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Stop coddling the computer illiterate

I was listening to NPR on the way home yesterday when they aired a story regarding teenagers coming of age in this digital world, and how this is the first generation of children to have mastered current technology before their parents did. It went on to describe all the horrible...

Tags: proudly, competence, technology-ignorance

Blog posts 2006-08-09

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Are you a Dog or a Cat?

Are you a Dog or a Cat?You proved my point.People do not like change unless they are the implementors.Dog/Cat/FishI liked the way you put that! vista is a pretty configuration but it is a new learning venture for us all..I'm a dog/cat person...who also loves fish..hehehehThey moved everything around......to create...

Tags: productivity, vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for me

Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meI have to agree: The flat Earth thing is funny.Unlike Vista, no one changed the Earth in an attempt to prove the common belief wrong.Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meTom Servo!Crow!The ads aren't that bad, it's just retro.RE: Microsoft'si mentioned all...

Tags: microsoft windows vista (longhorn), app£e, microsoft windows vista, advertisement, flat-earth, microsoft corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

iCrash: Buggy apps tarnish iPhone 2.0 appeal

Installation problems, buggy applications, lack of trial versions, and a mediocre selection have dampened initial enthusiasm for Apple's brand new iPhone App Store. Not counting punishing server load when the store debuted last week, some users like me have encountered a series of obstacles to get apps...

Tags: apple iphone, app, engineering, digital music, personal technology, ed burnette

Blog posts 2008-07-20

At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warming

It is going to be announced today (Friday, when the news cycle goes into snooze control) that the Environmental Procrastination Agency will take no further action on auto emissions or greenhouse gases during the George W. reign. In fact, they will seek much more comment and public input in...

Tags: president, government, greenhouse, u.s. environmental protection agency, global warming, healthcare, harry fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Runescape graphic glitches

Spending the American July 4th holiday with friends and family is a wonderful break from the daily routine. Imagine my surprise when a lively 12-year old proudly showed me the graphics problems he discovered in Runescape, an online game. According to this young bug-hunter: It all...

Tags: graphics, michael krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors cool

Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep processors coolCustomer use patterns...Translated, "We didn't plan for customers to actually turn their notebooks on."What a crock!I think this article......uses "impacted" far too many times. The correct word is "affected".RE: Nvidia whacked over defective notebook chips; Offers driver to keep...

Tags: semiconductors, network technology, notebooks, processors, processor, nvidia corp., chip, notebook, defective notebook chip, offers driver, notebook chip

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures

Stay with me here readers, I'm stringing two stories about McAfee together here, a little out of the ordinary, so I hope it makes sense.  If you aren't interested in the tech details of which there are very little, please do read for a good laugh. Network World reported...

Tags: mcafee inc., organize-it, pci, phishing, cyberthreats, marketing research, storage, hardware, security, spam and phishing, marketing, nathan mcfeters

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise apps

Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise appsTruth, Google will never win the entrprise.Sure they make products/services that geeks or light/occasional users can use, but no way will they win the enterprise over."Open Source as Free Software" = FUBARNo Management, No Structure, No DisciplineEveryone gets to do their own thing.This the...

Tags: google servers, google inc., microsoft corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Financial GPS (zip)

So many people today cannot answer the following questions: Where does my money go? Will I make it through the month? I want to retire-will I run out of money before I run out of life? Whatever your situation, Financial GPS can help. The simple set up will allow you...

Tags: financial, video, ameriprep solutions, corporate communications, financial accounting, marketing, finance

Software downloads 2008-06-18

Taking on Excel, and Winning, Sort Of.

It's common knowledge that, when trying to find a true market leader in mid-market enterprise software, the "other" category is by far the largest, despite the efforts of Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Lawson, Infor, and pretty much any vendor with dreams of high volume sales to capture true market dominance. ...

Tags: enterprise software, microsoft excel, microsoft office, office suites, software, joshua greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?

Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?And then they complain that Vista is slow[i]why I get e-mail and comments from people proudly listing the five separate security products they have running at all times. A couple of anti-spyware programs, antivirus software, a firewall, and invariably one extra layer...

Tags: cyberthreats, spyware, adware & malware, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), firewalls, viruses and worms, security sale, malware, security, microsoft windows vista

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic?

In this month's CIO magazine, Bruce Schneier publishes one of his best columns ever. "How to Sell Security" starts with a common-sense argument about the psychological dynamics of why and how we as humans respond to sales pitches. It ends with this astute observation about why some computer security companies...

Tags: sales, security, ed bott

Blog posts 2008-05-26

McAfee partner isn't McAfee secure

I was over reading Russ McRee's blog today, and I've got to say, if McAfee's HackerSafe (or whatever they're calling it now) doesn't die off soon, then he'll be able to write a novel about their trials and tribulations. Apparently, McAfee authorized distributor Winferno.com is not HackerSafe......

Tags: mcafee inc., video, russ mcree, corporate communications, marketing, nathan mcfeters

Blog posts 2008-05-20

McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!

Not to beat a dead horse, that's already been beaten to death time and time again, but... Update 05/12/08: Russ McRee has actually just posted a story about "Why PCI DSS is Doomed". Came across this page on McAfee's site about their "McAfee Secure", "McAfee...

Tags: nathan mcfeters

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Questioning IT

Questioning ITThick vs Thin.The essence of what you're saying here is that thin client is better than thick client. You don't exactly use those terms and you throw in a bit of anti-Microsoft rhetoric, but focusing on the underlying principals as you correctly recommend, this is a thick vs thin...

Tags: tools & techniques, thin clients, servers, sun microsystems inc., software, thin client, security

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX

Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIXIBM, bah!I always considered AIX as the fork that broke UNIX' back. IBM was very late to the UNIX party, and instead of paying 5 bucks for a copy of SysV UNIX, they instead re-invented the wheel badly by re-writing UNIX...

Tags: operating systems, ibm aix, ibm corp., unix, linux, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-04-22

Why Symantec bought Appstream (not)

Of course we all know the real reason why Symantec is acquiring AppStream — a move announced yesterday at its user conference in Las Vegas. Virtualization is hot and Symantec is big in systems management. AppStream helps round out its offerings for packaging and streaming virtualized software. It's as simple...

Tags: software-as-a-service, symantec corp., appstream inc., on-demand, software as a service (saas), security, emerging technologies, phil wainewright

Blog posts 2008-04-10

The purloined benchmark

The purloined benchmarkOnce again you are ....... long on theory, and words, but short on substance. Frankly your assertion that the benchmark was slanted towards Windows is just an opinion. You have run no benchmarks that refute the claims. I challenge you to reference a study that...

Tags: operating systems, poe, murph, letter strategy, microsoft windows

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

The purloined benchmark

Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...

Tags: oracle corp., performance, memory, server, larry pedigo, microsoft windows, linux, operating systems, unix, open source, software, paul murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08