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The problem happens when the Windows registry string valu By Martin Heller Nov 21, 2007 1 min Software Development Report refutes claims of dire need for more H-1B visas. Last Friday, November 16th, in an address at the National Society of Black Engineers Region VI conference Bill Gates perpetuated the belief that the United States is not graduating enough science and engineering majors and that that the overall perfo By Ephraim Schwartz Nov 21, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Reviewing mostly good employees Dear Bob …How do you review an employee who is basically good, but has some blind spots? I have one staffer who does fine, fine work – he's thorough, he's careful, he is one of the better server admins out there. Only problem is that he h By Bob Lewis Nov 21, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Our Thanksgiving menu Our Thanksgiving menu It wasn't planned (as far as I know) but our selection of articles for today appropriately brings to mind the abundance of a Thanksgiving banquet. Getting SOA right David Linthicum proposes an enticing appetizer with though By Mario Apicella Nov 21, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Telecommuting at AT&T & OSS I'd love to understand the logic behind this: "AT&T, a company that once was a poster child for telecommuting, is downsizing its long-running telework program and requiring thousands of employees who work from their homes and other virt By Savio Rodrigues Nov 21, 2007 1 min Open Source Gobble gobble: Biggest turkeys of 2007 In honor of the coming holiday (and before we all lapse into a tryptophan induced coma) I'd like to honor the tech industry's turkeys: the individuals and organizations who truly need to go get stuffed. Like the holiday bird, they invariabl By Robert Cringely Nov 21, 2007 4 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Dimensions of SOA testing There are many dimensions to SOA testing. They include services, processes, and performance. Service-level testing is the most important, since core services are the foundation of the SOA. However, services are written very differently, depending upo By Dave Linthicum Nov 21, 2007 3 mins Software Development Microsoft’s march of commoditization continues A little over a week ago, Microsoft offered up the release candidate of Search Server 2008 Express as a free download. The only difference between Express and the full-bore version of Search Server 2008 is the ability to run it across multiple serve By Sean Gallagher Nov 21, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Giving thanks where thanks are due An almost snark-free column in which I express gratitude to the people and companies who actually deserve it By David Margulius Nov 21, 2007 4 mins Databases Security Software Development Microsoft’s homework for the holidays Visual Studio 2008 goes gold. For Windows developers, Thanksgiving and Christmas have been canceled Struck sullen by seasonal affective disorder? Soaring airfares got you grounded? Well, Windows developer, be of good cheer, for Microsoft has delivere By Tom Yager Nov 21, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry So much for blogging with Zoho Writer… For most of this year, I've been blogging using Windows Live Writer as my client. Today, I tried fairly hard to post a blog entry with Zoho Writer online; alas and alack, while I could edit a document somewhat, and get Zoho Writer to talk to Mo By Martin Heller Nov 20, 2007 1 min Software Development Clarifying the difference between assessment and measurement Dear Bob …I'm having a little trouble seeing the (IMHO subtle) difference between assessing and measuring (see "Taking the measure of IT professionals," Keep the Joint Running, 11/5/2007). It seems to me that the way you have defined By Bob Lewis Nov 20, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Balanced Loads, Valid Rules, and Limited Open Source It's the hump day of a very short week for many people, but that doesn't mean a lack of useful stories. In the Test Center, there are reviews of appliances for dealing with unbalanced network loads and unwieldy network rules, and an Open So By Curt Franklin Nov 20, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry IBM makes SOA, telecom rollout IBM is announcing products and product upgrades Tuesday to assist telecommunications carriers and others to use SOA and Web 2.0 to deploy voice, video and data services. Service providers can deliver IP-based services. Product lines involved in the r By Paul Krill Nov 20, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Leads are Not Enough in OSS The formidable Mr. Asay has a nice post on the "remarkable JBoss revenue machine". "JBoss' incredible lead generation led to 7,000+ qualified leads each quarter….. This means that JBoss could hire "inside" sales people By Savio Rodrigues Nov 20, 2007 2 mins Open Source Social Media News Releases: Do Them or Not? I've just returned to the office from a whirlwind, high-exposure speaking tour (about social media, of course) of the left-coast and I must say, execs are curious about social media – especially the Social Media Release. By Lena West Nov 20, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry Choosing the best code for the job Once upon a time when handheld PCs were larger than the original Motorola "brick" cell phone, a project was to be coded in BASICA under DOS 3.3. Why? Because the Fortune 500 company requesting the project was too cheap to do it right. The g By InfoWorld Anonymous Nov 20, 2007 3 mins Data Management Pure-play BI vendors strike back Operational BI is just one of many ways to compete against the acquisition-hungry big guys As I've said in three recent blog posts on consolidation in the BI (business intelligence) industry, BI will disappear as a separate application category By Ephraim Schwartz Nov 20, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry DirecTV Won’t Correct Privacy Gaffe <P>It's always disturbing to find a vendor playing a little too fast and loose with confidential information about its customers. One reader recently had such an experience with DirecTV, but with some odd twists, as it was not his own pers By Ed Foster Nov 20, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry The (limited) value of corporate cheerleaders Dear Bob …Just read your excellent Keep the Joint Running of 11/5, ("Taking the measure of IT professionals,") and your comments about teamwork reminded me of something:Why is it that so many managers confuse cheerleaders with team player By Bob Lewis Nov 19, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Microsoft Offers SCVMM 2007 Scripting Guide The Virtual Machine Manager Scripting Guide is a 143 page guide that explains how to create Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripts that execute Virtual Machine Manger 2007 commands, and provides many useful sample scripts. Microsoft System Center Virtu By David Marshall Nov 19, 2007 1 min Software Development Amazon Kindle: Kool or Krap? Amazon today announced their eBook reader, known as the Kindle. It's a paperback book sized device that can store a couple of hundred books and download NY Times bestsellers for $10 a shot over the wireless EVDO network. You can also subscribe t By Zack Urlocker Nov 19, 2007 2 mins Open Source Linux Firewalls from No Starch Press With our great firewalls shootout looming on the horizon (2008Q1) I've begun to wonder just what it would take to build a firewall for a Distributed Enterprise main office out of open source tools. So when the folks from NoStarch Press sent me a By Brian Chee Nov 19, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Oracle OpenWorld – Compellent and Pillar Data Systems Two stories that came out of Oracle's OpenWorld event center around Compellent and Pillar Data Systems. Compellent Technologies announced their membership into the Green Grid, and showed off their environmental and energy efficient products at t By David Marshall Nov 19, 2007 1 min Software Development Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online, for when Wikis are just not good enough We all know the problems Wikipedia had in the past over misinformation and their efforts to correct errors in their community-generated information. Now from Merriam-Webster, a fairly well-respected source of information comes what the company calls By Ephraim Schwartz Nov 19, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Will Google Wireless carry the day? Looks like the Goo-goo-googlers are going to bid for a swath of the 700 MHz spectrum after all. Though the revenue engorged G-men could probably pay the $4.6 billion minimum bid out of petty cash, some analysts say they may need a wireless partner to By Robert Cringely Nov 19, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Gartner – Software licensing costs to decline Andy McCue at Silicon.com points to a Gartner report that, in many ways, reiterates what we've all been seeing. "Gartner has identified seven major trends converging to change software delivery models, reduce dependence on the giant applica By Savio Rodrigues Nov 19, 2007 1 min Open Source The sound and fury of Google vs. Microsoft In this monumental rivalry, the stakes keep rising — from Windows Live to Google Android. Where will it go from here? Here's what it means to be the world's biggest software company: Even if your iPod knockoff has sold so… By Eric Knorr Nov 19, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Vista SP1 a Performance “Dud?” Heads-up, Windows fans. I've got some bad news. You know all those nagging performance issues that have been plaguing Windows Vista since it went RTM last fall? Well, it looks like they're with us to stay. My colleagues over at the exo.perf By Randall Kennedy Nov 19, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Mellanox Introduces Infiniband to VMware Environments Mellanox Technologies, supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, announced that later this year VMware's newest server virtualization platform, VMware ESX Server 3.5, would be providing enablements for Mellanox I By David Marshall Nov 18, 2007 3 mins Software Development The Legion of the Disappeared or Where Has All the Software Gone? I was updating some files recently and I came across a list of the companies that made up the Goldman Sachs Software index just two years ago. Of the 46 large and mid-cap companies on the list, ten no longer exist or have been merged into a larger or By Bill Snyder Nov 18, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Taking a Closer Look at Utility Computing with Virtualization Virtualization has been around for quite some time, but it's only within the past 2 years that the technology has really started to take off and gain in popularity. Likewise, utility computing is only now starting to get the notice that it belie By David Marshall Nov 18, 2007 6 mins Software Development How to Consider Orchestration No Podcast this week due to the holiday, so perhaps some more heady topics for those of you, like me, are working. The best way to consider both notions of service and orchestration (and process integration in general) is to think of them as independ By Dave Linthicum Nov 18, 2007 3 mins Software Development Improvising a Chinese-style meal I've been doing Chinese-style cooking at home since I was a graduate student in the 1970s; I do the best I can with my western-style gas stove and traditional Chinese cookware. Today my wife asked me to cook tonight's dinner for the four of By Martin Heller Nov 18, 2007 4 mins Software Development Microsoft’s Virtualization becomes Hyper-V During Microsoft's TechEd IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain, the company finally named its upcoming hypervisor virtualization platform. What was once code-named Viridian and then announced as Windows Server Virtualization (WSV) will now be By David Marshall Nov 17, 2007 3 mins Software Development Danny Sabbah on Business Users as Programmers In an interview with Chris Kanaracus of IDG News Service, Danny Sabbah of IBM Rational (whom I interviewed earlier this year) said he has little use for a recent trend: Tools and platforms that supposedly make it easy for business users to do some de By Martin Heller Nov 17, 2007 1 min Software Development What’s all the Hubbub about Virtualization and Databases Anyway? I'm always interested when new virtualization platforms hit the market, so when Oracle announced Oracle VM, I listened. After all, to me, databases have always been one of those "don't ask, don't tell" stories in the virtuali By David Marshall Nov 17, 2007 4 mins Software Development Just When You Got Used to Clicking for Activation… The next Internet Explorer release will get rid of the warning box for ActiveX components launched in the browser, the result of Microsoft paying Eolas to license its intellectual property. The change doesn't require any modifications to Web app By Sean Gallagher Nov 16, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development VoIP transitioning to High Definition Voice I’ve written about the problems and some of the solutions to the use of VoIP before. Now a new yet old standard, Wideband Audio, may turn out to be one of the best solutions so far. We’ve all heard of high def [HD] TV but did you know abo By Ephraim Schwartz Nov 16, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Apple updates, Linux failures, fast storage, and cracks for crackers Apple updates survivor's guide: Tom Yager offers a guide through the flurry of fixes (count em, 23 updates) that Apple released this week. Where else but in Enterprise Mac. Rock and a hard place: Randall Kennedy tried to love Ubuntu Desktop, but By Doug Dineley Nov 16, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Beowulf: Does Motion Capture Make Sense? I'm a big fan of Beowulf: no, not the new movie, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. I've read it several times in the original and in modern English translations, most recently in the bilingual edition with Seamus Heaney's fine verse translati By Martin Heller Nov 16, 2007 2 mins Software Development Guy Kawasaki’s Fake Steve Jobs Interview Guy Kawasaki, prolific author, blogger, Garage Technology Ventures investor and the man behind Truemors, has posted videos of his interview with Fake Steve Jobs, Dan Lyons at a recent LinkedIn Q&A event. It's one of the funniest interviews I By Zack Urlocker Nov 16, 2007 1 min Open Source Geek Week in Review ABC – Always Be Coding. Not content to let iPhone hackers have all the fun, Google has announced $10 million worth of cash incentives for developers of Android apps. In stage one of the Android Developer Challenge, Googleheads will pass out 25 By Robert Cringely Nov 16, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development It’s not Mad TV…it’s Mac TV The FCC has mandated that as of February 2009 all television broadcasts must be digital. Goodbye analog. But just in the nick of time we have AMD–and there will be others–launching its ATI TV Wonder 650 Combo USB for Mac. That’s quite a mouth By Ephraim Schwartz Nov 16, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Storage built for HPC speed DataDirect Networks and SGI accelerate storage performance with complementary HPC offerings By Mario Apicella Nov 16, 2007 4 mins Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Protect against external threats Outside threats (eavesdropping, password guessing, misconfigurations, information slips) are real and many; follow these simple steps to reduce your risk By Roger Grimes Nov 16, 2007 6 mins Data and Information Security Databases Technology Industry Part-by-Part Extended Warranty Torture <P>While many consider it a waste of money to buy an extended warranty, flat panel TVs are the type of expensive and failure-prone product for which you might make an exception. But a pattern is emerging in reports from my readers that suggest By Ed Foster Nov 16, 2007 7 mins Technology Industry My Vista SP1 Nightmare Update: I managed to get SP1 off of my system by first disabling the WLAN adapter in Safe Mode. Unfortunately, the procedure broke Windows Update. Every time I try to access it I'm informed that there's an updated version of the Windows Upd By Randall Kennedy Nov 16, 2007 5 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development VMware Opens Beta Program for its Free Server 2.0 Platform Virtualization platforms – it seems like everyone out there is offering up their own branded product these days, and many of them are free. Back in the day when this stuff used to cost you a pretty penny (ok, so not all platforms are free… yet), VM By David Marshall Nov 16, 2007 2 mins Software Development TC Tracker: Take the Internet with you, but which way? 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