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What the heck is a thin client?

My mom is neither an educator, nor a technologist, but she has taken to reading my blogs anyway (group, "Ahhhh", please). She actually runs a gourmet tea and spice company based just a few miles from Microsoft corporate headquarters (weird, huh?). She'll occasionally send me an email asking...

Tags: Training for the masses, Education Technology, Classroom Tech

Blog posts 2007-08-01

A quick partition primer

I just finished installing OpenSUSE 10.2 on my laptop. While the process went without a hitch image gallery of the install with instructions and potential stumbling blocks to follow later today and SUSE even recognized my wireless cards immediately, I realized that a basic understanding of disk partitions would...

Tags: Training for the masses, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-01

Installing Linux - The joy of live CDs

Yesterday I went through various distributions and architectures for a Linux installation, focusing in particular on OpenSUSE. Before we go through the actual installation of OpenSUSE and Linux in general, there is one type of distribution that I failed to mention in yesterday's post: the Live CD.Live CDs are...

Tags: Training for the masses, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-26

OpenSUSE update (also, just what is a distribution?)

So this weekend wasn't quite as productive as I'd hoped in terms of my foray into testing and documentation for OpenSUSE. Between a wedding in New Hampshire and a shed that needed building (don't believe the salespeople - an afternoon project this is not, especially when your best helper...

Tags: Training for the masses, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Your mom Kubuntus!

Sorry, my students' steady stream of "your mom" jokes brings out my inner 14-year old. However, this is the first in my series this summer of training for the masses (see * for dummies) and the point is that your mom (or your grandmother, or your most typewriter-bound secretary)...

Tags: Training for the masses, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-19

* for dummies

Most of us have at least picked up a copy of one of the "for Dummies" books. A lot of them are actually quite good, although they tend to be of limited utility for the sorts of folks who read ZDNet blogs. However, the people for whom they...

Tags: Training for the masses

Blog posts 2007-06-17

Additional Resources

Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T

Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...

Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-25

Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog

Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...

Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?Sure it canIf you are using gnome (Ubuntu's default desktop envrionment) just go to gnomelook.org and look at the screen shots people have posted. There are a lot of creative folks out there. It's pretty easy to make gnome look and act like auqa....

Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Compiz-fusion, Even Linux, Ubuntu, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...

Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

The App Store's buggy update process

The App Store's buggy update processI got mine to updateBasically when it gave me that "find all the updates" screen, I would just look for version numbers that had changed (this is easy to do now that everything is 1.0 generally, it will only get harder as time goes on,...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., App Store, cryptic error message, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Is this the New Apple?

Is this the New Apple?The joys of the subsidyBring the cost of the iPhone down to $199 also brought with it the corporate overload from ATT that would be paying out the money to Apple.if the iPhone had only been available in ATT stores the problems would probably have been...

Tags: New Apple, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp., ATT, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

The evolution of search over traditional BI

Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...

Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio

News items 2008-07-22

The key barrier to health care reform

The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced

Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on.  From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...

Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-21

New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint

New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePointSharePoint Best Practices!!!I'm not disputing the result of the studies but i think the downsides are normally excerbated by inappropiate practices. Every product has its downsde but i believe these downsides can be overcome if appropiate practices are used: SharePoint Best Practices Start...

Tags: Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!

The computer mouse set to die out in the next five years? Don't bet on it!I've used perfect Voice Recognition--it still sucksWant to experiment with perfect VR? I did! Here's how:Have a friend (who is willing to be your input device for a full 8 hour day) type for you...

Tags: Mice, Keyboards, mouse, computer, computer mouse, keyboard

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?

Over the weekend Amazon's S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites. Since enterprises haven't totally jumped on the bandwagon Amazon's outage didn't have broader ramifications. But Amazon's latest outage--the second big one...

Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Om, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Question Paper Preparation Software-CP (zip)

GIFT QB Unique Question Bank Creation and Question Paper Setting Software for Educational Institutions [Schools / Colleges / Universities / Training Center / Coaching Classes / Corporate Training]. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Question, Genuine Infotech, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Human Resources

Software downloads 2008-07-21