A database of rules about a subject used in AI applications. See expert system.
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- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- News items 2008-10-10
- Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
- Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Plagiarism, gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business
- When the the prestigious IEEE Software publishes something that's obvious gibberish - and later turns out not to have been original work - as a peer reviewed contribution to IT knowledge, what are we to make of it? by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance
- " Operational data governance is the manifestation of the processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. In this white paper, David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity examines how a data governance program defines the roles, responsibilities, and...
- White papers 2008-10-09
- Where are all the programmers?
- Where are all the programmers?It's worse than you think!I'm in SO CAL. The market for good communicating and highly technical developers vanished back in 2000 with the .com meltdown. The guys from India and China are bright, but come on, business rules that are highly complex are missed when you...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed.
- IBM, surprising Wall Street today with an early release of its quarterly earnings, reported a 20 percent in net income and EPS of $2.05. The company also reaffirmed its forecast of at least $8.75 for the year, a 22 percent increase from a year ago. Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM chairman,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Oracle + Primavera
- Where are the lucky couple registered? Yesterday, Oracle announced that it would be purchasing Primavera. Details of the transaction have not been made public. Already we see that Oracle has stated that Primavera management and employees will become part of a global business...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data
- New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover dataWhat a bunch of Hooey![i]While the books is intended for “lawful forensic examination” by corporate security officers, law enforcement personnel, and private forensic examiners, it will undoubtedly be popular with the hacker set.[/i]Anyone who buys this is either a thief...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering
- Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- How much is spam worth? In the case of a couple who sent millions of spams to a small ISP, $236 million. That's the judgment a federal judge in Iowa levied against the husband-and-wife spamming team of Henry Perez and Suzanne Bartok, IDG reports. Over four months in 2003,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that badRE: C'mon, Vista really isn't that badI agree, it eases the transition from the digital to the physical world for computer users and seems especially geared towards newer computer users and explaining steps and giving more information about the system itself and any software installed....
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad
- Picture the scene. A small country pub in Canterbury, a warm, autumn evening, surrounded by friends drinking and smoking in the beer garden; relaxing after a difficult, hard day at work. The birds are singing, the breeze is light and feathering our very souls. This is heaven....
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...
- News items 2008-10-08
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdown
- The IT role in the mortgage meltdownNobody likes a WhisleblowerYou got blacklisted for publicly Whistle-blowing at a company meeting. For your trouble you lost a job, faced economic hardship, and had to explain at interviews why this employer would not give you a reference. You did not follow...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?
- Will Windows 7 get a new name for its release?Following Steve's PhilosophyAs you so accurately noted, Steve has a knack for whole numbers as we know from his Microsoft Office reign. Office 12 (2007), Office 11 (2003), Office 10 (XP or version 2002), Office 9 (2000) and these were the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.Telecommute JobsI see these articles appear every few months. They always talk about how great this concept is, and how it is a great deal for both companies and employees. However, my husband has been contacted by headhunters several hundred times...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Google is your friend
- I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don't look beyond the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- A question about web server volume failures
- A question about web server volume failuresWrite heavy loadI don't think you can compare a write-heavy do-not-call registry to a mostly static wordpress site.It wouldn't hard to mock-up a simple registry site and test it.The question you seem to be askig is.. how do i make my site scalable.Lets start...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?
- Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?Shakespeare had it right ...From MacBeth ..."... but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."Such is the substance of...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
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