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- Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note
- My budget administrator has made it very clear that I need to have all of my ducks in a row very early for the FY 2011 budget process. The nearly year-long delay that municipalities tend to feel in terms of budget crunches is certainly going to be on her...
- Tags: PC, Thin Client, Server, Thin Clients, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Protecting the Security of Education Records
- Academic and administrative computing systems used to be more isolated - either intentionally for security reasons or as a result of limited interconnectivity with other computers - but today it seems that nearly any information that an administrator, teacher, student or parent might need can be obtained through a network...
- Tags: DigiCert, Internet, Security
- White papers 2009-10-10
- The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
- ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents
- Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Do video games really make you fat, depressed?
- I don't know about this survey. I'll have to take it with a grain of salt. I'm sure there are plenty of overweight video gamers (we are the U.S.A. afterall), but it all depends on lifestyle and the video games being played. Take a look at the wii,...
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, game, Nintendo Wii, video game, video, baseball
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!
- This message is for kids, certainly, college students, and schools. File sharing is bad. I don't care where you stand on the modernization of copyright law - the courts have spoken and now the Department of Justice has spoken. According to a piece in PC Magazine (and...
- Tags: P2P File Sharing, P2P, Music, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- ThoughtManager for Education 2.78 (Mobile)
- ThoughtManager for Education is powerful outliner tool and educational database that allows teachers, professors, & students to create and organize the many ideas, lessons, tasks, problems, solutions, and assessment data found in education. Use ThoughtManager to: Manage classroom tasks, homework records, behavior logs, parent phone calls, etc. Create and organize...
- Tags: Education, Mobile, Outline, Template Feature, Time Management, Quality, Collaboration, Groupware, Productivity, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft Office
- Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft OfficeBecause it was the right tool for the job?Why, because you wrote seven paragraphs of unformatted text and then copy/pasted it to your content manager?Well, then by all means MS Office it is.That was convincing. notWishes versus needsOn the whole, Microsoft Office...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains high
- Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains highGeneralizations are always bad ;)I see Secunia quoted as saying "Failing to do so is playing Russian Roulette with your IT security ? it is only a question about time ? and luck ? when your system will be compromised."Yes, patching is...
- Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, PC, Secunia PSI, Secunia, insecure program
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Do you have a knowledge store? You should
- So I'm transferring domains in preparation for a switch to a new Internet Service Provider. GoDaddy and countless other domain hosts and web hosts make it really easy for you to switch to them. Obviously, it's in their best interest to do so. It's only easy, though,...
- Tags: Knowledge, Admin Account, Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Med students should be editing, not using, Wikipedia
- Med students should be editing, not using, WikipediaWikipedia will support thisJust to add to the story, I should point out that Wikipedians support schools and professors who want to integrate improvement of Wikipedia articles into their courses: see the Wikipedia page "Wikipedia:School and university projects" (shortcut "WP:SUP", if I remember...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Med
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Medieval secrets behind Microsoft research
- Medieval secrets behind Microsoft researchMicrosoft has not invented...anything. So their research is obviously nothing more than a money pit.While talking to two programmers last week the state of Microsoft's software came up. Mind you, both are Microsoft proponents and program for the Microsoft environment. What was interesting is at the...
- Tags: Research & Development, Linux, Operating systems, Directory services, Microsoft Corp., Medieval secret, Medieval, Microsoft Research
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of outrage?
- Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of outrage?More generalized solutions in the futureUM is clearly highlighting a market opportunity for iPhone/iPod Touch type devices and, at the moment, Apple appears to have the best overall solution.Ideally, in the future, more generalized solutions will be available that allow more vendors...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Web browsers, Digital media, Digital music, Mandatory iPhones, UM worth, outrage
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Netbooks are everywhere
- Netbooks are everywhereHardlyIn fact I hardly ever see my basement or even the house anymore.Nice try though.How many Linux netbooks did you see?compared to XP ones? Did you see any Windows7b adopters in a non-geek audience?Where? Not anywhere I've seenI've been plenty of places and yet to see but...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Live from the X2 Community Conference
- Live from the X2 Community ConferenceWe use eSISI'm thrilled that Hawaii moved from about a half-dozen different SIS database products [WinSchool, MacSchool, PowerSchool, etc.] to a common product in eSIS for student scheduling and transcript info. Unlike everywhere else in the country, we have one state-wide school district, and...
- Tags: Databases, eSIS, database, school district
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Live from the X2 Community Conference
- I'm at the X2 Development Corporation Community Conference for the next two days. It's an annual event that our SIS vendor puts on to bring together end users (power, guru, new, and otherwise) and, not surprisingly, build community among their growing cadre of school districts. Obviously,...
- Tags: District, Aspen Technology Inc., SiS, Help Desk, Call Centers, Process Improvement, Financial Accounting, It Operations, Quality, Business Operations, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Do they still need us more than we need them?
- Do they still need us more than we need them?Geek not NerdYou are mixing your names in your article and thereby invalidating your premise. Nerds are socially inept beings that may or may not be geeks. Geeks are technically gifted beings that may or may not be nerds....
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Nerds
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Even large institutions not immune to Conficker
- Even large institutions not immune to ConfickerWindows Software Update Service and NAPWSUS is what larger corporations, enterprises and larger institutions use to ensure stability of their platform.It basically lets the administrator decide which patches to apply when. He can also set up policies so that different patches are applied to...
- Tags: Patches, Operating systems, Network Access Protection, ONE-Way, patch management, large institution, network, administrator
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Student free speech vs. taxpayer rights
- While this is only peripherally related to educational technology, the recent uproar over free speech at the University of Maryland is worthy of consideration; it certainly appears that both sides of the debate have reasonable points that could have long-term impacts both IT and the humanities at the university (and...
- Tags: Speech, Information Technology, University, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Peer To Peer (P2P), Marketing, Management, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
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