I’ll be the first to admit that, while I was at work, watched cats scamper across a treadmill on YouTube today. And I have started to be more active in the number of webinars, video conferences, and news reals I watch. I would say my usage has at least doubled in the last 6 months [...]

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Go take a look at what others are making in your profession. Although, I’m always surprised at the amount. Seems that IT salaries are staying somewhat constant. Read, going against inflation. Out on the ComputerWorld.com site there are additional articles that give a glimpse into the job/paying market. Read one statement that IT is finally [...]

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If you are like many, you’ve worried at least a little bit about the current financial crisis. Surely it is hitting too close to home for many in the U.S. and abroad. I was very interested to see that Europe as a whole has also put in a whopping 2.3 trillion to help their banking [...]

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©Editor B
Well, it looks like next month could prove itself to be quite light on writing assignments. The question has come up many times as to what I should do during this down-time. 

While I still have the potential to write articles across [...]

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©Robyn Gallagher
The saga continues on my recently installed opensolaris system. When last I posted, I was going to put it up on the shelf until the next release. This was because of the network bugs I encountered. Well, I booted up this machine [...]

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©Laertes

I had really high hopes for Sun’s opensolaris. Everything was good until I needed to get an Internet connection.
While I was easily connected to my local network, which is interesting at best as I have a hacked a bridge between two wireless [...]

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©moriza

been ONE of those days as it seemed like i was the only ONE around on a the last and only train out of town.

the day started out ok. i had my ONE egg, ONE piece of bacon, but not ONE cup [...]

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Mark your calendar as Windows XP will no longer be available for purchase from Microsoft and OEM partners as of June 30, 2008.
Actually many OEMs are already cutting off the ability to order a new PC with XP:

Dell - June 18
Hewlett-Packard’s - June 10
Lenovo’s - June 15
Acer - June [...]

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©terren in Virginia
What goes around comes around. I don’t think it is much different in the personal computing space than the enterprise space. For enterprise systems we tend to de-centralize then centralize, just long enough to catch our bearings then we de-centralize again.

The WSJ had an interesting article on the next gadgets Apple might be [...]

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©MACSURAK
Did you know that, as reported in WSJ:

70% of the Internet users in the U.S. are over the age of 30?
70% of the Internet users in China are UNDER the age of 30%.
In the US, people spend their time composing e-mail messages and using the Internet for searching for information.
In China, people spend their time [...]

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