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Power costs and responses

Power costs and responsesDistributed is the way to goOne rack of servers maybe none per building or floor coupled with Linux workstations on desktops is the most efficient way to go. (User education and IT SLAs are key in this environment. Users that like to reboot should be shown the...

Tags: global warming, server, closet, POWER COSTS, user hostility

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Additional Resources

Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this week

Tabs that dont hang and,1. HTML 5 standards compliance ahead of Chrome and FF2. Better plugins3. CSS 3 compliance4. FASTER!Trying to develop for IE8 is still a pain!Addon supportFor things like AdBlock Plus.Also, an x64 version of silverlight.Grow upso do not read this blog - OK? Prefer Firefox but...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8, Mozilla Firefox, IE 9, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

PolicyGuard 2009 2009.8.26 (Windows)

PolicyGuard provides real-time protection against accidental or intentional misuse of your PC. Detect, control and eliminate activities that violate your administrative and usage policies (without looking over everyone's shoulder). PolicyGuard has the ability to detect all suspected violations, log the event (date, time, violation details), quickly remove the content from...

Tags: PerkNet, PolicyGuard, Harassment, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Mice, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-08-26

PolicyGuard 2009 5.6.49 (Windows)

PolicyGuard provides real-time protection against accidental or intentional misuse of your PC. Detect, control and eliminate activities that violate your administrative and usage policies (without looking over everyone's shoulder). PolicyGuard has the ability to detect all suspected violations, log the event (date, time, violation details), quickly remove the content from...

Tags: PerkNet, PolicyGuard, Harassment, Keyboards, Mice, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-05-08

Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target

Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...

Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista

IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaHoo that could be painful very painfulibm ,red hat, ubuntu working together..... ough Microshot may feel this a bitRE: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on VistaUnless they make programs and hardware as easy to install &...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Driver Installation, Linux, IBM Corp., Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 update

Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateThey don't know what they are doing!Talk about a keystone cops company!Microsoft makes updates and sticks by them otherwise user confidence will be erroded! -FSBhttp://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comThese iTards are growing toooo fast, they are beninnging to remind me of Gaggle!RE: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 updateI know you mean...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, iPhone 2.0.1 update, iPhone 2.0.1, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

Questioning IT

This is the 13th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. There are, very broadly speaking, two main approaches to managing IT open to board members and senior non IT executives. In the first of these you ask no difficult...

Tags: Information Technology, Board, Board Member, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-11

The worst software failures are successes

In the movies you know what's coming when the team leader suggests the group separate and some red shirt gets sent off to investigate a dark cellar by herself - and oddly enough IT project failure reviews are often exactly like going to that kind of movie. ...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSource

Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSourceHmm, its that alternate reality again.I read through this, and your example is impecable, makes perfect, and I'm left wondered why none of my customers use Sun hardware.And of the course, the reason is that in my reality, the vast majority of enterprises are SME's, and they...

Tags: Wintel, OpenSource

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

To form an us

To form an usHow would you write for luddites?Seriously. I've read articles in business magazines that make me absolutely fume at the gross inaccuracies. But the bottom line is, aside from maybe changing a little phrasing, I usually don't think I could do that much better of a...

Tags: Desktops, Recruitment & Selection, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., information technology

Discussion threads 2008-01-28

Windows Home Server fan club beats me up for asking if WHS is Microsoft's next flop

Windows Home Server fan club beats me up for asking if WHS is Microsoft's next flopAt least wait until it is releasedThen give us a detailed review. If it flops, it flops. Nobody is being forced to buy it. It will fail or succeed on its own...

Tags: E-mail, Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Microsoft Windows, server, WHS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-19

Apple dropping iTunes Plus tracks to 99 cents

Apple dropping iTunes Plus tracks to 99 centsCompetition - ain't it great?Why is Amazon a treat to iTunes? Because unlike all the others that tries to compete, they did not ignore iTunes users with their service. They mad it really simple to add Amazon DRM-Free songs to iTunes/iPods at a...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-16

'Worthy of the hype' was the wrong iQuestion to answer. iPhone 2.0 will likely be worth the wait

'Worthy of the hype' was the wrong iQuestion to answer. iPhone 2.0 will likely be worth the waitOne big missing Item in Iphone and I still want oneHi:One of the biggest items I see missing is voice commanded dialing for the unit. I have been using windows mobile devices...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, battery, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Do we really hate Apple and the iPhone?

Two A Day says ZDNet just hates the iPhone--before it's even out. And in a nice display of doing homework the author cites more than 50 negative articles about iPhone in a week.What Two A Day calls negative, I'd call perspective. The iPhone is getting attention because it's merely the...

Tags: iPhone, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Privacy International pokes a stick in Google's eye

Privacy International has poked Google in the eye with the stick. In an interim report on the privacy ranking of the major Internet services, Google was the only company found among those surveyed to receive a failing grade, which Privacy International described as conducting comprehensive consumer surveillance and having...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-06-10

Are Linux vendors predatory?

Are Linux vendors predatory?Oops..."You can release code you wrote and seek to control it, through some version of a BSD license"One does not use a BSD style license to control code. A good license to control code is the MPL - witness all of the companies that use the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Red Hat Inc., Covalent Technologies, predatory behavior, MPL, OpenOffice, StarOffice, software

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

Why Microsoft hasn't sued (yet)

Why Microsoft hasn't sued yetYour bias is showing...Please-I understand that you are an Open Source blogger, but try not to make your bias so (please forgive me-I couldn't pass this one up) PATENTLY obvious.Thanks DanaThe sound of clocks ticking just got a little sweeter.unfortunatelyThere are too many sheep out there...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp., Dana, SCO Group Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-14

eBay raises fees: Half empty or half full?

eBay raises fees: Half empty or half full?I've WASTED $16trying to sell my [url=http://www.maxiaids.com/store/prodView.asp?idstore=2&idproduct=3902&idCategory=131&category=Ameriphone_TTY&product=Ameriphone_Q-90D_Digital_TTY/VCO]Ameriphone Q90D TTY[/url] and it's not successful. This is even though I've reduced the price, give a whole lot more specifics on features, highlighting the title with -- ugh -- to raise fees on me, etc. trying...

Tags: eBay Inc., card, e-Bay

Discussion threads 2007-01-04

Techno idiots, huh? Then we have our work cut out for us.

Techno idiots, huh? Then we have our work cut out for us.about time...as one of the "digital natives", and in an educational facility, I've seen this brewing for a while... after all, I was personally taught to be analytical of everything I come across, and I can use both...

Tags: absolute truth, education

Discussion threads 2006-11-30