LDAP configuration management and troubleshooting on AIX
Learn how to diagnose IBM Directory Server problems and how to identify what is needed to resolve the issues. This article is a quick reference for IBM Directory Server configuration management on AIX.
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Why do flowers grow like so?
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, of nursery rhyme renown, knew 'how' her garden would grow. But trust scientists to ask about the 'why' behind "silver bells, cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row." In fact, flowering plants pose a riddle with a complex answer that speaks to the nature of evolution. (Read on Source)
Pardus Linux 2007.2 Review
simplyjat: "The Anatolian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana) is a subspecies of leopard native to Asia Minor, Turkey. It is unknown whether any of these leopards still exist in the wild. Pardus linux is a Turkish distribution named after the Anatolian leopard..."
Helpful Information On Learning Your Basic Guitar Chords Posted By : Scott Brooks
Learning guitar chords can be very complicated and even confusing at times, even for a more advanced guitar player. There are so many different guitar chord combinations that trying to remember all of them can really be a headache. It is going to take a lot of determination and dedication in order to achieve this goal. Learning these guitar chords is vital to your guitar playing ability and techniques. These different chords can give you the experience of performing great sounding solo acts as well as what you can achieve playing with others.
Blogging and Hosting with WordPress
One of the most popular blogging applications used today is from open-source software provider WordPress.
Antitrust filing cites Microsoft Silverlight concern
In a filing last night (PDF, 26 pages), California and several other states asked U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to extend most of Microsoft's U.S. antitrust settlement for another five years. The filing formalizes a request that the states previously outlined in court.
In arguing for the extension, the filing cites a number of concerns, including the fear that Microsoft could use the next version of Windows to "tilt the playing field" toward Silverlight, its new Adobe Flash competitor.
Acceleration, Security to Dominate Talk at Interop
Expect nuts-and-bolts discussions next week as networking professionals descend on the Big Apple.
Trouble in iPaqland
"If you were waiting patiently for HP's iPAQ 110 and 210 models that were due for release earlier this month, you may already know that you're out of luck. jkOnTheRun pieced together a few reader reports and discovered that HP's official site for the 210 now features the text "Coming in 2008!" That's a shame, since the last we heard these two PDAs should have been shipping by the 8th of this month. Anyone else had their order canceled? If so, HP's got some 'splainin' to do."
If you've been following the 210 forum thread, you'll know that some of our members have had their orders canceled with no real information on a new shipping date, except for a vague reference to end-February 2008. Apparently this applies not only to the 210 but possibly also the rest of the new iPaq lineup, which is pretty disappointing (to put it mildly) especially for us fans of the non-connected PDA. My personal guess is since HP are not using HTC as the ODM, whoever they have lined up as manufacturer either hasn't quite gotten all the bugs out in the assembly process, or is having trouble getting parts. With both flash memory and ARM processors much in demand at the moment (think: iPhone and iPod Touch, among others), and the relative rarity of 4" VGA screens, I'm thinking it's quite possibly both. Updates as we get them.
Open Source Foundations Team Up for Hong Kong Conference
LinuxDevices: "The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and the Eclipse Foundation are hosting a summit to reflect the fast growth of the open source movement in Asia..."
Another Body Blow to American Art Education
The National Education Budget proposes another cut in art education. The proposed budget continues to subvert the education process and weaken the country's future. "Art nurtures inventiveness and aids self-esteem, creativity, free thinking, and self-motivation," says Ed McCormick, author of "Lesson Plans that Wow." Knowing the value of art as a tool to enhance core curricula, many teachers are voluntarily spending their own dollars for art materials. (PRWeb Dec 10, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/TWFnbi1IYWxmLUluc2UtU3VtbS1UaGlyLVplcm8=
Application server definition
This is a server on a network that executes certain applications. Usually is a software component that provides application services for a client computer. Application servers usually manage almost all (or all) the logical functions of a business and the data access from the application. The principal benefits on the usage of this technology are that applications [...]
Healthier Aging
Mice fed an ingredient in red wine are healthier, although they don't necessarily live longer.
Pedalo launches online bookshop for Untitled Books
Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source
If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back.
'Last Lecture' Professor, Randy Pausch, Dies
Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose inspiring "Last Lecture" became a viral video hit on YouTube last year, has died at the age of 47.
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Apple vs. Google: How Will They Stack Up in the Future?
Apple is worth more than Google. Huh? This doesn't make sense to me.
Let's start with the obvious: Google makes more money than Apple does. It had earnings of $10 billion over the past 12 months, compared to $8 billion for Apple. And while both companies' earnings are growing fast, Google's are growing faster.
But here's the clincher: Google's earnings were on less than $20 billion of revenue -- that's what I call a profit margin. Apple, by contrast, needed more than $30 billion of revenue to get its $8 billion of gross profit.
Of course, when it comes to stock valuations, the present doesn't matter nearly as much as the future. So what does the future hold for these two franchises?
They're both strong technology giants with very large "moats." But Google is stronger, and its moat is bigger. It owns search, certainly in Europe and the Americas, and it's making strong inroads into display advertising as well. Sam Gustin might be kvetching about "the toll being inflicted on Web advertising by the slowing economy," but the growth rates are still pretty torrid for what is now a reasonably mature industry:
19% market growth? I think Apple would be very happy with that. And remember that Google is increasing, not decreasing, its share of total online ad spending. Over at Apple, by contrast, the iPod/iTunes duopoly can't help but see its market share eroded going forwards, as DRM-free online music stores start competing on price, the record labels try to cut Apple down to size, and the marginal utility from buying your fourth or fifth iPod starts to decline.
Apple's phone business looks great right now, but the industry is notoriously cutthroat, Apple doesn't have the degree of control it's used to elsewhere, and in any case handset margins are never going to be as big as margins on iPods or MacBooks. Yes, the iPhone app store is a very promising business model -- but it's going to be quite some time, if ever, before it makes a significant contribution to Apple's bottom line.
And then there's the computer business. Macs are selling well, at very high margins. But Google's muscling in on the computing business too: over the long term, it makes sense to do all your computing in an ever-improving cloud than it does on specific, individually-owned pieces of hardware which always, eventually, break. The more important the cloud, the less important the computer, and the less important the computer's operating system, too.
Howard Lindzon, by contrast, thinks the stock market is right, and that Apple should be worth more than Google. Two of his arguments are weak: that "social search" will make Google obsolete (I'll believe it when I see it), and that "MacBooks are getting cheaper" (no they're not: Apple's entry-level laptop has been priced between $1,000 and $1,100 for years, and it's going to stay there).
Howards best argument is that a falling Google share price could become self-fulfilling: "if the stock lingers between $500 or worse yet, drifts lower, you will see a brain drain of epic proportions," he says. Google's competitive advantage has long been that it was smarter and richer and one or two steps ahead of the competition. As it matures, it might not have the same ability to attract the very best and the brightest.
But if Google has job risks, Apple has Jobs risk -- which is much bigger and probably just as imminent. No one at Google is even as important to the company as Jonathan Ive is to Apple, let alone Steve Jobs. If I'm holding a stock as a long-term investment (which is the only sensible way to hold a stock) then I don't want to run the risk that the company will founder the minute the CEO exits.
And talking of the long term, the option value of all those crazy Google projects which never make any money is huge. There's a good chance that, eventually, one of them will take off in a big way, and if it's energy-related, it could make Google's present business look positively puny.
Google stock is volatile, just as the founders said it would be in their prospectus. But if I was going to sleep today to wake up in ten years' time, I'd be much happier with Google stock under my mattress than Apple.
Knight Rider GPS is I4U Top 100 Holiday Gift Tip #5
If you want to gift someone this year a GPS device than the Knight Rider GPS from Mio is a cool choice for everyone who grew up watching Michael Knight and the talking car K.I.T.T. on TV. The turn-by-turn voice instruction sound like K.I.T.T. and the us...
Boston Marathon: Pena Blasts Rays Past Red Sox - Most Valuable Network
 Canada.com | Boston Marathon: Pena Blasts Rays Past Red Sox Most Valuable Network - By Erik Hahmann | September 11th, 2008 ?It?sa pretty significant win, particularly here, what?s been going on(and) where we?re at in the race. In the Rays? Special Season, an Extra-Special Moment Rays Show That They Can Win Close Games in Boston Series |
The Many Mad Monikers of Home WiFi Networks
Nearly every time I pull out my iPhone or fire up my laptop, I get an interesting look into the people and businesses that surround me. How do I do this? By looking at the names of their wireless networks. As the number of wireless networks and the number of portable devices that can connect to them continue to increase, naming a wireless network has become the high-tech equivalent of getting a vanity license plate.
STEVE SHAVER AND THE SHAVER...
... Race Products, Hoosier Tires, Behea Headers, Weld Wheels, Mason Racin, Winters, Poskes Performance, WRT Webdesigns and WD Enterprises. Article posted by RacingWest.com staff on 09/18/2008. ...
Leapfrogg Sponsoring Exciting New Digital Media Awards
OK so we all know that Brighton is a hub for New Media and we have a massive amount of digital talent here and in the surrounding area. So it makes total sense for a new range of awards to be launched which recognise the digital talent we have here in the South. The DiMAs (Digital Media Awards South) have recently been launched to "recognise and ... (Read on Source)
GeoEye Office Visit
Use this area to report a Web page that you believe is in violation of Community Standards. Our Community Action Team will review the page and take the appropriate action. (Read on Source)
RSS Owl: a new feedreader
Faster, more reliable, and more powerful -- and still free. (Read on Source)
An Injection of Hard Science Boosts TV Shows' Prognosis
Science is playing a leading role in an increasing number of prime-time dramas. Television producers are replacing science fiction with science fact by tapping rocket scientists, chemists, mathematicians and other experts to help write for their shows. (Read on Source)
Library Releases Report on Flickr Pilot
From the summary (PDF): On January 16, 2008, the Library of Congress launched a pilot project on Flickr, the popular photosharing Web site. We invited the public to tag and describe two sets of approximately 3,000 historic photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress. The Flickr community welcomed us warmly. By asking people for ... (Read on Source)
UPDATE: Urchin 6.5 Is Released For Download!
This minor update to Urchin 6 software is giving users quite a few benefits. We’ve listed a few below for your information: 1. Cost Per Click (CPC) Data Import Manager : This new feature allows users to create "CPC Sources". This update enables automatic extraction of CPC Campaign Data from Google AdWords and automatic inclusion ... (Read on Source)
Westfall Class Wants Metabolife Liquidation Stayed Pending Appeal
SAN DIEGO - Willard Westfall, the representative of a dismissed putative Metabolife class action, is moving for a stay of the implementation of the joint plan of liquidation for the Metabolife bankruptcy pending his appeal of the approval, arguing that the plan contains impermissible releases (In Re: MII Liquidation, Inc., No. 05-6040-H11, S.D. Calif. Bkcy.; See October 2007, Page 6). Full story on lexis.com
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