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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Amazon Says It Won’t Collect Sales Tax Tomorrow; State Says It’ll Send a Bill Then | KQED News Fix
http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2011/06/30/amazon-says-it-wont-collect-sales-tax/
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Why is European broadband faster and cheaper? Blame the government -- Engadget
Very interesting read, pretty well backed up with research as well.
Monday, June 27, 2011
15 Must Read Lessons from Aristotle
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
He is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.
Fifteen lessons from Aristotle:
1. The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
2. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
3. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
4. We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
5. There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
6. Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
7. To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
8. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
9. We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
10. We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
11. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
12. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
13. What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
14. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
15. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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This Week's Reading - 20110627
Tacky Glowing Valve Caps Look Cheap, Are Cheap | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
No more excuses: 9 reasons why smart businesses upgrade to Google Apps for Business | TechRepublic
No more excuses: 9 reasons why smart businesses upgrade to Google Apps for Business | TechRepublic
10 things you can do to keep your clients from ditching you | TechRepublic
Get your IT consultancy staff up to speed | TechRepublic
10 ways to screw up your spreadsheet design | TechRepublic
Mac IT Guy: What Lion means for businesses | Operating Systems | Working Mac | Macworld
Some really good bits from the above article:
Per-User Screen Sharing
While Mac OS X Screen Sharing or Apple Remote Desktop are cool tools, they’ve always had one limitation compared to things like Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Client: you couldn’t have multiple separate logins. That is, you couldn’t have multiple users log into one Mac, and have their own login with their own desktop, sessions, etc. at the same time. To get that on a Mac, you had to use a product like Aqua Connect’s Terminal Server, or log in with SSH and use the command line. (Yes, I know, you could also use X11. But X11’s integration with Mac OS X has always been limited and—frankly—kind of weird.)
With Mac OS X Lion, multiple separate full logins are possible. That has some interesting possibilities. Being able to set up Macs as Terminal Servers could be a great way to get more use out of Mac OS X Server. Have a custom application that people only need to use occasionally? Put it on a single server and let your users run it remotely. Have a high-end application that allows for per-user or per-server licensing? Terminal Services like this allow you to take advantage of those options in ways that the Mac OS just didn’t support before. Now, keep in mind, I’m speculating a bit here. I don’t know that this will end up being a “proper” terminal services implementation. But it is a realistic possibility.
Auto Save
When we heard about this one, everyone in my department did the happy dance. I can not tell you how many times I’ve had the following exchange: “John, [fill in the application] locked up. Will I lose all of my work?” “When was the last time you saved?” “Hours ago.” “Then you will lose the work you’ve done since then.” Auto Save and Versions are huge for businesses and IT. Yes, they’ll require more storage space. But I don’t care. I could look through every panicked call and help-desk ticket I’ve received in the last year: A massive chunk of them would not be there if we’d had this feature. From my perspective, Auto Save is a major reason to upgrade to Lion as soon as you can.
FileVault 2
Full Disk Encryption does a number of things. First, it makes your system more secure; either you have the passphrase or you have no access to the data. Second, it makes possible a Mac OS X version of the remote wipes you can do on iOS devices. If the drive is encrypted, and if you can remotely destroy the encryption key, then bang: the data is inaccessible. You can then actually erase the data at your leisure. Without that first part, it could take hours to fully wipe a large hard drive; if a thief is even slightly smart, he or she could yank out the drive well before the wipe is done. For companies that have sensitive data traveling around, built-in Full Disk Encryption is not a minor thing.
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Should I Change My Password?
https://shouldichangemypassword.com/
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Wyoming cuts cable, moves to cloud with Google Apps
Computerworld Breaking News
Wyoming has rolled out Google Apps for some 10,000 state workers, the first state-wide implementation of the cloud platform in the U.S. Sent with Reeder
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Top 7 Bay Area Universities - No. 2
San Francisco Business News - Local San Francisco News | The San Francisco Business Times
This is an excerpt from this week's Top 25 List. To see our full Lists, subscribe to the San Francisco Business Times in print. No. 2: San Francisco State University 2010 full-time equivalent students: 24,181 2010 full-time faculty: 757 2010 annual in-state tuition: $5,014 Top administrator: Robert Corrigan, President Ranked by 2010 full-time equivalent students The San Francisco Business Times publishes industry rankings in each issue of the paper and reprints them at the end of the year for our annual Book of...Sent with Reeder
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Macworld How a news junkie uses the iPad | Tablets
http://www.macworld.com/article/160499/2011/06/ipad_news_junkie.html
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Monday, June 13, 2011
This Week's Reading - 20110613
Must-have data center utilities: Picks by IT pros
10 IT positions ranked by prestige | TechRepublic
The making of King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein Castle | Geek Gestalt - CNET News
Getting started with document management
Apple iCloud vs Google vs Amazon Cloud Drive vs Dropbox vs Microsoft SkyDrive - Pocket-lint
Yosemite's Tenaya Lake restoration coming up
Monday, June 6, 2011
This Week's Reading - 20110606
Cloud CIO: Yes, Your Job Is At Risk - are things going to change, absolutely, will lots of IT people be out of work? Yes and no, what I believe we'll see is a shift in responsibility and a move in the role of IT from being strictly a service provider to being one that is more integrated and involved with the business and is able to identify and find appropriate resources, as well as adding efficiency to the equation. For the died in the wool hard-core server administrators/programmers, the transition may be challenging.
Spectacular Lightning Show As Volcano Erupts In Chile : The Two-Way : NPR
How to burn a Lion boot disc | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Egg Freckles | Burning A Lion Boot Disc
5 tips on how to optimize your infrastructure
5 tips for getting better results from your IT contractor
The German Example - Economic Scene - NYTimes.com
Infinity Blade creators say they've cleared $10M | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
How to Upgrade to iOS 5 Today, Without Any Developer Account | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
My Top 10 Business Travel Tips - NYTimes.com
How the Apple iCloud compares to Google's cloud
Six things geek dads REALLY want for Father's Day | TechRepublic
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Web Analytics
In my role in working with technology in the e-commerce business, many people want to view analytics usage of people viewing the web store, where people exit, how long they visit, etc. This is nothing new and it seems that more and more people are moving toward Google Analytics. In the past, a very nice albeit expensive solution was Web Sense.
The way that these external analytics services work is that bits of web (HTML) code are embedded onto the web page that report back to your analytics provider with information about how you got to a certain page (from a link, keyed into the address bar directly, etc.). So what happens is if you view a web site with an outsourced analytics service, you're also sending your request information to the analytics service. This has been going on for years and it's nothing special or surprising.
What we've been seeing for a while on the business security systems but increasingly on consumer security systems (both higher grade routers as well as software firewalls) is blocking of sending the information to analytics services. Earlier today I was at a workshop discussing network security and over half of the businesses represented are already or beginning to block the data being sent to analytic services. While this small sampling may not be entirely representative of the world, it does reflect the trend.
Now what this means to those who are using external anayltic services, such as Google Analytics, Web Sense, et al. is that the accuracy of the numbers in the reports is waning. I believe that as time goes on and the operating systems of computers and security services proliferate, less and less data will be provided to the analytics services.
So, for those of us who wish to be able to review our data and turn that into useful metrics and graphs, we'll have to retool how we analyze our data.
Virtually all real web servers log the exact same information that the analytics services provide, but few people actually review those logs. There are commercial and open-source software that can live on the same server or network as the web server and can capture all that data and turn it into something useful. Another possibilility is that we may start to see 'log shipping' taking place where the web server logs are shipped or accessed by the external anaytics services.
In the mean time, if you, as someone hoping to garner useful data from external analytics services, you need to start thinking about an alternative immediately. Already there is less and less web usage information going over and that's going to continue to decrease in the not-too-distant future.
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