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- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Microsoft hints at Vista SP1 beta in August
- I’ve steered clear of the Vista SP1 snipe hunt so far, partly because Mary Jo seems to be doing a pretty good job of it, and partly because the hype and accompanying unreasonable expectations around SP1 are getting extreme. If history is any guide, SP1 will fix some annoyances. It will correct...
- Tags: Direct3D, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Hardware, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Hasta la Vista, Nvidia
- If you own an Nvidia display adapter and you run Windows Vista, I have good news and bad news.The good news? Nvidia has released another update of its drivers for 32–bit and 64–bit Vista. ForceWare Release 162 was posted to Nvidia’s website on July 26.The bad news? The list of...
- Tags: Windows Vista, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Not one, but two Windows service packs
- Late last night, the U.S. and state attorneys leading the enforcement effort in the antitrust judgment against Microsoft filed their latest joint status report (a PDF copy of the report is available via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which also has a tidy wrap-up).I’m still reading the report, but these two tidbits...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista
- Coming in late? Catch up with the Day 1 and Day 2 installments. The executive summary: I’m documenting my experience with a new Dell C521 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A buggy BIOS update delivered by the Dell Support tool caused a catastrophic hardware failure on Day 1, but after...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?
- Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Microsoft's licensing mess
- If you've been selling a product for more than 10 years and you've shipped hundreds of millions of units, you'd think your customers would know what they're buying. For Microsoft, that's not the case.The culprit is the hopelessly confusing, practically Byzantine Windows licensing structure, which consists of a maze of...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Are ATI and Nvidia doing enough with their Vista drivers?
- I spent the weekend setting up some new hardware. One change was to add a PCI Express graphics card to a system that had been using onboard graphics primarily so I could use two monitors with it.After completing the upgrade, I noticed that this ATI X1300 card was still using...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Can RIAA really make a case against students/schools?
- Can RIAA really make a case against students/schools?A questionAre educational institutions responsible for ensuring that public facilities are not used for illegal purposes? In other words, if a student uses campus email to send threats to others, does the university have any responsibility to stop such actions? If not, then...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, RIAA, P2P, music
- Discussion threads 2007-06-01
- AJAX and Enterprise 2.0 for that 'last mile' of SOA
- Ever since the phrase ‘Enterprise 2.0′ (essentially Web 2.0 for the enterprise) was coined more than a year ago, there has been plenty of discussion on how E2.0 could or would fuse with the concept of service-oriented architecture. Would E2.0 methodologies surpass and do end-runs around SOA? Would they serve...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Clearwire announces WIMAX laptop card: here's where it will work
- WIMAX service provider Clearwire Corporation reports final FCC approval of the first WiMAX-class laptop card that will connect to the Clearwire network. The company says that this product will be offered by Clearwire in the second half of this year.Following the FCC approval, the new wireless...
- Tags: WiMAX, News, Mobile, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Windows Vista = Windows Me II?
- Is Windows Vista going to be a repeat of the Windows Me marketing and sales disaster that Microsoft experienced back on 2000?Over the past few weeks Ive come across a number of articles on tech sites that are putting Windows Vista and Windows Me in the same sentence. Not...
- Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Marketing, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software, Thoughts, Trends, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Apple has a spectacular quarter
- Apple had a spectacular second fiscal quarter. Here are the highlights:Revenue of $5.26 billion (compared to $4.36 billion a year ago)Net quarterly profit of $770 million (compared to $410 million a year ago)Gross margin of 35.1% (compared to 29.8% a year ago)International sales account for 43% of revenue1,517,000 Macs...
- Tags: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple, Apple Computer Inc., Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, sales
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Windows XP will be around a lot longer than you think
- Over at CNET News, the bold headline reads: No more Windows XP as of 2008. And the opening line continues the theme: “Starting next year you won't be able to buy a new PC loaded with Windows XP…” A PC World story echoed that report, noting Microsoft’s plans to “discontinue...
- Tags: Windows XP, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- The final word on Vista startup times
- As I’ve pointed out in the previous two installments of this series, a properly configured, well-maintained Windows Vista installation should start up in a reasonable amount of time, in most cases taking roughly 10–15 seconds more than it takes to start Windows XP on the same hardware, and in some...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Vista gets bashed for non-exploitable vulnerability
- In my blog yesterday I was in full agreement with Ryan Naraine and I heavily criticized Microsoft for their slow response times in patching known vulnerabilities. Today Im going to have to take Naraine to task for bashing Microsoft and Vista on an vulnerability that isnt even exploitable. ...
- Tags: Vista, Security, News, Microsoft, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Adventures in wireless
- This is a blog about hardware. But sometimes it’s the software that really gets in the way. I spent time last night setting up a wireless router for a friend who recently purchased two shiny new computers. One, his machine, is a MacBook Pro. The other—which we’ll call “hers”—is a...
- Tags: Uncategorized, semiconductors, notebooks, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, dual-core processors, Apple, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Google requires Microsoft
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently deemed people to be “irrational” for wanting to keep their personal information on the Microsoft desktop, rather than in the Google cloud.Google nevertheless proudly declares “Google packs in more free software,” for your Microsoft Windows XP or Vista desktop PC! Google Pack is:Essential: Enjoy...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Why does Linux hate me?
- In the Talkback section of this blog, my loyal readers routinely urge me to switch to Linux. “Try it!” they say. “Once you do, you’ll never look back.” I’m perfectly willing to try, and indeed I’d love to have at least one Linux machine on hand so I can test...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Ubuntu, SuSE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, DVD, disk, Microsoft Windows, CD
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- News to know: Mac security; Motorola blowup; Intuit as ad agency; VON
- Notable headlines:Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: For security, you cant beat Mac OS X. Jason OGrady: NSA issues security Mac security guide. Apple Security blog focus.Larry Dignan: Motorola under siege: Mobile business unravels.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft picks its own Dynamics ERP chief to run search, continues to fine-tune Vista licensing and tries to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, local advertising, Web 2.0, MAC security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intuit Inc., security, Motorola Inc., advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
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