Mac
Pro and Xserve
are big horses for enterprise-type stuff. They also have
new Intel chips inside. See, Mac people, we do know that you're out there.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/09/20081 comments
Norway has always been a country of searchers:
Edvard
Munch
searching in his expressionist art for some outlet for his anxiety,
energy companies searching for oil in Norway's fossil-rich waters,
Henrik
Ibsen
searching for hidden truth in the rigid morals of Victorian society...
Oh, you thought this newsletter was all football references and pop-culture
quotes, didn't you? Well, think again -- we have patches on the sleeves of our
tweed jackets today. And note that somehow a site dedicated to the art of Munch
has a link labeled "Fun Stuff." Yes, Munch is always a lot of...fun.
You have to love the Internet.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/09/20080 comments
The first Patch Tuesday of the year is
looking
like a cake walk
. By the way, when's the last time somebody actually organized
a cake walk?
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/08/20080 comments
If you caught the results of
RCP
the magazine's
reader
survey
in our December issue, then you know that one of the few things partners
don't like about working with Microsoft is Redmond's rarely simple, sometimes
arcane licensing policies. In our survey, more than 60 percent of you said that
Microsoft's licensing procedures make its products difficult to sell.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/08/20081 comments
Some enterprising reporter pored over a bunch of numbers over the holidays
and figured that Microsoft must be making a killing on its Novell SuSE Linux
deal. In the spirit of the Internet, your somewhat less enterprising newsletter
writer (hey, there's been lots of football on TV these last couple of weeks)
is
linking
to the story
. Enjoy.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/03/20080 comments
Welcome back! And welcome to 2008 -- an Olympic year, an election year (in
the U.S., anyway), a year when there'll be a European Championship soccer tournament
and a year in which you'll see a few new wrinkles in what we hope is your favorite
e-mail newsletter, or at least your favorite newsletter written by a Texan working
in an office on Route 9 in Framingham, Mass. (We're guessing that we've got
that last category nailed.)
Yes, we're making some changes to RCPU. Oh, it's not going to be that big a
deal. In fact, we think that you'll like the new, more focused, (somewhat) less
random RCPU for 2008 (and, we hope, beyond). First off, we're going to run the
newsletter three times per week rather than four most weeks this year in hopes
of at least postponing your editor's inevitable development of carpal tunnel
syndrome.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/03/20080 comments
We hate predictions here at RCPU. Most of the ones we read tend to sound kind of pompous and obvious -- pundits love to predict that the earth will continue to rotate on its axis and then cover themselves in glory when, hey!, they turn out to be right. Either that, or analysts and other pundits go off and make a bunch of predictions in December that nobody remembers (nor checks for accuracy) a year later.
Still, it's the week after Christmas, and we're just not sure what else to do. So, to go along with the 2007 reviews (last chance for Vista bashing!) and the 2008 crystal balls, we offer our simple, humble, completely obvious and probably useless predictions for 2008:
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Posted by Lee Pender on 12/27/20070 comments
Tired of having systems provided by other vendors (hmmm, short list there) hacked, the U.S. Army is
looking to integrate more Macs
into its infrastructure.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/27/20071 comments
According to a new book (and to Google, so take that for what it's worth), there's a
not-so-small security problem
with Adobe's Flash software. By the way, we love the use of the word "vulns" as an abbreviation for vulnerabilities.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/26/20070 comments
For some reason, there's a fair amount of buzz today about a
Pew
Research Center study
that revealed that Americans like to look themselves
and others up online. Why that's a surprise to anybody, we don't know...but
there you go.
Posted by Lee Pender on 12/21/20070 comments