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If my kid doesn't like Linux now...

If my kid doesn't like Linux now...So if you buy your kid a Chevyand he demands a Hummer, do you cave in?Because the XP machine was, surprisingly, rampant with malware.Just what you want, a virtual machine running tons of virtual malware, virtual spamware, spyware, and probably botted. So, if...

Tags: Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Linux Now, gOS Rocket-E, Linux, old laptop, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-04-28

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Microsoft delivers Office for Mac SP1; Will bring back VBA

Microsoft delivers Office for Mac SP1; Will bring back VBABoo!! Hiss!!Office Macros need to die! Talk about insecurity! What is clear is that this isn't being done for the customers' good, but to perpetuate lock-in...competing products haven't yet fully replicated the (erratic & dangerous) behavior possible with...

Tags: Scripting languages, Microsoft Corp., Nothing, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Office, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Does Larry Ellison have the best SaaS strategy?

Software as a service sounds deceptively simple: Host an application, charge folks monthly and customers come running because they don't have to implement software. The reality: SaaS is rocket science and few do it truly well. This perception vs. reality SaaS gap bonked me over the head...

Tags: Strategy, Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Larry Ellison, SaaS Trajectory, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun

At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others. Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described...

Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hydrazine, Productivity, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Is your keyboard dirtier than a toilet seat?

Is your keyboard dirtier than a toilet seat?As my microbiology prof saidat the beginning of the semester:Two weeks into this class and you'll want to be like Howard Hughes, trying to sequester yourself from the little critters crawling everywhere.After two months, you'll get over it and realize that there's not...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, toilet seat

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Inevitable, huh? Not in Ed Tech

Inevitable, huh? Not in Ed TechYou're so right!The costs and trauma for moving to Vista make free and open source software that much more attractive for schools. In the US, issues with the credit crunch and real estate, both make money for schools more difficult to come by.There...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Inevitability, Ed Tech

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business

Of course our government cannot really tell us the truth about things like "weapons of mass destruction," or the true costs of various wars and occupations, or the size of the CIA's budget, because we're so silly and can't be trusted to understand. Turns out, we can't be told...

Tags: Chemicals, Health Care, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, Government Accounting Office, Naphthalene, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-28

XP SP3 performance gains - Nothing to write home about

XP SP3 performance gains - Nothing to write home aboutYou took the words right outta my mouth......er, off of my keyboard. I half expected the same thing. But Microsloth did themselves one better. They can still "claim" a performance gain, but they never claimed how much. ...

Tags: Performance management, Nothing, XP SP3, Microsoft Windows XP, XP SP3 performance, performance, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?

Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?That's what a Board of Directors is forLet them do their job. If they don't think the purchase is worth it, it will be shot down.RE: Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?No.Microsoft needs Gates to return ntntGo big or go home!Initiating...

Tags: Portals, Web technology, SEARCH, lobotomy, Initiating Change, Steve Ballmer, Does Microsoft, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

Twitter turmoil: when does it end?

The news that Twitter's lead architect Blaine Cook and Lee Mighdoll, VP engineering have left should be no surprise. Let's be blunt. Despite the  neutral language used in various posts, they were fired. One has to wonder whether Jack Dorsey is next, especially as he doesn't seem to understand the...

Tags: Twitter, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Manufacturing, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Taking a look at iPhone and iPod sales data

Taking a look at iPhone and iPod sales dataConsumer technology benchmarks[url=http://www.symbian.com/about/fastfacts/fastfacts.html]Putting things into perspective[/url]:[b]Consumer technology benchmarks * 300 million mobile phones shipped in Q4 2007[1] * 1.12 billion mobile phones sold in 2007 according to Strategy Analytics[2] * 110 million...

Tags: Branding, sales, Apple Inc., Facebook, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

Central Desktop adds spreadsheets to their mix

Central Desktop adds spreadsheets to their mixprojjex.comI've been experimenting with various collaboration tools and have discovered an excellent site. It is a very user friendly, web-based application that is well worth taking the time to explore. Take a few minutes and look at Projjex.com. The tutorials are...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Groupware, Central Desktop, spreadsheet

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

Little Soldiers (exe)

Little Soldiers is a mind bending, strategic-puzzle game that places you and your compatriots on a range of challenging, classified military missions. Armed with rocket missiles, bullets, building materials, pick axes, and your own mind muscle strength, you must build carefully placed fortification, explode bombs, plan cautiously thought out routes...

Tags: Teamwork, Phelios, Little Soldiers, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2008-04-09

Defending Java against Paul Murphy

Defending Java against Paul MurphyA musician's mindObviously no musician created it. But did he or she hang around a radio station before throwing the logic in there?Sorry Mr. Carroll...... but I'll remind you that "What moved me to respond ... was what I consider to be an inaccurate portrayal...

Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, SECURITY, Paul Murphy, Java, flaw, C, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Heathrow T5 failure: What really happened

Heathrow T5 failure: What really happenedTony BlairThis is typical of modern Britain. All show. All glitz. 100% image and 0% substance. This is the legacy of Tony who turned Britain from a country proud of its merit into one only concerned with the next news story and to hell with...

Tags: Strategy, Heathrow T5

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

ThinkGOS using MySpace tie-in for new Linux PC

ThinkGOS and Everex have found a new gimmick for selling Linux desktops -- a tie-in with MySpace. The MyMiniPC runs a version of GOS Linux and is priced at $499. It's "optimized" with a host of MySpace applications, and brags they're delivered just weeks after the MySpace...

Tags: PC, Linux PC, MySpace, MyMiniPC, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Novell insists it's winning the Linux wars

In the third of a series of interviews by Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian right insisted his company is not being hurt by its association with Microsoft. "Novell grew 200% in the SUSE Linux marketplace year-over-year from an invoicing perspective," he said. The...

Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Images: Xcor rockets private space flights

Xcor Aerospace unveiled designs for a rocket that will let ordinary people experience weightlessness on a suborbital flight. by CNET News.com

Tags: Flight, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-03-28

Appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source

Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...

Tags: Appistry, Application, Open Source, Grid Computing, Appistry EAF, Digipede, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-28

Is open source the right way to bring innovation to market?

Is open source the right way to bring innovation to market?Not really newsMore like a sales pitch.In-memory databases have been around for a long time and it does not take a rocket scientist to know that accessing RAM is faster than accessing disk. Adding in a object orientation to the...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Databases, IS open source, innovation, open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-26