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- Windows wars: Are you a dog or cat?
- Â All this Vista versus XP versus Windows Server 2008 stuff got me thinking. Maybe its not just technological issues with Microsoft's latest desktop OS that is creating strife between the user bases. Perhaps -- if we take a page from Jungian theory -- there is a...
- Tags: Desktop, Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- IT is from Mars; Business is from Venus
- Relations between IT and business can be frustrating for both sides. Some observers call this mutual animosity "lack of alignment." Ed Yourdon, esteemed grand explainer of IT failures, summarized the issue in an interview with this blog: The question is: whether IT is building the kinds...
- Tags: Information Technology, Business, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Twitter: An IT failures management perspective
- Twitter, the well-known social messaging service, has finally acknowledged the depth and severity of technical problems causing downtime and disruption to users. While such candor is refreshing, it also offers a glimpse into the kinds of management issues that underlie virtually all IT failures. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Twitter, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Love Actually - Love Calculator (zip)
- A simple yet exciting way to test your suitability with someone special. Simply type in your names and this clever program will calculate your match in a percentage format. The program has been designed with ease of use in mind. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Program, Pips Technology
- Software downloads 2008-04-10
- Korg MR-1
- We've seen our share of consumer MP3 players with built-in voice and line recording capabilities--but they never seem to offer everything we want in a portable recording device. The Korg MR-1 ($899) handheld audio recorder lives at the opposite end of the spectrum, offering a dedicated portable recording solution with...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Korg MR-1
- Product reviews 2008-03-14
- Apple Time Capsule (1TB)
- Apple's new Time Capsule is one of only two devices we know of that incorporates both a wireless router and a hard drive into the same product. The other, a year-and-a-half-old router from Asus, offers neither the same high-speed wireless bandwidth nor as much storage capacity as the Time Capsule,...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, backside, Apple Inc., Time Capsule, router, hard drive
- Product reviews 2008-03-04
- Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hype
- Google Sites: evaluate first and don't believe the hypeHow's all this Google specific?So...''" if you want to show financial data to an end user, you will have to allow Google’s servers a pass through your firewall to make the web service call.That’s a basic security issue. Nothing...
- Tags: SEARCH, Blogging, Google Inc., Google Sites, search engine
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Vista 32-bit vs. Vista 64-bit - Benchmarked
- My benchmarking marathon last week seemed to generate more questions and requests for further benchmarking. A popular request from you, Constant Reader, was to see Windows Vista 32-bit benchmarked against Windows Vista 64-bit. You asked, I delivered. Enjoy! The Test System ...
- Tags: 32-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista, Results Let, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), 64-Bit, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Post script to an Ed Tech laptop rant
- Post script to an Ed Tech laptop rantAFAIKMicrosoft is providing with a reference implementation for these kind of machines.Message has been deleted.RE: Post script to an Ed Tech laptop rantIt needed someone with balls and vision to even get near pulling this project off - and in one sense it's...
- Tags: Blogging, Microsoft Corp., Ed Tech laptop, Post Script, Ed Tech, Nicholas Negroponte, blog, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Post script to an Ed Tech laptop rant
- Rant away Chris! There is one, and only one, reason why Nicholas Negroponte has somewhat suddenly embraced Windows and Microsoft. It is really quite simple. He is being asked by foreign governments -- to whom he is trying to sell the XO -- "Does the XO run Windows?" ...
- Tags: Fact, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Schoolchildren, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- CompUSA vs. BestBuy
- CompUSA vs. BestBuyWell I do not ever remember seeing...Major Appliances(Washers/Dryers/Stoves...)in CompUSA, The stores have some common items, Best Buy does not sell motherboards @ least not in my local one. I think the big issue was CompUSA was billed as a Computer Super Store as oppose to Best Buy which...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Branding, Comp USA, computer, Best Buy Co. Inc., CompUSA Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- The most disappointing products of 2007
- The most disappointing products of 2007Haup & VistaNow my Haup HD tuner is USB, so maybe that makes a difference, but after following the installation instructions to a tee I had a perfectly working tuner/capture card on Vista HP. Now mind you, Haup's software is vintage mid-1990's quality, but with...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, security, Haup USB TV tuner, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- Apple can even spin troubleshooting
- Apple can even spin troubleshooting"Troubleshooting"?Yeah, wouldn't it be great if companies like Apple could be HONEST about stuff like that, and call it TROUBLESHOOTING, like the rest of us, instead of SPINNING everything just to avoid the word TROUBLESHOOTING? Yeah, that would be great.Oh, wait. :phttp://www.apple.com/support/iphone/troubleshooting/RE: Apple can even...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Higher-ed must not accept "good enough"
- In recent years Education IT (especially K-12 Ed Tech) has faced flat or shrinking budgets while schools have struggled with NCLB, unfunded mandates, and uninformed administrators unwilling to challenge citizen school boards with even less knowledge about the needs of educators in the twenty-first century. At the root of this...
- Tags: Faculty, Tool, Productivity, Marc Wagner
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- ATI Radeon HD 3850
- Finally, a midrange graphics card worth its silicon. ATI's new 256MB Radeon HD 3850 graphics card is the best-performing 3D card in its price class. For $179, it will let you play most current 3D games at reasonable resolutions and detail settings, bowling over Nvidia's GeForce 8600 GTS cards on...
- Tags: Games, PCI, ATI Radeon, Radeon, Radeon HD 3850, card, DirectX, ATI Technologies Inc., game
- Product reviews 2007-11-21
- The online health revolution and your DNA: It's a trust issue
- The online health revolution and your DNA: It's a trust issueCan this setup be somehow reversed to improve the trust aspect?I am reminded of the notion of everyone having their own "smart card" or other personal storage device, possibly with its own processing power. Instead of yet another large centralized...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Biotechnology, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health insurance, health care, DNA, online health revolution, health revolution
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Taking STM images 100 times faster
- Very few of you have used a scanning tunneling microscope STM, an essential tool to study nanoscience. And you might think that it's as easy to take a picture of an atom with an STM as it is to take a shot with your digital camera. In fact, the imaging...
- Tags: Radio, Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Interview with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon
- I had the opportunity to speak Monday afternoon with the CEO of Mandriva, François Bancilhon. Recently, a deal with the Nigerian government to use and install Mandriva Linux on 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs was derailed when the government decided to overwrite the installed operating system with Windows XP. ...
- Tags: Emerging Market, Mandriva, Mr., Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Government, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- TCP's Protocol Radius: The Distance Where Timers Prevent Communication
- This paper examines how the design of the Transmission Control Protocol TCP implicitly presumes a limited range of path delays and distances between communicating endpoints. It shows that TCP is less suited to larger delays due to the interaction of various timers present in TCP implementations that limit performance and,...
- Tags: Performance, RADIUS, TCP, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2007-09-01
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