 All Things GibbsThis newsletter is sponsored by Microsoft Don't Waste IT Staff Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 05/08/07All Things GibbsBy Mark GibbsGearhead: Projecting Flash Last week in Gearhead we discussed how we used Business Objects' Crystal Xcelsius to build a dashboard-style clock application to track elapsed and remaining time for the current mission of the USS Nimitz. Updating the clock in real time was supposed to be impossible, but where there's a hack, there's a way To read this week's Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Hypersociality and texting I understand that most service providers are the same. You can see it is in the provider’s interest not to supply features they don’t have to, and when it might impact hypersociality (which they make a ton of money out of) why should they? To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days When reader Phil Remaker recently noticed that I had, many moons ago, been co-founder of Novell UK he commented: Co-founder, Novell UK! Eeek! Did I send you my "Why Novell died" rant? Even if I did, here it is again. Context: A front page box on Network World appeared that said: "Does Novell Still Matter? See page 8" I wrote to the editor and said "I think that box answers its own question. Page 8, indeed." "My" and "Team" -- Enough Already! Are you as tired of online things being prefaced with "My" as I am? What is this obsession? Have the wellsprings of creativity run so dry that the "My" universe is all that exists? From Slashdot: Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup. (More accurately: Backup failed. Let this be a warning to you all.) Time Sync #21: Star Wars Tales 4 For all of you Star Wars junkies: Star Wars Tales 4 : Lunch Break (Darth Vader's diary). Fix for Black Box Around Cursor in XP in a VM I had a weird problem when I ran Windows XP in a virtual machine under VMware and accessed it remotely using UltraVNC: A black box around the cursor. I searched the 'Net and eventually found a solution -- it seems that maximum hardware acceleration for video in the guest OS is incompatible in this setup. Knocking the hardware acceleration down by one notch fixed the problem. May this post save one of you from spending far too long googling ... |
| Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here. Archives of the Network World Web Applications newsletter can be found here. This newsletter is sponsored by Microsoft Don't Waste IT Staff BONUS FEATUREIT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICESTo subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007 |
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