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- Google Wave: The Microsoft Bob of the New Millennium
- Google Wave, the new and highly anticipated workflow/group collaboration mashup web application which is in limited alpha test has left me underwhelmed. Over the weekend I became one of the lucky few to receive a Google Wave invite. I was excited, overjoyed, and...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- ZDNet breaks down the comment wall
- Yes!I love DISQUS. Would be a great addition. One step at a time, I suppose. :)Finally!Glad to see the wall coming down. I'll be happy to comment here more often instead of just skipping directly to Friendfeed.RE: ZDNet breaks down the comment wallI'd really love to see y'all implementing...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineup
- AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineupWhy?This ridiculous...I can understand their wanting to be ahead in the market but 6core? It's absolutely pointless currently. There isn't even enough stuff out that utilizes quad cores, not to mention the 64 bit part either. I enjoy drooling over new tech but there has...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- In Skins vs Believers: Linux always loses
- In Skins vs Believers: Linux always losesSo tell me murph,Is that why you were so quick to point fingers at MS when the London Stock Exchange experienced an outage, despite the official reason was a "network connectivity problem"?The same political bias......is often evident when eco-bullies demand that "big oil" companies...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-15
- Cool Tools - TwitterScope threads Twitter's tweets
- Twitter is an amazing communications vehicle, yet it's known as being a somewhat one-sided communications vehicle. Twitter needs to figure out a better way of showing conversations versus disconnected thoughts. Until it does, however, those seeking to get closer to the big Twitter picture can use TwitterScope -- an easy-to-use...
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- How important is boot performance?
- How important is boot performance?Boot performance is very importantA computer should only take as long to get to working state as a television - 10 seconds tops - with either the option of restoring the exact shutdown state or a fresh rebooted OS.Moderate importance overallBootup speed is not really a...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- I'm done with GMail
- I'm done with GMailRE: I'm done with GMailI was going to go off on 'WTF are you on about?' but I read the 'inbox zero' page first & saw this paragraph,"Gmail's made me see the value of having very few actual folders for storing new and archived mail. It makes...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Â A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Microsoft's multicore strategy
- Microsoft's multicore strategymulticoreinfoA link is provided to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , the hub for multicore related resources.Moderately talented?"...enables the moderately talented to produce functional software. Enabling Visual Basic programmers to exploit multicore chips is no mean feat."Say what? I use VB because its easier and faster to develop...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos?
- The 'shoot out' between Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Connections, two juggernauts in the enterprise space, played to a packed audience at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The two companies went head to head, squaring off with product demos. I chose to instead attend John...
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Does Web 2.0 Need IT?
- Does Web 2.0 Need IT?demanding cloud-based apps?I agree with you that users don't care where applications come from, so anyone -- enterprise or consumer -- won't necessarily demand cloud-based applications. I think the important part of that OpSource point is that users *are* more and more used to going...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Barcelona, Tigerton, and the T2
- Intel claims that its forthcoming Xeon 73XX CPUs are the fastest, bestest, most power efficient processors around, AMD claims the same crown thing for its "Barcelona" line, and Sun says that its T2 ultraSPARC blows both of them away. So which two are lying? ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- HP's expanding software portfolio
- Since Mark Hurd took over the reigns of HP on March 29, 2005, the company has been leaning into software, mostly through acquisition. With the last 24 months, HP’s software group has made six acquisitions, totally nearly $7 billion. It's not acquisition at Oracle scale, but it's a big shift...
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- The death of single threaded development
- The death of single threaded developmentLook on the bright side, George.With multiple cores, a badly-written program is less likely to slow your entire machine down to a crawl as it consumes every last CPU cycle in sight. And with CPU cores not getting much faster, maybe some programmers will put...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- Is the New York Times going to charge for their WPF reader?
- Is the New York Times going to charge for their WPF reader?I expected better from the NY Times ...FYI:With all the talk and discussion concerning cross-platform you'd think the NY Times would have picked a set of technologies that would have allowed for creating *one* application that would run on...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
- News to know: HP vs. Dell; XP support; Web celebs
- Notable headlines:HP accused of spying on Dells printer plans.Vista reviews: Basic, Home Premium, Business.Microsoft-Wiki flap boils over. Techmeme discussion. Like Richard Stallman never edits the Wikipedia entry on the GPL. S. Korean addiction to ActiveX stalls Vista adoption.Photos: So many home wireless standards, so little time.XP gets a new lease...
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- TinyURL.com: The next YouTube? Perhaps not $1.6B's worth, but...
- By now, youre laughing your ass off. With the $1.6B of Googles money that YouTube commanded, if youve ever even visted the simplistic and somewhat basic looking TinyURL.com most havent, youre probably thinking that David Berlind must have completely lost his mind. I havent. TinyURL is the next YouTube....
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Battle of the Quads: Intel eats AMD's "Frankenstein" for lunch (and spits it out)
- Our boy George Ou who loves to talk hardware is all over several rounds of benchmark tests pitting Intels 2.66 GHz quad-core QX6700 against AMDs new "4×4" Quad FX dual CPU. If theres one thing George knows how to do: its kindle the passions of ZDNets readers who often love...
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first
- Just before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I wrote about how a handful of vendors including customer relationship management solution provider SugarCRM were distributing software under licenses that they claimed to be open source licenses, but that dont appear on the Open Source Initiatives OSI official list of...
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C.
- Die, C, die! 5 reasons to UN-learn C.C died, lives C++ !I think people should stop waste time learning C, indeed there is only historical reasons for learning it, buddies can go straight to C++ and discover the beauty of OO programming... :-)I'm sending this to my professorsIf C gives...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
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