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Are sales pitches reality?

Are sales pitches reality?How one sells oneself......should matter to lots of people, prospective customers most of all. Credibility is a lot more important than people sometimes realize.I don't know......I have a lot of respect for Pamela and have been a Novell/SuSE advocate for a long time.I need to reevaluate...

Tags: Linux, Sales strategy, OPEN SOURCE, sales, Yagotta

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

Drive failure? Yagotta try Knoppix first

Drive failure? Yagotta try Knoppix firstYou're better off keeping that USB drive FAT32because as your story indicates, it's not as if NTFS is giving you any additional security anyway. Even if you plug it into another WinXP machine all you have to do is claim ownership of the files and...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Knoppix Linux, NTFS, Drive Failure, security, Yagotta, Microsoft Windows, Linux, rsync

Discussion threads 2006-06-19

Additional Resources

Access and smart DRM will make Google Editions a key player in Ed

Epub format is winningJust about every reader except the Kindle can display books in the .epub format. Unlike pdf, text in epub can be easily reflowed for different screen sizes and font sizes. Do you see any serious challengers to epub?Of course reflowing does give rise to a problem -...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Peer to peer (P2P), digital-rights management, Google Inc., Microsoft Access

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction

Microsoft didn't mention this when they should have!Great day for Open Office - i4i said it has looked at OpenOffice and found it doesn?t infringe on its patents. Oh dear. Poor Microsoft. From Groklaw -http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090817235436439"I have a question for Microsoft. Why didn't they tell us about this i4i patent litigation...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Mary Jo-Foley, Groklaw, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, I4i, patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Chewing the FAT in the Microsoft vs. TomTom case

Chewing the FAT in the Microsoft vs. TomTom caseWhat will happen next?Lawyers will make lots of money. Society will not benefit.RE: Chewing the FAT in the Microsoft vs. TomTom caseMy TomTom 730 is a dream GPS unit. Glad I read about this Microsoft case. I would have never purchased a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Perlow, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-06

Is George Ou right?

Is George Ou right?Individualized drillIf every student must learn extensive details by rote, each student can work with a computer to learn at his own pace.Why the periodic table is considered important for all I'm uncertain. But so long as it must be learned, let the computer do the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Workforce management, Jargon, Technolgy, computer, Facebook, tool, programming

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

Access Virtualization - Which protocol is the best?

Access Virtualization - Which protocol is the best?More Protocols Out ThereI agree that protocol is a big part of the "access virtualization" picture. There are more protocols out there though:ICA - you already listed this one but there's also PortICA which Citrix uses for XenDesktop. It's a ground up re-write...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, NETWORKING, Microsoft Access, RDP, NoMachine, X-protocol, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

Poll: What type of HDTV do you own?

Poll: What type of HDTV do you own?My LCDThis week I purchased a 52" LCD TV, and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!Cost wise, I was looking at a plasma, but since the tv is in a room with natural light, tehre was too much glare form a plasma. We were watching a...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, LCD, Sony Corp., HDTV

Discussion threads 2008-09-17

Google's Chrome, competition, and old pants

Google's Chrome, competition, and old pantsLevels playing field[i]That's one area that HTML, CSS and Javascript are going to have difficulties fixing without ceasing to be HTML, CSS and Javascript.[/i]Not really. There's no [i]a priori[/i] reason that a higher-level representation couldn't be compiled to lower levels like HCJ, and in...

Tags: Scripting languages, Web browsers, Google Inc., JavaScript, Web browser, HTML, CSS

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning

Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warningI don't get itWho in their right mind sets downloaded files as executable?666 may have theological problems but it's a great file permission setting for downloads.RE: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warningFirefox > all. God bless Firefox 3 - what a great gift!Same Situation, Different...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, exe, Safari-to-IE, threat warning, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!

Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!Can you preserve your existing email address?Can you dump the monthly fee and preserve your existing AOL email address from when you were dialup if you go with their free web access?RE: Get the AOL Succubus Off My Back!AOL email has been free/web based...

Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, PRODUCTIVITY, America Online Inc., AOL Succubus, Back!, AOL Succubus Off

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

What kind of company would "Micro-hoo" be?

What kind of company would "Micro-hoo" be?The Microsoft propaganda machine includes John Carroll.Not sure exactly what they are trying to communicate here. But, in general, they are trying to make the takeover seem less hostile, less aggressive, at the same time subtly bad-mouthing other MS competitors like Google.Really, a good...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

What kind of company would "Micro-hoo" be?

After falling off the radar screens for several weeks, Microsoft's proposed merger with Yahoo is back in the news feeds. First, Ballmer sent a letter to the Yahoo board, drawing a three week line in the sand after which Microsoft would possibly lower its bid and/or start a proxy...

Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-04-10

PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux

PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to LinuxCall me a bit cynicalThe advantages of building a framework so that open source products could run in the Windows Platform are many, but the fact remains that like communism was to capitalism, the underlying business model is contradicting. Even today, we have many...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, NTFS-3G, Linux, NTFS, PenguinPolitik, Steve Ballmer, NTFS specification

Discussion threads 2008-04-02

Choke points in open source

Choke points in open sourceThis is definitely a strong point...for adoption of Open Source. It's also what is irking MS the most. I fear some of there recent collaboration with open source is nothing more than a ploy to try to control it. Use their code in any of your...

Tags: Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?

European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable?Fine is for the pastThis fine is for the past and has nothing to do with their current 'openness'!I'm gladI'm so glad Microsoft have suddenly changed and decided to makes these moves purely out the goodness of their own hearts.Who knows if the...

Tags: Servers, European Commission, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?

What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?Not hard to understand[i]Whether or not the final word comes down today — and launches the antitrust-investigation phase of the proposed MicroHoo combination — my question remains: Why are Yahoo management and many Yahoo employees so dead-set against becoming part of Microsoft?[/i]Come...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, INTERNET, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Unix, virus

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot'

Microsoft runs its datacenters on 'Autopilot'yes, MS should leave Yahoo infrasture as isA waste of time, money, stability to port to Windows. Will even further alienate the few Yahoo engineers who will remain after the acquisition.No way will they leave it LinuxAnd there simply is no reason to. Everyone...

Tags: Data centers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Windows, 64-bit, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., SERVER 2008 64-BIT, AutoPilot, Microsoft-run, Server 2008, Unix, data center, virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Intense interest in Microsoft Office standard

Intense interest in Microsoft Office standardHigher up the tree[i]The underlying question remains this. Is standards-setting a judicial or a political process? Even if it is a judicial process, should such a process ignore politics, or be informed by it?[/i]I beg to differ. The underlying question is, "what is the...

Tags: Quality, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, standards, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Microsoft Office, Standards Bodies

Discussion threads 2007-12-14

Health care roils search engine rankings

Health care roils search engine rankingsHIPAA? Urp!HIPAA is about as effective as a screen door on a submarine.The first thing any health-care provider does is have you waive HIPAA confidentiality, so it's worthless to patients. The only exception I've encountered [1] is emergency medical services. For EMS,...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Benefits, search engine, HIPAA, health care

Discussion threads 2007-08-15