By George Ou on
8/22/2008 12:24 PM
This is a computer build list for a good office computer with solid graphics performance. This computer has very low power consumption with NVIDIA passively cooled 9500 GT graphics adapter and Intel dual-core 45nm processor. The nice thing about this set-up is that it has two digital display outputs and one analog display output so you can hook up multiple monitors.
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By Justin James on
8/22/2008 10:19 AM
Windows Server 2008 has the most broken feature I have seen in a Micrisoft product in a long time: file searching. Like Vista, Server 2008 has some really nice file searching features that make heavy use of the file indexing. Sadly, some idiot decided to make the system search only indexed items by default, and then turned off the indexing by default!
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By Justin James on
8/21/2008 5:46 PM
The monster project on my plate (I've been building up to it since around March) is to migrate our existing NT 4 domain to Windows 2008. This project has been joy and pain, and it is finally nearly done.
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By Justin James on
8/21/2008 1:26 AM
I've been having a few major problems with my FreeBSD server for over a year now. In a nutshell, a bad CPU caused compiling to fail quite often, which trashed the installed software packages pretty badly. Even after replacing the CPU, I could never quite get PHP working. No matter what I did, it wouldn't take POST data! I tried upgrading to FreeBSD 7.0, and that didn't do the trick, and even created additional problems in the process. So why didn't I just rebuild the server? One word: "qmail".
See, qmail is a mail system. Like "sendmail" but without sendmail's insecurity. But qmail likes to be "special". It's creator has certainly principles that he likes to stick to, which spill over into the software. In this case, he beleives that the directory hierarchy that he prefers is so much better than the default for your OS (directory hierarchy is a favorite religious arguement in U ...
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By Justin James on
8/19/2008 10:38 PM
Looks like the 3G iPhone is truly "twice as fast"... twice as fast as paint drying:
J.Ja
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By George Ou on
8/18/2008 9:26 PM
I just spent an hour trouble shooting my mother's computer over the phone. Apparently, all the certificates were throwing up errors and giving the scary message that someone might be hijacking your computer session. One thing I forgot to check was the date on the computer which got reset and the date mismatch was forcing every secure website to report scary messages.
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By George Ou on
8/12/2008 6:28 PM
In his recent OPEC 2.0 op-ed, Columbia University law professor Tim Wu offered his vision of a broadband policy by declaring the broadband market a “bandwidth cartel” that has gouged the public like the energy market. While this bash-the-corporation rhetoric may have some populist appeal, Wu’s analysis is both factually and logically flawed. See rest of post here
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By George Ou on
8/12/2008 6:23 PM
My article on FedTech Magazine on achiving Green IT has appeared in print and online here. It has some informative tips so please check it out.
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By Justin James on
8/12/2008 11:53 AM
I tried to install the new Service Pack for Team Foundation Server 2008 today. Not surprisingly, it failed. It failed for the same reason that it took me quite a number of days to get it installed in the first place, which is the integration with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
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By George Ou on
8/10/2008 4:15 PM
Photo credit: Jeff Gross/Getty Images
With the 2008 summer Olympics upon us, 8/8/2008 marks the dawn of a new era for China and for the Internet. China is experiencing massive growth economically and the Internet is becoming the next television platform. For the first time, I get to watch all of the Olympics events that I wanted to see because it’s available on demand from the Internet.
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By George Ou on
8/7/2008 2:01 PM
 
In May, Erratasec founder and researcher David Maynor sent out these pictures to a small security list beaming with joy as if to show off his new baby. He asked us to guess what it's for and a number of us made some educated guesses. He then tipped us off that the battery on the bottom of the box would run for 5 days and that it was intended to be shipped to a nonexistent person. Well that was all the clue
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By Justin James on
8/1/2008 10:06 AM
I went to Microsoft.com today to look some information up, and I discovered that they are giving away free (even S/H is free) 120 day evals of Windows Home Server. I've been curious about this product, but I didn't want to spend a cent without trying it first. Here's my chance, I guess. If you're interested, you can get this from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/eval.mspx
J.Ja
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By George Ou on
7/31/2008 11:26 PM
If I was still blogging at ZDNet, I'd file this under my old Energy Efficiency category. It's been nearly a year ago since I covered the Green Grid at Linux World and I know the folks who head up that consortium pretty well and it's definitely a worthwhile cause. I recall raising the concern that many IT departments don't really pay energy costs and it doesn't factor in to their department's bottom line so it's good to see that they're championing the concept of some sort of corporate Energy Czar.
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