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- Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 2
- Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 2One of the reasons I prefer PCLinuxOS 2007I found that all media support was enabled out of the box.I installed it a long time agoI apologize, I thought even DVD support was there out of the box. I'm not in front...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, PCLOS, Ubuntu, win32 codec, DVD, Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC
- Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UACEd, You RockExcellent article; thanks a bunch.RE: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UACFinally! A journalist that spends time telling us how to make our vista experience better instead of endlessly trashing it.So many journalists think they are providing some "value" by telling...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UAC, Taming UAC, Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Rumors of Mac ultralight, tablet: Part 2
- Rumors of Mac ultralight, tablet: Part 2I am afraid you may be right in your initial assessment"These are products that many Mac users say they want. But will they really buy them?"If they will not even comment on the story, what are the odds enough excitement has been built to...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, job, ultralight, tablet, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)great post!I look forward to reading part 3, and hopefully seeing if Gutmann has the fortitude to actually acknowledge any of this.RE: Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)Eddie, Eddie, Eddie!!!You have waaaaaay too much time on your...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista DRM, Part 2, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2A new square for buzzword bingoEnterprise 2.0. I'll have to add that one to my buzzword bingo cards.RE: A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise, Part 2Great article. I'm part of team doing some research into new ways that...
- Tags: Channel management, Web 2.0, Web, checkpoint, Part 2
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology Part 2
- Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology Part 2It's all about controlIt used to be that you could install applications simply by copying them into a system, and adding the directory to the path if necessary. Microsoft broke things when they decided to go with the registry and all of the...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, virtualization technology, Part 2, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Torture Testing - The big case test - Part 2
- Torture Testing - The big case test - Part 2Great articleReally interesting and fun to read too. It really isn't based on failure mode analysis but was representative of how these cases behave after inadvertent torture they receive from road warriors. I would love to see more of these type...
- Tags: Torture-Testing, Part 2
- Discussion threads 2007-07-27
- Photos: The birth of the Lisa and Mac interface--Part 2
- Photos: The birth of the Lisa and Mac interface--Part 2I spy Chicago!:D The [i]Chicago[/i] font was the font used in system dialogs and titles for most of the original Mac OS. Apparently, it's been used since pre-Mac OS all the way through System 7.Was this the first time...
- Tags: Desktops, Mac Interface, Apple Macintosh, LiSA, Part 2, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-03-29
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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
- 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
- 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
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