jeremy toeman

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Speeding up a sluggish Sony

Last week, Jeremy Toeman's accursed Sony Vaio arrived here, and over the weekend I had a chance to get my hands on it for the first time. (If you missed the back story, read the first installment that I posted earlier this month.) The short version: Jeremy, a digital media expert and...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Backup, Microsoft Windows Vista, Jeremy Toeman, VGNSZ460N, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-03-18

Additional Resources

TopQuadrant welcomes Jena lead architect as Chief Product Architect

Established North American Semantic Web company TopQuadrant today announced that Jeremy Carroll is joining the company as Chief Product Architect. Whilst at HP Labs, Carroll was lead architect on the open source Jena toolkit that lies behind much of today's commercial and non-commercial work on the Semantic...

Tags: Toolkit, TopQuadrant, Semantic Web, Software Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-13

CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS

I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft

Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward MicrosoftSamba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward MicrosoftLets see if there is a way to get rid of Samba completely. Perhaps Microsoft could make a protocol to work on all machines and thus eliminate the need for Samba."Leading a panel"Indeed...

Tags: Samba, Jeremy, Samba 3.2, ambivalence, Microsoft Corp., open source project, open source

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft

Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month's time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Jeremy Allison, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Samba 3.2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-08

News to know: AMD; Oil and telecommuting; Verizon's EV-DO modem; Linux

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Oil, Telecommuting, Sun Microsystems Inc., EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Modems, WiMAX, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Federal Government, 64-Bit, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Wireless, Government, Processors, Semiconductors

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Xen makes it easy to checkpoint, restore, and migrate guest domains

If you've decided to deploy and manage a Xen-based environment, you'll need some detailed instructions and advice on best practices. This sample chapter from Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization explains what you need to know about checkpointing the state of a guest domain and how...

Tags: Domain, Xen, Prentice Hall Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

Book chapters 2008-05-08

Free software great and small

Free software great and smallFree software great and small[i]In brief, it's a kinder, gentler version of Linus Torvald's quote that Linux is headed for "world domination, fast". [/i]BWAHHAHAHAHAHA! I had to laugh at that quote.Blah blah blah, Are you linux users really that dillusional? We've been hearing about how...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Face it Linux, Linux, Free Software, LINUX IS

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Free software great and small

They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...

Tags: Samba, Conference, Jeremy, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jeremy Allison, free software, open source

News items 2008-05-07

Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe

Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-07

EXCLUSIVE: CODA2go on force.com

  Today in an exclusive preview, I saw CODA2go's first iteration. CODA2go is accounting software developer CODA's first foray at an on-demand accounting application service built on the force.com platform. CODA claims it is the largest development of its type on force.com. According to...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]

Note: Click the player to listen to my podcast interview with Steve Cakebread, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com. Steve comments on his company's strategy, discusses on-premises software, and presents Salesforce.com's vision for mobile devices. Salesforce.com's Tour de Force roadshow is traveling around the world...

Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Developer, Podcast, Outsource, Vision, Force.com, On-premises, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Time and talent are the open source speed limits

Time and talent are the open source speed limitsThird limit is motivationIf people are writing software to give away, then they have to be motivated to do so. Motive might be personal interest, might be solving a particular problem at home or work, or might be saving money (certain...

Tags: Leadership, motivation, open source speed, open source, talent, software, FOSS world

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Fixing Windows Vista, one machine at a time

If the "Vista sucks" movement has a public face, it's the Sony Vaio. No one knows that better than my new friend Jeremy Toeman. In May 2007, this 15-year Windows veteran replaced his old, beloved, XP-powered Vaio with a newer Vaio that came with Windows Vista Business installed. Practically overnight,...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Clean Install, Installation, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Machine, Recovery Partition, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Our urine shows where we live

It's almost logical that our urine contains traces of what we eat and drink. But an international team of researchers decided to learn more and has analyzed frozen urine samples from 4,630 people. These samples have been collected between 1997 and 1999 in China, Japan, the UK and the...

Tags: China, Researcher, Japan, Bacteria, U.S. Here, Healthcare, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?

Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?Free users are getting stable codewhat kind of coment is that ?Supposed to imply that the open source edition is the best one, while the enterprise edition is bloated with un industrialized new features ? In what kind of world are you leaving were...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Sun/MySQL, MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., GPL

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Brijit: Saving the planet, one magazine at a time

In this age of the digital you'd expect magazines, that old-fashioned idea of putting ink onto paper, to fade away. Magazines seem harder to cure than herpes. Once you get 'em, you can't get rid of them. The multiply, they spread, they just appear. And yet...

Tags: Magazine, Brijit, Jeremy Brosowsky, Web Site Development, TVs, Web Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Google and Salesforce.com: does it make sense?

I've spent some time the last couple of days trying to ferret out whether the rumored hook up between Salesforce.com and Google for its applications is hype or real. I'm no closer to knowing than anyone else. I did speak with Mike Arrington on this who claims to have a...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., CODA, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Silicon chips for optical quantum computing

UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed 'the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate -- the building block of a quantum computer.' As said the lead researcher, 'This is a crucial step towards a future optical...

Tags: Optics, Abstract, Silicon Chip, Computing, Quantum Corp., Chip, Quantum Computing, Quantum Computer, Quantum Technology, Quantum Circuit, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-30

File systems of the Mac's past, present and maybe future

Over the past couple of years, the usurpation of the current Mac's HFS+ file system by Sun's ZFS has been predicted. Sometimes that message has been delivered incorrectly by Sun top brass. While Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server supports ZFS, there's no expectation that it will...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, File System, Reimer, Ext3, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-27