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I’d rather be watching you–Video content likely to increase in the workforce. Will it change social networking

December 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Gartner · Opinion

Salary Tool at ComputerWorld.com

November 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Opinion · jobs

Special Report: IT and the financial crisis

October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Opinion

Lazy summer? So I’m writing an ebook for DBAs!

July 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©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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Tags: Opinion · Oracle

opensolaris - Microsoft like reboots

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

©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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Tags: Opinion

opensolaris - SHAKY at best

June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©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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Tags: Opinion · Review

ONE

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

©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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Tags: Opinion

Last Call for XP

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments

 

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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Tags: Opinion

Is Apple Moving Us to Centralized Systems

May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©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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Tags: Opinion · Wall Street Journal-Tech

Does Chat (IM) Really work?

May 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

©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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Tags: Opinion · Wall Street Journal-Tech