“He did this,” (holding up his BlackBerry) “Telecommunications of the United States, the premiere innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create, and that’s what he did. He both regulated and de-regulated the industry.” – Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain’s senior...
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Windows Vista is a black eye for Microsoft
I have always had a little suspicion of how the folks at Microsoft would handle the pressure when a solid competition came along. Of course, we all thought that competition was going to be Apple, but it turns out that it is actually from Linux.
An era of change or a changing era?
Do we live in an era of change or in a changing era? How can one characterize the deep transformations that come with the accelerated insertion of artificial intelligence and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in our present society? Is it a question of a new stage in the industrial society or are we entering into a new era? “Global village”, “technotronic era”, “post-industrial society”, “information society” or “information age”, and “knowledge society” are just a few of the terms that have been coined in an attempt to identify and understand the extent of these changes. But while the debate proceeds in the theoretical sphere, reality races ahead and communication media select the terms that we are to use.
Cairo Dock
As an avid user of the Linux Operating System, I have had my share of fiddling with my desktop to “beautify” it. As a side note, I exclusively use the Gnome Desktop Manager – I just like it. I also like the dock on the Macintosh, so I have been experimenting with the Linux variants of the OSX-Dock. There is Avant-Window-Navigator, Kiba-Dock, XFCE (a great desktop manager in its own right), etc. So when I came across a post on the Ubuntu forums about Cairo-Dock (Formerly Gnome Dock), I had to try it. Trouble was, I have a 64-bit system and there are not a lot of applications for this architecture, yet. Luckily there is a great tutorial on how to install Cairo-Dock on a 64-bit system here. Scroll to the bottom of the page to read the specifics on 64-bit. The Cairo-Dock also has its own community. Check it out here.
The End of Racism and Sexism?
The past two months of the race for the nomination of the flag bearer of the Democratic Party brought to the surface some simmering racial and sexist tensions in civil society. The historic situation of fielding a woman and an African-American at the same time was obviously a difficult atmosphere for most Americans. As a society, the U.S. has always appeared to be a place where people were rather sensitive about speaking their minds for fear of being misinterpreted or “mis-labeled”, if you will. Say something negative about the woman candidate, you are a sexist, and say something untoward about the Black candidate, you are a racist. So it was interesting watching the so-called pundits, experts, senior correspondents etc. try to dance their way around having to address this issue head-on.
Symantec System Center and Windows MMC
Recently, I had a vexing issue with Symantec’s Antivirus Server’s System Center. I had just updated our Windows server 2003 box to SP2 and that did not go down well with the Symantec product. I kept getting a MMC error complaining that the System Center could not be found and that I did not have permission. It turned out the fix was really simple. I opened the “Run” box and typed in mmc and clicked ok. The MMC dialog box came up and from the file menu, I selected Add/Remove Snap-In, then selected Symantec System Center and added this service as a snap-in. That fixed the problem. I was now able to open the system center, update the definitions and push same updates to client desktops.
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