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- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Hands-on review of the Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- After seeing my mildly skeptical post about the release of its Squeezebox Boom Internet radio device, Logitech offered to send me a sample unit to review, promising me I'd be pleasantly surprised with the audio output from the compact unit. I've been testing it out over the last few weeks,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Chilling data from the Arctic
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- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Boingo - a traveler's lifesaver
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- About those Windows Live Messenger outages...
- About those Windows Live Messenger outages..."All systems are stable and running."Yesterday during the outages I checked the "Service Status" web page a couple of times and each time it displayed "All systems are stable and running."What does it take for the MSN Live Messenger service to acknowledge that, yes, they...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- The role of media in the Internet age
- Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central, a fake news show that has acquired a huge following a group among whom I include myself, is attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As a result, he had the chance to meet with members of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OS
- The layered approach ... my wish for a future OSSounds a lot like BSD to me....BSD (and therefore Mac OS/X) has much the same structure as the one you describe. Indeed this structure has some inherent advantages.However, in practice BSD doesn't have a stability or reliability advantage over Linux. Linux...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom
- Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs youAnd they'll pay almost a plumbers wagesSo off we go, let's all rush to those jobs ....RE: Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you"Most computer science students worldwide, will have some idea about security..."So the problem is neither lack of knowledge nor...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Analyzing 3 months of Vista reliability data
- Analyzing 3 months of Vista reliability dataThis is new information to me, thanks.I like a pro-active way to address software & system issues. I will use this to evaluate my 64bit laptop. Thanks.Keeps people focused on the wrong thingsI might start keeping graphs of the issues classic cars have...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- A complete EMR system for half the money
- Midland Memorial Hospital is finally ready to brag about its Medsphere EMR system, installed for $7 million when other vendors were asking at least $18 million. Director of IT Systems David Whiles and his 30-person staff removed the hospital's patient charts a year ago and are now calculating their return...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian deal
- IBM denies re-entering PC market with Russian dealMatter of sematics?Seems to me that if you're selling PC architecture machines running whatever OS, then you're in the PC business. However, enough people use the term "PC" to refer specifically to x86 machines running an MS operating system that IBM execs...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Inhale some of that good, clean country air...hah!
- Inhale some of that good, clean country air...hah!you can't regulate something you subsidizeit would be a waste of the tax dollars and political clouth.This pollution is not good for the health but is patriotic because it 'secures America food supply'.AbsolutelyLet's go back to the days of horse manure and urine...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
- Cloud computing is getting hot, as in hot promises, hot press releases, and some hot contentions about who's platform is going to win the latest battleground in on-demand/SaaS. The answer my friend, is largely blowing in the wind. But not for long…. To be sure, there's a...
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Microsoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombs
- Microsoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombsMicrosoft-Yahoo the mother of all clusterbombsI can see the buy out having a lot of good value. Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Finance have been very strong for the company. Everyone knows the Yahoo name. Microsoft has Live services. Microsoft has a...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Windows blue screen of death at Frankfurt Airport
- Windows blue screen of death at Frankfurt AirportThis is newsworthy?One BSOD and you feel the need to write about it?We see this all the timeOver at http://thedailywtf.com . ATMs, Airports, Subways.. all sorts of Windows errors and crashes.MODS: That's NOT my site, so I'm not just self-promoting! I just find...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace period
- ICANN might spit out domain-tasting grace periodPLEASE! DO IT!!!I don't care if the original purpose was for typos. That's a lame excuse. Millions of addresses are locked up by cybersquatters. Many times, they just renew it for another free "trial". Or, another cybersquatter picks them up. They are never freed...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-30
- Steve Ballmer then and now?
- Steve Ballmer then and now?Steve Ballmer - Monkey CEOI can't think of a time when I could take Steve seriously as the CEO of Microsoft. He would rattle some rant about how .net was a platform and Java was a language. He would also rattle on about how...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Flight profile (Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwo)
- Flight profile Virgin Galactic models SpaceShipTwoSpaceship TwoI think this is great. I am a big fan of Burt Rutan and all of his projects. I cannot wait until SpaceShip Two is complete. I am the academic coordinator for the Aircraft Manufacturing Technology program at a technical school...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Skype "mood feature" security vulnerability reported
- From Vinius, Lithuania, Internet security expert Miroslav Lučinskij blogs about what sounds like a security bug in a Skype partner feature related to the danger of executing "malicious script content" through the "mood feature" option available as part of a video selection option tied to that...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
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