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Give your system a mid-life kicker

Give your system a mid-life kickerDRAM/RAM/MemoryIt appears that the article doesn't point out that the amount of memory you can "address"/use depends on your Operating System, not just your motherboard. Windows 2000/XP/Vista 32-bit only support upto 4Gb of RAM. If you are going to go above that, then...

Tags: Flash memory, Processors, memory, mid-life kicker, kicker, RAM, processor, DDR2

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Adobe patches 7 issues, including Pwn2Own contest flaw and DNS rebinding issues

Adobe published an advisory covering issues, including a fix for the Pwn2Own flaw that we previously discussed here.  Adobe's details are published here.  One of the issues that was patched was discovered by myself and fellow researcher (and co-worker at Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center) Rob Carter, see the picture to the...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., DNS, Domain, Lookup, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Domain Name, Flaw, Rob, Flash, XmlHttp Request, Kicker, Domain Names, Web Browsers, Networking, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Is Windows XP SP3 just around the corner?

Is Windows XP SP3 just around the corner?Hurry up and wait!Or is it, "Good things come to those who wait" (and wait...and wait...) ;)Windows Update versionNotably, that's what's in the Download Center, not the standalone patch.SP3 Timeline...Don't hold your breath.As with all things Microsoft if they indicate 1H08 that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, SP-3, kicker, Is Windows XP SP3, Is Windows XP, IS Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Vista users' frustrations with Nvidia come to a head

Vista users' frustrations with Nvidia come to a headNot just the high end cards.I recently bought a new PC with Vista and an nVidia 7600 GS card. With the installed drivers the card wouldn't maintain any color management settings I did. Exit the nVidia control panel and restart it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Vista Users, kicker, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-04-24

Microsoft goes global with antivirus tool update

Microsoft goes global with antivirus tool updateGood SystemIn an inperfect world, Live One Care is comfortable and seemingly satisfactory to use. I started out with One Care's Beta and bought the program when it became available. It seems to do everything which is purported ... it has had a few...

Tags: Operating systems, SECURITY, Spyware, kicker, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, antivirus

Discussion threads 2007-01-24

Taming a protein with a nanostring

Taming a protein with a nanostringNanoViruses and computer sciencesstep 1) follow rulestep 2) go back to step 1Let step 1 lead to the unwitting creation of an enzyme that inhibits a human cells' intake of even one necessary chemical, or disrupt the supply chain for cells' functioning, and you've got...

Tags: Cyberthreats, PRODUCTIVITY, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, computer, CDC, kicker

Discussion threads 2006-06-16

Day 4: Madhu: "Eclipse is a 21st century tool, Visual Studio is 20th century"

Day 4: Madhu: "Eclipse is a 21st century tool, Visual Studio is 20th century"Eclipse vs. Visual StudioThis is a slightly strange comparison - one targets java the other .net. Eclipse is both an IDE and a target platform ie RCP. However if you insist on making the comparison there are...

Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, .NET, Microsoft development tools, kicker, tool, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Corp., Eclipse, Madhu, Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2006-03-24

Completing the Pod

Completing the PodJava isn't LAMPLinux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/??Now how many hundreds of thousands of dollars did it cost to port that eCommerce application from Windows to Java?Yeah, I know, it possibly already was Java, but then it probably would have been running on a *nix platform...ooops - right, not lampLinux...

Tags: Thin clients, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Operating systems, thin client, server, Microsoft Office, Linux, kicker

Discussion threads 2006-01-16

Additional Resources

Organic Social Networks, the Yankees and....Wha'? (UPDATE: WE WON OUR 27TH WORLD SERIES!)

Needless to say, being a Yankees fan of the entirely driven and committed sort, I'm biting every nail on my hands off and frankly, if I could reach my feet, would go at those nails too (Ugh.). I do that every time that the Yankees are in the playoffs or...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Twitter Inc., CRM, Games, Social Networking, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Google's Schmidt: Washington politics "not very interesting"

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in Washington this week as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, popped into The Washington Post to chat with reporters and editors about a number of topics, including an FCC vote on net neutrality. Google's name has...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Washington, Net Neutrality, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

The case of the missing iPhone 3GS's

When I finally filled my iPod Touch 16GB and realized that I really do like a lot of the iPhone apps, it was time to bid my Nokia N96 which has been a problem child goodbye and go straight for the top: an iPhone 32GB. I'd not...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Telefonica S.A., Spain, Smart Phones, 3G, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Survey says slow, kludgy business processes hamper competitiveness

Surveys.... sighI think it will be hard for any manager to say anything other than "yeah we're not there yet, we need to be more proactive etc." when asked "are you equipped to to respond to market or customer changes quickly enough to compete well in a global marketplace?"Right....

Tags: Marketing research, business process, survey

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

SAP's feet put to the fire

Helmuth Gumbel, ex-Gartner and generally sharp chap has opened a blog. Who's Helmuth you might think? I've known him maybe 6-7 years and he's always been one of those shadowy types who prefers to keep away from the limelight. Even so, he knows his SAP-stuff like very few others and...

Tags: SAP AG, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Dallas Cowboys Stadium: World's largest HD video display, says Guinness

That's right, folks: Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys have claimed the official Guinness World Record for  the world's largest high-definition video display. The four-sided, Mitsubishi-made screen that hands from the pro football team's new stadium is the equivalent of -- count them...

Tags: Mitsubishi Corp., Light-emitting Diode, Video, Stadium, Corporate Communications, Engineering, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Open source can save your life

Quick, if your life depended on it, which health care information system would you rather your hospital used: A proprietary system developed by software engineers based on marketing input, bug reports and customer requests? An open source system developed by thousands of health care practitioners including...

Tags: Hospital, Open Source, Health Care, VA, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Human Resources, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Dead-finger tech: Google Apps

Dead-finger tech: Google AppsIt's a Google world...I can't imagine living without Google.Not that there is anything wrong with Microsoft. I doubt whether I would trade in Windows for Chrome OS. In short, nothing beats a good Windows-based PC (especially Win7) combined with a lot of Google stuff and a few...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Google Apps

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?Somebody isn't doing the mathThree times [i]what[/i]?If the world population plateaus at 10 billion, each of whom uses 10 times the per capita energy that the USA does now, that comes to a total of less than 1% of the world's insolation.Greenhouse...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Don't hold off on summer purchases for CrunchPads

I have to admit that I'm completely intrigued by the forthcoming CrunchPad, brainchild of TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. I asked this weekend if it would be an Ed Tech game changer, and, quite frankly, I think this has the potential to be the biggest thing since the OLPC XO....

Tags: Netbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Modern threats to American liberty

Modern threats to American libertyFreedom ain't free after all...That is why it is important to defend all of our freedoms, from the first to the last. Remember, the second amendment is the one that gives you the freedom to keep the others. It is all part of a pattern...Alexander Hamilton...

Tags: Vertical industries, Taxes, government, socialist society, tax

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

Can Firefox 3.5 wean universities off their IE addiction?

I considered some time ago as to why Internet Explorer had such a dominance over the market, even with the growing number of open-source users turning to Firefox. After I ended my rocky relationship with the controversial browser, Firefox continues to develop and grow ever stronger. With the release of...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, HTML 5 Standard, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-30