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- Dead hardware I can sink my teeth into
- Dead hardware I can sink my teeth intoXubuntu rocks!Xubuntu is the OS for old machines. Less eye candy than Ubuntu and Edubuntu with Gnome, and Kubuntu with KDE. But man, do those old PIII's become fast again!Tip: consider a PIII 450 Mhz, 192 MB RAM and 4 GB disk space...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Xubuntu, teeth, older equipment, hardware
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- Rebuilding George Washington
- According to The Arizona Republic, American researchers have created realistic faces of George Washington by using 3-D scanning, forensics technology and software. They started by scanning a bust of the first U.S. President when he was 53 and developed a special software with the help of an anthropologist to build...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Social Sciences
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
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- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?It's a matter of infrastructure - and transparencyLarry,Your analysis is partially correct, but there is a second factor. Some cloud providers have taken a "you're better off not knowing" approach to the infrastructure their systems are based on. What server is your VM...
- Tags: Manufacturing, cloud computing, Down Time, outage, S3 Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Tough love: Linux needs more haters
- [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I've been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or as my friend from the IT News site "the Register" Andrew Orlowski calls them;...
- Tags: Blog, LinuxHaters, LinuxHater, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Internet, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Seagate: Demand is swell, but we're playing catch-up on notebook drives
- Seagate delivered some good news with its fiscal fourth quarter earnings: Storage demand is just swell. The bad news: Seagate is lagging with its product line--especially for notebook drives--and that's killing margins and hurting profits in the current quarter. For the quarter ended June 27, Seagate reported...
- Tags: Notebook Market, Seagate Technology LLC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Hammering at cost with open source
- Irregular Bob Warfield riffs on Salesforce.com's decision to ditch Sun/Solaris in favor of Dell/Linux. In doing so, Bob makes the point that: ...for a SaaS company, the cost of service delivery is an absolutely critical factor. Once you have software that runs well and scales horizontally on cheap commodity...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?
- Is the Dutch model the right reform for U.S. healthcare?a little betterIt's better, in that it involves some competition between private companies, and not full government involvement. It's also good that it provides coverage to everyone.However, as you stated, much of it is paid for by "the wealthy", which...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Dutch model, right reform, U.S. Healthcare, health care, reform, government, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads
- Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...
- Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Sneak Peek - LinkedIn searchable user groups foster connected communities
- I've been a member of several LinkedIn user groups for some time, and while the experience has been valuable, finding the groups was like pulling teeth. Thankfully, that changes tomorrow. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Group, LinkedIn, Search, Networking, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Attacking phishing at the source
- Attacking phishing at the sourceDomainKeys--it's a startNow if mandated changes were in effect 'with teeth' that enforced usage of PGP or GnuPG or S/MIME for signed encrypted email, that would take down the spam to 0%!RE: Attacking phishing at the sourceSince phishing has cost countless pains to so many people,...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, inactivism, Attacking phishing, restraint
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Sticking with XP / Upgrading to Vista / Waiting for Windows 7 / Switching to Mac or Linux - There's no single right answer
- Sticking with XP / Upgrading to Vista / Waiting for Windows 7 / Switching to Mac or Linux - There's no single right answerI respect your opinion, but...I also don't feel you've articulated why we should move to Vista, should we have the horsepower.If, after all the tweaking, it's only...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adrian, Microsoft Windows 7, Upgrading, openSUSE, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- 7 ERP failure analogies
- ERP implementations sometimes feel like pulling teeth. Keeping alive this spirit of suffering, the ERP and More! blog has assembled a list of seven analogies for ERP. Truth be told, I suspect the dude has a bit too much time on his hands,...
- Tags: ERP, ERP Implementation, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...tips? yeahWell first of all i don't suggest using ie for safe browsing, firefox or opera can be much better.Be sure to install an appropriate anti-virus and anti-spyware before anything, for me avira antivir personal and spybot search and destroy worked great.If you do have...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too
- Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy tooSo companies run by engineers always win?You wrote:Google is run by engineers and that’s why the company knocked the snot out of Yahoo.[End quote] Are marketing and operations so unimportant?Icahn's a money manAnd he appears to be looking at Yahoo strictly as...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., phone, Ma Bell
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Handicapping Windows 7's effect on Vista upgrades
- Handicapping Windows 7's effect on Vista upgradesNot a good enough reasonReally, the fact that Windows 7 is not anything new is hardly a reason to upgrade to Vista. When you are supporting 15000+ clients workstations and laptops, why break what's already working? Users tend to hate fundamental changes...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Yes Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Put some IT pros in jail
- Put some IT pros in jailAgreed to the fullestWhen I described the WH email issue with a friend, I said flatly "I would have walked in and fired every person I laid eyes upon." There is NO excuse for that level of incompetence, none whatsoever!Too bad there aren't licenses we...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, software engineering, jail, information technology, software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week?
- Windows 7: What will Microsoft reveal this week?Could be for Pocket PC sized UMPCsThese features are probably being implemented for the Ultra Mobile PC type devices and will be useful in pocket-sized Windows enabled mobile phones as speculated here: http://www.pocketnow.com/index.php?a=portal_detail&t=news&id=5390I love my tx2000z Tablet PC especially for the Wacom enabled...
- Tags: Operating systems, Web browsers, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Perfecting the potato
- New Scientist is reporting on new gaze tracking technology designed for use in 3D virtual worlds. Gaze tracking has been used for years by people with motor neurone disease, cerebral palsy and other "locked-in" syndromes, but only to operate desktop interfaces. This more recent technology will bring the likes of...
- Tags: Mouse, Gesture, Gaze, Eye Gesture, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast buys PlaxoI canceled my account.RE: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast is entirely out of touch with what it's customers want. For instance, a 1 year discount on an overpriced service doesn't attract anyone who's been paying cable...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, user number, TV, Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., social networking, network
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Kodak ESP 3
- Kodak's ESP 3 is an entry-level all-in-one AIO inkjet printer, copier, and scanner. Kodak keeps the cost low at $130, which makes this one of the cheapest multifunctional printers, but the output quality just isn't up to par with that of the other inkjet printers currently available in the same...
- Tags: Scanners, Printers, ESP 3, ESP, Eastman Kodak Co., AIO Home Center Software, printer, photograph
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
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