TechNet Webcast: Understanding Group Policy (Part 1 of 3) (Level 200)
Group Policy in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has almost 1,000 configurable settings. Tune in to this three-part series to learn about some of the most important and useful Group Policy settings. In Part One, we introduce you to the terms and concepts used in the Group Policy environment, and discuss some of the benefits and advantages of using Group Policy. We cover what Group Policy is, what Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are, and how to apply GPOs to users and computers. We describe how to create a test and staging environment, and show you how to use two common tools to manage Group Policy, the Group Policy Management Console and the Group Policy Object Editor. Original Broadcast Date: Monday, November 13, 2006
Fox News' partisan shilling on the Iraq War
The Social Media Podcast & Blog is published by the Social Media Group, founded by JD Lasica. An open media strategist, JD is: (Read on Source)
eComStation 2.0 RC1 Released
OSNews writes ""Serenity Systems International and Mensys BV are pleased to announce the immediate availability of eComStation 2.0 RC1. This release is available to customers with an active Software Subscriptions Services subcription." There are a lot of changes and new features; you can find them in the announcement and changelog."
Home Work Business Opportunities: How Do You Advertise Your Business? Posted By : Jo Han Mok
There are all kinds of home work business opportunities that you can choose from. However, unless you know how to advertise your new business you will not have any success with it. Learn how to market and you will become more successful every day.
Apple Stock Wobbles on Low Activation Numbers
Apple's stock dropped by $8.81, or 6.1 percent, to $134.89 on Tuesday following AT&T's report that it had activated just 146,000 iPhones during the first two days of the iconic multimedia device's release. That number fell far short of many industry estimates.
Nine Fixes Planned For Patch Tuesday
Six critical fixes are on the way, including one for the Mac version of Office.
09-12-2007: Budapest Circumhorizontal Arc
A spectacular halo display was visible over central Hungary on June 8, 2007. The circumscribed halo, circumzenithal arc and parhelia were all easily observed from Budapest to Veszprem. Later that morning when the Sun was high enough, a beautiful circumhorizonal arc appeared (over the domed structure above). Rarely viewed in central Europe, our ... (Read on Source)
RTT College Pick 'Em game: pino takes the lead, in a way
Congrats to pino, who's on top of the rubble in the RTT College Pick 'Em game . Just so you know, I'm not in the Top 25 (27, actually), but if one adds my first week's results under the wrong ESPN account to the right ESPN account, I'm . . . first! Take that. RESULTS RANK ENTRY, OWNER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 TOT PCT 1 pino , a. pino 54 34 ... (Read on Source)
LinkedIn, Now For Companies
LinkedIn, the boring social network that won’t find you a date but may land you a job, is expanding beyond people profiles. On Friday morning they will launch company profile pages that partly serve as fact sheets for about 160,000 companies and partly serve to reveal the connections that members have with them. (Read on Source)
Bills aren't surprised when tempers flare
To those of us who don't draw paychecks from National Football League teams, the news emanating from the Carolina Panthers' training camp was a bit shocking on Friday. But for people in the NFL's inner circle — such as some of the men who play for the Buffalo Bills — hearing that Carolina Pro Bowl wide receiver Steve Smith punched out teammate ... (Read on Source)
Lenovo May Join IBM's "Microsoft Free" Plan
... Symphony office software which run on an open source Linux operating systems provided by Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat. Earlier this year, IBM announced the "Microsoft Free" client software ...
Vision Media Sues The Oko Box For $20 Million Doll...
Disclaimer: All content of this article are the opinions of the author, please investigate facts on an individual basis. If you think that title is a joke or you read it wrong, it's not just a sensationalist headline it is real. On July 22nd I was served with a summons for a lawsuit by Vision Media Television for the sum of $20 million dollars ( ... (Read on Source)
Penny Arcade Making Fallout Comics
The kings of gaming comics; Penny Arcade; have been asked (and paid) by many companies over the years to make some comic strips to promote their games. The strips they’ve made run the gamut from more serious in tone to the hilarity and sarcastic wit that we’ve all come to know and love from the delightful twosome. [...]
Mixed Signals: Is There A Broadband Price War? Is It A New Thing?
Remember just two years ago, when there were all sorts of stories about a supposed "broadband price war" in the US, where prices of DSL were even dropping below the cost of dialup lines? While that was somewhat misleading, it's difficult to see how the Wall Street Journal can suddenly claim that the idea of cut rate promotional pricing for broadband is suddenly new. That seems to go against what was being reported just a few years ago. Broadband providers have had such promotions going for quite some time -- and while the specifics of the promotion (and the ease of actually getting the promotion pricing) change over time, it's hard to see how the latest efforts are all that different. And, in the meantime, just as the WSJ is claiming that broadband prices are in some sort of freefall due to this competition, Richard Bennett is trying to make the case that we're all about to get broadband price increases thanks to the FCC's wrist slap on Comcast.
So, apparently, broadband providers are extending all sorts of promotions with cheap pricing to get people onto their network, but if you actually want to use the network, you should expect much higher pricing. That seems like a recipe for disaster.
Of course, the truth is somewhere in between. The so-called "price war" is exaggerated for effect -- as it's often nearly impossible to get the actual advertised prices in many cases. Meanwhile, Bennett exaggerates the claim that we're seeing price increases due to caps. Broadband caps will eventually be recognized as a hindrance to innovation, but they're hardly a price increase in most cases. And, if they really do end up being a huge price increase for users, then won't that create incentives for the other providers (the ones that the WSJ claims are itching to steal customers away) to get rid of the caps or change them? That is unless there really isn't competition in the market -- and Bennett himself was just suggesting that there's plenty of competition in the broadband market.
So, based on these various stories, it seems that, thanks to the FCC's deregulatory efforts, we have tremendous competition in the broadband market that is driving down prices, except for the fact that it's driving up prices due to the lack of competition in the market created by bad FCC rules. Clear?
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Linux Wi-Fi Works With wicd
LinuxPlanet: "Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users...wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better, so we're going to give it a test drive."
Weekly Green Business Wrap-Up
One More Reason to Take Confcalls in Your Underwear Cisco unveils its new ???Virtual Office,??? a wireless internet router and phone system employees can take home with them. This innovation will keep employees from having to commute, which saves them time and keeps their carbon footprinting asses off the road. Fred Kost, Cisco's Director of ... (Read on Source)
Wikus: Victory is vital
Wikus van Heerden says a win for the Blue Bulls in their Absa Currie Cup match against the Cheetahs on Saturday is non-negotiable. The Springbok and Bulls flanker says the team are acutely aware that a win in Bloemfontein will virtually secure them a home semi-final. They are just four points clear of the third [...] (Read on Source)
20 more IT mistakes to avoid
... the habit persists. Fortunately, modern operating systems -- including Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows Vista -- have taken steps to curb this practice, by shipping with the highest-level privileges ...
Chronicle Your Life In Photos With LifeSnapz
Because of the abundance of photo hosting sites available on the web, it can be hard to track down every photo from an event you've attended. Oftentimes they're scattered across multiple user accounts, under generic album titles like "Party", making them hard to find and virtually useless for future reference. LifeSnapz , a photo sharing site ... (Read on Source)
Ted Mininni: Are 'Complete' Products Being 'Totaled'?
A very interesting article recently appeared in Advertising Age. ?Will All-in-One Products End Their Reign?? discusses the recent trend of many CPG companies, Procter & Gamble included, to launch and market ?complete products.? You know: Tide Total Care laundry detergent, Downy Total Care fabric softener, Olay Total Effects and Crest ... (Read on Source)
Adobe Ships Creative Suite 4
Adobe on Wednesday began shipping Creative Suite 4 (CS4). First unveiled on September 23, CS4 is Adobe's collection of...
Abrams: There was a role for Shatner in upcoming ?Trek?
For months now, William Shatner has been claiming that he wants to have a cameo in the upcoming “Star Trek” movie, but that he hadn’t been contacted by anyone associated with the film. Shatner posted a video on his web site last month calling out director J.J. Abrams, saying that he (Shatner) has found a [...] (Read on Source)
The Best and Worst of Everything 2008
The Best and Worst of Everything 2008 As economies imploded, unemployment soared, companies went bust, and so-called experts threw up their hands and admitted they hadn’t a clue, one could be forgiven for thinking that 2008 was unremittingly bleak. Not so. Though it’s ending on a sour note, the year had plenty of highs that round [...] (Read on Source)
Surfers Rejoice: Some Extreme Waves Getting Bigger
Some of the biggest waves in the Pacific Northwest are getting even bigger, according to research presented Friday at the American Geophysical Union meeting. Scientists don't know why the waves have grown, or if wave heights in other parts of the world are increasing, but the big waves are a potential threat to coastal areas.
Enhanced Car Bumpers to Protect Your Vehicle Posted By : Rokai Kolam
Car bumpers are a standard feature in most cars but for the car enthusiasts, it is not enough that their vehicle has a bumper. Most of the time, they would look for a new one to further improve the appearance of their car.
Judge Approves Common Fund Assessment Reallocation
NEW YORK - The ephedra multidistrict litigation judge on Oct. 17 granted a motion by the plaintiffs to change the common benefit fee for each gross settlement to allocate 1 percent to expenses and 5 percent to attorney fees (In Re: Ephedra Products Liability Litigation, 04 M.D. 1598 [JSR], S.D. N.Y.; See October 2007, Page 8). Full story on lexis.com
Fox About To Get Paid For A Movie It Had Absolutely Nothing To Do With
Back in August, we noted just how silly it was that 20th Century Fox was suing Warner Bros. Studios over the movie The Watchmen. Fox had purchased the rights to make a movie out of the graphic novel decades ago, but decided not to make the movie. After the project bounced around at a few different studios, Warner took it on, and the movie is considered one of the most anticipated blockbusters of 2009. Yet, in a somewhat surprising move (since he'd originally said a trial would be needed next year), a judge has ruled that Fox does, indeed, own a copyright interest in the movie. This almost certainly means that Warner will come to some form of a settlement pretty quickly, so as not to delay or hinder the movie in any manner. In effect, that means that Fox is about to get a pretty big pay day for doing absolutely nothing on a movie that it didn't want to make. That seems to go against everything copyright is supposed to stand for.
Now, obviously, it's pretty stunning that Warner would make this movie without its lawyers being sure that Warner owned all the rights to the film, but as we wrote in the original post, it seems rather silly to sell movie "rights" in the first place. There are plenty of mechanisms to make sure that the original creator of a story can get paid when his or her story is adapted that don't require copyright -- and allowing multiple parties to try to make a film out of a single story should lead to better overall film making. Fox didn't want to make this movie, so Warner stepped up and made a movie that many are expecting to be fantastic. Why should Fox be rewarded for its own failure to make a movie?
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