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- Linux kernel 2.6.23 released with a wee bit of controversy
- Another update of the Linux kernel slipped out this week with a new process scheduler, virtualization options and a wee bit of controversy to boot. Linux 2.6.23, which was released October 9, incorporates a new process scheduler called the Completely Fair Scheduler that gives more CPU horsepower to applications...
- Tags: Hoopla, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, Kernel, Linux, Virtualization, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Storage Management, Software, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Photos: Geek pride runs high at wacky S.F. footrace
- At annual Bay to Breakers, runners dressed as Pac-Man, Tusken Raiders, Spider-Man and Nintendo Miis join in on the hoopla.
- Tags: hoopla, Nintendo Co. Ltd., San Francisco, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-05-21
- Photos: Hoops hoopla at Oracle OpenWorld
- Oracle President Charles Phillips opens the San Francisco conference with some basketball action.
- Tags: hoopla, Oracle Open World, San Francisco, president, Oracle Corp., conference
- Image galleries 2006-10-23
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- State employee pleads guilty to passport snooping
- State employee pleads guilty to passport snoopingOuch!Did he do anything besides look?To elaborateIf all he did was look, I think the maxima are excessive. Dismissal and a fine of a few thousand dollars or so would be more than enough of a deterrent (it's not like the passport holders...
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, passport, confidential information, State Employee
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- microSD music: Are we regressing?
- With all of this hoopla surrounding SanDisk's announcement of slotMusic, a product conceived in conjunction with record labels that involves DRM-free MP3s on (SanDisk's) microSD cards, I'm not convinced that we've actually advanced, technologically-speaking. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has a few choice words for SanDisk and its...
- Tags: SanDisk Corp., MicroSD, Music, Flash Memory, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Lenovo slashes monitor energy consumption by up to 60 percent
- What with all the financial market doom and gloom this week, I clear forgot there were at least two fairly sizable trade shows going on in computer-dom. China's Lenovo used one of them to introduce a series of six ThinkVision monitors that boast various green tech credentials. ...
- Tags: Monitor, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM ThinkVision, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- A way to assign copyright globally
- A way to assign copyright globallySo would you sign an FLA?Not yet. I don't know what the safe guards are. Sometimes the change from that which is free to that which is out of freedom's reach is one of small unnoticed steps. The Open Source code base...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, developer, Fla
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- iPhone Fatigue
- iPhone FatigueZDNet is too obsessed with the iPhoneNo matter what you think of the iPhone ZDNet is way too obsessed wit considering their market share prior to today and their market projections after today.The coverage that you guys are giving is ridiculous compared to their market share.I was beginning to...
- Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Firefox 3.0 final available for download
- Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadThose will magcally change ...... once the release is made official.RE: Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadIs this really the final version? Runonce initial page refers to RC as do the release notes?RE: Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadIs this really the final version? The...
- Tags: Web browsers, Version 3, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.0 Final
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Code execution flaws hit QuickTime again
- Code execution flaws hit QuickTime againI banned QuickTime from my systemI banned QuickTime from my systemAnd Apple wants me to store my data on their servers?Nope, Apple has proven time and time again that they simply don't know how to write secure software. How else could they turn a rock...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple QuickTime, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- What gets Photoshop cooking?
- What gets Photoshop cooking?Heh heh hehPs CS3 on my 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme with 8GB or RAM completed the Retouch test in 24 seconds with other stuff running ... one second short of the Mac Pro on the list ... I'm pretty sure that if I moved my scratch disk...
- Tags: Memory, Adobe PhotoShop, PS CS3, RAM, http://www.blackviper.com
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week?
- Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week?Could be for Pocket PC sized UMPCsThese features are probably being implemented for the Ultra Mobile PC type devices and will be useful in pocket-sized Windows enabled mobile phones as speculated here: http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=5390I love my tx2000z Tablet PC especially for the Wacom enabled...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Poll of the Day - How old is your main computer?
- Poll of the Day - How old is your main computer?Had to checkTime passes so quickly- I answered 1 year, but then had to check my Newegg confirmation email, and yep- 6/18/07=CPU COOLER TT|CI-P0374 R - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$19.99)KB&MS MS|BASIC BLK VALUE PK PS2/US% - OEM (Qty=1, Price=$16.99)CASE FAN|SS 120MM...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, PRODUCTIVITY, OPEN SOURCE, Processors, Desktops, Most Linux user, computer, Qty=1, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux server market?
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on April 24 as planned and will be supported until 2011-2013. But is extended support enough to convince ISVs and businesses to support three Linux distributions? Despite the hoopla around its release Wednesday, Ubuntu's ambitions in the corporate server space will be...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Salesforce.com and Google opens more cans of worms
- The world and his dog seem in rapture about the announcement that Google and Salesforce.com have tied the application knot and that they've both effectively become channel partners. Phil Wainewright has the most detailed analysis: Salesforce.com has more than 41,000 customers, including a growing number of large enterprises. It's...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Google Apps, Worm, Phil, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- How big a threat is good Microsoft?
- One point was made to me repeatedly while covering the HIMSS show for ZDNet Healthcare this week. (Drawing by Matt Elder.) All this "good Microsoft" stuff about supporting open source, abut placing code on Codeplex, and about keeping open source projects "in the loop" regarding format changes,...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Google: Is Microhoo all that unnerving?
- Google: Is Microhoo all that unnerving?Maybe, maybe notThere's an assumption that M$ would have its eye off the ball. Having seen what they did with aQuantive, I'd be surprised if that's the case. They *could* get an online suite out the door very quickly, using Y! as the mechanism. Sure,...
- Tags: Web browsers, SEARCH, INTERNET, tech world, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., search engine, Google Search
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - Installation (Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery)
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1 - Installation (Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery)pictures, schmictures what about the blue circle of wait?and the ever present 'not responding' when doing the simplest things in Explorer?Just for FunI think it would have been funny if you had snuck a Blue Screen of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Vista Service, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 screenshot gallery, Microsoft Windows, screenshot gallery
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- Is Detroit going green? What does the auto show show?
- The big auto show in Detroit is now open to reporters so the big announcements and the hoopla have begun. There are moves toward greener cars, and there are moves to just make more money. Sometimes these are in direct conflict. Here are a few of my...
- Tags: Newsweek, Detroit, Auto Show, General Motors Corp., Coskata, Mercedes, Tata, Sales Strategy, Food & Beverage, Sales Force Management, Sales, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Drowning in an information sea
- Drowning in an information seaNASA studyRemember that the main issue NASA had with releasing that study was that its results are meaningless, as the study failed to eliminate double- or triple- or more reporting of incidents. What's most embarrassing is that so much money was spent on a study with...
- Tags: Government, Food & Beverage, information sea, meat, dairy, food, bureaucrat, pyramid, grain
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
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