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- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect
- At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources
- Videos 2008-07-25
- Gateway stops selling PCs direct
- Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- My Awesome IT Job: Researcher and manager, Microsoft
- Desney Tan, researcher and manager at Microsoft, says the toughest technology lesson he has learned was that for the most part, people don't care about technology--they really just want to get things done, no matter how snazzy what you've created may be. Part of an ongoing series profiling Awesome IT...
- Tags: Life, Researcher, Information Technology, Hobby, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...
- Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Google's $10M, no, $100M Android Challenge
- Google's $10M, no, $100M Android ChallengeI think that Google also needs to make their own self branded phone.They can not depend on existing manufacturers to do it for them. But, after the Google phone takes off, Google might decide to get out of the market.It will be many years before...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Convicted spammer Eddie Davidson, who escaped from federal prison over the weekend, killed his wife and 3-year-old daughter before killing himself in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Colorado's 9News.com said the tragic end of the man known as the "Spam King" was confirmed by the...
- Tags: Prison, Sheriff, Internal Revenue Service, Attorney, Healthcare, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up
- Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...
- Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
- Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear
- 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear#9 is wrongThe actual principal for #9 is the GFC principal, Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any TWO.In reality, a successful project blends all 3 to get a product with a reasonable level of all.Corollary to #10:"It's just what I asked for,...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Project Manager, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook gets serious about app qualityBetter Late Than Never!!I agreed with with you that these moves are coming late. Third-party applications have become all the rage on the social networking scene and this is something they should have sorted long since. But anyway, it's better late that never and i...
- Tags: Social networking, app quality, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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