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Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 05:02 PM EST

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Lab Update: What We're Using in the Labs Right Now

Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 09:28 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 306

A lot of equipment goes through the lab. Some of it's interesting, and we hate to send it back, other items go back with a blessing, post haste.

I thought I would list all of the equipment to do an inventory and sanity check. The list is good for the next ten days, by which time, it will have changed again.

DailyTechBites

Monday, November 17 2008 @ 02:13 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 21

Check the http://www.dailytechbite.com website for more frequent updates. And bites.

The 2008 Online Articles and Research Update

Wednesday, July 09 2008 @ 09:03 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 187

We've been busy this year, so far. I looked back on the published online list and found lots of links to where we've been either published or cited. Here's the short list:

Hypervisor Evaluations Part I - Performance

Linux Vs Windows, Which Is Greener

Privileged Access Management Software Comparison

Windows 2008 Enterprise Server Review

Virtualization Tools Comparison

In total, there are approximately fifteen products in total so far this year, and there are many still to go.

The Daily Rant April 4: CPU Madness

Friday, April 04 2008 @ 05:07 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 218

In the computer industry, the rave used to be CPU speed. Faster was better, usually. Today, we have lots of family names, each more indistinguishable than the next. I propose the Fubar Family. Read more for the specs.

Windows 2008 Server Review Now Online

Monday, February 25 2008 @ 12:32 AM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 401

Our review of Windows 2008 Server Editions is online at NetworkWorld or in the print edition. The good news, better and certainly more feature packed than before. The bad news is that the Hyper-V technology is not out yet, and some of the benefits are very Microsoft-specific.

Goodbye, Cheaptickets

Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 09:35 AM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 313

I travel perhaps 25,000-50,000 miles per year. When I started traveling in 1974, the method was pretty simple: find a travel agent that knew his or her chops at using the SABRE or other online access system to find inexpensive flights.

A savvy agent could cut through the airline pricing crap (which grew linearly worse over the years) to find reasonable flight schedules and prices. They earned their fees. Then they were cut out of the supply chain by the airlines in the 1990s. I felt for them, but worse, flyers were subsequently subjected to surcharges for using airline reservation systems by phone. The desire on the part of the airlines was to use their online systems.

Travelocity, Orbitz, and other online sites became very useful alternatives to the ensuing mess. I started using another site, Cheaptickets.com, as an even seemingly wiser alternative. Cheaptickets designed their software well, making shopping for flights comparatively easy. Over the past few years, I've purchased many tickets from them.

No more. My most recent experience has caused me to move on.

US Airways Dividend Miles Redemption Madness

Saturday, January 05 2008 @ 10:24 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 341

There's this amusing trend among journalists that believes that airline frequent flyer programs might be worth more than the airlines themselves. This values, in my opinion, US Airway's frequent flyer program called 'Dividend Miles' somewhere in the negative billions of dollars, as the program seems nearly worthless to me.

Let me explain.

I'm a 'Silver' status flyer on US Airways. This means that I met their 25,000+ flying miles per year criteria. I also have been a member of their 'Presidents Club' with additional status granted to another one of the 'Star Alliance Partner' clubs, United's Red Carpet Club. I fly, and pay additional money to have a quiet place to do things in busy airports across the planet. That's all fine.

Let's say I want to redeem Dividend Miles for free trips. Aye- there's the rub. Click the link for the sordid story.

Tax Disposable Batteries

Tuesday, December 11 2007 @ 09:15 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 427

We're in the middle of the gifting season. It's time to give a gift your great grandchildren and successive generations will love: stop buying disposable batteries. In fact, it's time to tax the disposable ones into history.

Why Net Neutrality Counts, and Why There's a Battle

Monday, June 05 2006 @ 10:55 AM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 1,219

Net Neutrality is a catch-all phrase that describes how carriers let services run across their networks. Some carriers now have reasons to set and prioritize their own service traffic above those from other services.

The motivation to do this has historical basis, but also runs in the face of many cultural obstacles and even technical problems within the Internet itself. Some say it could even a harbinger of the death of the Internet. This essay goes into the rationale behind Net Neutrality issues-- and its foes.

The Awful Truth About Airline Overbooking

Wednesday, April 19 2006 @ 12:08 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 2,773

You can read below about how we were denied boarding on a US Airways/America West codeshare flight. What's more onerous is that it happens a lot. There are a few things you can do about this, but there needs to be changes.