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- Airport security part 2: TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- I want to start out by saying that I take great personal risk of getting black listed before my flight to K.C. tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd talk about an article by Rafal Los on how the TSA is failing us again. This actually reminds me of an older article that...
- Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Rafal Los, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Stane or Ballmer?
- Obadiah Stane description from the Iron Man website: "As ... a top executive in Stark Industries, Stane is a calculating genius who is willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done." From the people...
- Tags: Genius, Top Executive, Steve Ballmer, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle
- Within minutes of Yahoo announcing it was going to do an AdSense for Search deal with Google, Microsoft began firing the antitrust warning shots. It took about 15 minutes after I saw the Yahoo press release before I got an e-mail from the Microsoft camp reminding me...
- Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Barron, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Submerge (dmg)
- Main Features: Make subtitled movies that are playable on your iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, in iTunes or in Front Row, add subtitles to almost any visual format like MOV, AVI, MP4; supports the major subtitle file formats like SubRip (.srt), SubViewer 1 & 2 (.sub) and MicroDVD; force aspect ratio...
- Tags: Movies, Bitfield, Keyboards, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-03-19
- Lex Venture: a Crossword Caper (exe)
- Cross out boredom today with LexVenture: A Crossword Caper! Bullies have stolen and hidden parts of Eugene's amazing Letter Machine--right before the science fair! Can you connect enough words crossword-style to build a path and collect the missing parts in time? With dozens of colorful levels to explore and obstacles...
- Tags: Science, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-15
- Cyber Defcon 4
- I am preparing my next road show pitch. My past presentations have followed a pattern. There is one slide I have been using for seven years now, ever since I joined Gartner as an analyst as a matter of fact. It is the Threat Hierarchy slide. It lists...
- Tags: Attack, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Microsoft readyng a Flickr killer? Maybe more of an iLife competitor
- On his istartedsomething.com blog, Long Zheng points to a November 9 job posting from Microsoft. Web pontificators, including Zheng, are reading the ad as saying Microsoft is interested in building a head-to-head competitor with Flickr. But read the first couple of lines of that Microsoft job posting...
- Tags: Apple iLife, Microsoft Windows Live, Flickr, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, E-mail Providers, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- HP, eat your heart out. At $150, Lexmark's WiFi All-in-1 printer/copier/scanner/fax got my cash
- HP, eat your heart out. At $150, Lexmark's WiFi All-in-1 printer/copier/scanner/fax got my cashA little more writing needed, David....Great article, David, but I'd like to suggest a little more writing...either on Staples.com or directly to the guy's store manager. Whenever I get kickass customer service like that, I always...
- Tags: Printers, WIRELESS, HP C6180, Lexmark International Inc., cartridge, Hewlett-Packard Co., WiFi All-in-1, photograph, printer, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- The relational mistake
- The relational mistakeNot quiteA relation is a function between sets. Relations and sets are not synonymous, though a relation is a set. For example I take the set of all names and the set of all dates of birth and define a relation between them (note that this will give...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, database, SQL-DBMS, Codd, data store
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Attention desktop Linux users - Are you a typical user?
- Attention desktop Linux users - Are you a typical user?I guess I amI fall in the majority of every one of those categories you listed, so I suppose I am a typical desktop Linux user.Pretty much the same ...except for the age group, but then again I'm an open minded...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Broadband Internet, Linux fancier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- Windows adds 'maybe pirate' category
- Windows adds 'maybe pirate' categoryDear Possible Criminal of IP,We at Micosoft, at the moment, can't prove that you have done anhything wrong or illegal. But since you have Microsoft Windows running on your computer - well, what 's yours is ours.Since we can't be 100 % sure of what...
- Tags: Operating systems, piracy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system, software, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Duceland Designer (zip)
- Duceland Designer is an integrated editor supporting Programming Flowchart, UML, ER, TFD, Visual Lex & Parser. In UML, it can generate Menu Code from Use-case Diagram, Declaring Code from Class Diagram and Procedure Code from Activity/State diagram. The codes generated by Forward Engineering in UML include VC6, VC7.NET, BCB, C#.NET,...
- Tags: Duceland Designer, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2006-11-02
- A-Lex Talking English Dictionary (prc)
- High quality, easy-to-use and large 146,000 entry and 200,000 definition English dictionary extensive word relations including synonyms and antonyms, example sentences, wildcard, phonetic spelling, wildcard search, and easy cross-referencing. A-Lex also has the unique capability of synthesis English word on Palm OS devices. Desk Accessory version which allows one-tap lookup...
- Tags: Palm Inc., Lookup, Palm OS, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2006-09-29
- Internal fraud coupled with IT savvy is a killer combination
- Internal fraud coupled with IT savvy is a killer combinationRounding errorA very clever scam was to move the money that disappeared when a transaction was rounded to cents to a special account. With enough transactions, the account held a substantial amount of money.Thieves may not be as clever as...
- Tags: E-mail, information technology, SMTP, Log4Net, fraud
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
- Day 4: Borland's Ted Nielson says: "DevCo" will continue JBuilder tradition on Eclipse framework
- (Ted Nielson, CEO of Borland gave the Thursday morning keynote at EclipseCon 2006. The subject was "Eclipse Lessons for Enterprise Development".) Ted: First let me get this IDE spin off question out of the way and explain what's going on. At Borland, we discovered we were doing...
- Tags: Borland Software Corp., IDE, DevCo, open source
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
- Threat Hierarchy
- I used to do a lot of breakfast seminars. Well, I still do a lot of breakfast seminars. But I used to have a slide that depicted the threat hierarchy. It was a list from low threat to high threat. I did not create it. I am sure...
- Tags: Information Warfare, Hacktivism, Experimentation
- Blog posts 2005-10-10
- Google conspiracy theories
- Ego surfing is fun and educational. That's how I discovered that my articles for ZDNet had gotten picked up by subsidiaries that write in funny characters (Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean...Korean is the neatest looking). What's even more fun is to run those articles through babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com) and see...
- Tags: Google Inc., John Carroll
- Blog posts 2005-09-07
- Simplicity is bliss
- Simplicity is blissOccam's Razor versus the swiss army knifeThe advances in mathematics come from finding a simpler way of doing something that was previously complicated. As software is a branch of applied mathematics the same applies by inference to software. Essentially we apply Occam's razor to cut away the complexity...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Blade servers, Utility computing, Middleware, Enterprise software, OCCAM, software, blade, tool, CORBA, swiss army knife, army knife
- Discussion threads 2005-07-19
- Microsoft to dump Longhorn, license MacOS X
- Microsoft to dump Longhorn, license MacOS XMicrosoft *HAS* adopted GPLhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/productinfo/features/[i]Powerful SDK Use the software development kit SDK, which supports more than 1,900 UNIX APIs and migration tools (conforming to the IEEE 1003.1-1990 standard), such as make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip,[/i][b] gbd, as well as the gcc, g++,...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Longhorn, GNU, SFU, GNU Project, Interix
- Discussion threads 2005-06-05
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