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- Map Suite Web Edition (zip)
- Map Suite Web Edition is an ASP.NET server control that you can use to develop Internet and Intranet GIS applications with rich, interactive maps. Designed as an easy-to-learn .NET native component, Map Suite Web Edition makes Web-based GIS accessible to beginning and veteran developers alike. Now even more simple to...
- Software downloads 2008-08-29
- M-Audio Studiophile AV20
- We recently auditioned the M-Audio's Studiophile AV 40 stereo speakers, and found a lot to like. Those big, beefy monitors were great for audio from a PC or any other stereo audio source. However, with 4-inch woofers and speakers weighing 14 pounds each, the AV 40s required a design and...
- Product reviews 2008-08-22
- Toshiba soups up traditional DVDs
- Toshiba soups up traditional DVDsactually, you are wrong...HD dvd has the higher capacity, and better technology, like BetaMax in the past was superior to VHS but still lost the war. I would love to be able to use HD DVD rather than blue ray for data backupsThis is a first...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM Australia faces strike action
- A section of under 100 employees who work in the "Flightdeck" at Baulkam Hills, Australia want a collective agreement granting them better pay and work conditions. IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action among its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday for employees in a...
- News items 2008-08-15
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?
- Virtual Machine Software Announcements - Why Now?Virtual machine worthless.http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/12/vmware-update-bombedUnless you are running two different OS', why would you run a virtual machine? My Windows and Linux machines multi-task just fine with only one instance of the OS loaded. Especially as cheap as hardware is today, VM's simply add a layer...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Gmail outage the latest cloud stumble; Where's the offline synching?
- Google's Gmail outage on Monday was the latest stumble for nascent cloud computing services, which are becoming the lifeblood for small businesses and startups. The Gmail outage--along with Amazon's stumbles of late--raises a few key questions: Where's the offline synchronization capability? Can we depend solely on the Web? Is Microsoft's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Outage of critical systems shows a hybrid web-desktop approach is still the best
- Gmail pulled a fail whale and a number of people are talking about how their productivity was damaged. Systems are going to go down, it's a fact of life. What's important is to be prepared when those systems go down which is a major reason that some kind of offline...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Open Gear and cloud infrastructure
- Open Gear and cloud infrastructureAll your eggs...I love virtulization. I see it as the wave of the future. A sandboxed server that can be restored with a single file is an admin's dream. However, I fear the all your eggs in one basket symptom here. How many...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- If there was one solid message to come from the opening keynotes at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, it is this: Now is the time. Illustrated through the lenses of two large, mainstream industries – financial services and health care – the first two presenters talked about ways...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Microsoft mashes up multiple natural-user-interface inputs
- Publicly and privately, Microsoft officials have been making much of the company's myriad multi-touch input projects (especially with Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 7). But Microsoft's view of what the user interface of the future will look like is more complex than that. Instead of allowing users...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
- Over the weekend Amazon's S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites. Since enterprises haven't totally jumped on the bandwagon Amazon's outage didn't have broader ramifications. But Amazon's latest outage--the second big one...
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Android losing it's mojo fast
- Android losing it's mojo fastForcing GTalk != do no evilYou can't get more lame than that...A note on iPhone apps.Apple would do well to remove the restriction where any non Apple application must exit not stay resident when another function is used like answering an incoming call. This will...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- A super-resolution x-ray microscope
- Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging CDI and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy STXM. As a result, the new system offers both the high penetration power of x-rays and high spatial resolution. This method will allow other scientists to...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamed
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamedWho is really to blame?SOA makes things easier for the end user, but harder for IT. But is it really SOA that should take the blame or are IT shops just really bad at "real" software engineering? I vote for the later. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Vox BlackBox (1TB)
- The Vox BlackBox offers 1TB of storage and can be found online from roughly $310 to $340. Aside from its low cost per gigabyte, there's unfortunately little to recommend about this dual-drive Network Attached Storage NAS device. From the desktop application to the Web-based interface, the device is consistently confusing....
- Product reviews 2008-07-11
- Most employees are frustrated with IT
- Most employees are frustrated with ITIT NazisLike the feeling of unlimited power that comes from having the workers bow and scrape. That's the real problem.RE: Most employees are frustrated with ITNOTE: I think the system ate my first attempt at a reply, if not apologies for the duplication...Although I'm...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel
- Costing Sun Ray vs WintelSo, you like Sun Ray, Yes? KiddingSeriously, interesting article--Sun Ray is looking better and better!There are so many good reasons to consider using Thin Client. Sun Ray just reinforces that.A few questionsWhy did you so much oversize the client. why use E7200 core duo ? why...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one
- VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long oneA few points..."...as well as a price point that is absolutely unbeatable — free with the Windows Server 2008 OS..."I expect Neely Kroes will have something to say about this."VMware is great, but you need Microsoft to make...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Brain Workout 1 and 2 - Brain Training (exe)
- Brain Workout has 30 mentally stimulating activities to exercise the mind and help improve concentration and memory. Up to 8 users have their own training program in the gym and can track their progress in the categories; verbal, logic, spatial, numerical, and memory. There are 5 levels of difficulty to...
- Software downloads 2008-06-26










