Just look at flash drives. I remember being given a couple 512MB drives buy a tech salesperson who obviously didn't know the costs. I looked it up, and at the...

How about autos world needs gas.

Four...

Scott Anderson #2 (3/15/2013)

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Jim P. - I also thought that more secure meant less useable, until I realised that we are looking at securing the wrong way. Instead of the...

My belief:

The more secure you try to make systems and software makes them either less secure or become unused and useless.

Some examples locking down Windows that a regular user has...

David Conn (3/8/2013)

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I see Microsoft as being Evolutionary rather than Revolutionary. All that they're doing at the moment is offering a Touchscreen Windows i.e. a Decent One. Windows 8 is...

The other thing MS is doing is more web based apps, such as Office 365.

I'm still holding at Office 2003 because of the ribbon. Yes the 365 will be a...

I work for a company that produces SW for the health care industry, more specifically nursing homes. We live in the guts of HIPAA compliance. The programmers commonly build in...

It looks like M$ is finally catching up to Google on Data Centers. 😀

I know you are...

The one question is did they restore the "BACKUP Log With TRUNCATE_ONLY" option?

I have been in so many situations that I walk in after a bulk data load or a...

Nadrek (1/24/2013)

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Further, knowing about hardware allows you to have the option of choosing tradeoffs yourself - what's the native word size, and are there instructions that are much faster/slower, for...

Anytime I hear cloud computing, Hadoop, or Mongo DB I always think of this video (warning: contains profanity).

At home I connect to the internet with an aircard at $10 per...

I've gotten in the habit with my manager of occasionally dropping this on her desk:

You have a choice:

Good

Fast

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john.moreno (1/17/2013)

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Except that for a site that you visit once a week, let alone once a month or once a year, you haven't memorized it, you've forgotten all about it....

Any time someone brings up password security I always think of this XKCD commentary[/url]