Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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TuneView update and the wonders of Drupal

Mark Gibbs By Mark Gibbs
Gibbs discusses some minor, undocumented problems with the Keyspan TuneView he reviewed a couple of weeks ago, then launches into the world of posting to blogs hosted on Drupal and a tool called Zempt. Read full story

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


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Backspin: IT pornography

In a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court judgment concerning the prosecution of a cinema owner, Associate Justice Potter Stewart completely failed to define what is obscene by deciding that, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material [under discussion] . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it." In other words, pornography is — community standards notwithstanding — in the eye of the beholder. Read full story.

Gibbsblog: The past 7 days

Mergers and Monopolies -- Sirius, XM, and Microsoft If you missed the announcement back in February Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio announced a planned merger that would create a single satellite radio network. The combined subscriber base would be around 13 million users in the US and Canada -- roughly one in one thousand of the total population in the combined services' footprint.

Not Your Grandpa's Nuke Say "nuclear power" in a crowd and the reactions are going to include "Three Mile Island", "Chernobyl", "Hiroshima" and many more, all negative. Nuclear power in this country hasn't seen any development in decades. With the price of crude hovering around $100 a barrel, cheap power is on everyone's mind. Enter Hyperion Power Generation.

Review of the Everex TC2502 Green gPC Review of the Everex TC2502 Green gPC, by Ben Crowell: My overall impression of the gPC's hardware was that it was very good, for a non-gaming machine, although its supposed environmental friendliness was overblown, if you compare with other non-gaming machines ...

Vista sp1 no Barnburner I've seen two reports that compared the Vista you got last January with Vista sp1RC1. One study claimed a slight improvement in boot-time and no measured improvement in performance. The other study measured performance as "only a 1% to 2% improvement". Meanwhile, my sources with the generic hardware builders claim that buyers are specifically asking for XP Pro "80% to 90% of the time".

Third Party Javascripts WellsFargo.com has begun using javascript hosted by akamai.net on their sensitive pages. Since the javascripts will then have access to any of the form data used on that page, I wonder just how good an idea this is. Wells Fargo has out-sourced their security to akamai; trust by proxy.


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