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Snow Leopard's RTF, Rosetta handling: Beware of changed behaviors

So how are you guys enjoying ZFS?You know, the file system that you guys got in Snow Leopard? It wasn't dropped, was it?Live Mesh won't work eitherhttp://www.wmexperts.com/live-mesh-wont-work-snow-leopardToo bad. But as a bonus, I encourage you to watch the Walt Mossberg video at the end of the story. It is [b]hilarious!!!![/b]...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Snow Leopard, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Don't give up on Vista

Don't give up on VistaBut... but... but... Apple is a hardware company!At least that is what the zealots tell us. So why is Apple going after Vista? It would be like Ford telling you not to drink Pepsi! Unless... the zealots... gasp... were wrong?!?!One more thingAs bad as Vista may...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Elected Officials, advertisement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., riot, Apple Macintosh, PC

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

NY's 'Halo 3' launch was no riot, but it was close

NY's 'Halo 3' launch was no riot, but it was closeToo much hype over just a gameit may be a good game, but it's just a game, the Xbox 360 just a console (same for PS3 and Wii), and none of that will pay the rent, put food on the...

Tags: Games, game, Halo 3, riot

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

Star Rangers small demo (Windows)

Star Rangers is a space combat simulation set in the 23rd Century that involves strategic decision-making and non-stop action to protect your sector of frontier space from Taureg raiders. The Star Rangers originated when Lithium Jack Hayes broke up a riot on the LMC-1 Undertown mining colony in 2059 coining...

Tags: Colony, Riot, Interactive Magic, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2003-11-07

Additional Resources

RIOT 0.3.4 (Windows)

RIOT is designed to help you save images for web/email and other media with the best compression ratio and quality. RIOT allows you to preview the resulting image and the projected filesize to let you choose the best settings. The software features multiple graphic file formats. You can then save...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Lucian Sabo, Tools & Techniques, E-mail, Management, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-10-11

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Justifying non-removable batteries

Apple got the ire of its users when it released the original iPhone with a fixed, non-removable battery. The mainstream media and blogosphere myself included barbecued Apple for the omission as everything from flat out stupid  to a fatal blow to the success of the device. We see how far...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Battery, Engineering, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-13

The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 survey

The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 surveyVista after one year.....was about the same as XP after one year.http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=352Excellent article, Ed!Thanks for the great article! Just shows how biased many news sources there are on the 'net!unfreakingbelieveablethese writers are either terribly ignorant of how this stuff works or else...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 survey, Microsoft Windows Vista, adoption rate, Microsoft Windows, survey

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"

Where are the French code warriors when it's "Le Weekend?"Welcome to the Republic!In france, there is a strict 37 hour working week, and limitations on overtime.Even reality TV contestants are subject to such employement law: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8085015.stmOn the one hand I admire them for putting work in to perspective, on the...

Tags: Le Weekend

Discussion threads 2009-06-07

On eve of Tianamen anniversary, China blocks Twitter, Flickr, Bing

On eve of Tianamen anniversary, China blocks Twitter, Flickr, BingFrom BeijingIt sucks alright. When hotmail/live went down yesterday, I thought all my Chinese friends on Facebook were going to riot! It's back up now, but the other sites noted above are still down. Tonight at midnight many Chinese sites I...

Tags: Tianamen anniversary, Tianamen, Twitter, eve, Flickr, Bing

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

IBM & FXA Helping Assure Safety of Vietnam Seafood Exports

IBM's vision of a smart planet is proving to be an interesting intellectual platform from which to invite all actors to think how best to improve sustainability performance with smart use of IT. Yesterday's announcement hat tip James of a partnerhsip between IBM, FXA Group, the Vietnam Association...

Tags: Crisis Management, Farm, Food, Food & Beverage, IBM Corp., Ireland, James Farrar, Management, Manufacturing, Meat, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance?

Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance?Please someone SAVE us!Please will someone save us from our socialist gov...Pretty sad...Pretty sad when the only way open source can get anywhere in life is to hope that people are forced not to choose anything else.Pathetic, really...The socialist canard no...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, information technology, open source, socialist, government, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

My list of iPhone grievances

My list of iPhone grievancesWhy wait? You get all that with WM today!Sorry to hear your platform sucks so much. :(Question, JasonIf all your wishes were implemented, how big a hit do you estimate you'd take on battery life?RE: My list of iPhone grievancesI second EVERYTHING on that list. So...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Operating systems, Handhelds, Apple iPhone, iPhone grievance, grievance, Apple Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

RIOT Extended Plugin for IrfanView 0.3.0 beta (Windows)

This plugin has a extended functionalities of saving images for web/email/other media with the best compression ratio and quality is a difficult task if you don't have the right tools. Choosing the right format then choosing the right parameters are the key factors of smaller files. Previewing the resulting image...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Beta, Plug-in, Lucian Sabo

Software downloads 2009-02-18

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureTalk about B & GThe Balkanization and Gerrymandering organizational style of UNIX is the number 1 reason why UNIX never took off like Windoze did. Here's some examples:I worked at FORD on the UNIX server development team. We were responsible for developing...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, Unix, standards

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

Antibiotics before the infection?

Overuse has resulted in antibiotic resistant strains like MRSA running riot in hospitals, threatening patients. Now hospitals are being told to administer them absent infection. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Infection, Patient, Antibiotics, Security, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-02

The Toybox in 2008: A retrospective

It's been an incredible year. This blog was launched, ZDNet Reviews was overhauled, and a whole lot of news 'n' reviews came through The Toybox pipeline. And through it all, you readers were here with us. Here's a recap of the best stories: January:...

Tags: ASUS, Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Blu-ray, ZDNet Reviews, CES 2008, Josh, Andrew, Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flip Mino Camcorder, MSI, BlackBerry Storm, Barack Obama, CES 2009, Handhelds, Hd Dvd, Hardware, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-19

News to know: Google vs. Mozilla; SaaS renewals; Microsoft; Cloud computing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google delivers another blow to Mozilla WSJ: Google wants its own fast track Google ditching network neutrality? Google: Net neutrality and...

Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Windows, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Riot Tagging

Tokyo is currently the largest city of origin of Twitter messages in the world, more than twice that of second placed San Francisco and New York in the USA as of this summer. (Incidentally, while the Japanese Kanji language Twitter service, which only launched in April of...

Tags: Tagging, Twitter, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-14