Month: July 2004

Adam Smith on narrowing competition

Adam Smith's name is often brought up as the champion of free-market capitalism. But he foresaw the perils of excessive concentration and urged legislators to consider carefully any change in laws pushed by the class of stock owners and dealers. Here's a passage from Chapter IX of The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith on narrowing competition Adam Smith's name is often brought up as the champion of free-market capitalism. But he foresaw the perils of excessive concentration and urged legislators to consider carefully any change in laws pushed by the class of stock owners and dealers. Here's a passage from Chapter IX of The Wealth of… Continue reading

Adam Smith on narrowing competition

Adam Smith's name is often brought up as the champion of free-market
capitalism. But he foresaw the perils of excessive concentration and
urged legislators to consider carefully any change in laws pushed by
the class of stock owners and dealers. Here's a passage from Chapter IX
of The Wealth of Nations

“When your Exchange server goes down”

“When your Exchange server goes down”. Review of four Exchange high-availability products… “Fujitsu/Softek's Softek Replicator 2.1.2; LeftHand Networks' SAN/iQ Software, Remote IP Copy Software and NSM 200 SAN Module combination; NSI Software's Double-Take for Windows 4.3; and XOSoft's WANSync HA Exchange 3.5.2 Build 45.” [MS Exchange Blog]

Trouble with Online Games

Trouble with Online Games. Wired reports on Electonic Arts' decision to shut down UXO (Ultima X: Odyssey) and goes on to elaborate on the pain and cost of running a massive online games. While developing the game client and server itself is within the realm of developers' abilities, creating the content of a virtual world… Continue reading Trouble with Online Games

Dell's Forecast of Solid Profit Lifts PC Sector

Dell's Forecast of Solid Profit Lifts PC Sector. Dell Computer delivered a dose of positive news on Friday when it announced that its second-quarter earnings would be stronger than expected. By GARY RIVLIN. [The New York Times > Technology]

Gateway 7000 Series Ideal Security Solution for Small Office

Gateway 7000 Series Ideal Security Solution for Small Office. Gateway's 7000 service access points include all the security and authentication that an office of 5 to 25 users need: Gateway released its two 7000 series models a few months ago and have received very little press. The unit comes in 802.11g ($299) and 802.11a/g ($399)… Continue reading Gateway 7000 Series Ideal Security Solution for Small Office

It's Not That I'm Ungrateful: Ten Reasons Windows Update Will Drive You Crazy

It's Not That I'm Ungrateful: Ten Reasons Windows Update Will Drive You Crazy. OK, it's the day after the second Tuesday of the month. I know that the second Tuesday of each month is now Windows critical updates day. However, I know that I am safe because I have the automatic update setting turned on.… Continue reading It's Not That I'm Ungrateful: Ten Reasons Windows Update Will Drive You Crazy

Presidential Blair 'must change' style of leadership

Presidential Blair 'must change' style of leadership. SINCE taking office, Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, has prided himself in his informal style of meetings at No 10 – swapping agendas and minutes for cups of tea and biscuits. However, Lord Butler indicated yesterday that the highly personalised style… [The Scotsman]

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Flawed, overstated, misleading

Flawed, overstated, misleading. TONY Blair's case for war with Iraq was torn apart by Lord Butler yesterday, as his report into pre-war intelligence found that the Prime Minister's Iraq dossier stretched the truth to its “outer limits”. [The Scotsman]

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What's Vivisimo Up To?

What's Vivisimo Up To?. The Pittsburgh Business Times published an article recently about what Vivisimo is doing right now. Vivisimo is great, and I highly recommend that every librarian in existence today at least take a look at it. Clustering search results is one good solution to the problem of the information overload that people… Continue reading What's Vivisimo Up To?