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- Forbes rewrites the history of open source
- Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...
- Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista
- IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaHoo that could be painful very painfulibm ,red hat, ubuntu working together..... ough Microshot may feel this a bitRE: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaUnless they make programs and hardware as easy to install &...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Driver Installation, Linux, IBM Corp., Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 update
- Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateThey don't know what they are doing!Talk about a keystone cops company!Microsoft makes updates and sticks by them otherwise user confidence will be erroded! -FSBhttp://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comThese iTards are growing toooo fast, they are beninnging to remind me of Gaggle!RE: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateI know you mean...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone 2.0.1 update, iPhone 2.0.1, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2P
- No penalties for colleges that don't enforce anti-P2PSlippery Slope argumentationYep, once they have the monitoring laws in place, next they will want to monitor a whole lot more. It is a trojan horse, but then Joe McCarthy isn't too far away in US history.Of course, Good ol' Joe needed a...
- Tags: anti-P2P, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeFault toleranceIn these two quotes, discovering a difference in word usage leads to impacable hostility:Talk about vouchers to someone in Payroll and you won’t be sharing any understanding of the term as it is used in Accounts Payable; and, of course, the...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operational accounting, IBM Corp., Murph, voucher, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversy
- Gates' next act is to step into vaccine controversyGates Next ACTWhat's surprising about this?Carl Icahn thinks he knows how to run Yahoo!.The medical community has a pretty set way of choosing to adopt generalized treatments, and a lot of consideration goes to cost vs benefit. Bill will have to...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Oracle OpenWorld invitation to bloggers: fail
- Following on from last year, Oracle has a blogger track for its OpenWorld event. Jake Kuramoto has the details: Most of the operational details are the same as last year: Oracle provides the conference pass to qualified bloggers. Oracle does not cover travel or other...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Media, Blogger, Jake Kuramoto, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- The view from stupid
- The view from stupidWhen and how to explainI recall from the Comment that you refused to provide full explanations, in Comment or TalkBack because you would have required too much time and space. (Paraphrasing.)As at that time, I'll observe that assertions must be supportable, by data or by logic....
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, PPC, Apple Inc., Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Questioning IT
- This is the 13th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. There are, very broadly speaking, two main approaches to managing IT open to board members and senior non IT executives. In the first of these you ask no difficult...
- Tags: Information Technology, Board, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- 5 reasons IT is soooo slowwww
- Ever hear users rave about their company's great IT department? Me neither. Most often, users complain because they feel IT is slow and unresponsive. In reality, IT faces a variety of pressures and resource constraints that make slow response almost inevitable. This self-inflicted corporate damage conspires...
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The worst software failures are successes
- In the movies you know what's coming when the team leader suggests the group separate and some red shirt gets sent off to investigate a dark cellar by herself - and oddly enough IT project failure reviews are often exactly like going to that kind of movie. ...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Islands of hope in an ocean of energy
- Courtesy Wavebob. Britain and Ireland have a long and bloody mutual history. They've ended open hostility and the neighboring nations now share and compete with a possible future energy source: the restless waves of the North Atlantic. Both Ireland and the United Kingdom are looking...
- Tags: Ireland, Strategy, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Management, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- iPhone 2.0 firmware hacked
- iPhone 2.0 firmware hackedHilarious, isn't it? ntntGee . . .That certainly didn't take long . . . .Of course it has been...Did anyone expect anything different?What? Open to Anything? Do Anything? Get Out!Nokia: [url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to Anything[/url]Get an N95 and experience the way things should be--no hacking or jail breaking...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, firmware, Apple Inc., security, Apple iPhone, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologist
- MindMentor, the first robot psychologistFirst? robot psychologist?The claim of "first" in the headline in patently false. Everyone knows that Joe Weizenbaum built the first one -- "ELIZA" in 1966. You should do some fact checking...RE: MindMentor, the first robot psychologistWhy would you do a whole article on this...
- Tags: Robots, robot, MindMentor, first robot
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSource
- Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSourceHmm, its that alternate reality again.I read through this, and your example is impecable, makes perfect, and I'm left wondered why none of my customers use Sun hardware.And of the course, the reason is that in my reality, the vast majority of enterprises are SME's, and they...
- Tags: Wintel, OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...
- Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...Off we goI think the takeover is a bad idea, but what do I know? Time will tell who's right. I'd still hate to see Yahoo go down in flames since, IMHO, they're a good company and I don't...
- Tags: Real estate, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...
- Yahoo may not like Microsoft's acquisition bid, but Microsoft isn't backing down. The Redmond software company isn't signaling whether it will raise its $44 billion offer or push ahead without Yahoo's blessing. In a statement Microsoft issued at the end of the day on February 11, company...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- What's Microsoft's Plan B?
- What's Microsoft's Plan B?Change the leadershipI think MS needs to forget this Yahoo nonsense and put some of it's A level talent in charge of the division.Right now it has C and D level talent running things.RE: What's Microsoft's Plan B?Microsoft should up the offer, take over Yahoo and be...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Workforce management, Leadership, Strategy, Synergies, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., stock, Plan B
- Discussion threads 2008-02-09
- To form an us
- To form an usHow would you write for luddites?Seriously. I've read articles in business magazines that make me absolutely fume at the gross inaccuracies. But the bottom line is, aside from maybe changing a little phrasing, I usually don't think I could do that much better of a...
- Tags: Desktops, Recruitment & Selection, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
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