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Denial and the coming "data meltdown"

Subodh Bapat, Sun Microsystems eco-computing vice president, believes we'll soon see the first world-class data center meltdown. According to News.com: "You'll see a massive failure in a year," Bapat said at a dinner with reporters on Monday. "We are going to see a data...

Tags: Denial, Data Center, Meltdown, Register, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-10

Bloggers lead the way in election reporting

The front lines of Election Night reporting criss-crossed the blogosphere, The New York Times reports Bloggers were reporting on voting machine meltdowns and ballot shortfalls all through the night. But readers didnt have to take the writers word for it. Proof was being posted on YouTube throughout the evening....

Tags: Government technology, Elections, blogger, meltdown, Ed Morrissey

Blog posts 2006-11-08

Mashup or meltdown for Microsoft?

Mashup or meltdown for Microsoft?Meltdown? Are you kiddingWhy do you seem to think that the architecture of an application is the most important part of it. Applications provide functionality for users. Microsoft makes a lot of money from its applications. People pay money for them because they think they are...

Tags: meltdown, mashup, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-06

Quake 4 Meltdown map (zip)

This medium sized industrial gothic themed map allows for deathmatch fragging in a new setting.

Tags: Medium, Meltdown

Software downloads 2006-02-15

Additional Resources

iPhone Headaches

The launch of Apple's cool new iPhone turned into a big tech meltdown for new and old customers. Kara Tsuboi looks into what happened.

Tags: Apple iPhone, cbsi, iPhone, Apple, store, activation, Kara Tsuboi

Videos 2008-07-14

News to know: Nokia Symbian; XP phase-out; Apple badware

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30 Dancho Danchev: Trojan exploiting unpatched Mac OS X vulnerability in the wild Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Advertising & Promotion, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Management, Marketing, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.

There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and ecological sense: energy is at the base of the economic pyramid, less energy means less of everything for...

Tags: Agriculture, Green Technology, Africa, Tech, Green Revolution, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-22

Global warming: a fish story, and your health

Global warming: a fish story, and your healthSpecies come, species goGlobal warming positivies :Organisms can grow and develop at faster rates, thus bringing us new species more rapidly.Plants will grow more quickly, taking more CO2 from the atmosphere. The warmer it gets, the harder vegetation will work to remove CO2....

Tags: High-altitude habitat, health care, forest, global warming, species

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation?

Many studies have been conducted about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown of 1986. A large majority of them were focused on the environmental consequences of the radiation release. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune asks, what happened to bugs? Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator from Zurich, Switzerland, has collected...

Tags: Radiation, Bug, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Sales, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-25

Britain releases its X-Files

The truth may be out there, but so far it's not in the government files. The British government posted the first batch of its X-Files to a website today in a project that will eventually see the Ministry of Defence turn over to the National Archives 160 files on UFO...

Tags: Officer, Britain, Alien, Missile, UFO, Government, Vertical Industries, Aerospace & Defense, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Brain Freeze - The Meltdown (exe)

Brain Freeze - The Meltdown is a great puzzle game that exercises your grey matter. The object of the game is to match the pictures hidden behind the game pieces on the game board. You can only display two pictures at a time. If they do not match, as shown...

Tags: Picture, Brain Fart, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2008-05-07

At last, AMD ships quad-core Opterons

At last, AMD ships quad-core OpteronsPaging George Ou...ntLooking forward to the PhenomI'm looking forward to the "fixed" Phenoms. I'm ready to build a new PC and don't want to buy anything from Intel.Also, I want a TRUE 64 bit chip, not the 32 bit faking 64 of a Core2.Like...

Tags: Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, quad-core, register, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., processor

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent deal

Comcast's true speeds and the BitTorrent dealJust A Quick Link CorrectionYou have the link to George Ou's LAN Architect page going to www.lanarchitect.com, which goes to a placeholder "for sale" page with links to house planning. :p The correct address is www.lanarchitect.net.Confusing statement....[i]On the upside we're talking about...

Tags: BitTorrent deal, true speed, BitTorrent, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Fixing the unfairness of TCP congestion control

Bob Briscoe Chief researcher at the BT Network Research Centre is on a mission to tackle one of the biggest problems facing the Internet.  He wants the world to know that TCP Transmission Control Protocol congestion control is fundamentally broken and he has a proposal for the IETF to fix...

Tags: Algorithm, Application, Bandwidth, Network, P2P, TCP, Bob Briscoe, Van Jacobson, Jacobson, AIMD, ECN, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-03-24

Flaming MacBooks, iPods back in the news

Two reports this week surfaced about fires related to a MacBook Pro and iPod. The Apple user community can only hope this is a statistical fluke. The notebook occurrence was posted on Chris Pirillo's blog. He said the report was from a reader named James Bayliss,...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple MacBook, LG Electronics Inc., Battery, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, James, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Industry analysts and corporate weasels

Industry analysts and corporate weaselsThere are shades of grayYour point is well-taken, however pitching issue was raised by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations, as quoted in the post.I think it comes down to shades of gray: when does the briefing become merely a selling exercise? Also, what about briefings...

Tags: Financial accounting, Strategy, weasel, corporate weasel

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power business

Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessHah. Fat chance.Americans have been programmed to think nuclear radiation is the most toxic material on the planet.RE: Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power businessOne mention of the words 'Nuclear Power' and everyone freaks out. They immediately link it to nuclear fission, which...

Tags: Toshiba Corp., nuclear-power business, reactor, nuclear energy

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

EU+slaps+Microsoft+with+%241.3+billion+fine

EU+slaps+Microsoft+with+%241.3+billion+fineWell ... back to work thenI note that not even Microsoft disputes the principle or the amount of the fine. Since Microsoft is now making the requested interoperability information available for a flat fee plus 0.4% of the revenues (if any !) this ought to close this particular case so...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

FCC hearings: Comcast versus Vuze

The FCC held its hearing on Comcast's Network Management practices at Harvard University yesterday.  Vuze executive Gilles BianRosa whose company filed one of the two FCC complaints against Comcast reportedly told the FCC yesterday that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth.  Since most Internet experts would dispute that claim, I generated the...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Broadband Provider, Broadband, Vuze, Congestion Problem, Free Press, Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-26

At FCC, change must be the mantra

At FCC, change must be the mantraUniversal service is a worthy goal? In the USA it is a birthrightThe mantra is that the air is a public commons. There is no privatization opportunity here. We can not have trans national big businesses mucking up the greatest public commons of all...

Tags: Federal government, Universal Service, FCC, mantra, spectrum

Discussion threads 2008-02-25