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hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 4, 2008
Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Brad Lovering Microsoft confirms MinWin is …
Also tagged: security, hardware, storage, sales, government, data management, facebook, microsoft corp, apple inc, larry dignan, data centers, salesforce com inc, sap ag, sales force management, netsuite inc
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 4, 2008
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 24 months, you should be well aware that tomorrow millions of Americans will be going to the polls to select their representative, one-third of their senators, and …
Also tagged: hardware, keyboards, government, peripherals, touch screen, adam o donnell
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Nov 4, 2008
If you're out to commit election fraud the vulnerabiity of present evoting machines makes that route look attractive, but in reality success will only get you a few votes. To really cheat effectively, you need to after …
Also tagged: hacking, hardware, government, servers, computer, fraud, machine, paul murphy, client server
data management News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Sep 4, 2008
One of the questions raised by our recent discussion of e-voting options is how far the IT myopia revealed there permeates our other IT activities: to what extent, in other words, is the presence of an obvious IT …
Also tagged: hardware, storage, government, data management, information technology, paul murphy, data centers
Paul Murphy - Aug 28, 2008
To make e-voting work you need a voting machine that can't be corrupted without setting off alarms - Sun Rays fit that requirement, are cheap, and allow for easy central auditing.
Paul Murphy - Aug 28, 2008
Any application, including e-voting applications, that run on programmable gear in user hands can be subverted. It may generally be difficult, the bad guys may usually get caught, but no auditor can ever prove that it …
Also tagged: enterprise policy
Paul Murphy - Apr 30, 2008
Client-server fails on the issue of serialization - maintaining consistency when a user on one remote PC changes data in use by somebody else. Starting with stored procedures the solutions have generally been to …
Also tagged: development, applications, database management, enterprise policy
hardware News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Apr 29, 2008
The client-server idea goes back at least to the early 1960s and was, at least initially, a fairly direct extension of hardware co-processor ideas already in wide use throughout the industry. Thus the vision going into …
Also tagged: hardware, government, servers, paul murphy, client server
software News items, Blog posts | ZDNet - Feb 18, 2008
As you must know this Stephen Norris take-over at SCO poses a real risk to groklaw - what happens to your business if IBM takes this opportunity to settle? The basis for such a settlement is obvious: SCO works to open …
Also tagged: software, management, linux, open source, government, operating systems, paul murphy, team management, ibm corp, sco group inc
Paul Murphy - Jan 1, 2008
With the exception of the Linux opportunity presented by the OLPC project, the right word for IT in 2008 will, I think, be "continuation" as existing trends continue to reveal themselves and little new enters the market.
Also tagged: apple, linux, government, sun, enterprise policy