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- Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false
- Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is falseWhat a knee jerk reaction by Wall Street.What a bunch of idiots.RE: Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false[i]cited an unnamed "reliable" source [/i]And there is the problem! Sounds like someone did this just as a prank....
- Tags: Federal government, Steve Jobs, Apple SAYS, heart attack, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?So what is the source of the issue?It's one thing to make such a spectacular claim it's another to provide some real evidence. Why would they be emitting a toxic smell? Might this be the case with other computers too?No wonder MBP fans love...
- Tags: benzene, MAC Pro, Apple Inc., toxin
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Toxic Mac Pro's emitting benzene?
- Mac Pro owners, listen up. A french newspaper Liberation.fr has published a report English translation stating that Mac Pro owners run the risk of getting diseases as dangerous as leukemia blood cancer simply by using their computer. The newspaper was warned by a national agency scientist...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Benzene, Mac Pro, Libération, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physics
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physicsHmmm, the brain drain is more thanlosing our people to Europe... it's our poor education system. It's amazing how low on the scale we are for developed nations when it comes to education. Especially in the lower grades where it...
- Tags: INTERNET, fascism, LHC, sure sign
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- 102 Minutes That Changed America: "Mesh" reporting comes of age (UPDATED)
- This week, in commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the History Channel is releasing an unusual documentary, entitled "102 Minutes That Changed America". If you are a DIRECTV subscriber and have access to their On Demand service, you can actually download the...
- Tags: Event, Network, Cell Phone, Camera, Documentary, Corporate Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-07
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...
- Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computing
- LinuxWorld video: Merrill Lynch moves to stateless computingThis guy has been drinking too much clould computing Kool AidPutting your fate in someone else's hands is simply not a good idea. You may get away with doing so once or twice, but eventually you will get bitten very badly. As for...
- Tags: Corporate communications, NOW HERE, stateless computing, LinuxWorld, computing, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers
- Nokia Symbian deal winners and losersNokia Symbian - What's in a name?Heads up! It looks like Nokia's product naming consultants did not do their homework for similar names with other mental images and associations. Check out www.sybian.com. Or, how about the Symbionese Liberation Party that kidnapped Patty...
- Tags: Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, Cellular phones, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction
- SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc. Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...
- Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?
- Chinese hackers may have been behind power blackouts in Florida and the Northeast, according to a report in the National Journal. The report, penned by Shane Harris for the National Journal, lays out a lengthy case that China has deployed hackers working unofficially and officially for the...
- Tags: U.S., China, Blackout, Hacker, Intelligence Official, Takeaway, Government, Hacking, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins
- In my previous piece discussing the first four Open Source Commandments I talked a bit about the traditions of Passover, where Jewish families gather together to eat a festive meal and discuss our liberation from slavery in Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh (while the one in the...
- Tags: Console, OSS, Open Source, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Who benefits from data center centralization?
- Who benefits from data center centralization?The difference is in control/managementCentralized processing with decentralized control works - centralizing both does not.But notice that Wintel/data processing essentially force the centralization of both, and Unix does not. You can centralize control with Unix, but you don't have to. Instead you put everything...
- Tags: Data centers, Strategic planning, Regulations, benefit, data center, centralization, money organization, data center centralization, server
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Podcast discussion on network management policies
- I spent a little time chatting with some folks at the Technology Liberation Front doing a podcast today "Network Management Redux". Sorry if I sounded a little groggy in the recording after the computer problems and AT&T DSL problems that kept me up all night. I'll be inviting some...
- Tags: Network, Network Management, Podcasts, Network Administration, Networking, Internet, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- The implosion of music DRM
- I certainly wouldn't have expected that, within a year, most digital music would be legally available, DRM-free, from online download sites. That seems on track to happen, however, as Sony just announced it would be releasing its music in DRM-free MP3 format. It helps, of course, that DRM-free music on...
- Tags: CD, Digital-rights Management, Digital Music, Music, Radiohead, Trent Reznor, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Facebook: Of the people but not for or by the people?
- It's no wonder the Social Web--the Internet with the concept of people and relationships embedded in the fabric (what Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls the Giant Global Graph)--has become such a controversial topic. It's a kind of spontaneous, greedy gold rush for the social networks to accumulate members, exploit the social...
- Tags: Facebook, MoveOn.org, Cory, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- OpenSocial: Developers speak out
- With Google's OpenSocial plans out of the bag, I checked out how some of the chosen few--Slide, NewsGator, Ning and salesforce.com--think about the new APIs and how they plan to apply them. Slide is the leading Facebook developer, claiming 63 million applications (SuperPoke, Top Friends, Slideshows, Guestbooks,...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Application, Network, API, User, Google OpenSocial, User Benefit, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- A New MDS Erasur Erasure Code for RAID-6
- The RAID-6 specification calls for a storage system with multiple storage devices to tolerate the failure of any two devices. Numerous erasure coding techniques have been developed that can implement RAID-6; however, each has limitations. This paper describes a new class of RAID-6 codes called the Liberation Codes. These codes...
- Tags: Technique, Performance, Specification, University Of Tennessee, RAID-6, Performance Management, Productivity, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-25
- The French chime in with "Me too!"
- Add France to the countries that have acknowledged that they are under attack from China. They are not willing to commit to having any knowledge of the attacks being sponsored by the People's Liberation Army. And for the record here is China's response to...
- Tags: China, Government, Cyberattack, Attack, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Oracle's misconceived SaaS strategy
- Oracle president Charles Phillips passed through London recently and spoke to a handful of journalists about the company's prospects and direction, including its SaaS strategy. I noticed Angela Eager's write-up for CBR a couple of days before going off on a week's vacation, and although it had me mildly fuming...
- Tags: Software, Strategy, Software-as-a-service, Database, Oracle Corp., On-demand, Customer, Multi-tenancy, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
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