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- How to monetise open source
- How to monetise open sourceFuturesIsn't this just the futures market that you're talking about? Sort of like betting on whether or not the price of orange juice will go up or down?Carl RapsonGardensMonetise does mean money.You want to decide the success of your bundles based on various subjective or difficult-to-count...
- Tags: futures market, Mr Murphy, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2005-07-14
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- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- Although Windows technologies haven't really evolved since the introduction of Windows NT, Windows management methods have - mostly through the development of methods aimed at coping with server and staffer sprawl and the gradual adoption of ideas from the predecessor data processing culture. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Application, Disk, PC, PC Server, Machine, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for
- Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost, according to a new study by NETCompetition.org, a site committed to Net Neutrality "pro-competition Internet forum funded...
- Tags: Consumer, U.S., Google Inc., Bandwidth, Study, Broadband, Precursor LLC, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Asking a paranoid question
- Recent advances in the computing side of remote sensing mean that it's now possible to bounce a beam off someone's nose from 400 feet away and reliably determine whether his face has been unprotected near gunfire in the last month or so - and the implications these developments have for...
- Tags: Induction, Aerospace & Defense, Hacking, Scanners, Handhelds, Security, Manufacturing, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Who are the John Does that Apple is looking for?
- Who are the John Does that Apple is looking for?Your #2 suggestion is most likely the correct oneConsidering that Apple is using the DMCA to go after Wiki sites that [b]dare[/b] discuss iTunes, it isn't hard to believe that Apple wants to sue anyone and everyone who dares tinker with...
- Tags: Wiki, Linux, Digital music, Digital media, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Inc., John Does, software, Apple iPod, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Sage results show impact on SMB market
- Â Earlier today, Sage, the UK's largest software vendor announced its full year results to 30th September and provided an update on how it sees the market going forward. Both the UK and US markets are the most affected by the economic downturn. In his review, CEO...
- Tags: Revenue, Growth, Health Care, U.K., Small And Medium Business, Sage, Operational Accounting, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Soshiku=a reason for cell phones in school
- Soshiku, a website created by 17-year old Andrew Shaper, is a simple and elegant web-based tool for tracking school assignments. Launched this September, I stumbled across it via a note on Twitter and I have to say I'm completely impressed. According to the launch press release, ...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Assignment, Soshiku, Telecom & Utilities, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Opting out of IT
- Lots of companies simply opt out of the IT generation - and the consequent IT wars. They do things the old fashioned way - people to people - while minimizing their exposure to reporting hassles - and while I say more power to them, I also say that their existence...
- Tags: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Information Technology, Linux, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Gulf of execution
- Gulf of executionAnd FUD would bethe Gulf of Tonkin? ;)Gulf of duh Nile ?;)Did Mr. Krigsman fill in for you, Murph?This statement summarizes failure analyses:The biggest, deepest, and deadliest, gulf is, of course, the development delusion where “Yes, I can” is usually punished by months of misery as all the...
- Tags: gulf, Murph
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Gulf of execution
- When someone mentions the "gulf of execution" I tend to think Tonkin or bay of pigs, but in IT the term has another meaning entirely - more akin. I think, to "gulf of delusion" than anything to do with geography or mission. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Gulf, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Identity Theft, Wireless, Security, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?Compiz Fusion's magnifier plugins and ADA complianceI've done a test in using a magnifier and enhanced desktop zoom plug-in in Compiz Fusion and it lacked support for input tracking. For example, run openOffice and zoom in until you don't...
- Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating systems, Freedom Scientific, Compiz-fusion, Zoomtext, Linux, Americans with Disabilities Act, desktop, WinDOS, Ubuntu, desktop Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- IT expert executed in Iran
- IT expert executed in IranExecution for a..............???IT expert cuaght acting as a spy, but yet no penalties what so ever for the global elitists deconstructing America, causing the recession and most likley inevitble collapse of the USA?Something just don't seem right here..........Iran needs nukes to not be irrelevantHe was a...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Expert, spy, information technology, Brian Regan
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- Hackers boot Linux on iPhone
- Hackers boot Linux on iPhoneWhy should anyone care?The iPhone / iPod Touch is about convergence of UI with hardware.Yes it's nice you can run linux on the iPhone, but turning your iPhone into a busybox brick with SSH somehow doesn't get me excited.RE: Hackers boot Linux on iPhoneWhat a wonderful...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Apple iPhone, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Some seriously good advice from "Narg"
- Last week's discussion of the lawsuit launched in honor of an IT mis-judgment brought a piece of remarkably good advice from a comment writer - not all problems, he said, are computer problems. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Time Clock, PC, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Why C wins: the cold realities of abstraction
- The sad reality underlying many of the handy abstractions we rely on every day is that they only work most of the time - and what that means is that the abstractions we choose to use define limits to the quality of our work. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: C, TCP, Actor, Abstraction, Joel Spolsky, Tom Godwin, Tcp/Ip, Networking, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- Al Gore electrifies Web 2.0 Summit
- Al Gore electrifies Web 2.0 SummitJust a reflectionTowards the end of the clip You can really see how Mr Gore is personally affected by heat-issues :)
- Tags: Al Gore
- Discussion threads 2008-11-28
- Why engage in open source FUD?
- Why engage in open source FUD?WellWell with a screwed up patent system like you got in the USA where you can patent software code, you are bound to have problems.What FUD needs is a schoolto educate the public, in:What FUD isWho uses FUD past and presentHow to use FUDWho is/are/were...
- Tags: FUD, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Thanking open source developers
- Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in the United States - and today I want to say "Thank you" to the people whose work makes open source so valuable to me and everyone else who uses it. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
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