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- Leaving Education IT to clueless politicians
- Well, theyre at it again! The proposed new law is called "The Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007 (H.R. 1689)" and it would provide Department of Education funding for anti-piracy software. (See Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software.) Sound good? Well,...
- Tags: Texts &, Materials, Research, Networks, Libraries, IT Management, Higher Ed, Funding, Education Technology, Digital Media
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- New project to scan brittle books at Library of Congress
- Scholars and students of old and fragile books will be glad to know that the cause to digitize all literature has been recently enhanced by a grant to by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, reports the Associated Press. The Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced recently that...
- Tags: Education Technology, Libraries
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- An alternative to Google's book-scanning project
- The Internet Archive received a $1 million grant from the New York-based Sloan Foundation to digitize the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, AP reports. The grant marks a challenge to Google, which has been working with universities to digitize...
- Tags: Open Content Alliance, Google Inc., Libraries, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
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- COPA suffers another blow
- InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...
- Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Open-source Castle Project founder joins Microsoft
- Open-source Castle Project founder joins MicrosoftI've always been curious about the uptake of Iron*Its a strategy that seems to follow the same mistake MS is making on the web...."If we offer OUR version they will come". It seems to me that ASP.Net attracts a certain type of person just like...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, Application servers, Scripting languages, open source, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft Corp., PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destination
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destinationmulticoreinfo.comCheck out http://multicoreinfo.com for multicore related news and programming resources.Tired of CoresI'm tired of the core nonsense. How about we use the existing cores more effectively?Anyone stick a scratched CD/DVD into a Vista machine and enjoy the explorer freeze-up while some blocking i/o is going on?...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tahiti, multi-core, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Biometrics Network Logon (exe)
- Biometric Network Logon 2007 R2 supports 19 different devices. Usually, the fingerprint libraries provided by the manufacturers only support their own device. Biometric Network Logon is built under Fingerprint SDK's support for multiple fingerprint readers allows you to choose the more suitable reader. This version is the first release on...
- Tags: Device, Network, Griaule Technology, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Amazon helps boost Engine Yard's cloud computing efforts with capital infusion
- Rubinius, a project to develop the next generation virtual machine for the Ruby programming language, implements the core libraries in Ruby, making a system accessible for development and extension. Merb is a light framework that is ORM, JavaScript library, and template language agnostic. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Ruby, Merb, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Sneak peek at the new Unicode-friendly PHP6
- The following is a guest post from Andrew Mager, associate technical producer at ZDNet. This dispatch is from the Bay Area PHP Meetup. He can be found at Andrewmager.com. When Andrei Zmievski isn't busy building infrastructure for a social gaming startup, or processing photos from his Nikon...
- Tags: Unicode, PHP, Internationalization, TextIterator, Transliteration, Zmievski, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 million
- ATI acquisition costs AMD another $880 millionFire HectorThat's where they need to start. This guy has a terrible, terrible track record and it's showing its colors now. AMD has some AMAZING engineers and talent. Probably some of the most talented processor engineers around but bad management =...
- Tags: Chipsets, Semiconductors, Operational accounting, ATI Technologies Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., GPU, processor, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakes
- Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakesTo sum upSafari is insecure because other software has exploits.Do you get dizzy much from spinning so fast?RE: Apple hasn't learned from past security mistakesIt probably has more to do with Apple being used to abiding by what is considered normal security obligations on...
- Tags: security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., security mistake
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Dantz Retrospect (dmg)
- Designed to protect Mac OS X systems with absolute accuracy and reliability, Dantz Retrospect Backup properly backs up and restores all Mac OS X files and information, including both the data and resource forks of multi-part files, HFS+ metadata, UNIX-style permissions and group ownership, and hard-linked files. Automatic scheduling ensures...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference
- Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada. The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track. Topics...
- Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Rage against Adrian
- Rage against AdrianWell ...[i].. calling your colleague a dumbass violates this forums rules.[/i]When you constantly shill for Microsoft this could be interpreted as posting "advertisements" which also violate forum rules since you are offering a service to advocate a product. Does Microsoft pay well? Many here would like to know....
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Adrian, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Aperture (trial)
- Aperture 2 gives photographers incredible tools to manage massive libraries, speed through photo edits, make essential image adjustments, and deliver photos online and in print using one simple, integrated workflow. Whether you shoot RAW or JPEG, Aperture lets you get the most out of your photography. This version is the...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Photograph
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Java SE 6 (JDK 6) (exe)
- Java Platform, Standard Edition (also known as Java 2 Platform) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers, as well as today's demanding Embedded and Real-Time environments. Java SE includes classes that support the development of Java Web Services and provides the foundation for Java Platform, Enterprise...
- Tags: JDK, Java Community, Java SE, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsWindows.So do you have to run a full version of Windows and then on top of that run Hyper V and then on top of that run your guests? Or can Hyper V be installed bare metal?RE: Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for WindowsIt...
- Tags: Operating systems, Storage management, cloud computing, Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easier
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easierWow!This is a really big deal for Flash developers. We've been waiting a long time for this. No more alternate content solutions and having SEO dweebs trying scab your clients over this issue.Now, all we need is Flash on...
- Tags: SEARCH, WebTop, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic
- Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logicFinally, The man gets a taste of his own chocolateThis has been one heck of a delightful tale, finally The Bill himself goes through the same hell the Windows users have to face every time that dreaded Update Icon enters the fray.Now let's see...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Channel management, Operating systems, Strategy, Now Let, Bible Story, Babel, Bill Gates, idiotic logic, web experience, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
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