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My crystal ball has booted up...
Database, James Hein, Published on 06/01/2010
» We have entered the New Year and by some accounts with less than two years left, if the 2012 alarmists are right.
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Join the thousands and add your voice if you don't trust Oracle
Database, James Hein, Published on 13/01/2010
» You may have noticed that things tend to slow down a week or so each side of the New Year.
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Why pirate copies can seem so attractive
Database, James Hein, Published on 20/01/2010
» It is time to say something about Windows 7, or rather some of my reader's experiences with it, which I thank them for sharing.
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Focus on loyal, paying customers, not pirates
Database, James Hein, Published on 27/01/2010
» There is a fine line between product protection, security and customer dissatisfaction. Organisations that develop software employ all manner of protection mechanisms to stop people using their products without paying for them first. Almost without exception the pirates and crackers find a way to bypass these protection mechanisms and the same people who didn't pay for software get the latest versions for free or at a greatly reduced price.
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When Windows can mean life or death
Database, James Hein, Published on 10/02/2010
» Windows 7 has been slowly settling into public use but is it an OS you will want to use for critical situations? A close friend of mine works in the IT service and response industry in France and related the following situation.
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Already looking to the next Apple news
Database, James Hein, Published on 17/02/2010
» Seems the feedback for the iPad has been a bit lukewarm. Some have described it as ''an iPhone having a mid-life crisis''. It is like the iPhone but without multitasking, no Flash and no wide screen video playback capability. The iPhone itself is still dong well but the new unit didn't live up to expectations. Some of the problem is the responsibilities Apple has. They need to keep their developers happy to minimise app rewriting. Then there are the shareholders who expect customers to be locked into the iTunes store for everything, hence there is no Flash and you will not be able to play Evony or Farmville on your iPad.
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The extermination of all things impure from Apple
Database, James Hein, Published on 24/02/2010
» Is Oracle a trusted form of Open source software? With the recent resignation of Ken Jacobs, the man tipped to look after MySQL, people are starting to wonder. Jacobs was known as the friendly face of Open source in Oracle. When Oracle did not assign MySQL to Jacobs, he quit. Jacobs did say that he believed Oracle would look after MySQL and "make it better".
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Bigger is not always better, especially when running a notebook
Database, James Hein, Published on 10/03/2010
» Is bigger really better in the computing world? As an example, I've chosen the latest iteration of Visual Studio, VS 2010. There has been a trend over successive versions of many software developers to add in everything they can think of in a new release.
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Companies play the upgrade waiting game, MS massages its stats
Database, James Hein, Published on 17/03/2010
» Microsoft recently made the claim that they had sold 90 million copies of Windows 7 since it reached the manufacturers in July last year. What actually happened then was that OEMs were told to put Win 7 on new machines by default. So the word "sold" is a little misleading here.
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Why the Y2K threat was very real
Database, James Hein, Published on 24/03/2010
» To this day I still sometimes read about the Y2K bug and how it was a hoax. I sometimes see it likened to all manner of conspiracies. So here is the truth. I was involved in the Y2K mitigation program and it was a real issue. Jan 1, 2001 and other dates like 2010 were real issues and in fact they are still having an effect today.
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