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- Geek Trivia: Cheaper by the d'oh-zen
- In a recent paper titled "Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking," a group of Stanford physicists introduced a new word to the string theory lexicon: Embiggen. Quoth the paper: "We could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely...
- Tags: Catchphrase, Episode, Simpsons, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Photos: You call that hi-def?
- "High definition" has become a catchphrase for everything from mascara to fireplace logs. Here are some of the wacky things you can get in HD.
- Tags: catchphrase, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-03-03
- Learn to talk the talk when dealing with IT salespeople
- Before you buy another workstation or order an OS upgrade, make sure you?ve got our sales-spiel glossary close by. With this humorous guide to the real meanings behind the sales blather, you can rest assured that you?re not being taken for a ride.As with users and help desk staff, those...
- Tags: Call centers, Sales force management, Jeff Dray, catchphrase, help desk, information technology
- Technical articles 2002-01-30
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- Video: Dr. McCoy's greatest hits
- Every great character has a catchphrase. Here's every instance of Dr. McCoy's, collated for your viewing pleasure. Poetry, if ever there was such. (Found via SFSignal.) by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Dr., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- SOA Made Simple With EGL
- Service-Oriented Architecture SOA has become the catchphrase of many vendors and consultants throughout the IT industry. What is SOA? In a nutshell, SOA is the creation of small reusable components of application systems that isolate logical functionality. In addition to improving the maintainability of internally developed systems via modularization, SOA...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Bruce Sterling: All blogs will die by 2018
- Security expert and tech curmudgeon Bruce Sterling famously quipped at this year's South-by-Southwest conference that "I don't think there will be that many [blogs] around in 10 years. I think they are a passing thing." This got the blogosphere all a-twitter ahem, but I think enough time has passed that...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Blog, Vision, Apple Inc., Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Geek Trivia: More reel than real
- What broadcast catchphrase did CBS ban from radio dramas due to Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds radio play? On June 29, 2005, Steven Spielberg launches his multimedia extravaganza disguised as a major motion picture remake of H.G. Wells' classic science-fiction novel, The War of the...
- Tags: ILM, Zeno, Advertising & Promotion, Jay Garmon, 64-bit, Orson Welles, radio, Steven Spielberg, special effect, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Movie, War, Marketing
- Technical articles 2005-06-28
- How to make a sound business and technology case for ERP implementation
- When senior management has Enterprise Resource Planning ERP on the table, it’s a pressing issue—a moment of truth for the company. To some of your top execs, it’s a catchphrase, to others, a tremendous resource-sapping expense. And they'll ask you for a recommendation. As a member of management in a...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Scott Robinson, ERP
- Technical articles 2003-04-14
- The Top 10 Most Quotable Geek Films...Ever!
- SFSignal and reddit both pointed me to this entry in the Houston Chronicle Tech Blog, which lists "Fifteen geek movies to see before you die." As you might expect, I take issue with the list: Brazil,The Matrix, The Fifth Element, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,...
- Tags: Film, Holy Grail, Movie, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Learn how you can build your B2B around BizTalk Server 2002
- For several years now, B2B, or business-to-business, has been a catchphrase for many businesses looking to provide better and more efficient ways to communicate with customers and suppliers. B2B loosely refers to processes that enable applications and business operations to communicate between business partners. For example, you might deploy a...
- Tags: B2B, Jim Boyce, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server 2002, Nothing
- Technical articles 2003-01-30
- NetWare 6 may deal Novell back into the NOS game
- NetWare 6 is creating a buzz in the networking world. There are even whispers that it could trigger a resurgence for one-time NOS giant Novell. New features include iPrint, iFolder, the no-client option, and multiplatform capabilities. Here's a preview.Few would argue that NetWare has been dealt a heavy blow in...
- Tags: Operating systems, Servers, game, iPrint, David M. Packman, Jr. CNE, MCP, Novell NetWare, NetWare 6, Novell Inc., Novell iFolder
- Technical articles 2001-10-22
- lock him up & throw away the keys
- lock him up & throw away the keyshttp://apnews.myway.com/article/20060329/D8GL0BKO7.htmlZ. Moussaoui seems willing to die, eager to be remembered as a martyr. I'm for forcing him to endure a long, mundane stay in prison, and eventually dying of old age, not of religious fanaticism as he wishes. What do you...
- Tags: martyr
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Locking down a Linux Network
- Setting up firewalls, stopping IP spoofing, and preparing networking security are only a few teasers of what Chris Dinsmore brought to the TPG stage.On January 18th Chris Dinsmore brought vast knowledge of security to the Linux community. Setting up firewalls, stopping IP Spoofing, and preparing networking security (via Linux, of...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Chris Dinsmore, Linux, network, Guild, security
- Technical articles 2000-01-18
- Consultants say member's actions in dispute were unnecessary, rash
- When he learned that his firm's contract wouldn't be renewed, a consultant deleted files from the client's workstations. It was a legal move according to his contract, but TechRepublic members think his action was less than professional.Despite the fact that the contract he signed with a financial organization stated that...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Beth Blakely, Verde Network Consulting
- Technical articles 2002-12-18
- The Longhorn lowdown: What's up with Microsoft Windows 2006?
- Unless you've been in a cave somewhere, you've probablyheard that Microsoft has made some changes to the nextversion of Windows. If you're like most, you're probably wondering whatthis means for application developers. It probably seems like a long way off,but the announcements made earlier this month will have an effect...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Windows, Robert W. McLaws, WinFS
- Technical articles 2004-11-16
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