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- The great server-centric personal computing experiment begins
- The great server-centric personal computing experiment beginsSounds good! One tip...I'd consider Ubuntu 8.04.1 server edition, instead of 8.10. Nothing like a rock-steady LTS for a server...If you need support for very new hardware: on January 22, version 8.04.2 will be released. Not only will this point release contain all accumulated...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-30
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- Netbooks vs. Notebooks - Consumers are confused
- Netbooks vs. Notebooks - Consumers are confusedI coulda told you that with no survey needed.I understand the portability aspect of the netbook but the performance hit is terrible. If they are used for simple interNET tasks like the name suggests they are fine. I cannot tell you how...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- When Woz speaks who listens?
- Attendees of the Macworld Expo San Francisco next week will get the chance to see Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the show floor. A company that makes tablet versions of the MacBook hopes that his appearance in the booth will help sell the product. Good luck to them with this...
- Blog posts 2008-12-31
- The great server-centric personal computing experiment begins
- So tonight I brought home a spare desktop and set up a home server. The goal is to make it easy to use simple, cheap devices like the Acer Aspire One for everyday computing, but still have access to more powerful resources for the heavy lifting. As I...
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1
- We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post. Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureBring in the ClonesIn that timeframe, there was no way I could afford any computer from a brand name (I didn't have Billy's rich parents and had to work at Burger King to feed my tech habit). The two things that made my choice easier...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-14
- Microsoft to stop selling boxed copies of Money Plus
- Microsoft to stop selling boxed copies of Money PlusNew ModelsWith Microsoft working on cloud software and subscription-based models... this may help with transition to the new. Further, this would be a great product to link up with Mesh.It's about recurring revenue and maintenanceThe software market has shifted from selling software...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5
- I've attended every Office 2.0 conference so far and found it to be a fascinating cutting edge experience, and a source of both great contacts and intriguing and useful information. Office 2.0 is a collective experiment organized every year in San Francisco, CA and aimed at discovering...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86CoolthreadsI'm beginning to doubt whether Coolthreads is really all it's cracked up to be. The problem is the performance boost seems to assume that you have a very parallelizable problem. In practice, this means you either have code that has been intentionally written to...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Stop the botnets!
- This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against malicious traffic which has become today a billion-dollar 'shadow industry.' As one of 'the most menacing aspects of botnets is that they can go largely...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Google's OpenSocial: What it means
- Google's OpenSocial: What it meansHuge Opportunity for Business Social NetworksI was struck by how many business related partners they are. It made me think about the unique opportunity business social networking has with an open API like this:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/ubiquitous-social-networks-for-business/Google outsmarts Microsoft againWhy bank on a single social network, when you...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- The quad-core project - Looks like I made some good parts choices
- The quad-core project - Looks like I made some good parts choicesBuild it Yourself All the WayWhy buy some one else's when you can build your own for less. Granted, at least they used higher end parts as opposed to the low end cheap systems. I have...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- The Desktop Virtualization Diaries (prologue): The Good, the Bad, and the horribly Ugly
- Quite frankly, I have no idea whether I'll make it to entry #2. But the trials and tribulations of virtualizing my desktop system have been too many to chronicle in one blog post and it only seems fitting to break it up into a series of posts. I'm doing this...
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Harshest warning yet issued on climate
- Harshest warning yet issued on climateWhat a load of crap.Seriously- Aren't these the same scientists who predicted the coming ice age three decades ago, and who can't accurately predict Sunday's temperature on Friday evening? And despite their track record of being wrong, we're supposed to believe they're right THIS TIME,...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-06
- My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 16
- My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 16Other DevicesYou mention that MP3 players, cell phones, and other devices can hold you to windows. While they may be true for a few individual devices, over all I have not found many that will not work on a Mac. iSync works amazingly well...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-26
- Googling YouTube
- I want to start this comment on Googles $1.65 Billion buyout of YouTube by admitting a personal grudge here. Back in 2001 some friends of mine were trying to start a web video company - heres part of something I wrote at the time: The suggested amendments to...
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- Will Google ever build another billion dollar business?
- Google’s oversized ambitions recall the 1980’s financial credo “greed is good.” Four hundred percent stock appreciation over two years, 50%+ search market share, 77% quarterly revenue growth, 25% profit margin…and Google wants more.Google repeatedly confirms its intention to obtain and control all the world’s information, including individuals’ personal information; Google...
- Blog posts 2006-09-11
- Google pledges $900 million for MySpace honors
- Google pledges $900 million for MySpace honorsThe Population That Marketers Want to ReachHow did Microsoft miss on this one? Argh. These MySpacers are the generation that buys things. Google got a bargen and what the heck Fox has done good here, might as well take our hats off and say...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- NASA handler who muzzled scientist resigns; faked college degree
- NASA handler who muzzled scientist resigns; faked college degreeSuffixing theories with "theory"Deutsch's cut on putting "theory" after "Big Bang" is an excellent idea that I heartily applaud--no scientist not bound by economy of words would disagree. And surely we can applaud with equal enthusiasm the appending of the phrase "--a...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-09
- The Unix business architecture
- Today's IBM mainframe represents the continuation of a computing revolution that began with the application of ideas from the 1877 Jacquard loom to the 1890 US census. That evolution has focused on counting things, usually after the fact, usually within Finance, and usually cost justified on clerical replacement. The other...
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
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