My Way News - Apple's iTunes Appears Back on Track

My Way News - Apple's iTunes Appears Back on Track: "Apple commands about 75 percent of the market for downloaded music,"

List & CD with free windows s/w

Windows

* 7-Zip
* Ant Renamer
* Audacity
* Blender
* BZFlag
* Celestia
* ClamWin
* DeepBurner Free
* Dia
* Enigma
* Eraser
* Exact Audio Copy
* FileZilla
* Firefox
* Freeciv
* Gaim
* GIMPShop
* GLtron
* GNU Chess
* Icebreaker
* Inkscape
* Juice Receiver
* KeePass
* MozBackup
* NVU
* OpenOffice.org
* Paint.NET
* PDFCreator
* Portable Apps
* POV-Ray
* PuTTY
* SolarWolf
* Spybot S&D
* Stellarium
* SuperTux
* The GIMP Toolkit
* Thunderbird
* Tortoise SVN
* Tux Paint
* Tux Racer
* Tux Typing 2
* VLC
* WinDirStat
* Wink
* winLAME
* WinSCP
* XAMPP
* µTorrent

Integrate software into your Win install CD - Neowin Forums

Integrate software into your Win install CD - Neowin Forums: "Integrate software into your Win install CD, with nLite"

SAP Fills Out 2007 Agenda

SAP Fills Out 2007 Agenda: "Zia Yusuf, head of SAP's Platform Ecosystem Group, said the company's list of independent developers and contributors is growing rapidly. SAP has over 1,500 ISVs working on products and numerous online forums."

Download details: SyncToy v1.4

Download details: SyncToy v1.4

"In the Beginning Was The Command Line" - by Neal Stephenson | Mirror Site

"In the Beginning Was The Command Line" - by Neal Stephenson | Mirror Site: "In the Beginning was the Command Line
by Neal Stephenson"

My Way News - IBM to Open Islands in Virtual World

My Way News - IBM to Open Islands in Virtual World: "IBM Corp. is launching an ambitious marketing campaign in the hip virtual world 'Second Life.'
Big Blue has developed 12 'virtual islands,' and most will be open to anyone with a Second Life account starting next week. Other areas will remain private haunts for about 800 IBM employees - including the CEO - who have cyber alter-egos."

David Dagastine's Weblog

David Dagastine's Weblog: "Java 6 is finally here. Its our fastest, most reliable release and specifically targets out-of-box performance"

Mid-Price software the best...

Beware of mid-priced software :

With most kinds of merchandise, the middle of the price range is the best deal. For half the maximum price, or less, you get more than half the maximum quality. Here's my subjective impression of how it works for computers (where the $500 Wal-Mart special is awfully close to the $2000 custom system), cars, and precision optical instruments (which are labor-intensive):

But several recent experiences have convinced me software doesn't work that way.

"First, software is all design, not manufacturing. Once you've made one copy, almost no labor is needed to make a million just like it. So everything depends on the work done by one person or a small team. "

Techdirt: Can We Have Some Metrics On How Effective Metrics Are?

Techdirt: Can We Have Some Metrics On How Effective Metrics Are?: "In other words, in focusing so much on the 'page views' metric, the incentives encourage bad design. The companies that win the metrics game are the ones who are designed in ways that upset users, rather than those that make their service better, faster and more efficient. Normally, that would be a clear indication that the metrics are all wrong -- but very few people seem to care. They just continue focusing who is ahead of whom on the list -- and plenty of bad decisions continue to get made because of this blind allegiance to metrics."

Brief: SAP Charts Plan To Triple Its Customer Base - News by InformationWeek

Brief: SAP Charts Plan To Triple Its Customer Base - News by InformationWeek: "SAP, with 35,000 customers, wants to hit 100,000 by 2010, getting to where nearly half its revenue comes from companies with less than $1 billion in revenue. It plans to woo them next year with an upcoming version of its midmarket ERP suite, All-In-One, that's more customizable yet easier to implement. While big ERP projects can take several years to complete, Shai Agassi, president of SAP's product and technology group, talked last week about being able to set up ERP for a midsize company within seven days."

Memory chip breakthrough for electronic devices - Yahoo! News

Memory chip breakthrough for electronic devices - Yahoo! News: "Many expect flash memory to encounter significant scaling limitations in the near future. Today we unveil a new phase-change memory material that has high performance even in an extremely small volume.'
The new material was a complex semiconductor alloy that resulted from collaborative research at IBM's Almaden Research Center in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose, California."

SAP Hones the Oracle Dagger

SAP Hones the Oracle Dagger: "IBM, however, has recently formed a relationship with Ants Software, an in-memory database provider based in Burlingame, Calif. (Ants also has a relationship with SAP, but both Sikka and Ants CEO Boyd Pearce declined to comment on it.) "

DMTF - DMTF Releases SMASH 1.0 Specifications

DMTF - DMTF Releases SMASH 1.0 Specifications: "of interoperable management initiatives and standards, today announced the public release of its Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Implementation Requirements Specification and the SMASH Server Management (SM) CLP-to-CIM Mapping Specification,"

IBM Sues Maker Of Intel-Based Mainframe Clones - News by InformationWeek

IBM Sues Maker Of Intel-Based Mainframe Clones - News by InformationWeek: "On its Web site, Platform Solutions claims that it offers a 'new generation of compatible mainframe computers designed to meet the rapidly changing business needs of today's enterprise.' The company says its Intel 64-bit Itanium-based systems are fully compatible with z/OS and OS/390. IBM typically offers those operating systems for sale only with IBM mainframes running more expensive dedicated processors of its own manufacture. "

Swivel - Home

Swivel - Home: "Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data. "

Windows Tips - Internet Explorer - mredkj.com

Windows Tips - Internet Explorer - mredkj.com: "If there is a shortcut to Notepad on the desktop, delete or rename it to something other than Notepad.
JR wrote how to reproduce the problem, then solve it:
Open IE, go to any page, view source, works fine.
Now go to Start menu and navigate to 'Programs\Accessories', and right-click
on Notepad, drag it to the desktop, selecting 'Copy Here' when you let go.
You should now have a shortcut file named 'Notepad' on your desktop.
Go back to IE, view source, and nothing happens.
Go back to desktop and delete or rename the Notepad shortcut.
Go back to IE, view source, and it works again"

It's not always malware: How to fix the top 10 Internet Explorer issues

It's not always malware: How to fix the top 10 Internet Explorer issues

Recent Processor Architects

Recent Processor Architects: "But Olsen had doubts about Alpha. His unshakable faith in the VAX computer, which had turned Digital into IBM's most formidable competitor in the 1980s, made him reluctant to phase it out too soon in favor of Alpha. Olsen asked a team of Digital's top engineers to extend the computer's design for another generation--and he rejected Sculley's proposal.
A few months later, Apple announced that its new Macs would run on the PowerPC chip"

Sifry's Alerts

Sifry's Alerts

KCDX-FM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

KCDX-FM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia