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- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Roger Maduro right doesn't look like a hero. Like most heroes he never sought the status, just tried to do right and shine a light on what works. What works, he thinks is VistA, and the Veterans Administration system that computer code supports. In shining the light...
- Tags: Agency, Hero, U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Computer, Roger Maduro, VA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
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- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold Edition (exe)
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold can change your voice in real time to sound like the voice of a young or old man, a sexy woman, the lovely voice of a baby, or an infinite number of variations. With these altered voices, you can complete any audio project such as...
- Tags: Software, Voice, Avnex, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Achieving magical results in IT
- Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates
- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone ratesYou should see how much Rogers charges for cableThey do like their high prices. With the Canadian market being only 10% of the size of the US market, the level of competition between sellers is not the same as the US.For that matter, you should...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Rogers, Rogers iPhone, Canucks, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- Critical security alert issued for Tor
- If you use Tor for anonymity/privacy on the Web, you might want to pay attention to this critical security announcement from project leader Roger Dingledine. According to the advisory, a known vulnerability in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution's OpenSSL package could allow an attacker to figure out private...
- Tags: OpenSSL, Security Alert, Tor, Ssl/Tls, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Low-risk offenders' wives stand by their men
- Low-risk offenders' wives stand by their menLow-risk offenders' wives stand by their menUnfortunately, states routinely put the larger percentage of sex offenders into tier III which should only reflect the MOST dangerous and reflect the recidivist rate for that state. Recidivist rates over all, is in the single digits. Labeling...
- Tags: offender, residency restriction, Low-risk, Low-risk offender, wive, sex offender
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Why James Bond looks so healthy
- According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to prove that 'shaken, not stirred' martinis are different. They'll show the difference on June 4, 2008, during the Cheltenham Science...
- Tags: James Bond, Food & Beverage, Investment, Manufacturing, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Churchill Club podcast: Top tech trends
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts outline the top 10 tech trends. The panelists include: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures Josh Kopelman, Managing Partner, First Round Capital ...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- An idea about teaching Linux to the MCSE community
- Frequent contributor Roger Ramjet has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about path and naming standardization across a multi-vendor distributed Unix architecture. If I understand him correctly, he believes that it's both possible and sensible to build what amounts to a standardization harness - a set of scripts...
- Tags: MCSE, Standardization, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Strategic Planning, Open Source, Software, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?...And people wonder why I hate corporations so much! Here is a perfectly functioning system of which I am a member of as a disabled veteran and now because of greed, we have to have our services jeopardized?!This is total bullsh!t and exactly...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Maduro, Cerner Corp., health care
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- A successful Veterans Administration is dangerous
- A successful Veterans Administration is dangerousAgreedIt has not always been so. In years past the VA did an outstanding job, and it remains a very cost-effective provider. The question is whether its recent mismanagement is fixable, or endemic to its nature.Do you know any Vets receivingmedical care? I help...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Veterans Administration, medical care
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- A successful Veterans Administration is dangerous
- The Veterans Administration health system must be destroyed. Or at least hobbled. Why? The VA is a single payer system, the only such system in the U.S. If it does, as Roger Maduro suggests, provide better care than Medicare, for one-third the cost, it is a serious...
- Tags: Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely
- The International Organization for Standardization ISO  has not received a formal appeal of its approval of Office Open XML as a standard, but it looks more unlikely with each day that passes. To date, there have been "no appeals and I have no way...
- Tags: ISO, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?
- On April 7, Google took the wraps off of more than many had expected: Not just a hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform, known as Google App Engine. Google App Engine, which Google announced at its CampFire One developer event on April...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, BigTable, SimpleDB, SSDS, Databases, Web Services, Storage, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- I've been fired!
- I've been fired!He did say at the end :"I know this: yesterday wasn’t April fool’s - and tomorrow maybe somebody will think this is funny - but right now it’s about 1:15 in the morning and come 8:30 - I’ll be on the phone to the lawyers."Yes, smells fishy to...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Roger, April Fool, job
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Still no word: ISO to announce results of OOXML vote Wednesday
- The International Standards Organization won't make an official announcement about whether Office Open XML OOXML will be a standard until Wednesday -- and perhaps for good reason. Final voting and reporting on the proposal was expected Monday but the ISO said it decided to hold...
- Tags: Irregularity, ISO, Norway, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- What value in medical endorsements?
- What is the real impact of a celebrity endorsement for a medical product? We all remember the Robert Jarvik contretemps. I thought it was fair that a man whose device was made nearly obsolete by a medicine might do ads for it, but others disagreed, since he...
- Tags: Advertisement, Endorsement, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Is open source anti-American?
- While Matt Asay and Paula Rooney chose the meat in Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst's remarks at OSBC, others chose to play the political game of gotcha. So, is open source anti-American? Whitehurst admitted that open source advocates in the developing world benefit from an...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
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