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- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!
- We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...
- Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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- Public policy and open source
- Public policy and open sourceGovernments should tread carefullyBy all means they should use OSS if it is the most cost-effective use of the taxpayers' money. But that's as far as it should go. There shouldn't be any 'affirmative action' for OSS.NoneGovernment should have a policy of using public funds in...
- Tags: Vertical industries, open source, government
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Virtualization software revives dumb terminals, cuts IT costs
- With computers growing smarter by the day, why would anyone want to step back more than a decade and fill office cubicles with dumb terminals? The answer is simple - to keep cubicle computers in service longer, uncluttered and free of malware, viruses and hacking programs. At...
- Tags: Software, Dumb Terminal, Virtualization, Network, Information Technology, IT Cost, Virus, Computer, Virtualization Software, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, Security, Viruses And Worms, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- When is open source just throwing it all away?
- When is open source just throwing it all away?Paying the creatorsThe model has to become about distribution of wealth to the creators of the working item.At the moment we still seem to have this old fashioned mega-capitalist mentality trying to suss out how to use open source to its own...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and Move
- Democratic National Convention site requires Silverlight and MoveWow, just wowSo, a party supposed to govern USA can be bought out by Microsoft to support a flash wannabe plugin.I am speechless. Will they make Windows only policy in Govt. agencies too? Perhaps they should use "OOXML" instead of PDF too?What???The liberals...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Office Open XML, Active-X, Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Mandatory email
- Mandatory emailWe need better emailFrankly, email is currently broken - spam and scams and phishing make it a mess to wade through, even with the best spam blocking stuff.Problem is, we decided to use "adaptive filtering" statistical junk rather than solid encryption and digital signatures. What do the spammers do?...
- Tags: e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- This week's rants
- This week's rantsYou've got it.I never tire of Robin Harris telling the world that MS has lost all their data...a classic. Even when he admits other filesystems are worse. Why then MS? Well they are the biggest and deserve to be blamed...so there..pouted Robin in reply to that question. ...
- Tags: Linux, Blogging, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack
- Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack.....Well, good think I have Ad Block, Flash Killer and Flash Block along with No Script installed! ]:)woahDamn that sucks, Adobe needs to jump on this.So much for "Linux == security"or "FireFox == security" for that matter.RE: Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attackWhoa,...
- Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Adobe Flash, advertisement, Adobe Systems Inc., attack, NoScript
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- 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
- Lessons from Twitter's SMS shut down
- Lessons from Twitter's SMS shut downThe next TwitterSome company will come out of nowhere and offer unlimited incoming and outgoing worldwide SMS and drink Twitters milkshake. Wanna bet?RE: Lessons from Twitter's SMS shut downThe networks are stupid. Twitterers will just install a J2ME client. Anybody on a decent data plan...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular phones, Twitter, SMS, Twitter SMS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- When IT culture changes with or without you
- When IT culture changes with or without youLast paragraph is the punch lineIf the cultural changes aren't in sync with your ethics and higher ups aren't listening, then it's time to hand in the resignation. Otherwise, assuming you can stand it, adapt, positively influence the culture as best you...
- Tags: corporate value, IT culture change, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X
- Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-XWidespread adoption in what arena?Everytime someone says this I can't help but wonder what they mean. Linux is quite common in the server room which appears to be the arena Oracle is talking about.Because "Unbreakable" went so well last time they...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, I. Gimme, Linux, Oracle Corp., GIMME, N-U-X
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Zittrain explains the future of the Internet
- Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...
- Tags: Router, Technology, Zittrain, Internet, Routers & Switches, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Next Generation Datacenter Conference
- I'm heading to San Francisco for the Linuxworld Expo/Next Generational Datacenter conference. I'll post from there this week. While at the event, I'm moderating a panel dicussion on "Virtualization 2.0", whatever that means. Wanna know more? Here's how the conference syllabus describes...
- Tags: Data Center, Conference, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Server Consolidation, Hardware, Storage, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Day 1: iPhone Dev Camp 2
- iPhone development has been strong for over a year now. Ever since the device debuted in June of 2007, people have been hacking away at the platform. Now, in the summer of 2008, we have an SDK. We are now allowed to build and submit apps that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., App, iPhone Development, iPhone App, Device, Tapulous, August Joki, 3G, Corporate Communications, XML, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
- E-mix Home Edition (exe)
- e-mix home edition is the best DJ Tool for mp3 lover, newcomer DJs, bars and discos who wanna mix sound without large investments. The userfriendly surface secures a safe entry into the world of music mixes. Sound mixing becomes a pleasure and due to the auto-mixing mode it is an...
- Tags: Electronics, Home Edition
- Software downloads 2008-07-31
- JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week
- JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this weekis JavaFX an extension of M$ WinFX API?That FX sufix spells doom for me.Either $un have become a M$ appendice or they can't come with some original name for their aging product.RE: JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this weekWell, how could the...
- Tags: SDK, JavaFX
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Can Apple hope to defeat the "Attack of the Clones"?
- Can Apple hope to defeat the "Attack of the Clones"?Apple vs The ClonesThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major commodity,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by defaultGoogle obviously - and rightly so - regards this matter as important,as can be seen from the fact that even we in Sweden are now allowed to choose the [b]Gmail[/b] option to «Always use https» - I checked immediately after reading Ryan's...
- Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Gmail Add, HTTP, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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