Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya…
So after several rounds of the most piss poor, incompetent tech support on the planet, I am telling Time Warner Cable where they can shove it. I don’t entirely blame the level 1 techs that answer the phone because the problem is most likely [...]
After reading a recent article in a major weekly magazine, I decided to put the topic up for discussion on my blog. The original title “Why College Shouldn’t Take Four Years” definitely rang a bell with me. I’m going to paint the higher education arena with a broad brush here, so the generalizations will not [...]
An 8 minute clip on how to use Google Wave. I especially like the live auto-translator robot!
One of the topics that I love to talk about is ‘freedom.’ Freedom can mean many different things, but most people equate freedom to the ability to do whatever you want (within reason of course.) I tend to link freedom with the free software movement, where one has access to the source code of the [...]
I was trying to decide on what the most basic reason should be for an SMB to adopt cloud computing. Cost savings is always good, but you can shave costs other ways as well, and sometimes it may actually come out slightly more expensive to go into the cloud. Being able to start small and [...]
I was reading an interesting article that dealt with the future of computing. In it, one sentence modified and old agage and said “recession is the mother of invention.” That inspired me to write a post that expanded on that thought and put a little perspective on it. Don’t cast stones when I say this, [...]
Over the years, the heavy reliance on computers and servers has increased exponentially. With that reliance comes an increase in the overall number of machines in service. The server side of the business has ballooned recently to the point where businesses are faced with concerns such as electricity consumption, cooling and space constraints. Although the [...]
From the Microsoft Blog:
This is one of those posts where I’m truly excited to be writing. I get to tell you when Windows 7 will be on store shelves! According to input from customers and partners we’ve made a lot of progress with Windows 7.
Our milestone-to-milestone approach for Windows 7 is built on a great [...]
Here is a short video about how Sun Microsystems helped the University of Alabama Health System reduce the time physicians spent logging in and out of various desktops, centralize medical applications and deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure. This new VDI technology is the wave of the future. VDI with thin clients reduces desktop procurement and [...]
If you head over to the Canonical blog at http://blog.canonical.com/?p=110, you can read about a recent survey by Redmonk analyst group that illustrates the extent to which Ubuntu server has penetrated the enterprise server market. Although to most of us Ubuntu users out there, it is no surprise that Ubuntu server is all over the [...]
