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- 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
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- I'm Cookoo about Cucku Backup
- I recently discovered this great application, Cucku Backup at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular party a few weeks ago. Cucku differs from other network-based personal backup solutions such as Carbonite or Iron Mountain SOHO in that the software is free and leverages existing peer-to peer technology from the Skype VOIP network....
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Cucku, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuitTime will tell.....However knowing Apple I have my doubts about the suits success. Still if they do loose the case there is nothing stopping Apple from switching processors again. So far that tact hasn't hurt business any.Pagan jimTheftThis is an abstraction, you're going...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating systems, Processors, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Photos: Being Iron Man, in real time
- At Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco, motion-capture specialists use video and a special suit to reflect real-time movements in 3D. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Corporate Communications, Marketing, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-09-30
- VirtualBox
- VirtualBoxVMs and RDPWe've been considering a similar VDI solution for our schools computer labs. (VM the xp/vista os and use thin clients to RDP to the VMed OSs) The main problem I'm run across is with streaming video over RDP doesn't work so well, which will be a problem for...
- Tags: Web site development, desktop virtualization, Web technology, Digital video, Corporate communications, RDP, VMware Inc., innotek VirtualBox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- SRWare Iron (exe)
- The browser based on the Chromium source text and offers the same basic functions as Google Chrome - however without the criticized points, which concern the data protection. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Google Chrome, SRWare, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Web Browsers, Data Management, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-09-25
- Taking a Bott beating
- Taking a Bott beatingOut-of-Band may be slower.But I find that it's much, much safer. It is my preferred method when recovering crashed Windows boxen.I've never really had to worry about anyone doing a system migration like your friend. My experience has always been more along the lines of 'My computer...
- Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, PC Migration, Bott, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- The New Adventures of Christine's Old PC
- Windows XP virtualized within Vista SP1 using VMWare Player. Some of you may be aware that I have another identity besides professional technologist and tech/computer industry blogger -- I'm also passionate about restaurants, cooking, and eating (albeit with a healthier focus these...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, VMware Inc., Computer, Christine Nunn, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Perlow@PEPCOM
- Arriba and Feliz Navidad, Gringos! Your economy is screwed! Now go buy some expensive toys, America! See Jason Perlow's PEPCOM Gallery. Ah yes, the annual holiday PEPCOM party at the Metropolitan Pavilion. It was truly a surreal experience attending the popular and...
- Tags: Backup, Electronics, NAVIGON, Cat Genie, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-20
- Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.
- Hey, Microsoft. About those ads... Yeah, like that.In fairness......no-one likes you at all.re: I WAS a PC[i]I WAS a PC... And I am in my daily life. Got tired of the constant care, feeding, and BS associated with it.Now I'm a Mac and make my living fixing the PC mess.[/i]Ohh,...
- Tags: Desktops, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Apple Macintosh, advertisement, PC, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote
- 20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...
- Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Another review of Paul Maritz's vision of a datacenter OS
- Ken Oestreich, of Cassatt, posted his own review of Paul Maritz's vision of a virtual datacenter operating system. It can be found here. As one might expect, it points out that others, including Cassatt, Virtual Iron and others have been implementing versions of this concept for quite a while. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Operating System, Industry Standard, Vision, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Notes from VMworld
- Here are some random notes from VMworld. Paula is also here at the event and she has posted her own view of Paul Maritz's session. Conversation with Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron Ed Walsh, CEO of Virtual Iron, and I met for coffee prior to the beginning of...
- Tags: Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes, VMware Inc., Paula, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Google Desktop gets huge performance boost
- Google Desktop gets huge performance boostLittle paranoid there???Ah, yes, the iron hand of IT exerting his 'itpro' power on those rascally Google Toolbar users. Best get back to ruling your fiefdom - someone surely has Lotus 1-2-3 questions for you to attend to.same here... also yahoo anything -...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Performance management, Desktops, Google Inc., Google Desktop, huge performance, desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, performance
- Discussion threads 2008-09-16
- LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets
- The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...
- Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Xen engine 3.3 released
- On August 27th, the Xen engine version 3.3 was released on Xen.org, the site that houses the open source Xen project. In the words of the organization, "Xen 3.3 includes enhancements that further advance its position as a fast, scalable, secure virtualization engine for the industry's broadest range of server...
- Tags: Xen, Virtual Machine, Xen Client Initiative, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- Where the Linux laptops live
- Where the Linux laptops liveMore to the point, what % of Amazon's laptop sales are linux machines?NTShould be titled: 1/3 of amazon.com laptops are available with linuxThe Asus eee (EeE, eEE, Eee, whatever) machines have a choice of windows xp or linux so simply citing a sale of an eee...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux laptop, Dana, Linux-version, Linux, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Datacore - nothing but storage
- Angie Gonzalez, of Datacore, and I had a conversation about how virtual storage complements any type of virtual processing solution. Nearly all virtual server-based solutions gain a great deal of benefit when a supporting virtual storage strategy is also deployed. Why is that? ...
- Tags: Datacore, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Go Go Gourmet: Chef of the Year (exe)
- Ginger is a starry-eyed young chef competing for fame and glory. Join her in a plight to win the celebrated Go Go Gourmet Chef of the Year Contest. Pitted against seven of the world`s best chefs, help her saut her way into 1st place with mouthwatering recipes. Add some spice...
- Tags: SpinTop Games, Ginger, Time Management, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-08-28
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