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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.
July 2007
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Bargain PC upgrade - memory is everything
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Bargain PC upgrade from eBay
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Billions wasted on poor quality software
- Managing Editor 26 Jul 2007
2 GBytes of RAM seems to be the current sweetspot for Windows XP. It is a good general amount of memory that users generally consider necessary for running their apps
A second-hand processor represents a bargain PC upgrades, however, it's very important to match the processor you plan to buy with your existing motherboard. There is a risk, as processors are ...
What is the real cost of poo quality software? In 1992 Nist estimated that the national impact from an inadequate infrastructure for software testing was $59 billion
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Return of the elk
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Barcelona goes green
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Get outta my InBox
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My Dopey Space forever
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My favourite desktop software
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The biggest thing in IT
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Say no to default passwords
- Managing Editor 16 Jul 2007
Unlike the car industry, software is still shipped with bugs and the software industry does not disclose these problems. Maybe it has somethine to hide about teh quality of its products?
AMD's quad core Barcelona processor is socket compatible with the dual core AMD Opteron processor, yet AMD says it consumes the same amount of electricity and generates the same amount of heat.
I wish people would learn how to use email properly. It is not designed for sening massive files. Sending such files not only wastes bandwidth, it also takes up unnecessary storage space.
Today social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo have attracted millions of users who happily reveal intimate details of their private lives. This deeply personal information may ...
Desktop software that have really made a difference to the world of IT.
Is Google the most significant technological advancement of the last decade?
Why cant it be as easy to configure security as it is to plug the router in? One of my colleages spent a day browsing websites to get all the information he needed to configure his router.
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Security in the hands of the ignorant
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Hot xbox 360 - Internet meltdown
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Microsoft software assurance: where is the value?
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VMWare London Symposia: let's tackle the issues
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Tackle green IT, make virtualisation affordable
- Managing Editor 09 Jul 2007
Even to my untrained ear, it was pretty obvious she was trying to discretely give out her login details to the person on the other end of the phone.
It's hard to see the productivity gains a home user will achieve from having to wait an hour to download high definition video onto an energy inefficient xbox 360 via a massive content delivery ...
In spite of the weather, it is July. This year is the 6th anniversary of Software Assurance (SA), Microsoft's controversial subscription licensing scheme. Through the three year subscription, users ...
We need results. And until the biggest names in the software business are on board, server virtualisation is going to be marginalised.
Virtualisation is a way to make IT green. I hope IBM, Microsoft and Oracle change their server virtualisation policies to encourage wider adoption, rather than see it as a quick win to tax users