After trying out Vista x64 RTM for few days I came to the same conclusion as many others did who have been using Linux, particularly openSUSE 10.2, for sometime now.

The new OpenSuSE 10.2 is by far more friendly and stable than the new VISTA Microsoft has offered us. It really comes with a great GUI to rival VISTAs AERO theme and also provides more compatibility with the hardware requirements than VISTA.

I added an interim location for Operations Manager 2007 content  to MOMResources.org while the new site is being developed, where we'll be adding content regularly as we evaluate the RC2 release.

… Continuation of my opinion from previous post to the expanding iSCSI debate in the storage blogosphere.

Read/WriteWeb has a pretty cool summary of all the acquisitions made by Yahoo since around 2005. I’d forgotten one or two, but the list is pretty impressive. What’s even more impressive is how cheaply Yahoo managed to acquire a lot of these companies.

It’s time to re-adopt the client as a full-fledged member of standard software architecture. Ever since the days of the LAN the client has been out of vogue. It was semantically replaced by the browser, which is really a client in disguise but is disliked by companies that sell operating systems and so is not talked about as such. Because the companies that sell operating systems have played a prominent role in establishing architectures and programming practices for many years, the browser aka client seems to have been neglected. For example, the service oriented architectures which are all the rage right now are heavily biased towards servers and don’t do much for the browser. However, I think that’s all changing.

The Google Operating System blog reports that Google now automatically searches – or at least highlights – spell-checked versions of some search queries. As an example, when you search for christine aguilera, Google will not show you a “did you mean?” box, but show you an embolded “christina aguilera” anyway (at least sometimes*).

A few years ago, Ruthenium — called “Pixie Dust” by IBM – paved the way for extraordinary leaps forward in longitudinal hard disk areal density. I wrote about it here.Now, as perpendicular recording takes hold, we get this note from my favorite broker, Richard Kugele:Reading, Writing, and Ruthenium.

Last month, Google accounted for a staggering 47.3% of all web searches, according to comScore. Naturally, Google's stock is following right in step. It's just off its all time high. However, for all the hype about Google vs. Yahoo et al, Wikipedia quietly looms as a huge threat to Google's dominance.

“Who needs a broadcast tower?” is the title of a short post today by Jeff Jarvis on BuzzMachine. He’s riffing on a post by Marshall Kirkpatrick reporting that KZSW in Temecula, California may be the first local station to post its content on YouTube.

I believe that 2007 is the year when companies will start to understand that they need a read/write Intranet. Here is a list of some of the start-ups and large companies that produce systems that could be used to build a read/write Intranet.

Today, January 16, IBM launches its latest disk system, the DS3000 series.

There are actually three products in the DS3000 series:DS3200

The DS3200 is a 2U high, 12 drive system that attaches to servers via 3Gbps Serial Attach (SAS) interface.You can expand this to 48 drives by added EXP3000 expansion units. Here are theDS3200 specifications.DS3400

The DS3400 is a 2U high, 12 drive system that attaches to servers via 4Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) interface.You can expand this to 48 drives by added EXP3000 expansion units. Here are the DS3400 specifications.EXP3000

The EXP3000 is a 2U high, 12 drive expansion drawer. It was announced back in August 2006, but is part of theoverall DS3000 series. It can be used directly with servers, but is also designed to be attached to the back of the DS3200 or DS3400 to increase capacity.Here are the EXP3000 specifications.

With this announcement, IBM provides entry-level storage at the "less-than-$5000" price point, withsupport for intermix of 10K and 15K RPM drives, and scalable up to 14.4 TB capacity.This would be ideal storage for HP, Dell, IBM System x and BladeCenter servers.

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If carriers keep selling wholesale to those that figure out how to put more than one voice call through either the data or voice channels with compression, we're going to keep seeing new companies emerge that have figure out how to make money selling for less.

Whether invading countries or markets, the first wave of troops to seebattle are the commandos... Commandos parachute behind enemy linesor quietly crawl ashore at night. A start-up's biggest advantage isspeed, and speed is what commandos live for.

A 45-year-old Azusa, Calif., man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out e-mail scams as well as related crimes. Jeffrey Brett Goodin, who was arrested last year, was convicted Friday on multiple counts by a jury in the U.

Some people return the kindnesses of the support community with little gestures…answering a few questions here and there, displays of gratitude. And some guys return the favor all at once….with interest. That would be David Wallis of the UK.

Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) has a series of articles (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV - free registration required) talking about Software as a Service (SaaS), including specific information on supply chain management solutions that are available as the SaaS model. There's also specific information on Kinaxis here.

Hard to believe but true: there’s another vulnerability currently live on Google’s servers, allowing a malicious hacker to point you to a (long) Google.com URL... and then receive your cookie data, with which the hacker can access and modify your Google docs and spreadsheets, and view your email subjects & first words, your search history (if enabled) and much more... similar to the previous vulnerability.

Google's Month of Security Flaws: "

By now it's common news that Google has been hit by what seems like half a dozen ormore cross site scripting security flaws in the past month. If you missed the news,you can read blog posts like More Googlesecurity failures and Wow, moreGoogle XSS problems which contain links to some of the stories of recent exploits.The bugs in those blog posts aren't exhaustive, I've seen some blog posts about exploitsthat don't seem to have hit the mainstream techblogs such as the one mentioned in the blog post PendingMembers - Google Groups XSS Bug [Part 2].

Kim Cameron and Dick Hardt debating the pluses and minuses of OpenId and Infocards. I agree with Kim that these are largely apples and oranges, sure there is some use case overlap, but they are designed to solve different identity problems. One of the big advantages I see in Infocards' approach that is particularly valuable for medium to high assurance systems, is that there is flexibility to treat certain identity communications in band and out of band. If you think about a lot of the security and privacy issues we see (like phishing, mitm, session playback), a lot of them are related to single band communications that, once breached, crumbles (or worse propagates). SOAP's support for many different communication protocols and WS-Security support for multiple token formats create a useful enabling technology for security architectures - the ability to move portions of identity conversations in and out of different bands.