Gaming resumes. Gaming resumes: Good multi-screen essay on how to get hired for a game-programming job at one company. I suspect much of this will generalize to most tech-oriented gigs. … [JD on MX]
Author: Vince Kimball
Panopticon and the Police State
Panopticon and the Police State. Security expert Bruce Schneier's latest essay bluntly describes the Bush administration as setting up a police state under the aegis of fighting terrorism. He states that such a strategy sacrifices much of the freedom that Americans believe in for little in the way of actual security. Terrorism is no different.… Continue reading Panopticon and the Police State
The First Truly Thinking Machines?
The First Truly Thinking Machines?. Stephen Thaler is the CEO of Imagination Engines, Inc. (IEI) and has designed and patented a computer program called the Creativity Machine. His idea was simple: introduce noise in a rigid rule-based neural network. This noise disrupts the connections and helps generating new ideas. With his Creativity Machine, he invented… Continue reading The First Truly Thinking Machines?
Handling IM as business tool
Handling IM as business tool. The rapid adoption of IM to conduct business proves that it can be an effective business tool — but its use brings potential liabilities. Experts recommend that instant messages be handled in the same way as e-mail, which can be considered records and be subject to legal discovery and records… Continue reading Handling IM as business tool
WSH: The demon of the dark
WSH: The demon of the dark. Recently Peter posted a good comment about how the Windows Script Host (WSH) is not actually riddled with vulnerabilities, even though its one of the FBI's Top 10 Windows Vulnerabilities. He has a good point there. However, I do understand why its a nasty beast that is on the… Continue reading WSH: The demon of the dark
Untitled
Howard Dean was masterful on Meet The Press. What's remarkable is the tension the interviewer creates inside me, a member of the audience, who he's supposed to be serving. I just want to hear what Dean has to say, I'm not all that interested in the trivial contradictions you think you've spotted. Then immediately after,… Continue reading Untitled
Why Doesn't OneNote have Feature X?
Why Doesn't OneNote have Feature X?. Who decides what features go into a software product? If a software product doesn't have a feature, why is that? My entire career at Microsoft has been as a Program Manager. You can probably read elsewhere exactly what that means, but for now we'll just say that the role… Continue reading Why Doesn't OneNote have Feature X?
Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us. Alright, I resisted as long as I could, but everyone and their librarian-brother is posting about this thing. Del.icio.us is a collaborative bookmarks manager, web-based, and spiffy. I'm thinking it would be most useful for reference librarians to collaborate on… [LibrarianInBlack]
Hats off to Paul Venezia for his exhaustive analysis of the Linux 2.6 kernel in this week's InfoWorld:
Will the new Linux really perform in the same league as the big boys? To find out, I put the v2.6.0 kernel through several real-world performance tests, comparing its file server, database server, and Web server performance with a recent v2.4 series kernel, v2.4.23. [InfoWorld: Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise, Paul Venezia
Hats off to Paul Venezia for his exhaustive analysis of the Linux 2.6 kernel in this week's InfoWorld: Will the new Linux really perform in the same league as the big boys? To find out, I put the v2.6.0 kernel through several real-world performance tests, comparing its file server, database server, and Web server performance… Continue reading
Hats off to Paul Venezia for his exhaustive analysis of the Linux 2.6 kernel in this week's InfoWorld:
Will the new Linux really perform in the same league as the big boys? To find out, I put the v2.6.0 kernel through several real-world performance tests, comparing its file server, database server, and Web server performance with a recent v2.4 series kernel, v2.4.23. [InfoWorld: Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise, Paul Venezia
New data
New data shows that we are falling farther and farther behind other nations in broadband deployment (we are now 11th). This should be a factor in the elections. Who lost the bandwidth race? It is the new space race and the best way to grow high quality jobs into the next century (across all business… Continue reading New data