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Indiana Code 1.0 (Mobile)

Indiana Code is the statutory law of the state of Indiana for the iPhone. It consists of all 33 titles of the law that have been codified into statues. Titles include motor vehicles, corrections, public safety health, commercial law, insurance, criminal law, procedure, and education. It features 24,000 word index,...

Tags: Mobile, Law, Indiana Code, Insurance, Semiconductors, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-27

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Google Summer of Code opens for applications today

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Leslie Hawthorn, the Program Manager for Google's Summer of Code. For those of you not familiar with the project, Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source...

Tags: Project, Google Inc., Student, Mentor, Open Source, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-23

ZDNet's Ultimate Tax Software Guide for 2008

It's tax time in the U.S. once again, and short of actually doing your taxes (you've got until April 15, right?), it's time to choose just how you'll do them. Say hello to tax preparation software. Instead of taking last...

Tags: Software, Extra, Return, TurboTax, Service, TaxCut, E-file, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-06

OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up

What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...

Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-05-05

The state of Unix (Jun 18/07)

As most people know Linus Torvalds tore a rant out of Sun last week - here's part of what he said: Here's a cynical prediction but backed up by past behaviour of Sun: - first off: they may be...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Competition, Sun Solaris, Ingo Molnar, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-26

Library management software...open source or not?

Library management software...open source or not?SageBrushWe currently have some of our elementary/middle schools running Athena. The high school upgrade to InfoCentre last year. It does get pricey with the renewal/maintenance fees. I think our media specialist would be very interested in open-source alternatives.Personally...I'd be tempted by "Koha." Not that I...

Tags: software, Koha, Athol PL, school library, open source

Discussion threads 2007-08-13

Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attack

Researchers at Purdue University have completed a computing simulation to detail what likely happened to the World Trade Center when an airline struck the North Tower in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack.Here's how Purdue describes the simulation results see video:The simulation depicts how a plane tore through several stories...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Science, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-06-20

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me.Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today.Dan Farber: Now you’ve spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley. What made you decide to go into...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-06-19

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me. Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today. Dan Farber: Now you’ve spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley....

Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Network, Student, Computer Science, Institution, Technology, Computer, Campus, Berkeley, Productivity, Networking, Wireless, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Torvalds doesn't live in Indiana

Torvalds doesn't live in IndianaThere's two sides to any coin[i]"the more whining and complaining you hear about the leadership, the healthier the place is and the more freedom the members are likely to have."[/i]It can also be a sign that something is wrong and nobody is listening. The [i]"whining and...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Leadership, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Torvalds, Unix, Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2007-06-19

The state of Unix

As most people know Linus Torvalds tore a rather uninformed rant out of Sun last week - here's part of what he said--- Here's a cynical prediction but backed up by past behaviour of Sun:- first off: they may be talking a lot more than they...

Tags: Distributions, Linux, Sun

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Proposed federal shield for reporters now includes bloggers

Proposed federal shield for reporters now includes bloggersWhy not?Or are opponents into denying Fist Amendment rights to mere citizens?Journalist Ethics for BloggersThere's one more thing that bloggers should have before receiving a mantle of legitimacy and protection as journalists.They need to adhere to a system of ethics.The following sites are...

Tags: Blogging, blogger

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Could Microsoft take a community lesson from Sun?

Microsoft talks a lot about community and wanting to foster/tap into it. But there really is no single, cohesive "Microsoft community," akin to the Linux community. The reasons for this are many and varied. A dominant market player-- vs. an up-and-coming underdog -- seems to inspire less vocal customer/developer...

Tags: Systems integrators, System builders, Resellers, OEMs, Novell, Network service providers, Linux, Corporate strategy, Channel

Blog posts 2007-05-09

Project Indiana: Could Sun outshine Microsoft's Silverlight?

At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana." My ZDNet blogging colleage Ed Burnette is speculating that Sun might unveil a head-to-head competitor to Microsofts Silverlight, a k a "Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere." ...

Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), MIX07, Expression Studio, Development tools, Corporate strategy, Code names, .Net Framework

Blog posts 2007-05-07

Researcher raided by FBI for blowing whistle on Airport security

The home of a PhD student and security researcher Christopher Soghoian from the School of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington was raided by the FBI early Saturday morning.  Soghoian had created a fake boarding pass generator to demonstrate flaws in the Government's implementation of a no-fly...

Tags: Federal government, Joris Evers, Christopher Soghoian, security, FBI

Blog posts 2006-10-29

Sakai: Open source alternative to Blackboard

Although Blackboard's much ballyhooed patent-fight with Desire2Learn, along with its recent aquisitition of WebCT has left a bad taste in some customers' mouths, there is an alternative in the online course-management software market. TechNews World reports that Sakai, oddly named after Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai of television fame,...

Tags: Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Asterisk basics: in six quick slides

I am not a technical expert on Asterisk, but being fully aware of its gathering momentum as an is a free software / open-source software implementation of a telephone private branch exchange PBX, I decided to hang out with some Asterisk code jocks for the better of an...

Tags: Asterisk

Blog posts 2006-07-31

Whats wrong with WikiPedia?

Whats wrong with WikiPedia?I know I've had this conversation beforeGreat post, as usual. This really goes back to the idea that we as educators no longer need to impart a myriad of facts to our students. Rather, since they have the sum total of human knowledge quite literally...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2006-03-23

'Active cookies' for better security?

With 'pharming' technology, the cyber crooks put directly false information on domain name servers. Even if you manually type an URL, especially when using a Wi-Fi connection, you can't be sure that your request is not redirected to a wrong place. And there are no commercial tools to protect you...

Tags: attack, pharming

Blog posts 2006-02-20

A minor travelogue - or holiday report

A minor travelogue - or holiday reportFirewall, the movieSince you haven't commented on the upcoming movie "Firewall," I thought I'd start the ball rolling. FIREWALLA Trailer Review by Mark F. MartinoAccording to the trailers and other early hype, this movie is about a computer systems security expert whose family is...

Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, Paul Bettany, Ford Motor Co.

Discussion threads 2006-02-03