Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I'm presently doing the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Company Directors Course for management education. I elected to do this, as when I went to the information sessions, I found out, to my surprise, that they are suggesting that company boards...
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Blog: Obscurity | Category: Politics | By: Gusius Gus
Well I bet the PS3 engineers at Sony are feeling pretty good about their latest achievement. A so far un-hacked PS3 console. It seems the PS3 remains to be chipped or the firmware buggered with. A few like "Dragula96" have managed to edit the V2.20...
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Blog: Obscurity | Category: Politics | By: Gusius Gus
It seems, HDCP is the new gatekeeper stopping the display of HD content on non-HDCP compliant devices. So this means even though my fairly new monitor that has a DVI input and is capable of displaying at least 720 pixels height cannot display HDCP protected...
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Blog: Obscurity | Category: Politics | By: Gusius Gus
With today's buzz being Green Technology. It seems powering down machines while they are not being used sounds like a great way to conserve power. Most workstation users keep their machines running overnight for the following reasons: * Torrent-ing * Helping...
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Blog: Obscurity | Category: Politics | By: Gusius Gus
Been working on a homemade NAS using the following components - Via C3 Processor 800Mhz with 9W TDP - Mercury Flex ATX motherboard - 512Mb DDR RAM - SATA Raid PCI Card - Gigabit LAN NIC - Compact Flash Card & IDE adapter - 4 x 750Gb Samsung F1 HDDs...
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Blog: Obscurity | Category: Politics | By: Gusius Gus
About a year ago I was tempted by some linux purists to abandon my dual boot setup and stick to Ubuntu only on my laptop...something stopped me. I pictured a scene from "It came from Uranus" where my laptop gets eaten up somehow. How right I was to...
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Blog: Obscurity | Category: Politics | By: Gusius Gus
You know its not very often you come across a tool that allows you to exploit the design flaws of the NT Kernel. Hang on what am I saying...Well, this little program (mind you, which fits on a USB stick; size 3Mb) will boot into a cut-down linux kernel and...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Some are expressing concerns about the security risks and perils related to compliance, availability and data integrity of using cloud based SaaS services. James Governor , summed it up nicely here , when promoting CloudCamp London by referring also in the...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Two camps are evolving in the software world. Those that see SaaS (Software as a Service) as the future of software delivery to end users and those that don't. Entrepreneurs and innovators see that providing access to their software over the internet through...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
Over the last week, I've been evolving a presentation regarding our multitenancy commercialisation efforts through Business Portal Server . For the most part it has been received positively. In one session that I gave though, a VC (Venture Capitalist) who...
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Blog: Tea and Toast | Category: Web Development | By: Alex Brindal
Let me start off by saying I’ve had a lot more experience with Word'07 then I have Open Office (OOo), and I do agree with those who thinks it's unfair to compare a free product to a fee product, but the reality is that's the first thing someone thinks when...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I no longer use any Microsoft software at all to perform my daily activities. Am now completely Micrsoft free! I've been able to be productive on both a Linux desktop as well as on a Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard desktop. Who would have thought it would be that...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
After a long wait, it finally arrived last week. I'm now the proud owner of an Apple Mac Book Pro. I had ordered close to the top of the line Mac Book Pro (MBP), 4GB of Ram, High Resolution 17" monitor, 7200 RPM 200GB hard drive. This meant that...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
You've all heard the term "Content is King". Well Mark Pesce has coined a new term "Connection is King" to describe the importance of the global connections that are forming between people. These connections are at various levels, and...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
My monitor blanked out on my Windows XP based IBM T42p Thinkpad. Worry crossed my mind, as I thought the machine had died. Quickly, I realised that the monitor had turned itself off for no reason. I rebooted (as it was a Windows machine) and the system came...
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Blog: Tea and Toast | Category: Web Development | By: Alex Brindal
Second Life (SL), a Web 2.0, coined by some as Web 3.0 (because it's 3 D), technology. Rather pointless really, you go on... you learn to walk, talk and create ... then you walk, talk and create . So how does SL invade into your first...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
As some reading this might know I'm a bit tired of Microsoft everywhere, so I apologize in advance if you perceive some negative sentiment towards Microsoft. I have been like that since 2001/2002, when .NET was announced/released and everyone came knocking on...
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I use tools like Linked In and del.icio.us as a means of sharing information within the larger community that I participate in. Some of this information is only available to people that I share it with and other information is available to the internet...
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Blog: Horse's Say!!! | Category: PDF | By: Michael Horsefall
Well here i am again....long time between blogs but life has been crazy and many projects on the go. One project i have been working on is a Local Area Marketing Toolkit for Cash Converters. Silly me put my hand up to rewrite the application in Domino with...
Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
We've been cutting back on email for a while. Today, Alex has written an excellent wiki entry on Email Jail . So if you have an overcrowded inbox, and who doesn't now a days that is sitting in a large organisation, check out Alex's solution overview being...
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Blog: Tea and Toast | Category: Web Development | By: Alex Brindal
Recently Toast Technology has been conducting some advertising and research, and one of the topic of interest seems to be an overgrown inbox, or Email Jail (as coined by Luis Suarez ). I've definitely worked in some large companies, and sorting through...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: SaaS | By: Nick Hortovanyi
I was pointed to a Phil Wainewright blog entry on Customization: curse or blessing? by Denis Howlett from a twitter conversation a few days ago . In the twitter conversation, I'd been questioning the scalability of Microsoft Sharepoint, and it...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: Portal | By: Nick Hortovanyi
The Portlet 2.0 specification ( JSR 286 ) has been a long time in the making. In my mind, maybe a little too long. However the promise of having an event model for inter portlet communication between different vendor implementations and indeed Portal servers...
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Blog: Nick Hortovanyi | Category: General | By: Nick Hortovanyi
A couple of days ago, I found an article by the Burton Group on the current excitement surrounding Microsoft Sharepoint. As I have a focus with WebSphere Portal, any article describing whats happening with Sharepoint is of interest to me. Especially, when...
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