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Open source and the blame game

When the boat is sinking you grab the first liferaft available. If the captain of the raft dithers you grab another raft. Amazing how so many people would rather drown. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Game, Raft, Times, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-29

GEOTEC Office 9.2 SP1 (Windows)

GEOTEC Office is a package for geotechnical and design engineering. It contains the following programs: ELPLA -Analyzing footings, rafts, piled rafts, pile groups and foundation groups. ELPLA considers different soil models, especially the three dimensional continuum model that considers any number of irregular layers. It is able to handle the...

Tags: Raft, GEOTEC Software, GEOTEC Office, ELPLA, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2007-03-27

Additional Resources

Dell releases BIOS updates to fix underperforming/overthrottling notebooks

Dell has released a raft of BIOS updates which should solve the underperformance/overthrottling issues that some users have been experiencing. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Notebook, Dell Computer Corp., BIOS Update, BIOS, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-12-02

Apple hints at possible pen-based tablet

Pretty much anything that includes the words "Apple" and "tablet" in the same sentence is going to get the attention of the blognoscenti, but when it comes from Apple itself, people pay attention. Exhibit A is 9 to 5 Mac's piece today about a patent...

Tags: Patent, Handwriting Recognition, Termination, Apple Inc., Ink Manager, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-11-12

Zune HD firmware 4.3 brings with it 3D gaming

Last week Microsoft released firmware 4.3 for the Zune HD which not only bought with it a raft of minor bug fixes and improvements but also support for "upcoming" 3D game ... well, those games are now available, and they're free. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: 3D, Microsoft Zune, Firmware, Games, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Better together: Engineering Collaboration at the Heart of Breakthrough Capability with VMware software and Intel hardware

Intel has a well established rhythm of technology innovation - and a lot of really smart architects who know a thing or two about cpu design - but we get innovative ideas from the outside, too. Over the years of the VMware alliance, Intel has received many requests for small...

Tags: Software, Collaboration, VMware Inc., CPU, Intel Hardware, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

White papers 2009-10-01

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Quad-core CPU for $99 ... from AMD

The Athlon II X2 comes with 1MB...L2 per core. It's too bad they didn't use 1MB per core for the X4.2M divided by 4 is 512KNope, it comes with 2MB of L2, divided by 4 cores gives us 512K per core.Adrian has it right.BradDid you read his Post?He said "Too...

Tags: Network technology, money saving, quad-core CPU, Adrian, DDR3, motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., chip, HyperTransport, DDR3 RAM, CPU

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Composer 7.1 (Mac)

Composer 7.1 is a utility that creates packages. Part of the Casper Suite-the only client management application developed exclusively for the Mac platform-as well as being available as a standalone application, Composer 7 lets users point-and-click their way through the package creation process. In doing so, it creates software and/or...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Package, JAMF Software, Composer 7.1, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-14

Hey, Amazon! Are you stupid?

Edtech, or Googletech?Chris, is it possible for you to write an article where you are not excessively gushing about Google? We get the point already. For you, the sun rises and sets with Google. Google is master of the universe. Google can do no harm.As a...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

How a software engineer tried to save his sister and invented a breakthrough medical device

A CREDIT TO ENTREPENEURSThis is the stuff of history; Thomas Edison, Alexander Fleming, John Logie Baird.I lost my sister to cancer at age 36yrs so he has my heartfelt sympathy and utmost admiration Robert Goldman is the kind of person who should be nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine.RE:...

Tags: software, GoldMan, breakthrough medical device

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?

Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?Define "making money"If a unit in and of itself loses $1 billion a year, but another unit benefits by $$3 billion a year as a result of that unit's existence, do you close it? And how do you make such measures reliably?Example: Internet Explorer.If...

Tags: Workforce management, He/She/It, Microsoft Corp., layoff, future layoff

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

IT Security: Context is King

One of the big blockers for enterprise collaboration uptake is ediscovery and compliance - and depending on the business entity the familiarity, processes and confidence in dealing with legal issues. This is a broad topic, but you can simplify it down into two broad camps: companies that are set up...

Tags: IT Security, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Strategy, Security, Internet, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-20

HP Pavilion Slimline s5120y

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Back-to-School roundup, covering specific fixed configurations of popular systems that can be found in retail stores.You might find it tempting to look at the HP Pavilion Slimline s5120y's $450 price tag and consider it a bargain. Think...

Tags: Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., Slimline, Pocket Media Drive, HP Pavilion

Product reviews 2009-07-13

U.S. government whistle-blower on global warming

Dr. James Hansen is at it again: criticizing his employer for not being serious about dealing with global warming. The proposed Waxman-Markey bill--not even sure to get through the Senate--is already too namby-pamby. For Hansen's exact words, click here. Hansen blames the gutless American government's approach/avoidance of...

Tags: U.S. Government, Global Warming, James Hansen, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-09

iPod nano cases spotted with camera holes

Earlier today I wrote about the discovery of silicone case for the iPod touch that feature a hole in the top rear -- largely believed to accommodate a new camera similar to the one found in the iPhone 3GS. We can now add the iPod nano to...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Camera, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Ready for a rise?

Ready for a rise?Clear-eyed?*snort*More clear-eyed than the U.S., certainlyWe still can't convince the old-farts running the U.S. that climate change is real, much less get them to deal with ramifications like rising sea levels. Our lawmakers all have their heads too far up the butts of rich special interest groups...

Tags: sea level, Spelling Error

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

8 Things to Know About Using ECM for Regulatory Compliance

I’m here to talk some more about that fun little acronym I know you all are so fond of: ECM. Enterprise Content Management can be a great tool to meet the compliance requirements of your business, but like all things, you need to understand it to do it right. I’m...

Tags: Audit, Compliance, Regulation, Regulatory Compliance, Enterprise Content Management, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-06-29

How to Choose an SMS Provider

In a world where communication methods are changing at an ever-growing pace, SMS has proven a fast and reliable way to deliver information to anyone anywhere for fifteen years. In the last few year a raft of applications harnessing the strength of this simple yet powerful messaging protocol have proliferated....

Tags: Messaging, SMS, TynTec, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-06-22

Can Oracle give Java a boost (and monetize it better)?

Can Oracle give Java a boost and monetize it better?A couple of things I'm not understanding....Groovy is Java. Spring is Java. Ruby and the like I can understand. But if I'm not mistaken there is a proposal to even add Groovy directly into Java. Am I missing something here or...

Tags: Programming languages, Java, Oracle Corp., Groovy

Discussion threads 2009-06-11