Operating systems can take some funny turns

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Operating system humor: No funny
business

Operating system humor: No funny
business 12/30/2003 01:21 AM
So maybe Network World should run a list of server and desktop operating systems each year. We could indicate which we wanted to keep around (NT 4 and NetWare 3, for example) while also voting for which to discontinue (Windows ME should "win" handily).

RIAA's funny bookkeeping turns gains
into losses

RIAA's funny bookkeeping turns gains
into losses 05/14/2004 09:27 AM
This very good, short article shows the way that the RIAA cooks its books to create losses due to file-sharing when there's no indication that file-sharing is costing them money. Peter sez, "I'm an economist researching the issue too, and I've found the figures frankly unbelievable for a long while. Now I know why."

There is only one logical integration of all these statistics with the recent Soundscan data: even though actual point-of-purchase sales are up by about 9% in the US - and the industry sold over 13,000,000 more units in 2004 (1st quarter) than in 2003 (1st quarter) - the Industry is still claiming a loss of 7% because RIAA members shipped 7% fewer records than in 2003.

Forget the confusing percentages, here's an oversimplified example: I shipped 1000 units last year and sold 700 of them. This year I sold 770 units but shipped only 930 units. I shipped 10% less units this year. And this is what the RIAA wants the public to accept as "a loss."

I'll go a step further. This fact, that Sherman seems to confirm, should logically mean a smaller percentage of returns. But, shouldn't fewer returns mean higher profit margins and faster turnaround; and shouldn't that be good for both the retail and wholesale side of the industry? "Sure," admits Sherman today, "but I have no idea what US shipments looked like in the first quarter." Then how can he claim world-wide "losses" in his March speech to Financial Times New Media?

Link (Thanks, Peter!)

CollegeHumor.com : New Funny Pictures,
Funny Movies, and Funny Hotlinks Daily!

CollegeHumor.com : New Funny Pictures,
Funny Movies, and Funny Hotlinks Daily! 06/16/2004 06:37 AM
a disembodied hand resting on the shoulder of one of the models .. Disembodied hand in Victoria's Secret catalog .. lesson in photoshop .. revealed

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One PC, many operating systems

One PC, many operating systems 07/25/2004 02:27 PM
Electric New Paper Jul 25 2004 5:45PM GMT

Personal operating systems

Personal operating systems 06/17/2005 07:20 PM

Last week I upgraded to the 10.4 ("Tiger") version of Mac OS X, and I've been getting acquainted with its new features. The headline attractions are Spotlight (for search), Dashboard (for lightweight applications), and Automator (for scripting). Although I'm happy to have them, none seems likely to make me wildly more productive. That's not entirely Apple's fault, though. As the boundaries between desktop systems and the network continue to blur, it gets harder to deliver value purely in the form of OS or application upgrades.

Consider Spotlight, OS X's new search engine. It works so quickly that, while composing this sentence, I was able to search for "so quickly" and find the file I was in the midst of writing. Other aspects of Spotlight are less compelling, however. The advanced query syntax should be more accessible and better documented. Search results should embed the found words in contextual wrappers.

Even with such improvements, Spotlight wouldn't be indispensable to me. As I noted back in January, desktop search feels like an anachronism in 2005. Increasingly, my data lives in the network. There, it's searchable in the same way from any of the various machines I regularly use. And when I choose to make it so, it's also visible to colleagues or to the Web's aggregation engines. Enhancing these tasks will matter much more to me in the coming months and years than indexing my local hard drives will. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

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55 Operating Systems On A PowerBook

55 Operating Systems On A PowerBook 12/17/2003 09:35 AM
Slashdot Dec 17 2003 9:07AM ET

Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems

Next G5 Multitasks Operating Systems 12/24/2004 12:44 PM
Slashdot Dec 23 2004 9:48PM GMT

PowerPC Operating Systems

PowerPC Operating Systems 07/15/2004 10:27 AM

In Operating Systems We Trust

In Operating Systems We Trust 09/07/2004 06:37 AM

Self-Healing in Modern Operating Systems

Self-Healing in Modern Operating Systems 12/22/2004 01:07 AM

A History of Apple's Operating Systems

A History of Apple's Operating Systems 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
A History of Apple's Operating Systems

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Thoughts on secure operating systems

Thoughts on secure operating systems 07/21/2004 10:48 AM

"A History of Apple's Operating Systems"

"A History of Apple's Operating Systems" 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

Making Operating Systems Faster

Making Operating Systems Faster 06/03/2004 10:32 AM

palmOne might use other operating
systems besides Palm

palmOne might use other operating
systems besides Palm 01/29/2004 10:58 AM
Guess it's just one of those days, but there's even more Palm-related news. Well, sort of. InfoSync reports than in an interview with a Swedish...

Java and Sun's operating systems: better
together?

Java and Sun's operating systems: better
together? 07/07/2004 09:56 AM
Every now and then I find myself playing the Howard Beale (Peter Finch) role in Network, across from Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty), the capitalist visionary who explains how things really work. At Digital ID World in 2002, it was Phil Becker who channeled Arthur Jensen. During last week's Gillmor Gang show, it was Sun's Jonathan Schwartz. In the wake of JavaOne I'd been thinking tactically about technical aspects of Java. For Schwartz, though, it's all strategic and economic -- as in this sermonette on leasing and net present value. I've thought a lot about subscription businesses, and I've even helped create one, so I have a basic appreciation for the model. But I'm not qualified to evaluate Schwartz's plans for turning Sun's various assets into recurring revenue -- at least, not on financial terms. ...

Complete History of Apple Operating
Systems

Complete History of Apple Operating
Systems 03/06/2004 02:03 AM

ITU: Telco Operating Systems Get
Standards Boost

ITU: Telco Operating Systems Get
Standards Boost 05/17/2004 01:40 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum May 17 2004 5:14AM GMT

Retired Microsoft Operating Systems
Still Popular

Retired Microsoft Operating Systems
Still Popular 12/13/2003 10:28 AM

Users cling to old Microsoft operating
systems

Users cling to old Microsoft operating
systems 12/12/2003 01:58 PM
The software giant can stop selling older operating systems, and it can even stop supporting them, but that doesn't mean that customers won't still use them.

Creaky Operating Systems Form IT
Foundations

Creaky Operating Systems Form IT
Foundations 03/19/2005 02:33 AM

Palm develops twin operating systems

Palm develops twin operating systems 02/11/2004 01:49 PM
vnunet.com Feb 11 2004 6:39PM GMT

Microsoft threat to discontinue Windows
98 and NT operating systems

Microsoft threat to discontinue Windows
98 and NT operating systems 02/19/2004 02:37 AM
World Socialist Web Site Feb 19 2004 7:02AM GMT

Guest Editorial: Thoughts on secure
operating systems

Guest Editorial: Thoughts on secure
operating systems 07/21/2004 09:14 AM

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Israel:
Operating systems aren't a religion

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Israel:
Operating systems aren't a religion 05/04/2004 05:11 AM
Haaretz May 4 2004 9:36AM GMT

video archives from the 19th ACM
Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles (SOSP)

video archives from the 19th ACM
Symposium on Operating Systems
Principles (SOSP) 01/05/2004 09:11 PM
The video archives from the 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) have been posted.

Sasser worm hits three leading Microsoft
operating systems - experts (AFP)

Sasser worm hits three leading Microsoft
operating systems - experts (AFP) 05/01/2004 06:32 PM
AFP - A new Internet worm spreading worldwide hits computers with certain Microsoft operating systems and causes no apparent damage, but closes down the operating system and sends it into a re-boot loop, two US computer security firms said.

Sasser worm hits three leading Microsoft
operating systems - experts

Sasser worm hits three leading Microsoft
operating systems - experts 05/01/2004 10:42 PM
Channel NewsAsia May 2 2004 2:39AM GMT

movie clips • games • funny
virals • funny emails and email
attachments

movie clips • games • funny
virals • funny emails and email
attachments 08/22/2004 04:13 AM
British Kung Fu !

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System Services for the Windows Server
2003 Family and Windows XP Operating
Systems

System Services for the Windows Server
2003 Family and Windows XP Operating
Systems 06/14/2004 06:15 PM

BP turns its back on traditional IT
security with internet access to company
systems

BP turns its back on traditional IT
security with internet access to company
systems 09/06/2004 09:42 PM
Computer Weekly Sep 7 2004 1:18AM GMT

Funny depressing, not funny haha

Funny depressing, not funny haha 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
Jeff Jarvis has some excellent transcriptual commentary on the unintentionally hilarious Tim Russert segment on blogging....

HotFix Watch: You cannot use the
Operating System Deployment Feature Pack
to deploy an operating system

HotFix Watch: You cannot use the
Operating System Deployment Feature Pack
to deploy an operating system 04/16/2005 07:50 AM

Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc. Signs
a Letter of Intent with FUJIFILM Medical
Systems, USA

Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc. Signs
a Letter of Intent with FUJIFILM Medical
Systems, USA 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Integrated Surgical Systems, Inc. (ISS) signs a letter of intent with FUJIFILM Medical Systems, USA (Fuji) for it to purchase additional technology and marketing rights for its Synapse system for the Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) market. [PRWEB Dec 2, 2004]

Lynx Wealth Management Systems and STB
Systems Announce Strategic Alliance

Lynx Wealth Management Systems and STB
Systems Announce Strategic Alliance 09/17/2004 02:49 AM
Lynx Wealth Management Systems, the leading supplier of wealth management systems to the financial services industry, has entered into an alliance with leading compliance software specialist STB Systems. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

Perot Systems signs 10-year deal with
Key Safety Systems

Perot Systems signs 10-year deal with
Key Safety Systems 01/05/2004 06:44 PM
Key Safety will relocate its Florida data center to Perot's Texas headquarters.

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.
Positioned Number One in Prestigious
Independent National Study for Surgery
Management Systems

Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.
Positioned Number One in Prestigious
Independent National Study for Surgery
Management Systems 06/25/2004 02:16 AM
KLAS™, a research and consulting firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare’s information technology (HIT) vendors, announced today, the publication of a Surgery Management Systems Study. The 296 page report positioned Unibased Systems Architecture, Inc.’s product periOperative Resource Management System (ORMS) first among HIT surgery management products from an impressive list of firms including GE, McKesson and Cerner. [PRWEB Jun 25, 2004]

Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of
Twingo Systems

Cisco Systems Completes Acquisition of
Twingo Systems 04/20/2004 08:48 AM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Apr 20 2004 12:36PM GMT

That's funny

That's funny 04/26/2004 08:16 PM

When I saw this headline - I thought that it meant "LinkedIn was supporting FOAF".  Hah!

Li nkedIn Unleashed.

Scott Allen, of Online Business Networks (and one of the judges in our recently completed ‘Perfect Pitch’ competition,) is doing something newsworthy this Wednesday, April 28, 2004 — he is conducting a 60 minute Teleclass on how to use LinkedIn to better achieve your professional goals.

Many of us utilize a broad spectrum of YASNS, or I should say many of us belong to a number of different SNS’s — but, are we really making good use of them? Or are we just joining as many as we can — hoping to increase the size of our YASNS trading card decks?

When I heard that Scott was giving this class, I was intrigued. It will be interesting to see if any of the other Business Networkings Services — specifically — follow suit and offer a similar series of educational spots to help improve the understanding and utilization of their services amongst their user bases.

Think I’ll go check it out… (-:=

[The Social Software Weblog]
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