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- The Halo 3 effect and its impact on Blackwater's future
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk ruminates on the arrival of Halo 3 and finds connections between the video game, lattes, aspiring snipers, Blackwater and Britney. A couple of weeks ago, Wolf, the innocent-looking boy who makes my latte extra hot, seemed a little extra hot himself. Even...
- Tags: Game, Industry, Video Game, Video, Wolf, Nothing, Games, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
- "Every Problem Imaginable"
- Twenty years ago, the Tennessee state government built a 70,000 square-foot data center in a location that now appears to have a few problems. What kind of problems, you ask? Well, heres what Computerworld has to say on the matter:The state located its data center on top of unstable, jiggly...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- Sandbox schmandbox. Java springs a critical security leak.
- Sandbox schmandbox. Java springs a critical security leak.What's with the double standard?If Windows had half as good a track record as Java or Oracle they'd have something to brag about.In both cases the flaws were fixed before anyone even knew they were there. Microsoft has known, unpatched flaws with...
- Tags: Programming languages, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Java Update, Java, Wolf, security
- Discussion threads 2005-11-29
- Katrina may push agencies towards telework
- Earlier this summer, the Cyber Security Industry Alliance released a paper detailing the federal government's "puny" uptake of telework telecommuting to some and the inadequate reasons for this slowness. Now, in the wake of Katrina, the need is great for government employees to work, even though offices may be closed...
- Tags: Telecommuting, Wolf, agency, Katrina
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- Gates promises better interoperability
- Gates promises better interoperabilityI'll believe it when I see itIs Windows broken Kerberos going to be fixed?XML != interoperability (8 bit bytes was supposed to give interoperability as well. See where that went?)That is just another word for "embrace"..As in the "embrace, extend, extinquish" mantra that evil Microsoft has been...
- Tags: Microsoft Passport, wolf, Microsoft Corp., interoperability
- Discussion threads 2005-02-04
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- Ubuntu details next project: 'Jaunty Jackalope'
- Ubuntu details next project: 'Jaunty Jackalope'Ubuntu is GREAT, and it has spurred a ton of innovations.A big thanks to all of the Ubuntu guys.Boot systemsThis should be fun to watch. I've been using Gentoo for more than five years, and their boot system is [i]fast[/i] thanks to dependency-based scheduling....
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Linux Geek, app vendor, Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Apple's biggest rumor: iPod or Jobs?
- The Apple rumor mill is back in action - and this time the bloggers are calling the date: Sept. 9. That's the day the company is expected to announce a new look for the iPod Nano, a new version of iTunes, an OS X update and more. Apple, of course,...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Health Care, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- 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
- Did the bad cop gremlins get at Microsoft's annual report?
- Did the bad cop gremlins get at Microsoft's annual report?Diminishing risk.Yes, the chances of Microsoft being overtaken by open source or cloud computing are similar to those of riding in a 1974 Gremlin. The competition is prematurely obsolete and slightly repulsive, especially considering the denim interior of the automobile...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, cloud computing, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Citizen journalism and traditional news
- I've been experimenting recently with CNN's site for "citizen journalism" named iReport. I created a few video posts of myself in response to requests for questions targeted at future visitors to Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" (you can see my iReport site here - http://www.ireport.com/people/JohnCarroll). There are a few kinks in...
- Tags: Video Camera, Video, Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Citrix's "Kensho" Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V
- Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on XenServer and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Oh, and yes, add VMWare ESX to that list ...
- Tags: Interoperability, Hypervisor, Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, OVF, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Productivity, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Google reports cause of App Engine failure
- Google reports cause of App Engine failureIt's PREVIEW RELEASEThere are plenty of better reasons to question cloud computing than an preview release of a free service crashing...This is just like Airplanes. Airplanes are much less likely to crash than acar, and you are about 10x safer in an airplane than...
- Tags: beta, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Wolfteam Spanish (exe)
- A fact, that there are plenty of people who have partially wolf-like base arrangement in the process of DNA antidoting, is found in 2010 Scientists name this 'Diewolf Syndrome'. This syndrome has found in people with excellent physical ability such as athletes or military officers. The average life span of...
- Tags: Syndrome, Cell, Softnyx, Biotechnology, Security
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computers
- The folks who brought you the Great Firewall of China and the Golden Shield are wholly incapable of breaking into the cyber-fortress that is the U.S. House of Representatives. So they say. Accused by U.S. Reps Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) of hacking into their...
- Tags: U.S., China, Computer, Productivity, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?About rightIf you're looking at free software as a starting point for closed source development, then stay away from GPLed code, but if your interest is in using the software or in selling support contracts, then there's no problem.I've long thought that controversies over license...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, BusyBox, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Do the Busybox cases change anything?
- The GPL violation cases known collectively as the BusyBox cases never went to court, but they do seem to have settled the question of whether the license is enforceable. It is. So why is Edward Walsh, an attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston, trying to...
- Tags: Software, GPL, Open-source Software, Compliance, Open Source, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Flash attack may as well have been zero-day
- Guest Editorial by Dino Dai Zovi It has almost been a week since the Adobe Flash zero-day attack false alarm. Since then, a number of people have called Symantec out as being irresponsible for crying wolf and announcing the raising the ThreatCon without fully researching the vulnerability (Full...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Attack, Flash, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- A robotic brain-computer interface
- California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface. This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue.' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and...
- Tags: Algorithm, Electrode, California Institute Of Technology, Positioning, Telecom & Utilities, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claims
- Memo to Microsoft: Put up or shut up on patent claimsGlass houses...MS knows their code contains infringed upon IP. They aren't going to open a can of worms that would require them to open source their OS under one of the GPL's.Open source has nothing to worry about.Just close you're...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Network technology, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., patent claim, Put Up, IP
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- What is the U.S. doing about security?
- I've been terrible busy lately. Hopefully you all here haven't noticed, as I've been working hard to still keep my posts flowing, but I've just got time to catch up with several blogs that I read often. One of those blogs is the Emergent Chaos blog...
- Tags: Card, Database, President, Blog, Passport Card, RFID, Government, Security, Wireless, Biometrics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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