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Exchange Log Analyzer 2.0 (Windows)

Exchange Log Analyzer ELA is a high performance tool for analyzing, charting and reporting on the message tracking logs that are generated by Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows, Mechanical Minds, Exchange Log Analyzer, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-20

Proxy/ISA Log Analyzer 3 (Windows)

Proxy/ISA Log Analyzer is a high performance log analyzer that allows you to analyze and quickly generate useful reports on Internet connection usage based on data from logs created by Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 or Microsoft ISA Server log files. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com. ...

Tags: Microsoft Proxy Server, Microsoft Corp., Mechanical Minds, Proxy/ISA Log Analyzer, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2008-09-05

Proxy Log Analyzer 2.60 (Windows)

Utility for extracting information from Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 logs. Useful if you are in charge of monitoring where your Internet bandwidth is being used.

Tags: Microsoft Proxy Server, Mechanical Minds, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-02-07

Additional Resources

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottom line

SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottomCompletely disagree. Outsourcing only works for small projects that can't be done in-house, like wiring jobs, installing generators and the such. Outsourcing entire departments doesn't work. I've seen it before, when the employee is on a contract...

Tags: Managed hosting, Outsourcing/Offshoring, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

H2O + C = cool idea

Forty years ago the protagonist in "The Graduate" was told the magic word for the future was "plastics." I would suggest the magic word for our future now is "water." Two Michigan innovators just won a prize for an air conditioning system that uses water as the coolant...

Tags: Turbine, C, Air Conditioner, Fiber, Air Conditioning System, John Barrie, Muller, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Apple announces new MacBook Pros with LEDs, Santa Rosa chips (Update 5)

Apple announces new MacBook Pros with LEDs, Santa Rosa chips (Update 5)How did you know I was short?Actually, I need to wait until MML is over first, and then I should be in the clear. I should go home and count all my pennies and see if I have...

Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, Desktops, chip, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Do Mac-fan, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2007-06-05

Hey readers, what's your problem with Patents?

Hey readers, what's your problem with Patents?Patents OK; software patents badNews at 11.Patent abuse is rampant.1. Software patents are just wrong. These things are so bad that having a reply system with a button labeled "Submit My Reply" could infringe on one or more patents. 2. Business process patents are...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Business process patent, patent, software

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

Negroponte takes on Intel

Negroponte takes on IntelAll I seen him do was whinethat someone is providing competition. Pfffttt.... He'll live.I understand...I understand Negroponte's point, and I agree that Intel is going after his OLPC project, but at the same time, I can't blame Intel. Intel is in the business of...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, desktop, Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child project, Intel Corp., computer

Discussion threads 2007-05-21

Ancient calculator was 1,000 years ahead of its time

Ancient calculator was 1,000 years ahead of its time2000 years old and producing accurate predictions...... or it would do it if wasn't incomplete. Thank goodness it was produced in ancient Greece and not in ancient Seattle..... ;-)Our ancestors may have had some funny ideas, but they were ignorant due to...

Tags: Dark Ages, Almighty

Discussion threads 2006-11-30

Meeting of the minds: Microsoft and Mozilla

Meeting of the minds: Microsoft and MozillaReassurance but not inspirationBecause a quoted blog entry shows that FireFox is unlikely to have native support for ActiveX soon, ambitions for the alternate browser remain stunted.Some day I think that people at Mozilla will want to provide everything people have come to expect...

Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web browsers, Middleware, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, ActiveX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-05

Serious nerds, doing serious things

Serious nerds, doing serious thingsPoor customer servicePoor customer service occurs whenever and wherever poorly trained people work. The Wintel reference is superfluous; poorly trained people who think they are gurus are just that.You may want to replace ‘Every' with ‘Ever'.every ever; done; thanksIt's not the poor...

Tags: Consumer electronics, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Wintel reference, recorder, DVD recorder, DVD-RW, DVD, computer, Poor Customer Service, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-08-22

ENIAC: First computer makes history

ENIAC: First computer makes historyIf only my XP box worked that well!*sigh*ABACUS Makes Mind Stronger.ABACUS is simple Counting Frame, Where YOU DO mechanical operations from your OWN minds trained method, counting up result at end. It wasn't until early 1960s' that computing machine could calculate faster than ABACUS. ABACUS operator...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ENIAC, computer, Abacus

Discussion threads 2006-02-13

Rick Rashid: Bring the romance back to science and engineering

Rick Rashid: Bring the romance back to science and engineeringMathematical ProofsThere are 2 pieces of coding that stop mathematical proofs, they are Pointers and Array Indicies. These objects are akin to metadata - data about data, which is impossible to make into a proof.When I was in college 20 years...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Even Microsoft, job, Rick Rashid

Discussion threads 2005-05-25

Success isn't patented

Success isn't patentedA nation of innovators?We can't all innovate. What about those who can't? Will there be jobs working for those that do? Or will those innovators promptly move their innovations overseas, where the labor is cheaper and the laws are less strict?Carl RapsonNo comment on software patents?I notice no...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent, local economy, innovation

Discussion threads 2004-02-04

Canada ruling won't stop music lawsuits

Canada ruling won't stop music lawsuitsBring it on!If they think they can double dip, they got a brick wall coming down on their heads.of course not" Last week's ruling in Canada declaring downloading music through peer-to-peer services legal may do little to prevent the music industry from taking its own...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Taxes, Digital media, Digital music, recording industry, P2P, CRIA, peer-to-peer service, tax

Discussion threads 2003-12-16