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Not so fast with that coal plant

The "Washington Post" today looks at the growing political and legal opposition to coal-burning plants for electricity generation in the U.S. Seems coal has a reputation as a source of air pollution and greenhouse gases. Hmm. One leading opponent of the rush to coal-burning is...

Tags: China, Coal, Opposition, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-03

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The end run around the OS is underway

The end run around the OS is underwayNot exactly correct...The Dell's and others that do this wonderful magic use something called a "hypervisor" which is a fancy word for "Small Operating System". The OS most of them load up is.... drumroll please... Linux. They load up a limited...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfareTaiwanI think an impetus for Red Flag Linux wqas the inability of Beijing to secure Windows against Taiwan, but my memory might be faulty.Cyberwar? You must be kiddind...I thought that word "war" is applicable for some serious events that have catastrophic consequences...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Hacking, Saakashvili

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Thermopylae, clone nightmare

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

More nucs is good nucs? British PM thinks so

More nucs is good nucs? British PM thinks soYou need to add a question entryWhen environmentalists are finally ignored in lieu of real solutions that actually work.And, of course you found an "expert" who claims nuclear is not viable. I can find an "expert" who will tell you UFOs really...

Tags: nuc, British PM

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs

On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam – and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...

Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-01

WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al Gore

WALL-E: Steve Jobs meets Al GoreApple's Jonathan Ive helped with robot designApparently Apple's lead designer Jonathan Ive helped with the design of the futuristic robot Eve.Fortune magazine:" A call from Stanton to Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple's behind-the-scenes design guru, driving across the San Francisco Bay to...

Tags: Robots, Noah, Wall-E, Stanton, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Start-up sues Google over e-mail switching tool

Start-up sues Google over e-mail switching toolSo much for "do no evil"tisk tiskyou cant sign confidentiality statements with a company for a specific product, then create similiar code that works and say.. "i made this on my own". Bet google just buys this company.Prior art......Importing data from one email...

Tags: thing people, tool, e-mail, Google Inc., prior art

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Lessons from Firefox 3

Lessons from Firefox 3Firefox 3 is OK - IE7 still better!Comparing Firefox 3 with IE7, I find that IE7 displays web pages much better. I'm looking forward to IE8 when it becomes available. As usual, Mozilla Firefox is still a novelty.movingwow, we have an edit button now! Moving my...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, FF3

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?

Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?just a technicality......but this isn't law in Canada, yet. It's just a bill at this point. Carry on...it will never beThis farce of a bill is the single most anti-consumer thing i ever saw in Canada.You can copy legally own media...

Tags: Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, northern DMCA, IS Canada, new Copyright Law, DMCA, copyright law

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

VeriChip going away?

VeriChip going away?THANK GOD this died an early death...Its good to see that consumers will NOT tolerate the actions of big business trying to implant needless items in us.Consumers didn't kill VeriChipIt was killed by costs. And by changing technology. While costs were increased by organized consumer opposition (as noted...

Tags: VeriChip

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

TW, Cable test bandwidth limits for P2P

Cable companies to Internet users: game on! You want unlimited P2P usage? Well, you can pay more for it. Alternatively, you're getting pushed into the slow zone. How do you like them neutrality apples? From Reuters: Time Warner Cable said it...

Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Network Management, Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Network Administration, Cable, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo

Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...

Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Sabotage and the cost of change

Once upon a time, not so long ago and in a province well north of most of my American readers, I developed a complete membership management update strategy for a provincial political party. The key to the plan was ultimately the replacement of the four part paper card issued to...

Tags: Card, Client-server, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Schmidt: Google's social ad strategy is "trial and error"

Google's strategy for monetizing the social web is one of "trial and error", says CEO Eric Schmidt in a recent interview with German publication FAZ.net. "That's the way we do it at Google". When asked specifically about Google's arrangement with MySpace in which the search giant has...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Advertisement, Mobile, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-28

EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap

EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gapBlimey.[i]The European Union will investigate Microsoft’s support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office.[/i]If the Commission decides that Office support of ODF doesn't increase customer choice, that would imply that they potentially might prevent Microsoft from supporting this ISO standard?At the same time,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Ideology and self interest won't win health care debate

Ideology and self interest won't win health care debateAmazingly enough...ideologically driven it may be, but I think what Armey proposes is essentially correct, though I would combine it with a strong does of patent reform to drive down costs.That said, I think the basic approach to any sort of legislation...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, tax

Discussion threads 2008-05-15

Is electronic tracking for students a good idea?

A pilot program in Texas is testing GPS tracking devices to combat truancy in chronic offenders who might otherwise be sent to detention facilities. According to an article in the New York Times free registration required, not only does the program seem to be working, but also doesn't seem...

Tags: Student, GPS, Leadership, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-13

The Leo Apotheker Legacy Starts Now

The news that SAP is delaying the roll-out of Business ByDesign – and that its last quarter, while decent, failed to meet analyst estimates – is the perfect preamble to this post: With Leo Apotheker slated to assume to mantle of SAP by the end of the year, his...

Tags: On-demand, SAP AG, TCO, Sales, Leo Apotheker, Leo, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Another reason Microsoft should give up on Yahoo: Morale

Companies at least publicly traded ones are beholden to shareholders. But they also are beholden to their employees. And while most Softies are afraid to state for the record that they think Microsoft should abandon its takeover of Yahoo, that opinion is a real and prevailing sentiment among many in...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Windows, Professional Development, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Career, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-28