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 I’m excited. On the plane ride today, I got Linux loaded onto a USB stick which I then used to boot my Acer One netbook into Linux. Nothing special about that, but because Linux saves onto a 4G section of my USB stick, I now have a tiny, portable OS that saves the stuff I download and ...May. 28, 2010 08:58 PM EDT Reads: 300 |
 Will "management idea generation" get outsourced? Looks ridiculous - but late C.K.Prahalad seem to have indicated that it may happen.
Harvard Business Review had published A Tribute to C K Prahalad written by HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius. Here is an interesting quote from the a...May. 27, 2010 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 520 |
 Last week, a US based Flex/Flash developer who IMO belongs to the top 20% Flash developers twitted that he was contacted by a recruiter offering a contract paying $55 per hour. While $55 per hour may sound a lot in some of the developing countries, the cost of living in the USA makes t...May. 24, 2010 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 854 Replies: 1 |
 Last week I read an interesting article by Jabulani Leffall about the top IT security issues causing sleep-deprivation at University IT departments. Among the top 10 were 1. Securing remote access, 3. Patching systems, 6. Network use monitoring, 8. Password management and administra...May. 20, 2010 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 926 |
 We have come a long way in the history/archives /library world. The internet and now open source programming is swinging doors & windows wide open for the little guy or gal.
The audience can now be wooed and targeted like never before and across the globe to boot!
I own a website...May. 19, 2010 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 640 |
 Chad Levitt, author of the “New Sales Economy Blog,” recently wrote a post, “Sales Reps, Are You Ready for the Digital Universe?,” based on information he gleaned from a recently released IDC report on predictions for the year 2020.
Here are some of the major findings from the IDC r...May. 15, 2010 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 658 |
 The "C" word is getting a lot of press these days (you WERE thinking CEO, weren't you?).
It seems that every time someone gets appointed to a government post, they get the title "czar." There are so many of these little crazy Ivans running around in Washington that Senator McCain sa...May. 13, 2010 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,662 |
 Somewhere on the Internet last week, mention was made that unemployment for high income people was (essentially) non-existent, while extremely high for low income earners. I was able to track down that data for the fourth quarter of 2009. The lower income levels are experiencing the gr...May. 5, 2010 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,285 |
 DevCentral has many rock star contributors. Most are not affiliated officially with F5 Networks, or DevCentral for that matter, but there are several F5ers who believe in the community, and really believe in the F5 story. One of those F5ers is Matt VimCauthorn, or as you know him in ...Apr. 27, 2010 02:20 PM EDT Reads: 603 |
 We have a brittle system underpinning the data center: the network. It’s brittle, yes. But it works. Thanks to years of tweaking and tuning and troubleshooting, it works. We know where everything is, and how everything interacts, and it works. It works well, in fact, now that we’ve got...Apr. 26, 2010 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,593 |
 On the heels of the 5th Annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (ETE 2010) in Philadelphia that CJ attended last week, I’ll be attending the 4th Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit tomorrow through Friday in San Francisco.
The Linux Foundation Collabo...Apr. 14, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 900 |
Today I am in Beijing, China at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) and am happy to announce the latest Enomaly product offering, The ECP High Assurance Edition (HAE). ECP HAE has been something we've been busy developing in partnership with Intel over the last 18 months and continues ... Apr. 12, 2010 06:17 PM EDT Reads: 1,861 |
Delivers High-Performance, Massively Scalable File System - Early Partners Include SeaChange and Rorke Data MELVILLE, N.Y. -- FalconStor Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: FALC), the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced the FalconStor® HyperFS™ fil... Apr. 12, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,917 |
 The following log files would be of interest for debugging errors encountered while working with UEC.
On CC
axis2c.log – This file logs messages specific to Axis2c web services.
cc.log – This file logs messages specific to Cluster controller.
cc-registration.log –...Apr. 9, 2010 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,038 |
Hone Your Eye for Fake Online Reviews – Online Shopping – Lifehacker
Some points to keep in mind
(tags: lifehacker reviews fake tips)
Opinion: Conroy is right to question Google's privacy record – Strategy – Business – News – iTnews.com.au
I gu... Apr. 7, 2010 04:08 PM EDT Reads: 1,363 |
 I will be attending the 5th Annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (ETE 2010) this Thursday and Friday, April 8-9, 2010.
The event is billed for “developers, architects, and IT executives” and attempts to provide a dynamic forum for “emerging technology and Open ...Apr. 7, 2010 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 930 |
 Meanings and terms often change or get adjusted over time, especially with Information Technology. While never walking 5 miles to school in two-feet of snow, I did live during an era of TV’s without remotes and vinyl record players. I tend to include many ‘remember when…’ type storie...Apr. 7, 2010 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,318 |
So this week I had the opportunity of setting up a little lab to test both of these firewalls. Before this week I had no idea these firewalls even existed, and the only open source routing/firewall software I even knew of at the time was Vyatta; which is really only for routing... Apr. 2, 2010 05:56 PM EDT Reads: 1,485 |
Hello everyone! We're making great progress with our WiMAX network, and have been testing many devices and would like to share the results with you! For our first product review, we have tested an indoor CPE device, the Seowan Intech SWC-5... Apr. 2, 2010 03:12 PM EDT Reads: 452 |
Rarely do I come across blogs or commentary on IT subjects that cut to the heart of the issue, touch on some human aspect and leave out all the technical jargon. To me, that’s the best type of writing of which our industry could use more.
So I must praise Dan Woods, chief techno... Apr. 2, 2010 04:09 AM EDT Reads: 1,294 |
 Red Hat came out with financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended February 28, 2010 and reported a net income of $23.39 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to $16 million or $0.08 per diluted share for the same quarter of fiscal 2009. For the fourth quarter of fisca...Mar. 31, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 952 |
 As for the right name, what more need be said than that Cloud Computing has caught on in a way that "Grid Computing" or "Utility Computing" or "Elastic Computing" never did?
As a metaphor is sums up perfectly the spirit of compute capacity that can be set up and torn down programati...Mar. 31, 2010 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,238 |
 In the Twitter project we’ve been working on, one of the map’s we’re running breaks the text of a Tweet down into words. Because we can’t assume that any data will be available for access via a database, etc, we attach a couple of values that we’re intere...Mar. 30, 2010 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,792 |
Naples, FL, March 27, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Naples Web Design firm, Brian Joseph Studios LLC, has announced the launch of a new client website for “Pool Tile Restoration of Naples”, a pool tile cleaning company in Naples, Florida at PoolTileRestoration.com.
“Pool Tile R... Mar. 27, 2010 12:02 PM EDT Reads: 1,244 |
One Flexible Call Recording Solution for All of Europe and the Middle EastHoesbach/Germany, March 26, 2010 - Daiwa Capital Markets Europe Ltd., an award-winning investment bank headquartered in London, England, implemented ASC's Cisco VoIP call recording solution for its branches throu... Mar. 26, 2010 08:22 AM EDT Reads: 1,200 |
Linux Instances
First create a volume of the required size using euca-create-volume
$ euca-create-volume -s 10 -z mycloud
VOLUME vol-333C04B8 10 creating 2010-03-26T05:20:56.383Z
Check the available volumes and their status with euca-describe-volumes
$ euca-describe-vo... Mar. 26, 2010 02:28 AM EDT Reads: 1,058 |
Here’s an open source business model that’s creeping up on us: Selling add-ons to open source software. For under $100, you can buy predesigned themes, reports, and feature enhancements for a number of open source projects, including WordPress, Joomla!, and Magento. ... Mar. 25, 2010 07:20 PM EDT Reads: 1,429 |
Available in both LiquavistaBright and LiquavistaColor electrowetting displays24 March 2010 - Eindhoven - Liquavista today announced the launch of System Development Kits aimed at enabling their core customers to work on developing products based on their innovative electrowetting disp... Mar. 24, 2010 05:49 AM EDT Reads: 1,383 |
Creating a new disk Image
This will be the main HDD in the virtual image, so make sure to give it as much space as youll need. Since were building a kvm image, we can use a qcow2 format for disk images. Qcow2 is an expandable image format, so itll only take as much storage space [...] Mar. 23, 2010 10:42 AM EDT Reads: 1,249 |
Download Adobe AIR from the Adobe downloads.
Open a terminal window.
cd to download directory
chmod the AdobeAIRInstaller.bin to 755
su -m
enter password
./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Mar. 19, 2010 01:38 PM EDT Reads: 968 |
Working on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, I was wondering if both CC and NC could run on a single machine. Ofcourse, this is not a recommended UEC topology for production use, but thought of giving it a try. Moreover, for experimenting purposes this would be an ideal case, not requiring too... Mar. 19, 2010 02:32 AM EDT Reads: 548 |
 No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully immer...Mar. 18, 2010 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,835 |
 I'm happy to announce that we (Enomaly) have teamed up with the leader in cloud testing SOASTA to validate that cloud service providers can deliver the demanding SLAs increasingly required by their customers using Enomaly’s Elastic Computing Platform (ECP). ECP’s carrier-class architec...Mar. 18, 2010 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 743 |
 The future of enterprise software is the platform. No software company has all the smart people in the world on its payroll. Apple recognized this and created the App Store. Google are now doing the same. These new cloud platforms will unleash unprecedented innovation and creativity th...Mar. 15, 2010 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,186 Replies: 1 |
New ABBYY FineReader Engine 8.0 CLI for Linux Enables Fast Access to Automated OCR and PDF Conversion in Linux EnvironmentsLondon, UK, (Monday 15th March, 2010) - ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the release... Mar. 15, 2010 07:22 AM EDT Reads: 1,384 |
 This article looks at the high level goals of a SaaS business and drills down layer by layer to expose the key metrics that will help drive success. Metrics for metric’s sake are not very useful. Instead the goal is to provide a detailed look at what management must focus on to drive a...Mar. 10, 2010 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,385 |
 John Wilbanks of Creative Commons (and head of Science Commons) is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk about the threats to science’s generativity. He takes Jonathan Zittrain’s definition of generativity: “a system’s capacity to produced unanticipated change through unfiltered contribution...Mar. 9, 2010 02:02 PM EST Reads: 860 |
 Kudos to JESS3 - a creative agency that specializes in web design, branding and data visualization - for this excellent ‘State of the Internet’ presentation. When you take a step back and consider the mind boggling numbers presented throughout this vid, you realise just how far we’ve c...Mar. 4, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,454 |
 The news last week that Italian authorities have convicted three Google executives with criminal privacy violations got my attention for two reasons. One, the charges are based on a video that shows an autistic boy being bullied, a video that Google did not create or post. It was filme...Mar. 3, 2010 01:15 PM EST Reads: 1,609 |
Well, getting code up and running is one thing. Getting it deployed is another. I have questionable skills in the former, and not so questionable skills in the latter! In fact, there’s no question about my lack of skill in the latter whatsoever! So it’s taking me a litt... Mar. 1, 2010 11:32 AM EST Reads: 384 |
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