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My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 26

My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 26Fav featureA tie between Spotlight and Expose. Both have saved me a lot of time.Screenshots and lunatic fringesOne freeware tool I find incredibly valuable is Paparazzi, which instead of taking a shot of the entire screen, instead captures an image of an entire webpage...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, irony, Apple MacBook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, lunatic fringe, fringe, Linux, Apple MacBook Pro

Discussion threads 2007-02-05

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Will EPA trump Congress on carbon? If so, watch the fur fly.

For the sake of balanced debatewould you quit the condescending use of the word 'deniers' as if anyone presenting a differing view on climate change is of the lunatic fringe. You only end up looking irrational yourself. Fulfill your responsibility as journalist and present some opposing views to AWG, whether...

Tags: U.S. Congress, AWG, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

How to make freemium pay

How to make freemium payI don't like the sound of 'freemium'It is as free as crippleware and trialware was for the desktop apps.I hate them and and moving the same concept from the desktop to the web is no innovation to me.Freemium, or FreeLunch ?SaaS companies taking this approach...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Acrobat.com, Phil

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Advice for the MCSE: go back to school

Advice for the MCSE: go back to schoolThat's my plan.I read most posts on this blog, and to be honest, I find it hard to agree with a lot of what you say. Sometimes I wonder if you live in an alternate universe to mine, linked by some freak blog...

Tags: .NET, Blogging, Benefits, Obama, salary, Microsoft .NET, blog

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Strike another blow to Education IT

Strike another blow to Education ITAnd...What's the likelihood of a veto override? That can happen can't it?RE: Strike another blow to Education ITMr. Wagner, You are absolutely right. We need to shift our focus and soon. American's are falling behind other nations fast in the education sector, and our students...

Tags: Government, Benefits, Education IT, Ed IT, salary

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 26

My MacBook Pro experience will, over the next few days, be drawing to a close. But what will be the things that I miss and those that wont I miss?After nearly a month I have to admit that the sexiness of the notebook has faded. That never lasts...

Tags: Apple, Apple MacBook, Apple Macintosh, Ive, Mac, My MacBook Pro Experience

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Christian video game stokes controversy in U.S.

Christian video game stokes controversy in U.S.oh myJust to play devil's advocate, pun intended, if this game featured the followers of Satan killing Christians, converting the faithful followers of God, and praying to the Devil there would be an explosion of Christian "complaining" over the subject matter. In similar fashion,...

Tags: Games, game, Christian Video Game, video game, video

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

U.S. warns of possible Qaida financial cyber attack

U.S. warns of possible Qaida financial cyber attackal qaida cyber attack . . .say what?Sorry folks. Just can't buy that one. They would if they could, but not likely they can. Meanwhile, we know our govt junkyard dogs have practice with this. The banks & all other tenants at...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Hacking, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, computer, cyberattack, 9/11 commission, al-Qaida, financial

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

Privacy, politics, and technology

Privacy, politics, and technologyPrivacy vs ObscurityMost of the "private information" people scream about is not really private. It just happens that until recently it was infeasible to collect and analyze on a wide spread basis. In the past, if someone wanted "personal" information about you, they had to...

Tags: Identity theft, Vertical industries, Now IT, government

Discussion threads 2006-10-27

Privacy, politics, and technology

My other favourite lunatic fringe site, the dailykos, has spent a lot of time and effort puffing a book by David H. Holtzman called "Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy," offered for non-profit sale to educators via josseybass.com. The book itself, seems to raise...

Tags: Internet

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Are open source and copyright issues connected?

The Free Software Foundation brought its campaign against Digital Rights Management to Seattle this morning, in the form of a "flash protest."The idea is that DRM is Defective by Design, that it cripples computing solely for the benefit of a few, and that it needs to be gotten-rid of....

Tags: digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-05-23

The sickest thing I've ever seen

The sickest thing I've ever seenSickening doesn't adequately describe thisI'm all for cutting their nuts off and feeding them to dogs. Maybe that sort of punishment would make these sickos think twice about acting out and/or making money from such revolting fantasies.AOL via ODP/DMOZ is contributing to the problemAs...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Child Molestation, sickest thing, illness, molestation

Discussion threads 2006-03-16

Democrats datamining!

Democrats datamining!the real difference between Reps and Dems.. as far as voter data resources anyway.. is that the Reps have generally been able to afford to by into several different technologies that were not directly competing with each other. deeper pockets is half the story, but theres also the willingness...

Tags: Marketing research, Databases, Reps, data mining

Discussion threads 2006-03-10

One city's move to open source

One city's move to open sourceWonderful, just wonderfultaking your city's programs by the source and being free of proprietary restriction. I expect to see great things from them, a better ratio of costs of living and higher ed standards as well as GNP. Every country can learn a...

Tags: Operating systems, Mannheim, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2005-12-05

Windows update harbors AMD conflict

Windows update harbors AMD conflictNice headlineSounds like a software conflict with the DVD decoder -- and yet ZDNet links it to AMD processors?! That's like blaming Tupperware because the contaminated food you stored in their containers was inedible.No shame, no shame at all.what?"The problem occurs in those systems if...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Update, news media, Service Pack 2, DVD Decoder, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., security, Microsoft Windows, software

Discussion threads 2004-08-27