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Oh Noes, April Fools has lost it's mojo

Oh Noes, April Fools has lost it's mojoOur coffee pots have a sign about trimethylxanthineSome joker posted official-looking signs on our coffee pots stating they had high levels of trimethylxanthine. Not high enough, in my opinion.RE: Oh Noes, April Fools has lost it's mojoTake a look at the gmail...

Tags: OH NOES, April Fool

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

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Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA

I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...

Tags: Desktops, DOA, Core i7 iMac, Core i7, Apple Inc., Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

What the Google Privacy Dashboard can mean for health

I'm with the "Oh noes".Giving an advertising company access to all my health data just so I can find out if someone like, say, an advertising company has access to it, strikes me as a bit of on own goal.Trust Google with more data?Google already has- my IP address- my...

Tags: E-mail, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Google Inc., health care, dashboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Disposable iPhone apps

Is Oh Noes Done Yet?Well. Isn't that like books, with the exception that, for the near-term, the one retailer welcomes self-published works?Every where I look, one has to write the thing. One has to wrap it and ship it. And one has to market his or her butt off to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, app store business model, developer

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Microsoft puts an 18-month cap on Windows 7 to XP downgrades

Microsoft puts an 18-month cap on Windows 7 to XP downgradesIf written to MS guidelines they should.[i]Existing applications should remain compatible for many years from their first development.[/i]The problem is too many applications didn't follow Microsofts guidelines. Perhaps Microsoft should offer a binary compatability guarantee like the one Sun offers.NightmareThat...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., XP-downgrade, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, service pack, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-06-18

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc power

Coal ash:coal=radioative waste:nuc powerI love it when senatorsact as innocent bystanders to the problems they create.Total Socialist Control.......Socialist Government is going to take over Healthcare, GM, Chrysler, Energy, Taxing you for everything.Yet destroy the entire economic infrastructure knowing it will cause massive unemployment and continue to print fake money by...

Tags: Socialist Government, coal, ash, socialist, coal ash

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Little Snitch tattles on trojans

Little Snitch tattles on trojansSo no trojans in non pirated OS X software?Good to know. I just found a screen saver with dancing elves made by a company called "l0Rd$ 0f d37TH" and it seems neato. I'm installing it now and... what the? Hello? Something odd goinRE: Little Snitch tattles...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Apple Mac OS X, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Unlike Vista, Little Snitch, trojan horse, UAC

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

U.S. Mac sales down 1%

U.S. Mac sales down 1%Tapped out upper end?Until we get to the tail end of the current recession which could be 12 months or more away, there's no way to tell if reduced spending is the only cause. One can argue that Apple products, while at the top of usability...

Tags: Desktops, Sales strategy, Notebooks, Mac Desktop, U.S. Mac sale, recession, Apple Inc., desktop, Apple Macintosh, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?

Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?Hmmm... Agree in poart, not others.Over all sales are going to drop, no way the entire world can be in this situation without it hurting MS too. As far as online, I don;t think its...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, PC

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Steve Ballmer live from Australia

Steve Ballmer live from Australiaoh noes.......let's not and say we did, eh ballmer...note the use of the lower case first letter in ballmer :/I'd love to watch itjust to amuse myself at the way he'll talk about things as if they thought up what is going on around them...

Tags: Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit

Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploitText or graphicremember there use to be a link on web pages if you wanted text only or graphics.that should be put back in placein the wild?"Zero-day" means that the exploit was being used in the wild before a patch was released...

Tags: Web site development, Web browsers, exploit writer, Clickjacking, exploit

Discussion threads 2008-09-25

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'

House approves telecom immunity in 'compromise'Bush finally managed to do in the Constitution and Bill of RightsIn one blow, done, gone, end of the representative republic that used to be the United States of America.Long live the Republic of Socialist Horrors I Totalitarianism.God Save the World Now.How exactly is this...

Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, telecom immunity, government, Shrub Administration

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Oh Noes, April Fools has lost it's mojo

I remember when April Fools rolled around, things remained in a state of normalcy, with the odd joke you really couldn't tell if it was real or not. Today, April Fools has taken a turn for the worse. Everybody and their dog at Google has spent the last...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Google Australia, Social Networking, Channel Management, Internet, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-04-01

iPhone 2.0 firmware hacked

iPhone 2.0 firmware hackedHilarious, isn't it? ntntGee . . .That certainly didn't take long . . . .Of course it has been...Did anyone expect anything different?What? Open to Anything? Do Anything? Get Out!Nokia: [url=http://nseries.com/open]Open to Anything[/url]Get an N95 and experience the way things should be--no hacking or jail breaking...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, firmware, Apple Inc., security, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2008-03-14

Microsoft to sync its future Windows client and server fixes and updates

Microsoft to sync its future Windows client and server fixes and updatesDoes this mean we get to wait even LONGER for fixes?It's bad enough as it is.OH NOES!!I bet Skype is trembling in their knees at this announcement. ;)Vista SP2 will equal Server 2008 SP2There will be no Server...

Tags: Servers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Corp., NT-kernel, server, future Windows client, Microsoft Windows Vista, kernel

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

(Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops)

(Photos: Nigerian students power up their laptops)What an excellent programWhen you consider the committment these people make to education, it kind of saddens me because of educational complacency in the US. All of those dedicated to this program deserve kudos.great stuffhopefully just the startWonder how long it will takefor them...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Food & Beverage, laptop computer, computer, Nigerian student, food, photograph

Discussion threads 2007-04-11

Some pictures from MacWorld 2007

Some pictures from MacWorld 2007Oh NoesYou at MacWorld, I am surprised some of the Zealots didn't try to take your head off while you were there.Hope you had a good time, hopefully I will get to attend some year.Apples and orangesAs usual, you are comparing things that aren't related.If you...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Game players, Apple Inc., Macworld, TV, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Xbox, Apple TV, Microsoft Xbox 360

Discussion threads 2007-01-12

Zombies continue to chase Windows PCs

Zombies continue to chase Windows PCsZombies continue to chase Windows PCs[i]Microsoft introduced the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool in January last year. An updated version of the program ships monthly with Microsoft's security updates. The tool aims to identify and remove prevalent malicious software from PCs.[/i]At least Microsoft is taking...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Desktops, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, MSFT, PC, zombie, Windows PC, Microsoft Corp., malware

Discussion threads 2006-10-24

Firestorm 2 (Mac)

Originally part of Sound Affects, this free version of Firestorm packs some serious punch. Hold on to your cache, cause if your computer doesn't meet the minimum system requirements then this is guaranteed to suck. Oh noes, what's up with that? This is actually the first version of Firestorm and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-10-04