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A Layman's Explanation of the Role of IT Racks in Cooling Your Data Center

Unless it is an actively cooled rack (i.e. one with a cooling coil, which looks like a radiator), the rack is a passive player in the thermal system. The amount of IT systems the rack can "Cool" depends on the room's ability to deliver adequate temperature air to the rack....

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Rack, Layman, Strategy, Data Centers, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-06-01

Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users'

Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users'Statistics...About real people and statistics - my son was firstly complaining about UAC in Vista, then he upgraded to Windows XP.A friends of mine bought new computer with Vista which was SUPER slow with 1GB of RAM and Core Duo (2.4 GHz). I...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, UAC, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-04-11

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LHC cooled to operational temperatures

these experiments should be abolishedthese arrogant Eurocrats are putting the world at risk and are performing acts against nature and God.Where are the greenies when you need them???The amount of power this thing is using, where are the "global warming" theorists? Why aren't the greenies upset?Hoping someone shuts this...

Tags: LHC, collider

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess

This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...

Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Judge overturns $388m patent verdict against Microsoft

Horrible PrecedentA judge over turning what a jury has already ruled, is setting a very bad precedent. This basically means if a judge doesn't like the a way a case came out, he can simply change it. Which means, whats the point of a jury?As for their reasoning, a software...

Tags: patent verdict, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Eniledahs Secret Message 0.1 (Windows)

Secret Message will hide your message or text document into a image/picture/photographic file without harm to the imagery. Steganography. Choose between using no encryption or Xor encryption. Does not change the way your image looks in any image viewer. Easy to use wizard guides you through each step and process....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Encryption, Eniledahs, Security

Software downloads 2009-09-12

Sony kills virtualization on Vaio notebooks

I wonder what recourse a buyer has?Will Sony issue a refund?This is like buying a "sports car" and not being told it won't do more than 55mph til you try it ('cause no one in New York City can drive over 30mph).Yea, I know my logic is way out there,...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, Cyberthreats, Sony Vaio, notebook, Sony Corp., VW, virtualization, computer

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?

the RDFwas and is nothing more than a mythological construct created by non-Apple users to explain why nobody liked their products. It can be rephrased in layman's terms as:Our stuff really doesn't suck, Apple just brainwashes and cheats.Why should they care?They are making tons of money. Such is the...

Tags: XML, RDF, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Weird and wonderful Wednesday: 3D animations, phone unboxing and viral captions

The web is full of peculiar delights: strange oddities, viral videos, single-serving sites with a range of sub-categories, curious captions and aggregators of the weird and wonderful. The ones which really grab my eye are the cleverly thought out content such as these. Computers are normally boring,...

Tags: 3D, Web, Phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Animation, Video, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Will smartphones make us healthier?

We're gradually gaining a more intimate relationship with the data defining our life and work. This includes health data. Whether you're a medical professional or a layman, you will benefit from this intimacy in many, unexpected ways. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Smart Phone, Health Care, Smart Phones, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-06-19

Google's Schmidt carefully scripted at newspaper powwow

Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared his love for newspapers today in front of an audience at the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention in San Diego. You know: freedom of speech, in-depth reporting, policing government and the elite and so on. For just about an hour, Schmidt...

Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Eric Schmidt, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-07

MB Runes Dictionary 1.65 (Windows)

MB Free Runes Dictionary is an extensive collection of words related to the runes methodology of divination. This includes the meanings of the different rune stones, spreads, and other esoteric meanings. This free online Runes dictionary is a very useful guide for easy and immediate reference. This explains the basics...

Tags: Dictionary, MysticBoard, MB Free Runes Dictionary, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-03-26

AMD, Intel patent squabble intensifies

AMD said Monday that it has been notified by Intel that it is breaching a 2001 patent cross license agreement. In a regulatory filing, AMD said Intel is alleging that the creation of the GlobalFoundries is a material breach of the patent pact. Intel has threatened to terminate AMD's...

Tags: Patent, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Company, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Facebook lets users govern worlds largest social network

Today, Facebook are creating an online space dubbed the "town hall" which will make changes to how the social network interacts with its users. In the last week or so, there was mass controversy over the sudden change in the terms and conditions which, essentially, allowed Facebook to do anything...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Microsoft to laid-off workers: Give us back our money

No matter how you slice it or dice it, there's no way Microsoft comes out smelling like a rose on this one. As the company was handing out pink slips to some 1,400 employees last month, the accounting department apparently was using fingers and toes to calculate...

Tags: Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Worker, Internet, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-22

The Microsoft-netbook controversy explained

Microsoft isn't a fan of netbooks. To put it down to one thing, it means they lose revenue in the long run. Netbooks, to those who aren't in the know, are smaller and more compact laptops. Because they're smaller, they have less memory, less computing power and...

Tags: OEM, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-17

Microsoft Live Labs releases Thumbtack research tool

Thumbtack looks a little scary at first, and it's not that easy working out how to utilise what it provides. You may well take a first glance, think, "well this makes no sense" and never bother with it again. Little would you know the usefulness of this incubation, had you...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Accelerator, Microsoft Corp., Workspace, Tool, Thumbtack, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Monty Python was right about hospitals

Monty Python was right about hospitalsInsurance companies are glad...... to see people are ambulatory and able to move quickly from ICU to home. They are now trying to add outpatient emergency surgery in dining rooms to the list of cost saving methods.In England, because patients already in the ICU...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, ICU, hospital, Monty Python, health care, patient

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

McKinsley blames technology for our health care woes

McKinsley blames technology for our health care woesGive us old folks the little blue pillNo, not Viagra.Samuelson is obviously one of the more affluent of us as we move toward old age. Quite happy to increase costs of medical care and reduce expensive services for those on Medicare. ...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Samuelson, health care, McKinsley, health care woe

Discussion threads 2009-01-12