Feb 20, 2011 5:11pm GMT
With over 4000 exhibiting companies from 68 countries, over 5000 journalists from 66 countries, and 340,000 attendees CeBIT is the world's largest trade show for computers and telephony.CeBIT is also different from other trade shows because it tends to be more “business to business” and “vendor to vendor”, where large opportunities are discussed and deals are created over a beer. More on the be... more »
Rest in Peace, Kenneth Harry OlsenFeb 07, 2011 11:33pm GMT
I just learned that Kenneth Olsen, one of the founders of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), died on February 6th, 2011 at the age of 84. From now on I will refer to him in this article as “KO”, as did most people who worked at DEC. At DEC no one had to ask who you were talking about when you said “KO”. Readers of my blogs and columns know of my very long association with DEC. It s... more »
RTFM: It is not just for computersJan 31, 2011 4:14pm GMT
Some friends of mine own a consulting company with about twenty employees. Every once in a while they buy “something nice” for the common area used by all the employees, and very recently it was an automatic coffee maker. This is not just any coffee maker, but a very sophisticated machine that can either use ground coffee OR it can grind the coffee beans and put them directly in... more »
Fermilab, the Tevatron, and LinuxJan 11, 2011 9:38pm GMT
It was 1998 and I was attending a Comdex event in Chicago. Comdex was one of the largest computer trade shows on earth, and for a while they held two events a year, a Fall event always in Las Vegas, and a Spring event typically in some other large city.That year “Spring Comdex” was in Chicago and my company, Digital Equipment Corporation was there along with a motley crew of companies pushing t... more »
Pearls Before SwineJan 09, 2011 9:31pm GMT
I have written about my frustrations with service before, but I wanted to share three more items. For those of you who have not seen today's (January 9th, 2011) “Pearls Before Swine” comic strip, it mirrors some of my frustration with service groups. This was the first item I wanted to share. The second item was with my Internet service. For many years I had two different land-b... more »
Very AlarmingJan 05, 2011 12:10am GMT
Over the New Year's weekend a news story started to unfold. It was about the Apple iPhone and how the standard clock application would not sound its alarm when set. The story became (said a radio announcer) the number two story of the day. All day long I heard about the iPhone's clock not working, and it was also reported that Apple was not going to fix it, since it was deemed as being a “tempo... more »
Peace On Earth - Good Will To AllJan 01, 2011 4:51am GMT
The last day of the year is here. At an hour when a lot of people are out partying and “ringing in the New Year” I am sitting here with a glass of wine and taking a bit of quiet time to reflect on what happened last year and what might happen next year. If you are reading this hoping to learn something about FOSS or Free Software, and will be disappointed if you do not learn to grep or pi... more »
