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Daniel Robbins' long journey to Redmond

Many bloggers make a sport out of dismissing media companies, until one offers to start sending them checks. Without solid business models open source will suffer the same fate. Exhibit A is Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins, who joined Microsoft last month. Before you start in on the Star Wars jokes...

Tags: Robbins

Blog posts 2005-06-16

Gentoo head to "educate" Microsoft on open source

Gentoo head to "educate" Microsoft on open sourceRobbins is now dead to meFor some reason I just don't have the motivation to continue this day. This is pretty much as close to the Apocolypse as I want to get. Please make the hurting stop.Gentoo head to "educate" Microsoft...

Tags: Even Microsoft, Gentoo, Microsoft Corp., open source, Linux, Robbins

Discussion threads 2005-06-16

Additional Resources

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease 10.0.3 (Mobile)

This resource offers rapid, portable access to the most important facts and concepts from Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th Edition. Organised to parallel the parent text, this handy resource makes it easy for you to locate key information on the go. It is a superb source for...

Tags: Flowchart, Mobile, Tool, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-19

Make your next hire based on past behaviors, not personality

When you're interviewing job applicants, do you search for traits such as hardworking, confident, and dependable? In this brief introductory chapter from The Truth About Managing People, 2nd Edition, author Stephen P. Robbins explains that traits aren't necessarily good predictors of future job performance -- but past behavior is. ...

Tags: Trait, FT Press, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Book chapters 2008-07-03

Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (PADis) (Mobile)

Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Diseasepowered by Skyscape Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences Company This resource offers rapid, portable access to the most important facts and concepts from Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th Edition. Organised to parallel the parent text, this handy resource makes...

Tags: Mobile, Decision Support, Tool, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-20

The Many Flavors of Low-Power, Low-Cost FPGAs

For today's designers using programmable logic, determining the best device depends greatly on power, performance, logic, and I/O count design constraints. Like Baskin-Robbins, Actel believes designers should have a choice regarding the best low-power FPGA for their power- and cost-sensitive applications. For this reason, the company has built an attractive...

Tags: Actel, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-04-01

13 reasons IT hates metrics

13 reasons IT hates metricsYou Missed the Most Important Point...Management likes metrics because numbers on paper or PowerPointless makes it appear that they know what they're talking about, are meeting "goals" and showing "improvement". Unfortunately, IT metrics don't really measure anything meaningful. Take "Lines of Code" for example. On the...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?

Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?Actually......the lawsuits need to be settled and buried and current management must be removed (contracts bought out, if necessary) if SCO is to survive. The former and maybe the latter will take lots of money and this man appears to have it, but...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, IBM AIX/370, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., IBM AIX

Discussion threads 2008-02-14

Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (PADis™) (Mobile)

Pocket Companion to Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Diseasepowered by Skyscape Publisher: Elsevier, Inc. This resource offers rapid, portable access to the most important facts and concepts from Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th Edition. Organised to parallel the parent text, this handy resource makes it easy...

Tags: Flowchart, Mobile, Decision Support, Tool, Skyscape Inc., Data Mining, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-12-19

Linux is like ice cream -- too many flavors to choose

Remember when you could travel pretty much anywhere in America and there would always be a Howard Johnson's nearby?  (No?  Maybe most of you are too young to remember those days.)  Their tag line was "33 flavors of ice cream".  Often though, they were all out of everything...

Tags: Ice Cream, Choice, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marc Wagner

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Will open source desktops succumb to bloat?

I re-boot the Windows box here every few days. It's not all Microsoft's fault. It's the utility applications. They either grab memory let me maintain that spam list in the background or they grab processing let me check you for viruses while you work. And they never...

Tags: Desktop, Open Source, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-04

Singularity Summit 2007: On the machinations of the beautiful mind

Guest post: This weekend I am at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. About 800 people showed up to hear about the issues related to a future in which humans won't be the driving force in delivering scientific and technological innovations, eclipsed cognitively...

Tags: Machine, Chris Matyszczyk, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open source

Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open sourceROFLMAOHMSSTWS!!!Just in case you are curious:[B]R[/B]olling[B]O[/B]n[B]F[/B]loor[B]L[/B]aughing[B]M[/B]y[B]A[/B]rse[B]O[/B]ff[B]H[/B]olding[B]M[/B]y[B]S[/B]ides[B]S[/B]o[B]T[/B]hey[B]W[/B]on't[B]S[/B]plitBecause this is gotta be the funniest thing from Microsoft in ages! ]:)I think it's because of all the attention on OSI nowWith SugarCRM going to GPLv3pretty much guaranteed OSI approval and CPAL getting...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., GPL 3, open source, OSI

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

Some vacation. A week's worth of RSS feeds to read in a day. A lot of it about servers, AMD and Intel.

Of course, thats a rhetorical question. Sadly, I know Im not alone when it comes to the pile of work that you come back to after taking a vacation. You know. The one where, its so big that its depressing and youre not sure where to start? That pile also...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, General

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Best Practices for Exchange Server 2007

Is your business planning an Exchange Server 2007 migration? If so, you know it isn't easy. An Exchange migration is one of the most complex, labor-intensive projects your enterprise can undertake, and if not properly executed, will negatively impact your business, your users and your help desk. ...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server, Migration, Best Practice, Quest Software Inc., Exchange Migration, Help Desk, E-mail Servers, Call Centers, Groupware, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-02-28

Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits Microsoft

Linux power lunch: Debian founder visits MicrosoftPutting my Loverock Rosy Glasses on...(Pretending to be Loverock, since he's not here to post first and needed a proxy)Gee, I've been right all along even though I have refused to make my case. This is a clear cut example of Microsoft bailing...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Linux, Debian, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-20

My 42 minutes with Michael Dell

What do you do when youre the founder of the worlds biggest computer company and bloggers keep telling you how much your company sucks? If youre Michael Dell, you invite a bunch of those bloggers to a private meeting room at the Las Vegas Hilton for a wide-ranging, unscripted conversation.I...

Tags: Hardware, CES 2007, Dell Computer Corp.

Blog posts 2007-01-10

The Master Key System (Mobile)

The Master Key SystemTheMaster Key Systemfor Blackberry by Charles F. Haanel Longbefore Anthony Robbins, there was Charles F Haanel...TheMaster Key System is simply one of the finest studies in personalpower, metaphysics, and prosperity consciousness ever written.The Master Key System is a system that teaches the ultimate priciples,causes, effects, and laws...

Tags: Mobile, Blackberrybooks, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2006-10-16