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Here you are, your majesty.

With a little digging around in the "Hardware" section you can find three Terabyte HDD reviews, one for "The 1TB Barracuda", one for the WD RE2-GP and one for the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.

Interestingly, the Seagate has so much space that "[t]he odds are excellent that Windows will never again tell you that you're running low on hard disk space with this 1TB drive, and that alone might be worth the price of admission", while the equally-sized Hitachi "doesn't boast efficiency, but its slightly lower platter density allows it to achieve better error-checking without the need for sophisticated firmware". Either Hitachi's drive is somehow bigger than Seagate's or Hitachis just fill up faster.

With a little digging around in the "Hardware" section you can find three Terabyte HDD reviews, one for "The 1TB Barracuda", one for the WD RE2-GP and one for the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.

Interestingly, the Seagate has so much space that "[t]he odds are excellent that Windows will never again tell you that you're running low on hard disk space with this 1TB drive, and that alone might be worth the price of admission", while the equally-sized Hitachi "doesn't boast efficiency, but its slightly lower platter density allows it to achieve better error-checking without the need for sophisticated firmware". Either Hitachi's drive is somehow bigger than Seagate's or Hitachis just fill up faster.

With a little digging around in the "Hardware" section you can find three Terabyte HDD reviews, one for "The 1TB Barracuda", one for the WD RE2-GP and one for the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.

Interestingly, the Seagate has so much space that "[t]he odds are excellent that Windows will never again tell you that you're running low on hard disk space with this 1TB drive, and that alone might be worth the price of admission", while the equally-sized Hitachi "doesn't boast efficiency, but its slightly lower platter density allows it to achieve better error-checking without the need for sophisticated firmware". Either Hitachi's drive is somehow bigger than Seagate's or Hitachis just fill up faster.

Review: Six top hard disk drives for speed and capacity

The key point here is that you can get the best performance/watt around from ARM chips. AMD's Geode series has a 1.5-watt Geode LX900 (600MHz) and a 0.9-watt Geode LX800 (500MHz) (link). Note: AMD's site rates these at higher power (2.6W and 1.8W respectively) here.

ARM chips have always been more efficient than X86 chips and always will be due to CPU architecture and the way that every instruction is encoded. Each ARM opcode has got a 4-bit conditional field that governs whether that opcode is executed or not. In an IC, you've got quiescent power (always there from the moment you switch on) and dynamic power. Dynamic power comes from switching transistors on and off. If an instruction isn't executed, there is less switching and less power consumption.

With a "save the planet through electronic design" attitude, I'd love to see a large proportion of X86 desktops replaced with ARM-based machines. Especially when you consider that saving even 1 Watt per PC scales to many thousands of megawatts , especially when you see how many PCs are in use now.

As ARM CPU speeds increase beyond the point where you can have a modern, complex OS and good office software running at a comfortable speed to the user, isn't that a goal worth aiming for? The practical sides of that dream are daunting. I'd be naive to think that the world will port its software just because it's a good idea to save electricity where possible. A fresh start would be bigger than Haiku in it's ambition. Is it worth it? I'd like to think so. What's 10 years of OS and application development that could make a good dent in global power consumption that would last forever?

"Hmm, according to the article the culprit is "HP Software Updates", a program I unistalled long ago"

How does you uninstalling the program make all the other laptops safe. Is this an example of quantum entanglement; action at a distance. You uninstall 'Software Updates' and simultaneously it gets uninstalled on all other HP laptops.

"HP issued an update that simply disabled the vulnerable software .. Simple disabling of the vulnerable control .. [could still] result in the machine .. [being] compromised,"

How did you manage to remove it since HP only managed to disable it and according to the article it still leaves the machines vulnerable to the exploit.

Re:"Most HP and Compaq Laptops"

The site's lawyer told Computerworld the deal doesn't allow Apple to get the name of ThinkSecret's sources, as the company had wanted. "The First Amendment has prevailed," said Terry Gross of Gross & Belsky LLP, "and every Internet journalist should feel some strength from what's happened."

Slashdotters are largely clueless regarding Microsoft, and willfully so.

First, Office *does* have lots of innovations, particularly Office 97 and Office 2007.
Clippy *was* innovative. Yeah, it failed, but a lot of research went into it.

LINQ *does* rock.
Which reminds me that Microsoft just recently released a CTP of the .NET Parallel Extensions, allowing easy use of multiple cores in .NET code, including PLINQ (Parallel LINQ).

VC-1 *is* the most efficient hidef video codec.

XNA *is* an innovative product.
See the 2006 DEMMX Awards and see that Microsoft won Best of Show - Innovator of the Year (beating out the likes of Apple, who won a lesser award for video iPod) and Game Innovation of the Year, both for XNA.

Microsoft *has* been commissioned by the JPEG working group to develop JPEG XR (aka HD Photo aka Windows Media Photo) as the next-gen photo image standard (where JPEG2000 failed).
Industry Standardization for HD Photo

Check out this article on SIGGRAPH 2007 and learn that Microsoft is leading the way regarding graphics technology.
Siggraph: Microsoft the new research powerhouse in graphics?

F# *is* being "productized" and is already used in Xbox Live.

Vista *does* have excellent speech recognition (despite a failed demo of a beta), even admitted to by Mac fanboy David Pogue.
Telling Your Computer What to Do
Windows 2 Apples

TabletPC'S *do* have the best handwriting recognition in the biz.

It goes on and on.

Microsoft Research is this era's "Bell Labs" and "Xerox PARC", but much of Microsoft Research's stuff does wind up in products. Microsoft Live Labs is also doing interesting stuff like Volta (which is being productized), Photosynth, etc.

Just because slashdotters don't are totally ignorant of Microsoft tech doesn't mean that such tech doesn't exist.

The whole article on one page.

Nasdaq replaced aging Tandem mainframes used to disseminate market trade data with a SQL Server 2005 system that handles 5,000 transactions per second and 100,000 queries a day and can scale up to 8 million new rows of data per day, according to Ken Richmond, vice president of engineering for the stock exchange. Richmond praised the integration of the latest editions of Visual Studio and SQL Server, which he said increased the productivity of his programmers by allowing them to write database applications in the easier C# or Visual Basic code rather than the increasingly esoteric T-SQL language.

""First off, this isn't something that's coming in the future, it's something that McKesson has already done and has been doing for years. So I think it hardly counts as news""

Well, yea, the first few lines of the article actually says so. But why would any of the points raised in the article be rendered void because it happened before/after some arbitrary time frame set by you. If this was Usnet I would suspect you of doing a time shuffle .. ;)

"In 2004, health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies began focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices"

"Secondly, speaking as someone who has worked many years in hospital IT with a number of software vendors"

Secondly, if this was Usenet I would also suspect you trolling as you would have to invoke imaginary personal anecdotes to support your opinions.

"I'm pretty sure that they were talking about saving 60% on OS licensing and hardware purchasing costs, not overall savings

Thirdly, you distort what the article actually said and respond to imaginary quotes, a classic straw.man, have a nice troll day .. :)

Re:I declare shenannigans!

The original Computerworld article cited is confusing, but it refers to UNIX mainframes. The most likely educated guess is they're talking about high-end UNIX servers from Sun, Hewlett-Packard, and/or IBM, not what we would generally think of as true mainframes, notably IBM's System z.

Yes, among System z's five popular operating systems z/OS contains a complete and certified UNIX(TM) implementation (called z/OS UNIX System Services). And yes, System z runs 100% GPL open source kernel.org Linux. And yes, OpenSolaris on z will be z's OS #6 before too long, and that's clearly UNIX(TM) too. But I doubt the article is talking about any of these technologies, based on the context of the article. There are not 2,500 U.S. hospital IBM mainframes (the number of McKesson hospital customers cited), for example. Maybe there should be.

Computerworld's editors seem to be on vacation, unfortunately, so their usually good copy editing is suffering, resulting in some gibberish articles. This week they also reported that Steve Jobs and The Woz approached Commodore in 1982 to talk about the latter company selling the Apple II, pointing out that Apple's two founders didn't have enough money to launch the product, worked out of a basement, and the safety and stability of cashing out for a couple hundred Gs was better than the alternative. Unfortunately for Computerworld they got the date wrong: by 1982 Apple was doing just fine, and The Woz was doing Nissan commercials.

I believe he's lying about his nudity, as the top of a sock is clearly visible in this picture.

I learned a long time ago never to completely trust an IT Manager.

Did the satalitte dish photos remind anyone else of GoldenEye?

Well, I'm not sure how a smiley face is NSFW but whatever.

Personally, being that it was a balmy +5F outside this morning on my walk in from the car, I was seriously considering making my dreams come true and showing up in a school completely naked -- well, except for the yellow smiley face hovering over my dick.

(face it: it's going to become the new .doc format regardless of any protest or opposition from OSS, so why waste the opportunity to at least fix the most serious problems with it, and make implementation of it in OSS easier?)

Not in the Netherlands, at least.

Also, apparently, not in several other nations.

There will not be a better opportunity to change the world's default document format to an OSS one that when MS is bogged down in its own transition to OOXML. Once .DOCX becomes the standard, it'll stay that way. In the interim, there is confusion, and there's a decent chance that ODF could catch on.

It doesn't hurt in the least bit that ODF is an ISO standard, and has extensive support from the various Office-as-a-service vendors (IBM, Google, etc. . .).

This is a major opportunity for the OSS community, to stand united behind ODF, and building in cooperation with OOXML will be a kiss of death (things will not work properly; just like IE doesn't render "standard" pages correctly, and the MS Office version of OOXML will be the correct version, while the "standard" version will be allowed to languish).

Heaven knows there are enough "outs" in the OOXML format (like all the legacy crap) that will give MS plenty of leeway to insure that only MS Office opens documents properly. Of course, these will all be "fixed" in the indefinite future; just like Internet Explorer.

Microsoft has a terrible, terrible record as a standard bearer. It makes no sense to allow MS to watch the keys to the kingdom. We've got an opportunity to push the world towards ODF, and there's quite a bit of uptake internationally, and quite a bit of interest domestically. Let's not try and upstage that by putting OOXML into all our applications (not to mention the wasted developer hours).

The primary complaint against Linux has always been, "don't just duplicate, build something better!". Well, ODF is better than OOXML. Let's stick with it until we've had DOCX forced down our throat. DOCX will not be ubiquitous for several years because of the legacy users out there, so we've got some time to push ODF over DOCX.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/2803
^^ bill gates is a cheap bastard then

Easily laid Russian woman chatbot, meet Microsoft naughty Santa chatbot.

Anyone interested in the story of Commodore's early days in the computer industry should watch the recent 90-minute lecture by Chuck Peddle (who's also known for the MOS 6502 and the Kim-1). The video links and an explanation of the context are at in my blog.

Um... no. Please provide a source to your ridiculous claim. Oh wait, you can't. But I have some.

Vista's sales were 60% less than expected (comparing to XP's first week sales in October 2001), and 50% less than predicted by Microsoft. However, 30% of first week sales opted for the $400 Vista Ultimate, bringing the dollar value up to $207.13, 66% up from the initial selling price of XP. It should also be noted that PC sales were up 67% from the same week the previous year, making Vista sales look even worse.

As for actual total desktop market share, that's a tougher thing to measure. Linux users don't have to buy anything, meaning we can't judge them by sales numbers. You can't even look at download stats because the same disk image could be used throughout an organization (I myself have used the same CentOS disk on more than *200* machines). The numbers people quote most often come from advertising statistics, but that has it's own problems, mainly to do with a little something called an ad blocker. In 2002, only about 1-2% of users had adblocking software; in 2004, 21%; in 2006, 53%; and by the end of 2008, 80% are expected to have some form of adblock installed. That means that less than half of people's computers are actually reporting data back to advertisers for these OS market share statistics, with a disproportionate amount using something besides Windows. Meaning that Linux and Mac users are again shown in less than actual percentages.

Anyway, here are the numbers for the month of December 2006 from netapplications.com (the most quoted source):

XP - 85.30%
Mac - 5.67%
Linux - 0.68%
Vista - 0.37%

Other factors to keep in mind concerning advertising statistics are the large and growing number of dual boot and VM configurations, not just Linux-Windows, but Linux-Mac and Mac-Windows and the fact that most advertising statistics are usually limited to one country or even just major cities in a country. Also the fact that these numbers only account for (some) desktop systems, not servers or most embedded devices (of which Linux now boasts 20+% and 49% market share respectively as of April 2007).

Sources:
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011360&intsrc=hm_list
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10&qpmr=24&qpdt=1&qpct=3&qpcal=1&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=95
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7065740528.html

Wow. That ended up WAY longer than I thought it'd be. Sorry. :p

Oh, one last thing. If you go to the second link I gave and look up the stats for last month, you'll see that Vista is already at 9%. Not bad, but not great, either, considering how hard Microsoft's been pushing it for the last year (think about all those stories about retailers selling XP since no one with half a brain tech-wise wants Vista).

looks like that in january they were starting to do this, acording to an article in computerworld.
they said it would took from one to three years, so it looks like it was an easy decision.
they also say that adobe has had ISO standards for pdf a long time now, and suggests that it could have something to do with file-type standardization.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9009366/

AT&T plans to help find alternative payphone operators for people who need them. The AT&T decision only applies to 13 states serviced by AT&T (SBC) payphones. AT&T only operates about 65,000 of the 1 million payphones in the US, while Verizon operates about 225,000. AT&T plans to sell as many of the phones and lines to independent operators as they can. They expect the majority of the phones to be bought by someone. They even expect to continue selling wholesale payphone service to payphone owners.

It sounds to me they just decided to let someone else field the equipment. There's a lot of exaggeration around this story, but the facts are all over the web. Death of the payphone, indeed. This reaction is kind of like saying IBM getting out of the consumer laptop and desktop PC market was the end of the Windows computer.

Well I have been following this story from the beginning and I have to tell you that those bolded passages that you have in your post were edited by Microsoft to say that after the suit was filed.
(This is the first thing I found about it in a Google Search)
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9016178
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003652011_brier05.html

Additionally, I believe the suit alleges that because Aero was highly marketed as one of the new features of the Vista Operating System in the commercials so it can only be reasonably assumed that the new interface was a "core" experience. (I tend to believe her because unlike an IT professional who would care about a new file system or whatever, all a "Regular Joe" sees or cares about is the new interface)

Yes, Vista can be "run" on any "capable" machine, but thats like saying that a high-end sportscar can run on basic unleaded gas.

...like they do for Gmail users losing data? Google, the first step is admitting you have a problem....

Disappearing Gmail messages baffle users

This has been reported at least a month ago, see http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9043243. I agree it's probably not governmental, just "ordinary" corruption. Pay off a few ISPs and collect a few days worth of revenue before people complain.

Exactly. I didn't really use email until I got to college. But now it's just really a good system.

I read TFA to see what he had to say about college students:

Um... The article he linked is saying that campus wide emails might not be the best alert system in an emergency, citing the Virginia Tech incident:

Yes. Email is not an efficient system for getting messages to people within 15 minutes. But that's not in any way the same as college students increasingly ignore campus wide emails. (Although on that note, I think it's a case of the boy who cried wolf. If you send out an "important" email, it had better be actually important, or I won't be as likely to read the next one.)

Haven't bumped into this myself yet, still it is something to keep in mind.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9008399

Mikael, I believe it's BOTH as there are no other air intakes anywhere on the machine. This article describes the redesigned air handling system that matches this machine: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005385&pageNumber=3 And yes, my cats DIG sitting behind my computer. ;)

Don't know whether it's my adblock or what, but I don't see any story at that link. Here's an alternative link & story: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9046362&intsrc=news_ts_head

Intel's 45nm Penryn desktop expected to pack a big wallop
Sharon Gaudin

November 12, 2007 (Computerworld) Intel Corp.'s new 45-nanometer chip for the desktop, part of the newly released Penryn family, should give gamers, researchers and serious multitaskers a significant performance boost, according to analysts.

And that is not good news for rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which recently started shipping its quad-core Barcelona processor -- built using a 65nm manufacturing process. AMD isn't expected to move to 45nm technology until the second half of 2008.

The release of Intel's Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor came as part of a larger release of Penryn processors, including 15 server dual-core and quad-core 45nm Hi-k Intel Xeon processors. To make the move from 65nm to 45nm processors, Intel designed a new transistor, stemming leakage and improving energy efficiency. With 820 million of these newly designed transistors in just one chip, Intel is calling it one of its biggest advancements.

On the desktop side, all of this should add up to a major performance boost.

Dean Freeman, an analyst at Gartner Inc., said he expects Penryn will be 20% to 50% faster than Intel's previous chip releases in general purpose applications and 10% to 40% faster in technical applications, multimedia and games. For example, someone using Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint should see a 20% to 50% boost, while an Adobe Photoshop user should see a 10% to 40% increase.

"It's going to mean a faster desktop. It's a more powerful tool, operating applications faster," said Freeman. "Basically, it means that for those of us who are concerned about the speed at which applications work on our desktop, the good news is that it will work faster."

Boyd Davis, a general manager at Intel, said a larger L2 cache and support for new SSE4 media instructions are part of the chip's performance boost.

And while no one will be expectantly lining up around the block for the new chips, Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT Inc. in Hayward, Calif., said that Penryn is a "step up" from previous Intel designs and should appeal to the high-end gamers and workstation customers.

"The Penryn architecture blends notably high performance with significant steps forward in power efficiency," he added. "It's a bit like a new sports car that hits a higher top speed than previous models, while simultaneously delivering better gas mileage."

Dan Olds, an analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group Inc., said the Penryn desktop won't just appeal to the gaming community. Power users with more than 10 applications open at once, video editors and researchers are going to be eager for a performance boost.

Olds added that with this "big step forward" for desktop performance, he's not sure what AMD has to respond with.

"AMD has their work cut out for them," he said. "[Penryn] will be hands-down the fastest desktop chips in existence ... And it's not just this generation. Intel will just crank this thing faster and faster, and it will be a challenge for AMD to respond."

Intel last month opened a new $3 billion manufacturing facility in Chandler, Ariz., kicking off mass production of its new 45nm microprocessors. Freeman has previously noted that the opening of the new Arizona facility, named Fab 32, is expected to boost production of 45nm wafers from 5,000 a month in the pilot program at an Oregon facility to 25,000 to 30,000 wafers a month. Davis added that two other new 45nm fabrication sites -- one in Israel and one in New Mexico -- are expected to go online, boosting 45nm production over Intel's 65nm production

Something is fishy about all those numbers of market share and units sold. Lets see;

I know more people with iPhones (4) than use Vista (3) and they only sold 1.2 million iPhones in the U.S so far. 100 million copies of Vista? Maybe, but Idunno. Can't see them anywhere. Of the three people I know with Vista, two hate it and are ready to buy Macs. I know many many more people who used to own PCs who now own Macs (about 30 over two years). Seeing as one in every six laptops sold in the U.S. is a Mac, that market share claim is further in doubt.

Very few corporations have switched to Vista. There weren't any lines at Best Buy to get boxed Vista when it was released. Who's buying it? How many Vista machines have been rolled back to XP? How's XP selling next to Vista? Apparently enough to force Microsoft to allow it to be installed on new computers.

So, in the time Vista has been around, Vista shipments slumped in Q3, Apple has jumped a few percent in market share, Dell is selling Linux computers fairly briskly and Ballmer has been VERY noisy about little Linux blip on the radar. Something doesn't add up here - like someone is lying about it all.

Microsoft better watch their backs - looks like the user satisfaction figures are becoming leading market share indicators.

Apparently it doesn't have to be unpatched (or even a shady website...)

(long URL ab't a recent ad server compromise that utilizes IFRAME-launched vulns) Apparently, the attackers used an embedded IFRAME to shift browsers to a sniffing website, where it could look for a nice bucket of 0-day exploits (e.g. the recent RealPlayer one).

Not exactly - in OSX, you only see that when you actually install a binary that requires full-on root or sudo privileges. UAC in Vista apparently did it all the time (hence jokes such as "your mouse cursor is trying to move. Cancel or Allow?")

In some cases, it is, albeit subtly. UAC for example... the most popular subject concerning it is (to paraphrase) "how do I disable the fscking thing!?" Granted, MSFT (I think?) tweaked it to not cry wolf so much, but it's still a PITA judging by most reports.

Now I'm not discounting the fact that the most common attack vector does rely on social engineering - but there's a vast difference between opening what your OS thinks to be a media file (and ending up with a nasty case of crap via some app or OS vulnerability), and explicitly opening a disk image file (.dmg), and going through the motions of typing an admin password to get the thing installed.

/P

I'm not a M$ fan, but TFA was too biased even for /.

To counter balance, here's another article that is very biased in the other direction.

  * Microsoft: 88 million copies of Vista shipped
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2255779/6331742/84837/2/

Microsoft: 88 million copies of Vista shipped
Eric Lai

Click here to find out more!

October 25, 2007 (Computerworld) Despite underwhelming consumers and being snubbed by enterprises, Windows Vista's numbers keep growing, with Microsoft Corp. saying Thursday that it has now shipped 88 million copies of the operating system, almost double the number of copies of XP in the same amount of time at its launch.

In late July, Microsoft said it had hit the 60 million shipment mark with Vista.

Microsoft had previously said that it had shipped 20 million copies of Vista in its first month and 40 million copies of Vista in the first 100 days.

Microsoft credited Vista with helping it beat Wall Street expectations and raise financial projections for the rest of the year. The company reported revenue of $13.76 billion for the first quarter ended Sept. 30, up 27% from the same quarter in 2006.

Revenue in its client segment, which includes all consumer versions of Windows, was $4.14 billion, edging out the $4.11 billion in revenue from the Microsoft Business Division where Office is produced.

CFO Chris Liddell credited strong sales in emerging markets, due in part to anti-piracy and legalization programs there.

Client revenues, however, did not top those of the first calendar quarter this year, when Vista was officially launched. Revenues at that time were $5.32 billion.

Three-quarters of the copies sold of Vista were higher-priced 'premium' versions, compared to 59% of the copies of Windows -- primarily XP -- available a year ago.

The 88 million figure mostly includes Vista-installed PCs bought by consumers and small businesses, as well as packaged copies of Vista sold in stores or online.

It does exclude the tens of millions of Windows corporate volume licenses. There, many enterprises continue to hold off on deploying Vista, acknowledged CFO Chris Liddell, though he expects them to start deploying it when Vista Service Pack 1's arrival in the first quarter of next year.

Nevertheless, revenue from companies renewing their volume licenses for Windows, which gives them the right to upgrade to Vista, was up 27%.

Other highlights from the statistics:

        * Unit sales of Windows Server's premium enterprise edition were up 35% year-over-year;
        * A release candidate for Windows Server 2008 has been downloaded more than one million times in its first month;
        * Unit and revenue growth of SQL Server were both up more than 15%;
        * Halo 3 generated $330 million in revenue;
        * Xbox 360 console unit sales increased 90%, driven by a price cut in August and Halo 3-related demand;
        * Client revenues, including those for Vista, are expected to grow 62-64% year-over-year in the current fiscal Q2, or 13-14% excluding certain revenue deferrals in the prior year;
        * Microsoft Business Division revenues, including those for Office, are expected to grow 15-16% in Q2 after normalizing for impact of technology guarantees and pre-shipment deferrals in the prior year;
        * A beta version of Office Communications Server has been downloaded 80,000 times;
        * There are 10,000 customers in the Customer Technical Preview (CTP) program for PerformancePoint Server, its new business intelligence offering.

I was considering karma whoring and making a Natalie Portman joke early on in a discussion, almost guaranteeing a +5 Funny...

But I decided to actually read the story. According to the article, and also Wikipedia, shes a Psyc student, published a couple papers. Seriously, thats enough to make the geek list? Am I in a dillusioned world that of the thousands of "stars" out there, there aren't many with more geek cred than this?

Oh and I will karma whore... here's the link to the full article print link:

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9043739

Redesigned mail, notes, and calendaring systems?

speaking of notes, I noticed he has Lotus Notes on his dock in the screenshots. My Lotus guys are telling me that it does NOT run on 10.5

Someone has got to take the time machine visualizer and change the background image to Goatse :D

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9043838 all on one page print link

Pah. Call me when John Siracusa has posted his in-depth review up over at ars.

Also, single-page link for the ComputerWorld Article:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9043838

• virtualization (not really new but) -- Microsoft buys Connectix
• innovative utilities -- Winternals
  
• anti-spyware -- Giant
• VOIP -- Teleco Inc.

</sarcasm> </rant> </bloodpressure>

If OS X could have pulled off adding ZFS" - Last time I checked, they did add ZFS.


1) It is a developer preview release.
2) It will be read only in Leopard.
3) It is not the default or main OS File System.

OS X cannot use the advanced features of ZFS as a part of the basic operations of the Operating System, nor rely on ZFS technologies.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9041178

Take Care...

Now, instead of RIAA, I have to worry about the Secret Service and the NSA when I'm browsing pirate bay looking for some mus

Your search for muscle building is probably not going to raise any eyebrows. The fact you are sharing your entire My Documents folder with your Turbo Tax records is of a bigger concern. Go to any P-P site and do a search for common applications extensions. .doc, .xls, .ppt, are just the tip of the iceberg. Try searching for .pwl.. enjoy.

Many people just don't get the fact they shouldn't use their home directory as a place to download their goodies. It is what they share without even knowing is what is dangerous.

Here is a WSJ article detailing the problem..
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118134946950829716-QWDmBwH_qAgisaepbCCMoT_4cPA_20070710.html?mod=fpa_editors_picks
Compuerworld article;
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012961
and an article regarding an ID theft and arrest
http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/man-used-filesharing-program-to-steal-data-money/2007/09/07/1188783469524.html

They are not interested in your searches for marginal photos. They are interested in the security leaks.

So just where are you pointing your downloads? Just what are you making available?

Who, in their right mind, would devote thousands of development hours cobbling something together, then cast it into the wind where basement developers use "what they want, and [get] rid of what they don't?"

Hmm, let's see...

• Apple
• Adobe
• Cray

And of course the usual suspects like Sun and IBM.

Free Software can most definitely be an important part of a business strategy. For example, the company I work for uses it to leverage testing resources of the community. We also get bug fixes back from the community. We think it makes a lot of sense for a large community to share core development responsibility, the sort of stuff you find in university textbooks that is not proprietary in any way.

In the future, companies aren't going to make money selling operating systems, word processors or basic compiler implementations. They're going to make money modifying the OS to run well on custom hardware, selling plugins to do fancy document formatting and developing new compiler optimizations that make all of this run well on their proprietary computer system.

Microsoft makes about 50 billion USD per year.[1] That is only 1% of Microsoft's one year revenue. Anyone who thinks this is going to deter Microsoft from anti-competitive practices is badly mistaken.

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001926

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Keep in mind, Novell sales are up 250% since their deal with Microsoft. Their customers don't exactly seem to mind.

psst... 360 failures are common and ARE all over news sites.

Actually, there was a lawsuit in France over Apple's DRM and the iPod lock-in.

See this lovely Computerworld article without possibility of reader feedback, that completely fails to mention the Microsoft connection or patent troll element:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9042418&intsrc=hm_list

OK guys, you know what to do. Be polite. Computerworld just doesn't quite understand the concept of journalistic integrity, please explain it to them patiently, and provide some of the specifics they omitted.

Go!

Not that hard. ;-) The article referenced in the slashdot summary, contains a link to further information about the actual incident: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9025263

One thing worth pointing out, is that Jerry Miller is not the intern who lost the data. Instead he bears responsibility for the policy which led to the intern having to take the tape home. It certainly makes sense that the punishment should be applied to him, and not to the intern. Likewise it makes sense that they identified the policy as the problem, instead of the actual theft.

I have the same experience you have - taking home backup tapes is a standard way in the industry to make sure backups are safe. It's not a stupid idea as such - however due to the risk of theft, it should not be done with data which is as sensitive as in this incident.

I think the state was doing the right thing here: They focussed not on blaming the individual responsible, but on preventing things like that in the future. They took a reasonable period of time to review their procedures instead of a quick PR-driven rush job. And they kept things in proportion - the guy had some responsibility, but it was a mistake not a crime. There is no reason to get rid of an otherwise good employee.

I know some people are going to claim they would never make a mistake like this - however from my experience in the industry, I know that privacy policy problems like these are par for the course.