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- Money Tree (exe)
- William the gardener has inherited a very strange house, with an even stranger tree in the yard. Help him catch the falling leaves and transplant them on apple, pear, cherry and orange trees to earn his daily money goals. If William can sell enough fruit, fight off the garden pests,...
- Tags: Leave, Tree, Mumbo Jumbo
- Software downloads 2008-06-16
- ZoomBook: The Temple of the Sun (exe)
- Challenge yourself with a new twist in puzzle games as you embark on an exciting adventure through a world of ancient temples and mysterious treasures. When a mysterious package arrives at the local university, two of the most renowned anthropology professors join forces to discover hidden clues and solve mind-boggling...
- Tags: Temple, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mumbo Jumbo, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-06-16
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- What's really ailing Big Blue shares? Hint: IBM is part bank
- Concerns about IBM's third quarter are popping up almost daily. The standard set of concerns revolves around technology spending and the willingness to pay IBM's army of consultants fees for big bang projects as well as a stronger dollar. But underneath the surface there's a bigger worry that isn't being...
- Tags: Asset, Bank, Financial, Financing, IBM Corp., Finance Unit, Financing Unit, Global Financing, Commercial Financing, Participation Rate, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- RCA DTA800B1
- The DTV transition has been pushed back before, but the recent tests in Wilmington, N.C., make it clear over-the-air analog TV signals really will be turned off on February 17, 2009. That means analog TV owners will need to pony up for a DTV converter box if they want to...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DTA800, DTV Transition, casing, RCA DTA800B1, digital television, TV, RCA
- Product reviews 2008-09-19
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...
- Creation in science classes? Maybe...The Last QuestionIf you really want to confuse people about this issue, have them read Asmiov's "The Last Question". Then see if they think about this issue the same way.Take care............WayneWhy is there necessarily a conflict?As a former science teacher, I handled the topic of...
- Tags: creationism, science class, theory
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Cloud computing as a term: More meaningless by the minute
- The term cloud computing may have outrun its usefulness--it's beginning to conjure up images of "Web 2.0" and "paradigm shift." For the record, cloud computing refers to an all-encompassing hosting of applications, services and even hardware. You'll just put your stuff up there in some cloud and...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopper
- Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopperHave you ever read MS EULA? In short...We can go into your machine and do what ever we want.If this is the case with the browser....how are they using your data in their cloud?Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopperI looked...
- Tags: Web browsers, EULA, Google Inc., Chrome EULA, TOS
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- Cuil trips over its Web index in early going
- Cuil, a Menlo Park-based search startup, has launched with an interesting hook: It has indexed 120 billion Web pages. It claims that tally is three times larger than any search engine, but the first impression didn't go over too well. Why? I can't find my archived posts...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Search Engine, Cuil, Search, Channel Management, Federal Government, Marketing, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- GNetWatch (zip)
- GNetWatch is a free open source Java application that offers real-time graphical monitoring and analysis of network performance through SNMP and ICMP. To get an instant view of the network state, data are collected, stored and displayed every few seconds. Two traffic generation modules are available. The former can flood...
- Tags: Network, FenyoNet, GNetWatch, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-05-29
- 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
- Cooper Boone's fan-fueled music (no, not the kind with blades)
- Did you ever think about how much electricity a mega-concert uses to power all those woofers and tweeters, not to mention the jumbo-screens and pyrotechnics? Yes, a lot, no? So, I was inspired by this little item about Cooper Boone, a psychologist-cum-musician who...
- Tags: Blade, Cooper, Music, Cooper Boone, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Midmarket IT folks: Belles of the conference circuit
- Want a few free trips to lovely places such as Vegas, Orlando and other conference hot spots? Work as an IT guy for a midmarket company. That's one takeaway from Orlando where the Vision Events Midsize Enterprise Summit conference happened to be held in the hotel where...
- Tags: Orlando, Information Technology, Conference, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
- What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer need an intervention?
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may need an intervention before this obsession with Yahoo--which is really about an obsession over Google--spins out of control. We're about to hit a second milepost in what is a frenetic week for the Microhoo saga and Yahoo employees aren't hip to merging...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psychiatrist, Financial Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Is OOP a branch to nowhere?
- To continue the discussion about development languages, I want to ask a potentially embarrassing question: has the whole object orientation business been both a functional and a conceptual failure? One of the odd things about the OO movement is that no two proponents understand...
- Tags: Object-oriented Programming, Object-oriented, Machine, COBOL MOVE, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- Cloud computing: A look at the myths
- Is there anyone not in the cloud? Cloud computing is the buzzword du jour and everyone--Google, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Amazon--is trying to get into the act. The problem: It will be another year--2009--before companies use cloud computing services extensively. In the meantime, folks will have to define and sort out...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- RCA DTA800
- The DTV transition has been pushed back several times already, but it looks as of over-the-air analog TV signals will officially be turned off on February 19, 2009. That means owners of analog TV will need to pony up for a DTV converter box if they want to continue getting...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DTV Transition, casing, RCA DTA800, digital television, TV, DTV converter box, converter box
- Product reviews 2008-04-03
- Apple moving up in green rankings
- Apple moving up in green rankingsEnvironmental FascistsJust in my 30 years on the planet...Gum never came in blister packs that people throw out.Pop came in glass bottles.You never saw crazy packaging like those for memory cards that have like 50 x more plastic than the card that is housed inside.Groceries...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, hydrogen fuel, Apple Inc., bottle, hydrogen, glass bottle
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinction
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinctionJargon - useful, concise, natural extension of vocabularyIT personnel should be reasonable in their use of jargon just as much as professionals in other disciplines - Medicine, for instance. A user who needs to be spoken in language devoid of any technical terms might...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- 5 tips to prevent IT extinction
- Here are 5 tips to help IT avoid extinction. I pose this question to IT departments everywhere: "Is your department evolving upwards or fading away on a seemingly-inevitable tide of outsourcing?" If the latter, I suggest you study these points carefully. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Blogger Kate Carruthers, Commenter, Blogger Kelly Shaw, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
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