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2007 September 11

Renown Jazz Pianist Joe Zawinul Dies

A major part of the jazz scene for years, pianist Joe Zawinul died today in his native Austria.
Zawinul played with legendary figures Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, and Wayne Shorter during the late 60s and into the 70s, helping create the fusion movement that spawned so much great music.
While Zawinul was playing with Cannonball Adderley, [...]

Red Hat Quietly Adds To Its Customer Base

Red Hat seems to be a company that everyone knows, but no one thinks about anymore. Its brethren from Ubuntu, SuSE, Slackware, and Mandriva get so much press coverage, while Fedora, the offshoot of Red Hat gets a little, and Red Hat itself slides completely under the radar these days.
Last week some major deals were [...]

Intel Decides to Pull Support for BTX

Back when the Netburst architecture of the Pentium IV was belching heat to all parts of the standard computer case, Intel cam up with a standard that was the ‘cure’ for its ills. When the design turned out to be incompatible with the AMD K8 motherboard placement, and the Core architecture was announced, BTX became [...]

How Do You Spin Facts?

When something is factual, it should be hard to put a spin on it. One can, though, make certain comparisons which would seem to take the shine off of something.
Yesterday, the AMD Barcelona quad core chip was released, turning out scores in every benchmark either much higher than (per clock cycle), or close to parity [...]

IBM Using Microsoft Developed Code to Help Open Office

One of the reasons the state of Massachusetts backtracked on its move to open source software was the lack of current offerings ability to deal with those who are visually impaired.
Now IBM is releasing its iAccessible 2 to the Open Office developers, which will make that possible.
The technology that is iAccessible 2 is derived from [...]

Six Years Later

I’m not usually one to dwell on the past. I did, however, wake up this morning thinking about the attacks on the towers in NYC.
When I think of the level of technology that each of us, as computer users, teachers, purveyors, workers, and repairers, is familiar with, and has access to each day, I wonder [...]

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