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- How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi
- Kinda eerieMakes me wonder if I should delete that "Socialism" picture of Obama as the Joker from my machine.There are 2 Issues HereThe first is whether such forensics have a legitimate place in law enforcement and the second is whether these methods can be misused. I believe that the...
- Tags: Blogging, information technology, Zazi, Internet Surveillance, Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- 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
- Building a vision for Government 2.0
- Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...
- Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Machines at War 1.2 (Windows)
- Command an army of forces across the battlefield with ease in this real time strategy game. You are challenged to construct an epic war machine and use it to become a dominating world power. Machines at War features a random map system so every game you play is unique and...
- Tags: Isotope 244 Computer Games, Enemy, Microsoft Windows, Games, Construction, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management
- Software downloads 2009-03-18
- Windows 7 a tough sell on netbooks? No kidding!
- Windows 7 a tough sell on netbooks? No kidding!Quite rightThe choices will be:1. Linux2. Windows XP3. Windows 7 Starter Edition4. Windows 7 Home Premium or aboveLinux loses on familiarity. Windows 7 Starter loses on lack of functionality. Windows 7 HP loses on price. Windows XP is familiar, fully functional, and...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), MSI, Windows 7 Starter, Microsoft Windows 7, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- AMD announces layoffs, salary cuts
- Silicon Valley chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices will eliminate 1,100 jobs - roughly 9 percent of its workforce - in the first quarter, according to a report on Marketwatch. The company also said it will suspend its 401k match for employees and that executive chairman Hector Ruiz and CEO Dirk Meyer...
- Tags: Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
- HP Logical Server Management: Best Practices
- The HP Insight Dynamics - VSE solution introduced support for logical servers, and the 4.1 release further enhanced their capabilities. HP logical server technology further enables system administrators to create an Adaptive Infrastructure, allowing their IT environment to respond quickly to changing business needs. Logical servers are a new class...
- Tags: Server Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Practice, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2009-01-01
- VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote
- 20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...
- Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Optimus Apparatus 1 (Windows)
- Optimus Apparatus is a single player game combining Gravity Shooter with Action-RPG elements. Fly missions on randomly generated maps, gain cash to upgrade your spaceship. Pickup spaceship components dropped by defeated enemies and use them on your spaceship. It is possible to balance your spaceship components abilities, energy costs, weights...
- Tags: Optimus Corp., Spaceship, Stolpskott Studios, Optimus Apparatus, Microsoft Windows, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-09-11
- Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in beta* testing
- Citrix recently released a beta test version of its next generation XenServer, code named "Orlando," which is expected to ship in September. Th next version will offer a variety of new features including automated high availability, support for the Xen hypervisor 3.2 and Windows Server 2008 guests, performance statistics,...
- Tags: Performance, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- The tattered history of OOP
- This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...
- Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- RIP OLPC
- RIP OLPCWintel is a bit - well, 'legacy'Those kids that get XP rather than OSS olpcs will miss out on the rather more interesting experience. Certainly, for learning about computing, XP can hardly be regarded as an honest opportunity.Agree about editing and recompiling software though - it luckily isn't...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, RIP OLPC, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Machines at War 1.2 (Mac)
- Command an army of forces across the battlefield with ease in this real time strategy game. You are challenged to construct an epic war machine and use it to become a dominating world power. Machines at War features a random map system so every game you play is unique and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- Is OOP a branch to nowhere?
- Is OOP a branch to nowhere?I agreeAnd furthermore, it is not self-evident that OOP is inherently more efficient than procedural programming.Your decomposition implies that even the earliest OO concepts existed only as transitional elements in large complex procedural workspace.At a machine-language level OO creates massive stack manipulations for even the...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, object-oriented programming
- Discussion threads 2008-04-20
- Is OOP a branch to nowhere?
- To continue the discussion about development languages, I want to ask a potentially embarrassing question: has the whole object orientation business been both a functional and a conceptual failure? One of the odd things about the OO movement is that no two proponents understand...
- Tags: Object-oriented Programming, Object-oriented, Machine, COBOL MOVE, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Six degrees of separation in instant messaging
- According to Nature in 'Six degrees of messaging,' computer scientists at Microsoft Research Redmond lab have logged a full month of instant messengers using -- logically -- Microsoft Messenger. 'The compressed dataset occupies 4.5 terabytes, composed from 1 billion conversations per day (150 gigabytes) over one month of logging," according...
- Tags: IM, Microsoft Corp., Dataset, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- HP takes aim at Teradata with Neoview mousetrap
- Last week I chatted with Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager of the HP's Business Intelligence Group. The former general manager of IBM's Global Business Intelligence Solutions Division was hand-picked by HP CEO Mark Hurd to take an old friend--Teradata, the leader in enterprise data warehousing. ...
- Tags: Teradata, Hewlett-Packard Co., Neoview, Sales Tools, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Data Mining, Research & Development, Investment, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Databases, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- HP laptops: Another zero-day vulnerability found
- Every HP laptop that ships with HP Software Update, a patch utility, is vulnerable to a zero-day vulnerability that can leave the PC unbootable. The vulnerability was published by a Polish hacker that goes by the handle of "porkythepig." The hacker's latest finding caps a rough few weeks for...
- Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Vulnerability, Kernel, Laptop Computer, Flaw, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- Silhouette Flyers 0.07 (Windows)
- Silhouette Flyers is a paper plane collection which allows the young and up to learn graphics and construct flyable paper planes with the computer. Ages 10 and up can build a great glider and hone construction skills while learning various graphic program technique's. Move up from limited folded paper planes...
- Tags: Silhouette Flyers, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-11-27
- How much do you LOVE Mac OS X Leopard?
- The reports of problems with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard are starting to roll in: blue screens following installs and incompatible software. There's a good thread of reader reports on MacInTouch. And The Apple Core has give you plenty of advice beforehand to avoid both issues. ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Window, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
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