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- Stop! It may be time to change the way you teach math
- Stop! It may be time to change the way you teach mathSquares with my experienceAll of the really math-oriented people I've known went straight to the abstract forms and [i]played[/i] with them. When presented with applications, they would go, "Oh? Well, if you insist ..." and then head...
- Tags: Word Problems, mechanics
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
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- Students: the broadband troubleshooter
- Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...
- Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Bausch & Lomb reduces IT boundaries
- The commonly used phrase "lack of IT alignment" suggests communication problems arising from dysfunctional boundaries between IT and business groups inside an organization. Bausch & Lomb has shattered boundaries by merging IT and customer service under the CIO. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Customer Service, CIO, Bausch & Lomb Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution
- There's only one official way to get "legitimate" software for the iPhone 2.0 and iPod touch – via Apple's included App Store. The much-heralded service offers almost 1,000 free and paid application in numerous categories and has been well publicized over the last week. I recently had...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Identifier, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release
- Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- SF mayor gets back to the keys to the city
- "The first thing I want you to know, Mr. Mayor, is that when you walk out of this room, you will have the computer codes." So spoke Terry Childs, San Francisco's jailed network administrator, to Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a spur-of-the-minute jailhouse meeting, according to SF Chronicle...
- Tags: City, Lawyer, Computer, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.
- The aftermath of large-scale failure is never pretty, but sometimes looking back reveals problems so obvious and severe they take your breath away. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Team, Performance, Problem, Bruce Webster, FUBAR, Team Management, Organizational Structure, Management, Human Resources, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite service pack 1, which fixed the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers. The survey, conducted by KACE, which makes systems management appliances, found that there are 10 percent more holdouts...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kace, Survey, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- ScalarCalc (exe)
- ScalarCalc is a calculator that is to solve real math problems with units and simple enough to perform everyday unit conversions. Try the built in Equations feature to solve common problems. A print feature allows you to print your work. Demo mode operates with fewer significant digits. This version is...
- Tags: HP OpenView, ScalarCalc, Print Feature, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- WordSmart Toolbar (zip)
- The WordSmart tool bar provides users direct access to the Word of the Day, WordSmart Challenge, and the new WordSmart 5.0 site. This tool bar includes great features like Google search, a Pop-Up Blocker, RSS Reader, Zoom In / Out features, a link to Yahoo, and access to various news...
- Tags: Tool, WordSmart, Productivity, RSS, Microsoft Word, Internet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Is this the New Apple?
- Is this the New Apple?The joys of the subsidyBring the cost of the iPhone down to $199 also brought with it the corporate overload from ATT that would be paying out the money to Apple.if the iPhone had only been available in ATT stores the problems would probably have been...
- Tags: New Apple, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp., ATT, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet
- I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...
- Tags: Vint Cerf, Internet, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?
- The empire strikes back: Can Microsoft's ads cure my Vista psychosis?180 million soldMany buyers are selecting more expensive versions. Microsoft revenues are up extraordinarily. Despite Apple's ads and sales, PC sales are up significantly.And the SP 1 release usually helps sales.You might consider that the reputation you discuss...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft revenue, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, Apple Inc., Vista psychosis, psychosis, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Google shows off its bench
- The vision of Larry Page and Sergey Brin still holds. In a word, search. In another word, find. Maybe its cloud will bring a third word, host, but so far it is mainly a set of services built around that one word, search, again. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Bench, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap
- Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tapWinner if they don't sacrifice qualityThis move would be a winner as long as Apple doesn't sacrifice quality. If they lower prices by making lower quality products, game over. If they just shave off price overhead, that's great. If they...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple iPod, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?Toshiba Cell Laptop anyone?...[url=http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=9102518&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top]FYI[/url]Slap Yellow Dog Linux on it and you are good to go!Do we know if backwards compatibility is holding back......progress? Or is it just purists who would like to see legacy support end?Currently x86 outperforms US T2 in just...
- Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Real Bottom Line, Linux STILL, Linux architecture, Intel x86, Linux, slate
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Apache's open source governance model
- Apache's open source governance modelI give Murph a 10 on this onentMike Cox couldn't beat this one...NTIIS dominates the market, of courseThough Apache has almost half the web servers in use, the more important number is the Fortune 1000 result. There Microsoft has 55% vs Apache's 25%, with Microsoft...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
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