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- Your mom Kubuntus!
- Your mom Kubuntus!Well done!Good article. I thoroughly agree. Although "your mom" will probably prefer the simplicity of Ubuntu over the tweakability of Kubuntu.... :-)There is one thing you can do, though, to improve readability: put the conclusion (the "home message" in the last paragraph) on top. Perhaps in bold type,...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, KDE gui, Linux, grandma, Kubuntu
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Grandma's Little Real Estate Helper (exe)
- Finally, a company has created easy-to-use real estate investment software that lets you to screen the investment returns on up to 20 rental properties at a time, so you can know which real estate investments are the best of the bunch in just minutes. Once you have gone through the...
- Tags: Grandma, Investment, Real Estate, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2006-06-06
- One more time Part II
- Tom Foremski replies in comments to my suggestion that he snuck behind a click wall aka partial text feed the other day: ...
- Tags: Dan, Grandma
- Blog posts 2005-12-29
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- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...
- Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- The running scandal of long-term care insurance
- The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...
- Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Attacking phishing at the source
- Attacking phishing at the sourceDomainKeys--it's a startNow if mandated changes were in effect 'with teeth' that enforced usage of PGP or GnuPG or S/MIME for signed encrypted email, that would take down the spam to 0%!RE: Attacking phishing at the sourceSince phishing has cost countless pains to so many people,...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, inactivism, Attacking phishing, restraint
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Year-round school
- Year-round schoolyes short breaks are acceptablewell i do agreee that short breaks are better option well i'm a tech too who implement CAE Computer Aided Educationin schools, wat i realize that after installing & implementing the sw the teachers come up with many suggestion and correction so they wouldn't wait...
- Tags: OK Here, school year, Year-Round, Year-round school
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Have you tried the IHOP diet?
- Have you tried the IHOP diet?Where this diet challenges...I do agree that W.H. Kellogg is spinning in his grave. His call for lighter breakfasts a century ago has been the basis of diet kant ever since.But my own life agrees with this diet's premise. A good breakfast keeps the snack...
- Tags: IHOP, breakfast, carbohydrate, diet
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Ubuntu netbook remix gets me closer to that netbook I've been wanting
- Ubuntu netbook remix gets me closer to that netbook I've been wantingAwful default wallpaper, but otherwise....Good news for me too, because I plan to buy a cheap netbook as well. And Ubuntu suits me fine.A pity though, that this fine piece of software is apparently "adorned" by what's surely the...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Remix
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Email is the enemy
- I'll always remember as a child a very old gentleman in Manchester, Northern England telling me about the Dickensian office he worked in during his youth - everyone sat in rows at desks equipped with ink wells and quills, writing and copying documents. The boss sat with a bullhorn on...
- Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Hardy Heron is hardly a snap
- Hardy Heron is hardly a snapA clean installation is always better than an upgrade...of an older version. This old wisdom is valid for every operating system under the sun.The possible problem lies in the settings and configurations of the older version. Sometimes they conflict with the new version.If you want...
- Tags: Linux, Corporate communications, Video cards, Operating systems, Hardy Heron, snap
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- I'm not against Windows; Unix just works better
- I'm biased in favor of Unix and against Windows - everybody knows that except me; my perception is that I like things that work and Unix works better. Potential client: "Look, you've got a rep and we're concerned you're just going to recommend Solaris on SPARC -...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., PC, Sun Microsystems Inc., Beer Money, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Sun Solaris, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Will the burden of the Long Tail kill Internet commerce?
- I've been thinking about the economics of Long Tail businesses. Check my math: Long Tail businesses are based on aggregating huge numbers of micro-markets. GOOG, Facebook, YouTube, and many other online businesses are Long Tail businesses--they make money from servicing micro-markets. The content needed...
- Tags: Long Tail, Internet Commerce, Internet, E-business/E-Commerce, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- Have we misinterpreted the business value of the long tail?
- I've been thinking about the economics of the long tail and its impact on the business of Silicon Valley's largest Internet companies and discovering some very interesting issues, which have lead me to some startling conclusions. But please check my math... My thinking about the long tail...
- Tags: Long Tail, Data Storage, 3PARData Inc., Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOSgood ideabut my guess is, they will buy option 3 or 4.The problem is, most people who shop at Wal-Mart for a PC are looking to buy something they are familiar with. I don't think you could convince them...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PC Market, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Picture this: Insignia digital picture frames may carry virus
- Picture this: Insignia digital picture frames may carry virusReminds me of Applehttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=346Probably for the same reasons ....your beloved Apple didn't do a mass recall of iPods when the same thing occured with them.This means Best Buy's corporate...network is probably infected. It shows a lack of IT skills in their...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, network, Trend Micro Inc., virus, picture frame
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Windows adoption rates: a history lesson
- Windows adoption rates: a history lessonThe past is a fairly reliable prediction of the future.Hi Ed,Yes, I agree. All of this is both expected and par for the course. The naysayers aside, the majority of *home* users only upgrade their operating system as part of a new purchase...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, BSOD, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, adoption rate
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- What is virtualization?
- What is virtualization?substitute conceptLinguistic minority communities are a good image for virtualization.RE: What is virtualization?I typically explain it by focusing on the resource segmentation:3 things to bake. One oven. All the issues of temperature differences and time requirements. OrYou can segment it into 3 ovens, each operating independently. Handy, right?...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization, oven
- Discussion threads 2007-12-26
- Diner Dash: Hometown Hero (zip)
- On a visit to her hometown, Flo and her Grandma Florence take a stroll down memory lane. It's time to help Flo restore some of Flo's favorite places. Bring five restaurants back to life, and meet new customers like the Hungry Man and the Celebrity. Take special care of customers...
- Tags: Hero, Hometown
- Software downloads 2007-12-14
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