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Oil prices slip back after record above $135
Thu, 22 May 2008 01:15:45 -0700
Oil prices hit a record above $135 a barrel before falling back in Asia Thursday, with supply worries, rising global demand and a slumping dollar keeping crude futures on an upward track.
Microsoft's new ad model aims to break Google's grip
Wed, 21 May 2008 22:15:52 -0700
After years of watching Google run away with Internet search and make billions from the related advertising, Microsoft is trying to tweak...
Urban legend e-mails about Bill Gates sharing cash proves true
Wed, 21 May 2008 22:17:37 -0700
Excerpts from the blog A few times a year, I hear from someone asking if I know anything about Bill Gates handing out cash. Not through his charitable...

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AT&T Confirms 3-G Upgrade In Time For ... You Know
Gadget Lab Thu, 22 May 2008 11:57:00 -0000
As if by magic, AT&T confirms that its HSUPA 3G will be rolled out across the USA by the end of June when, rumor has it, the 3-G iPhone will be on the market. Dumb luck, or did a little birdie from Cupertino fly into the death star?
Q4 Profit Up 133 Percent, Lenovo Targets Developing World
Associated Press Thu, 22 May 2008 11:46:00 -0000
Lenovo, the world's 4th largest PC maker, sees earnings increase 133% in its Q4 and says it will growth in Europe and China offsets a slowdown in the U.S. The company -- which includes the former IBM PC unit -- will focus its attention on developing countries, CEO William J. Amelio
May 22, 1973: Enter Ethernet
Randy Alfred Thu, 22 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
1973: Bob Metcalfe of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center writes a memo outlining how to connect the think tank's new personal computers to a shared printer. The memo puts forth the basic properties of -- and names -- ethernet. Metcalfe had been an MIT undergraduate whiz kid and Harvard grad student working on computers and how to network them. Even before completing his Ph.D., he went to work for Xerox PARC, which assigned him the task of designing and building the first network for PCs. PARC was installing its own Xerox Alto, the first personal computer, and EARS, the first laser printer. It needed a system that would allow additional PCs and printers to be added without having to reconfigure or shut down the network. It was the first time that computers were small enough for hundreds to be in the same building, and the network had to be fast to drive the printer. Metcalfe circulated his plan in a memo titled "Alto Ethernet." It contained a rough schematic drawing and suggested using coaxial cable for the connections and using data packets like Hawaii's AlohaNet or the Defense Department's Arpanet. The system was up and running Nov. 11, 1973. Metcalfe didn't base the name ethernet on the anesthetic that puts people to sleep. It refers instead to a discredited scientific theory of the luminiferous aether, an undifferentiated universal medium that some 18th- and 19th-century scientists thought necessary for the propagation of light. Metcalfe saw it as an apt metaphor for a medium that would propagate information. Metcalfe shares four patents for ethernet. He and PARC colleague David Boggs published the concept in a 1976 paper, "Ethernet: Distributed Packet-Switching For LANs." That was the same year Metcalfe convinced Xerox, DEC and Intel -- the three funding companies -- to let ethernet become an open networking standard. It eventually supplanted competing technologies like IBM's Token Ring and General Motors' Token Bus to become the predominant standard for local-area networks. Metcalfe went on to found 3Com ("computers, communication, compatibility") in 1979. He left after losing an internal power struggle in 1990 and became a widely read columnist for Info World. Today he's a general partner at the VC firm Polaris Ventures. He's also known for Metcalfe's Law: The value of a network grows as the square of the number of its users. Want to wish ethernet a Happy Birthday? Send this page to your office printer -- by ethernet, of course. Source: "The Legend of Bob Metcalfe," Wired 6.11

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RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working
Fri, 16 May 2008 11:25:33 -0700
RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...
UK warned of China, India software threat
Wed, 14 May 2008 07:34:45 -0700
Key UK industry figures believe Britain should forget any hopes of matching China and India in the low-cost end of the software market, and instead carve out a high-end niche. UK software sales are on course to lag almost $60 billion behind China this year, fuelling high-level calls for...
Free software great and small
Wed, 07 May 2008 11:24:46 -0700
They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...

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How do I configure SQL mail in SQL Server 2000?
Wed, 21 May 2008 11:56:44 -0700
As a database administrator, I like automation. When it comes to my backups, I like to automate as much as possible. SQL Mail gives me the ability to know when my backups are successful and when they fail. SQL Mail is a component of SQL Server that...
How do I configure SQL mail in SQL Server 2000?
Wed, 21 May 2008 11:56:44 -0700
As a database administrator, I like automation. When it comes to my backups, I like to automate as much as possible. SQL Mail gives me the ability to know when my backups are successful and when they fail. SQL Mail is a component of SQL Server that...
How do I configure SQL mail in SQL Server 2000?
Wed, 21 May 2008 11:56:44 -0700
As a database administrator, I like automation. When it comes to my backups, I like to automate as much as possible. SQL Mail gives me the ability to know when my backups are successful and when they fail. SQL Mail is a component of SQL Server that...

 

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