse control". To be honest, I can't say there's any significant amount of online content that is sufficiently compelling that I need to deal with it instead of other things due...

Tags: malady, attention span

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

The Pod: software issues

The Pod: software issuesBoth feet inIn a large corporation like company "F", the one-throat to choke paradigm is paramount. Even if the Java desktop stuff is half-baked, it makes sense to contract with Sun to do everything and use everything. Heck, we use half-baked or less stuff from IBM today...

Tags: Programming languages, UNIX, Operating systems, GNAT, GCC, VAX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Ada, software

Discussion threads 2006-01-04

gNAT 1.0b3 (Mac)

gNAT is a small program designed to give users graphical access to Mac OS X's Network Address Translation NAT services without having to use the command line. NAT is a protocol used to share a single internet connection over multiple computers without having to buy an expensive hardware router. As...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network Address Translation, Sustainable Softworks, gNAT, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-05-18

Additional Resources

Windows 7 works great on the MacBook Pro

I concurI've been very happy with Windows 7 on my MBP. I also just ordered Snow Leopard for the improved Windows drivers. Don't get me started on having to pay for a driver upgrade since I'm rarely (never?) going to use Snow Leopard itself. Only Apple would have the nerve.Windows...

Tags: Operating systems, Looks like window, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, trackpad, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Saas? We're too busy making ERP work

It's sometimes good to be reminded that while the industry hype is around saas/cloud/on-demand that there is still another world out there where customers are wrestling with more traditional approaches to computing. The other evening I had a conversation with Erick Kimberling, CEO of Panorama Consulting. Panorama...

Tags: ERP, Panorama Consulting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Google missed a marketing turn with the 'decision engine' thing

Google missed a marketing turn with the 'decision engine' thingNew York Post? Are you serious?Anything written in the New York Post should be taken with a grain of salt. I believe Google worries about Bing about as much as a water buffalo worries about a gnat on its backside.

Tags: Marketing research, Google MISSED, decision engine, Google Inc., marketing

Discussion threads 2009-06-14

Telecommuting nightmare: Workers use mobile devices 2 to 6 hours per week in bed, survey says

More than 1 in 4 employees are so tethered to laptops and smartphones that they can't resist taking them to bed with them before sleeping, according to a small survey released today. According to the survey, 57 percent of people who work in bed do so between...

Tags: Mobile, Telecommuting, Mobile Device, Survey, Worker, Marketing Research, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-05-19

Twitter is Dangerous: revista

I'm probably miles behind some tech complaint curve everyone else knows about, but having spent four hours trying to gain control of my Twitter account I'm at the point of pulling what's left of my hair out. Here's what's happened. The last few days I noticed the...

Tags: Twitter, Scoble, Autoresponders, E-mail, Sales Force Management, Security, Online Communications, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Modern maladies: I have the attention span of a gnat

I sometimes feel I have the attention span of a gnat, that my "multitasking" is really masking an inability to concentrate on one thing long enough to finish it. I see the same thing with other people, young and old, they complain that they find it hard...

Tags: Facebook, SMS, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, E-mail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Google will appeal German copyright decision

Google will appeal German copyright decisionThe problem here is thatbasicly, Google is deriving their income from other people's work.Whether it could help/hurt the author of said work is a discussion for another day, (as in, it can help an author gain name recognition he would have not had been able...

Tags: Google Inc., German copyright decision, copyright decision, income

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?

Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...

Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

More on the MacBook Air battery

More on the MacBook Air batteryRE: More on the MacBook Air batteryIn all the notebooks that I have owned over the past 15 years, I have never ever physically removed a battery from any one of them. I simply limited myself to the available battery time or made sure I...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Apple Inc., battery, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Green business backlash: We could see this coming

Green business backlash: We could see this comingGive us a freaking breakIf you're going to spout off on global warming, please at least try and sound informed? Glaciers retreating is a sign of global warming?.Do you even have one gnat's worth of a clue on the physics of glacier formation?Hint:...

Tags: global warming, Green Business

Discussion threads 2007-10-19

Microsoft's mobile team reorgs, focuses on Live services

Microsoft's mobile team reorgs, focuses on Live servicesWhere's ProtonBut where is the next version of Windows Mobile. The platform hasn't changed much for 5 years or more.Sounds PromisingAny mobile OS on the market that can compete with the big two (Palm, Microsoft) is a welcome thing. Both Microsoft...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Handhelds, Microsoft Corp., mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, mobile team, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., team

Discussion threads 2007-10-11

Microsoft bails on virtualization licensing changes for Vista

Microsoft bails on virtualization licensing changes for VistaDon't be so silly![i]"And now they think the stampede is on for Vista."[/i]Sales of Vista have got nothing to do with whether Vista is any good or not. Sales of Vista simply measure how much hardware has been sold. Try buying a PC...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, virtualization, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-19

Palm brings another device out of "beta" stage with the 755p

Palm brings another device out of "beta" stage with the 755pYou have crazy and unwarranted expectations!You guys kill me with your crazy expectations. So, if I am hearing you right, Palm should not have released any of those other devices until they "got it right"? Got what right?...

Tags: Operating systems, Manufacturing, Handhelds, Palm Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

GTA's GB-2000e Provides the College With a Robust and Powerful Firewall

Not only did the Haywards Heath College require a highly secure firewall solution for the management of in/out bound traffic for their JANET internet connection but also called for a content filtering solution. The College needed to put in place a form of URL Filtering to minimise this access to...

Tags: Content Filtering, Global Secure Systems, GTA, GB-2000e Firewall Appliance, Firewalls, Content Management, Network Security, Security, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-03-13

Survey: Software companies increasing offshoring work

Survey: Software companies increasing offshoring workPredicted this would happen[i]Many executives interviewed by Thomas specifically cited a shortage of available H-1B visas as one of the reasons for hiring offshore workers. Executives said it could be faster to set up a team with foreign workers overseas than in the U.S.[/i]A few...

Tags: Outsourcing, information technology, worker, job, software, survey

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

AIM worm plays nasty new trick

AIM worm plays nasty new trickThis may not help.Even though a user sent them a link and said that it is intentional, you may be getting a virus/work in your computer. It's about common sense, so I won't be clicking in any links anymore, just like if you get phishing...

Tags: Rootkits, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, AOL Instant Messenger, worm, Linux, rootkit, antivirus, America Online Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2005-10-28