by Robin Harris | Friday, January 4, 2008 | Enterprise, Information Management, SOHO/SMB |
“They trusted us with their data? Will the fools never learn?” The Service Pack 3 update to Office 2003 blocks over a dozen old file formats, effectively rendering the data inaccessible. Unless you are adept at the registry editing Microsoft cautions you...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, December 15, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management |
Most criticism of the One Laptop Per Child PC centers on the cost for what is a low-spec computer. As ASUS with its Eee machine is proving, a low-cost conventional laptop can be pretty powerful. But that misses the point. The OLPC is a fundamental rethinking of the...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management |
Internet video is about where film was 100 years ago I was talking to a company who will be announcing a video infrastructure solution when the CEO mentioned something he called the “video performance/quality vise.” Here’s the problem: a video stream...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, December 4, 2007 | Information Management |
Google is sorry I do a lot of research on the web using Google. Starting early last week I started getting these Google error messages: The search term was “gutenberg” as in Gutenberg Bible. This is happening 5-10 times a day. I enter the captcha and...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 15, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management |
I’ve been a fan of ZFS since I researched it over a year ago. I’ve also been happy with the progress ZFS is making on OS X. So it was a bit of surprise when I saw (thanks Wes) that MacJournals, a developers web site, was all sideways about it. A good...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 | Clusters, Information Management |
What about Sun’s acquisition of Cluster File Systems, Inc.? Yawn. CFSI was going out of business. Sun bought the assets, not the company. Good for CFSI employees They get a paycheck from a solvent company. They may even get some sensible marketing. Hey, it could...
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