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- ROFLthing 2008
- Have you ever been to an internet culture conference? Earlier this year, Harvard senior Tim Hwang threw one in Cambridge, Mass., and it was a massive success. This time, Hwang wanted to have a smaller get together in San Francisco to chat about memes. Welcome to ROFLthing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- JavaScript 2.0: Why Give Programmers Crutches?
- [Guest Comment from Shane Steinert-Threlkeld] A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
- Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to followHmm, I wonder how long it will take the torrent abusers...... to reach that cap and get kicked? Not talking about the ones who get movies and software and games all illegally but the ones who serve this stuff up?...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- SAP: show the love your customers crave
- SAP: show the love your customers craveit would be nice if SAP wasn't a BLACK HOLE for IT Budgets..very funny, ask them nicely for a few bread crumbs...if ever there was a sign that should say BUYER BEWARE, it would apply to SAP. Just ask all those companies that...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-25
- Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you
- Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell youProgress? By definition..."...there are two other significant factors that can impede our progress. The first is the lack of interest among the millennium generation to work on older technologies and the second is the fact...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Third party support, threat or menace?
- Third party support, threat or menace?Channels and ecosystems require relationships between partiesHey Dana, I think maybe you missed part of my point. If a company that doesn't do anything to help the project progress and only tries to make money from it while waiting for the developers to do the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed
- UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployedIf you're any good, I wouldn't worry about itMy first question is whether that study takes into account whether people were employed in their actual field of study?Ie, does a job at McDonalds classify as being 'employed' or does every psychology major actually...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PRMaybe I'm misunderstanding.......but I don't think that "pitches" are what journalists and bloggers are looking for. Informed commentary yes; reliable information on the company's plans and policies, yes; official positions on news items involving the company, yes; pitches, no (that's...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Analysts: vendors are mellowing their SOA pitches
- Analysts: vendors are mellowing their SOA pitchesTools, Not AppsSOA is a programmer's environment...like a gardener coming to work each day, the programmer writes and mends small services specific to the task.Vendors should be selling the hoes, trowels and rakes...not some gigantic blunderbus "application server".Include the knowledge worker...and meet success!RPC ->...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- MSE rises like a phoenix from the beta ashes
- MSE rises like a phoenix from the beta ashesMost students can't afford Microsoft's...products. So they turn to open source. This has MS worried. So they are doing whatever they can to keep the next generation of IT personnel using their products.My son graduated with a degree in computer science three...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-16
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?Check with the college to see what is their preference...If there isn't one then being as I'm from a Windows IT background that moved over to Mac I'd chose the Mac. If you do need Windows you can run Boot Camp, VMware,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- SAP: Transparent SME 'deep dive'
- SAP: Transparent SME 'deep dive'SAP = one sure way to kill your IT budgetAll the pretty graphs and words still don't hide the truth that SAP is a BLACK HOLE for money. Let's see, hmmm, i can hire a SAP programmer for $250 an hour or a .Net programmer...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Measuring (not so) recent BIND nameserver patching
- Guest editorial by Derek Callaway This post is meant to provide an approximation of BIND nameserver updates that occurred during the past month, most likely in response to Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability. I conducted this research because I was curious as to how widely BIND...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- It's a big day for open source software as a U.S. District Appeals Court ruled that just because a developer gave code away for free doesn't mean it's not copyright protected. The win, which stemmed from a railroad hobbyist spat, was praised by Stanford's Lawrence Lessig. The...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- What's holding Desktop Virtualization back?
- What's holding Desktop Virtualization back?Another hold-up to desktop virtualizationWe often see companies still in the "have to POC" virtual desktops stage because they have heard rumors of slow performance or application incompatibility. At vmSight we offer a tool to measure performance, connectivity, and access control of virtual desktops that...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)
- Go MIT! (or should the students get a slap on the wrists?)Government censorship is wrong...and UNconstitutional.Make no mistake, the MBTA is a government organization.The US Constitution states "no law abridging freedom of speech".The judge who issued the restraining order is:1. an idiot2. a d_o_u_chebag3. a fool4. retardedRE: Go MIT! (or...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Ok, I admit it. I love NBCOlympics.com! Now go make it work on Linux!
- It's not often when a piece of technology impresses me enough that I do the "wow" thing when I'm using it. But the Silverlight streaming video implementation on NBCOlympics.com is truly awesome, even if I am forced into using Internet Explorer to watch it (EDIT: It...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
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