* Gearhead: From PHP to DPCs * Backspin: The industry’s soft underbelly * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: From PHP to DPCs
So, where was I? Oh yes, last week I was wrestling with hosting providers to get the right version of PHP and playing with WAMP and XAMPP to test PHP-based applications. If my comment about “what was I doing” sounds like I’ve lost track, it’s true, and I’ll come to why in a moment.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: The industry’s soft underbelly
We see the computer business from the inside: We know the players, the issues, the rumors, the scandals, and the wheeling and dealing. But on the outside, where the public and other business worlds intersect with the computer business, much of what goes on in our universe is mysterious, arcane and hidden. Often quite intentionally.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
XP Extended Life Confirms the Soft Underbelly
Well now it looks like Windows XP will not meet its doom until at least June 30 next year. Microsoft, which had planned to kill off XP in January 2008 has apparently changed its plans due to the slow uptake of Windows Vista — something that is hardly surprising given the feedback I’ve been getting from Network World readers.
Intel Classmate, Nice but Pricey
Well I finally got to see the Intel Classmate PC. I had lunch with Ted Malos, Director of Technology for the Ventura Unified School District, and he actually had one for evaluation.
Those project hippos!
I believe you hit it right between the eyes, but you avoided one of the most known problems. Those hippos normally live in a watering hole known as Marketing. Yes, that’s where they tend to swim out to you and upset your boat then return to the Marketing waters to wait under the surface for the next up and coming target.
RE: The industry’s soft underbelly
*** begin quote *** What are the big issues that people outside of the computer business should really pay attention to? More important, if we believe that outsiders should be paying attention, then what will it take to clue them in? So, you tell me: What is the computer industry’s soft underbelly? What should consumers know? *** end quote **
MS-MVP Support Web Sites
Michael Stevens is an MS-MVP (Micro$oft Most Valuable Professional). He’s got a great web site loaded with support information, tools and techniques. One of the handiest links, however, has got to be his MS-MVP Support Web Sites page — a page of links to over 30 more MS-MVPs. Visit him online and bookmark his pages.
The Gullibility Virus
I wrote this in 2001, in one of my newspaper articles. I was getting hit daily with so very many bogus claims, it was driving me nuts. It’s happening again.
