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- Are you a white hat, a black hat, or a gray hat?
- Are you a white hat, a black hat, or a gray hat?Love TRUE open source, hate the GPL.True open source without limitations and restrictions or encumberances.White HatsOpen source people are white hat hackers, motivated by ethics, thirst for knowledge and freedom.Microsoft advocates are only in it for the money, they...
- Tags: Open Source People, villain, open source
- Discussion threads 2005-09-10
- Welcome to Ask Bloggy
- Welcome to Ask BloggyThat's a great ideaOpen source people are knowledgeable and smart. They come up with creative ideas and are always helpful. Thanks to Murphy and Dana.I hope they have learnt a few things the past few monthsPaul and Dana were the most biased authors of articles at zdnet,...
- Tags: E-mail, Open Source People, Ask Bloggy, Dana
- Discussion threads 2005-08-07
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- Google opens up your profile to search engines
- Google has been letting people create profiles for a while now -- you can see mine here, and you can create yours here. Until today, your public profile that you created has remained hidden from search engines. Just about a half hour ago, Google added a...
- Tags: Profile, Google Inc., Search Engine, Search, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Is there a silver lining in cloud computing?
- VCs, developers, and IT users are looking for silver linings in cloud computing. Users are hoping to save on IT costs and get into production at a faster pace, developers are hoping for customers for cloud computing products and services, and VCs hope to make money on investments in cloud...
- Tags: Conference, Cloud Computing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Adobe ships fix for clickjacking, clipboard hijack threats
- Adobe has released Flash Player 10 Techmeme discussion with a chock-full of major security improvements, including patches and mitigation for at least five serious security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities covered with Flash Player 10 could allow an attacker to bypass the software's security controls, Adobe warned. ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Vulnerability, Macromedia Flash Player, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The final debate: Don't expect Obama and McCain to spar over net neutrality
- When John McCain and Barack Obama take the stage tonight for the final debate before the election, I expect to hear plenty about the economy, domestic issues and foreign policy. What I don't expect to hear about is net neutrality, wireless spectrum or broadband. In tech circles,...
- Tags: Wired Inc., Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Barack Obama, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Signs your company might soon go belly-up
- Before a company goes under, just about everybody knows it. And before everybody knows it, a bunch of people are already whispering in the corridors and around the water cooler, certain they see the writing on the wall. But what about you? Can you read the clues sprinkled like breadcrumbs...
- Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 80 ways to mix open source and business
- Open source and business do mix. In fact, according to Matthew Aslett at the 451 Group, you can mix open source into more than 80 combinations of development model, licensing model, and revenue schemes. Usually, people talk about three licensing combos: Proprietary, mixed, and "pure" open source...
- Tags: Aslett, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 360 degree virtual reality training RIA
- SitePoint and TechCrunch both have some information up about something that EffectiveUI is building for Intelligence Gaming. It's a video-based virtual reality training simulation for the army. It's one of the coolest RIAs that I've seen. The application uses a combination of high quality video and hardware to immerse people...
- Tags: 360-degree, Rich Internet Application, Video, Training, Hardware, Corporate Communications, Virtual Reality, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Open source and the bottom line
- It has been a hard decade for software billionaires and the next decade will be just as hard. Because the open source genie is not going back into the lamp. But net-net, the world is much better for it. The bottom line is in the eye of the beholder. by...
- Tags: Bottom Line, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn, Software, Matt Aslett, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Management, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Facebook and its ilk are for the enterprise too
- Companies are blocking Facebook, frowning on social networking and pretending that employees don't peruse information from Wikipedia and Delicious, but they should embrace those sites. In fact, it may make sense to bring them into the enterprise instead of buying some corporate social networking application. Gartner analyst...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Chances, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Workout for brain just a few clicks away
- Researchers at UCLA studied people doing Web searches and found that it sharpened the memories of middle-aged and older people. CHICAGO--Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers at the University of California...
- Tags: Brain, Internet Search, Internet, Search, Reuters, research, search, brain
- News items 2008-10-15
- ManageFusion 2008
- I'm sitting in the media workroom preparing for today's sessions at Symantec's ManageFusion 2008. The event is being held at the JW Marriott resort and conference center in the land of the Mouse, that is Orlando, FL. I'll be adding things to this post throughout the day as interesting things...
- Tags: Software, Application, Symantec Corp., Software Virtualization Solution Professional, Steve Morton, Security, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Conversation with Richard Muirhead of Tideway Systems
- Richard Muirwood, CEO of Tideway Systems, and I had our semi-annual chat the other day. Tideway's Tideway Foundation™is a management tool making it possible for organizations to get a clear understanding of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure supporting their business applications. They call what they do "dependency mapping." ...
- Tags: Tideway Systems, Richard, Productivity, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- The Future looks very Cloudy
- I've just attended the one day, highly-focused executive 'Cloud Summit' conference. The Cloud—used to describe everything from internet-based computing utilities to Software as a Service — was examined and its future impact explored within the highly appropriate venue of the Silicon Valley Computer History Museum. ...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Trend Micro Inc., Information Technology, Cloud, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Vroom! Was that an Obama billboard?
- So you made up your mind ages ago about the Presidential election and have moved on? Thought you'd check out on the horse race, name calling, innuendo and financial meltdown by kicking back with a little Xbox? Forget about it. Barack Obama has...
- Tags: Advertisement, Barack Obama, Games, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)
- In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession, as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...
- Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Child predators apparently don't use Gmail
- A few years ago, a piece of popular legislation made its way past Illinois lawmakers (including Barack Obama, who voted in favor of it, as well as teacher unions, public health officials, etc.) offering comprehensive education to school children that, among other things, would have taught them to identify and...
- Tags: Education, Google Gmail, Sex Offender, Safety Education, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?
- Facebook: Is there a Moore's Law for sharing?Why doesn't Zuckerberg get it???What Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand is that all the "clutter" like the shared status updates, the virtual gifts, the applications for good karma or whatever, was what made Facebook FUN.How can someone who invents a social networking...
- Tags: Facebook
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- The University of iTunes
- The ability, or rather art, of being able to be in bed, pyjamas on (or off, if that's your style), mug of tea in your hand, cuddled up all warm and snug, whilst being able to listen to their adoring lecturers waffle on in class about particle physics or some...
- Tags: University, Apple iTunes, Lecture, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
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