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Supporting the long tail of open source

Supporting the long tail of open sourcePerhaps a good start......would be for "good developers" to not consider people with questions as "stupid".Carl RapsonMixing modelsIt depends on what "model" or paradigm or whatever you want to call it produced the piece of OS software.Was it the IBM / Redhat "we'll professionally...

Tags: Development tools, open source, WAS IT, developer, software, Carl Rapson, long tail

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

What does AT&T/BellSouth mean for consumers?

What does AT&T/BellSouth mean for consumers?Actually, Ma Bell didn't have any competitionBell Teliphone Company, aka Ma Bell, didn't have any competitors when it was broken up in 1975. That's the primary reason it was broken up. Basically, it's monopoly lead to poor customer service, over charging for what...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, WAS IT, phone, phone company, Ma Bell

Discussion threads 2006-03-06

Dissecting the core of Apple's Mac Mini

Dissecting the core of Apple's Mac MiniMac zealots amuse mePlease Mr. Jobs, can I pay double for 4 year old laptop components in my computer? Please??!!iSuppli leaves other things outWho is supposed to pay to ship it from Taiwan to your local retailer? How is the retailer supposed to...

Tags: Desktops, Mac-user, WAS IT, Apple Inc., Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple Mac Mini

Discussion threads 2005-08-17

Additional Resources

East Anglia chronology, so far

RE: East Anglia chronology, so far Obfuscate the information,often condemming, in the documents and concentrate on the trivial how they got on line. The denialists are mirroring the tobacco industry?s defense decades agoAttack is always the best defense.Deny the data, the melting glaciers, and concentrate on politics...to stop us...

Tags: payroll solutions, payroll

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

Print2Email 7.20 (Windows)

The Print2Email with PDF application is targeted to both individuals and businesses to provide a seamless Email interface to any windows application, allowing them to print to Email. Print2Email is based on the Black Ice printer drivers, which are the most advanced and fastest raster-image print drivers available on the...

Tags: Windows Application, Adobe PDF, Printer Driver, Microsoft Windows, Printing, Black Ice Software, Print2Email 7.20, Printers, E-mail, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-11-26

East Anglia: some new angles, but no arrests for hacking

Investigation..."If the Republicans regain control of the Senate any time soon, you can expect a full-blown Inhofe-fuelled investigation."Horrors! Imagine that, someone actually wants to INVESTIGATE to see if the "science" of global warming holds water pardon the pun? You mean people actually want to KNOW if these drastic changes to...

Tags: Blogging, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Junkscience, East Anglia, e-mail, hacking

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Apple seeks injunction to end Psystar Mac clones ... oh, and $2.1m

Let's cheer the death of competition!!!Competition is good... as long as it doesn't hurt Apple. Cue the double standards...Apple, congrats for winning in the legal court. Maybe you can take that $2.1M (that you won't get) and add it to your PR budget to repair the damage you've done in...

Tags: Apple Inc., Psystar, gizmo

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Does Amazon know where it's going with the Kindle?

Amazon, please ignore AdrianNormally I'm right with Adrian, but he obviously doesn't have a Kindle, which is my favorite device. To Amazon: don't add battery sucking features (like wi-fi), we don't care about multi-purpose (it's a bookreader!), i don't want cr@apps on my Kindle (it's a bookreader!) and I don't...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Ostendo CRVD monitor now available - but it's not cheap

Defense training?But I never was seriously attacked by any of my monitors. So I will stay with Eizo, I guess.RE: Ostendo CRVD monitor now available - but it's not cheapIf it's like all other defense spending - by the time it's "deployed" it will have cost the taxpayer 5 times...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Ostendo CRVD, Ostendo CRVD monitor, monitor

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Numbers of new Core i7 iMacs are turning up DOA

I guess it goes to show that......even the almighty apple is not immune to issues. We have some iMacs (about 100 - 120) in my organization compared to about 2500 Windows Desktops and out of the 90 we ordered a few years ago (17" iMacs) we had one come...

Tags: Desktops, DOA, Core i7 iMac, Core i7, Apple Inc., Apple iMac

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Is it time to go quad-core?

Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...

Tags: Processors, cloud computing, quad-core, laptop computer, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...

Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea

Soloution looking for a problemReread the tragedy of the commons. This is a bad idea. If different search companies have different businesses listed that will give rise to meta search engines that search the search engines and produce combined results in a single context.There is already a Firefox plugin...

Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

The medical home is reform without objections, so far

Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea

Google's founders once thought that search was so important it should be non-profit. Maybe now's a good time to do that. by Tom Foremski

Tags: Google Inc., Founder, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Apple's latest TV ads defend AT&T

Defending the bottom lineThe iPhone is AT&T's highest-profile 3G device. Period. And Verizon's attack ads on AT&T's 3G service coverage may be about as devastating as it gets. After all, haven't we seen quite a number of iPhone users on ZDNet complaining about the poor 3G service...

Tags: Smart phones, advertisement, TV, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., iPhone User, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Second iPhone worm behaves like botnet

That'll teach them what happens to jailbreakers!This only hits those who deliberately climbed the fence and ventured into the dangerous would outside Apples walled garden.Victims of this have nothing on Apple for this. The vulnerability was introduced by their own incompetent actions, but knowingly non-sanctioned by Apple.The learning: You better...

Tags: Smart phones, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Apple iPhone, worm, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

A Microsoft and News Corp. search pact? It adds up

Goodbye RupertI am not going to use Bing.Google will find stuff I am interested in.Too lazy to use Bing.Bing is dead.Something will dethrone Google, but it ain't Bing.Goodbye Google...You can't earn money without paying for content made byothers...Google has milked the industry for years without giving anything back...There's no such...

Tags: SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, News Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Bing

Discussion threads 2009-11-22