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Is there really a market for an open source router?

Is there really a market for an open source router?Certainly isAs someone who installed Tomato on an old Linksys router, I think there is a market for this. Myself and others like me have looked on places like Craigslist to find the particular models that the open source firmware will...

Tags: Routers & switches, NETWORKING, Home networking, ShadeTree, Linkys Routers, open source, open source router, router, DD-WRT Firmware

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

Your Mileage May Vary - Is this the best we can expect from Vista?

Your Mileage May Vary - Is this the best we can expect from Vista?I think the phrase Your Mileage May Very ....... is appropriate because there is still hardware that the manufacturers have refused to or are late in providing drivers for. In the case of 32 bit Vista...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Scanners, Operating systems, ShadeTree, Microsoft Windows Vista, Mileage, Microsoft Windows XP, scanner

Discussion threads 2007-07-16

Limp Bizkit porn leak could lead to Hilton hacker

Limp Bizkit porn leak could lead to Hilton hackerBest Headline on ZDNET EverI can die now. Thank you ZDNET.Another Who Cares?ZDNet took some journalistic tips from Fox News.T Mobile easy to hack, apparentlyIf only Paris or Limpy had read Neil Gaiman's weblog:http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005/02/more-useful-stuff-nothing-about-being.aspAs a minor note, I'd not realised before looking...

Tags: Federal government, Hacking, SECURITY, government, ShadeTree, terror, Hilton Hotels Corp., FBI, hacker

Discussion threads 2005-02-25

Additional Resources

Net Applications data for July 08 released - Good month for Mozilla, not so good for Apple

Net Applications data for July 08 released - Good month for Mozilla, not so good for AppleThese...Net Apps, W3 Counter, XiTi and One Stat.It's not so much 'trusted', it's just I'm kind of loate to take one view of the world when the methodology behind how these sites count OS...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Mozilla Corp., HitList, Net Applications, Microsoft Internet Explorer, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logic

Bill Gates' web experience: Byzantine, idiotic logicFinally, The man gets a taste of his own chocolateThis has been one heck of a delightful tale, finally The Bill himself goes through the same hell the Windows users have to face every time that dreaded Update Icon enters the fray.Now let's see...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Channel management, Operating systems, Strategy, Now Let, Bible Story, Babel, Bill Gates, idiotic logic, web experience, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

The value in name patients

The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...

Tags: Friedman, patient, Kennedy, surgery

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

Consumer Reports: Apple leads in support - by double digits

Consumer Reports: Apple leads in support - by double digitsWOW!!!!Apple just slaughtered the competition. That speaks volumes in itself. Apple... leading by a huge double digit margin...BTW.. Shadetree, Non_Zealot, No_Axe, and Ye... A double digit is a number that is higher than any of you guys can count to.Paid for?Looks...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, nonZealot, Apple Inc., computer, Apple iPhone, Consumer Reports, stat

Discussion threads 2008-05-06

The view from stupid

It's my belief that all of us have a general responsibility to correct public falsehoods and act against both real and perceived injustices. In its application to IT what I think this means is that we - you, me, everyone - have a duty to correct mis-information when we see...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Kind, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Processors, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Trouble at OLPC? That's OK, they started the revolution

Trouble at OLPC? That's OK, they started the revolutionA Next-Gen Remake continues for valueThis has lived for many years, despite laughs from DC-area engineers and architects (i.e. as long as the power's on):http://tinyurl.com/5wqom3Doesn't matter what the student's budget is... it's about preferred communication and connectivity overall. Yet, a floated...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisons

Last week's discussions under my "purloined benchmark" title included this bit from ShadeTree: if you are comparing OS performance.... ... and you are not using the same hardware You cannot tell if the performance is related to the software or is merely a reflection...

Tags: Performance, Operating System, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-17

Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisons

Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisonsWhat's fair? PRICEMy former employer had a yearly workstation benchmark process. We would invite the big 4 UNIX workstation vendors (HP,Sun,IBM,SGI), give them the applications and test matrix - and let them tune their boxes to their hearts content. After the benchmark was complete, we looked...

Tags: Operating systems, Workstations, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, workstation, hardware, paging

Discussion threads 2008-04-16

The purloined benchmark

The purloined benchmarkOnce again you are ....... long on theory, and words, but short on substance. Frankly your assertion that the benchmark was slanted towards Windows is just an opinion. You have run no benchmarks that refute the claims. I challenge you to reference a study that...

Tags: Operating systems, PoE, Murph, letter strategy, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

The purloined benchmark

Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Memory, Server, Larry Pedigo, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08

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

The media center keyboard Apple should have made

The media center keyboard Apple should have madeYou left off the obvious choice.A Media Center PC which runs rings arround all of the choices you listed.perfectHalf way through this article I called my friend who has a mac desktop tower hooked to a HDTV in his living room. This...

Tags: Keyboards, Media Center PCs, Mice, dude, keyboard, Media Center PC, Apple Inc., media center keyboard, mouse, Logitech

Discussion threads 2008-03-14

Updated MacBook inherits Penryn processor

Updated MacBook inherits Penryn processorTruly impressive!Great configurations for an unfortunately high price!ANd people wondered why Apple went with IntelPretty obvious to me why they switched to x86 CPUs from Intel.Was hoping for more...A redesigned form factor thinner MBPMulti-Touch Trackpad on MBs not just the ProsA redeisgned form factorFaster MBsA redeisgned...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Desktops, Apple Inc., Penryn, Penryn processor, Apple MacBook, processor, Updated MacBook, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-02-26

MacBook Air Diary–Day 5: The packaging

MacBook Air Diary–Day 5: The packagingNicely done sire! nt.MacBook Air Diary–Day 30: The buyers remorse[i]"Bored of the MBA now. Fed up with having to put my DVD's into another machine just to burn / read them. Wireless is a bit shoddy. Oh I wish I had an Ethernet port. The...

Tags: Blogging, Notebooks, wireless, blog entry, MacBook Air, MacBook Air Diaryâ€, Day 5, MBA, Apple MacBook, blog

Discussion threads 2008-02-04

Apple takes a big fall

Apple takes a big fallPanic time for stocks?I think that it's going to be panic time for a lot of investors, especially since the President came out with a $145 Billion stimulus package he said was urgently needed and actually agreed to work with Congress in order to get it...

Tags: big Fall, Apple Inc., Apple Takes

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Live: Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld 2008

Live: Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld 2008I think your timezones are reversed8:30 AM EST would be 5:30 AM PSTWhile 11:30 AM PST would be 2:30 PM EST?Can you please figure out which is correct, because I might want to be tuned in.Apple's Webpage is pushing out Plug-insSomething about a Keynote...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Desktops, wireless, iTouch, Time Capsule, Macworld, Steve Jobs Keynote, Twitter, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

IE6 crashing? Here's the reason, and the fix

IE6 crashing? Here's the reason, and the fixIE7Having used Vista and IE7 for about 9 months now I'm not breathing any sigh of relief. The only thing keeping my home PC from having a reliability rating of 10 is the frequent about once a week IE7 crashes that act...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Java, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Web browser, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., PC, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-12-20