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- Is there really life on Earth?
- Is there really life on Earth?What about rivers?Most large rivers on the Earth have been contrained from meandering by man-made structures. The Mississippi river cuts a straight-line swath through Louisiana - whereas you would have expected meandering and alluvial deposition (hasn't happened in many years). Man also likes making things...
- Tags: Mississippi River
- Discussion threads 2006-02-07
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- Edongba (zip)
- In southwestern china, east of the first bend of the yangtze river, set in a beautiful valley, lies the town of lijiang. Today there are more than 270,000 naxi people living in Lijiang. One of the most popular and distinctive expressions of naxi culture is the dongba script of this...
- Tags: Symbol, Xiaohui Yang, Edongba, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-09
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?
- Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?Whitelist.With one home office and 100 branch offices, they all go through two different Squid proxy servers to hit the Internet. I have a file, named white by the way, that contain the URL's they are allowed to hit. It would be nice...
- Tags: INTERNET, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, whitelist, blacklist guy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- (Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)
- (Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)one correctionThe model T first ran on alcohol. John Rockefeller was making kerosene for heating and lighting, and gasoline was a useless byproduct. He was literally dumping it into a river at night.Then he realized there could be a huge market for this stuff....
- Tags: Ford Model T, alcohol, Ford Motor Co., photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Will Apple help Android succeed?
- I have to wonder how Apple manages to have any sort of developer ecosystem, given how closed the company is and how it regularly treats its developers with what can only be described as contempt. I sincerely hope that Google (and T-Mobile) does a better job with Android's developer community...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Google Inc., Phone, Apple Inc., Android, Telecom & Utilities, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Ariana's Secret & The "Obsessive-Compulsive" Web
- The Washington Post was founded in 1877, employs more than 700 in its editorial department and serves 8.4 million visitors to its Web site each month. The Huffington Post was founded in 2005, employs 60 people all told and gets 3.6 million visitors a month. No wonder that Ariana...
- Tags: Web, Ariana, WashPo, HuffPo, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld ads
- Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld adsTwo old farts pushing an outdated OS, that's a winner...I can't believe Microsoft thought this was a good marketing strategy by bringing one old comedian and one old nerd to brand to an upcoming generation of computer users and buyers. These commercials were...
- Tags: Microsoft AD, Microsoft Corp., advertisement, Gates/Seinfeld, Gates/Seinfeld ad, Shift-Del
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- The real life cost of trying to ignore nature
- Down along the Texas Gulf Coast this week, man's arrogance has been hard hit by Ike. Even the Texas land commissioner is now muttering about things like zoning and building restrictions. I hope that guy has secret service level protection. Them's fightin' words down in the Lone...
- Tags: Texas, Beach, State Legislature, Land Guy, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Photos: Hurricane Hunters fly into Ike
- The main mission of an Air Force unit in Mississippi is to fly into storms to collect data that will help generate more accurate forecasts. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-09-12
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water. The search giant filed for a patent in February. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Computing Unit, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- StatusHQ: another Twitter clone for enterprise
- Twitter clones are starting to come out the woodwork. The latest candidate is StatusHQ, which surfaced last Friday and which my pal Luis Suarez describes as: "What Twitter could have been." Maybe, maybe not. The central premise behind StatusHQ is that individuals can...
- Tags: Twitter, StatusHQ, Susan, Pete, UI, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Sarbanes-Oxley, Business Structures, RSS, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureShibboleth?Here's the dictionary definition:1. a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons. 2. a slogan; catchword. 3. a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth. A report, providing...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Mgmt, packaged application, job, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Public policy and open source
- Public policy and open sourceGovernments should tread carefullyBy all means they should use OSS if it is the most cost-effective use of the taxpayers' money. But that's as far as it should go. There shouldn't be any 'affirmative action' for OSS.NoneGovernment should have a policy of using public funds in...
- Tags: Vertical industries, open source, government
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Qwest CTO on FTTP, bandwidth caps and integrated services
- Qwest plans to roll out integrated home services where it ties its services in with those from its partners such as MSN and DirecTV in a move enabled by a thin layer of software, according to Qwest CTO Pieter Poll. Poll right talked about Qwest's broadband strategy...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Qwest Communications Inc., Service, West, Cable, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Broadband Internet, Optical Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95No thanksI wouldn't take a free copy of Office...not with that godawful ribbon bar. You know you've screwed up the user interface of a product when a predominant question on websites seems to be "How do I print?". If you...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, MS Office Ultimate, ribbon, Microsoft Corp., Weekend Gadget Guidance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underwayGood article, Larry.Software companies are running out of ways to make you buy their latest version. There just isn't anything in newer versions that increase productivity. So they have to raise their revenue somewhere.I think it is better for companies to hire...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Internal IT, database manager, software, maintenance revolution
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Fedora infrastructure breach?
- Fedora infrastructure breach?Denial isn't a river in EgyptRather than deny anything, the Fedora team is just going to try to keep it under wraps. Wonder what OS their servers are running?Updates seemed to be working last nightBut thanks for the heads up.RE: Fedora infrastructure breach?Hopefully they didn't lose the...
- Tags: Fedora Project, Grub
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe
- Swaddled in air-conditioned comfort, sipping a Diet Coke I hardly noticed the late afternoon thunderstorm that blew in last Friday. They're a common occurrence in central North Carolina in the summer time; so I continued with my work secure in my technological web. In the background I could hear the...
- Tags: Lightning, Tree, Mississippi, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Will we kill the ocean before the atmosphere kills us?
- The race is on. We humans are trashing large patches of the ocean, says an American researcher. Our cast-off, washed-away chemicals are creating oceanic dead zones. Latest dead zone discoveries have been in the more oceanic, less populated Southern Hemisphere. America's own prize dead...
- Tags: Ocean, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
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