Additional Resources
- Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- Yesterday I posted Xbench benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer against the latest shipping Mac mini and all three Apple notebook computers and the Open Computer beat the Mac mini 147 to 99. Some suggested Geekbench 2 benchmarks should also be run. If you're not familiar with...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple MacBook, RAM, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
- Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw
- So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys. Well, HD Moore set a new record...
- Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- UC Law bans classroom web access
- I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...
- Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- City walks away from $17m network
- Who wants a free Wi-Fi network? Not Philadelphia. After Earthlink pulled out of Philly Wireless Tuesday, the city wants no part of the network. Apparently Earthlink had been negotiating with the city and nonprofits groups to to hand the $17 million network over but couldn't come to...
- Tags: EarthLink Inc., City, Network, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
- The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...
- Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- OK, Dell. Maybe your tech's greener, but what about green services?
- Great timing on Dell's part. Wait until arch-rival or at least one of them Hewlett-Packard is busy chatting up the press about a minor (ha!) services acquisition, and then WAY up the ante when it comes to an energy-efficiency proclamation. Here's the thing: While other vendors, including...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Dell: We're greener than HP
- Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today. Welcome to the latest in the "we're greener than you" game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak. Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- News to know: Zoho; HP; Windows 7; Patch day
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: Zoho's Googley login raises interesting questions Ed Bott: The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers News.com: Facebook pulls ‘stalker list' tool after Gawker exposes it Mary Jo Foley: Gates emphasizes PC-phone...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Xbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- I've completed some initial Benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer. The results below are from Xbench 1.3 running on the following systems: Psystar Open Computer, 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 10.5.2 Mac mini, 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 10.5.2 ...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple MacBook, RAM, Notebooks, Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
- Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC's former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked or was supposed to work on the backend. Now he,...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Ivan KrstiÄ, Nicholas, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?
- InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Greetings from Lesotho
- It's amazing how dependent we become on technology. Internet access and a working mobile phone are something that most westerners now take for granted. When they are gone, however, you feel oddly disconnected. You can't pop online to check news. You can't check email. Without a working mobile phone, you...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean, Telecom & Utilities, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Opera Mini 4.1 comes out of beta and earns a spot as my right soft key shortcut
- It was only a month ago that I mentioned the release of Opera Mini 4.1 beta and today I received the announcement that the full release of Opera Mini 4.1 is now available to download and install for free. It is so good that it has now earned a place...
- Tags: Opera Software, Channel Management, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Why HP-EDS is a disaster in the making
- As I've noted elsewhere HP's takeover of Compaq destroyed essentially all of HP's pre-takeover value and left the Compaq organization operating as HP. Now they've announced their intention of taking over EDS. On the good news side there won't be a culture clash in bringing these...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software, Investment, Finance, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Who will set price and quality standards?
- Did you know Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has a blog? It's a pretty good blog, in that it's evident he writes it himself, and in it deals with issues on a personal basis. For instance, he did a series of posts on a recent...
- Tags: Mike Leavitt, Health Care, Standards, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?
- With the completion of its deal to buy EDS for $13.9 billion, Hewlett-Packard is about to become just as key to Microsoft's fate as IBM is to the fate of open source. How will Microsoft react? While Sun, Red Hat and a host of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Microsoft Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
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