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Highlight of the week:
At the DEMOFall conference, Michael Callahan of the University of Illionis gave a demonstration of technology that translates brain signals to speech.
More videos and podcasts:
Ron Nutter’s Help Desk Tool Chest: Knoppix = Swiss Army Knife ?; How to boot Linux from a flash drive
Join Ron Nutter for the next installment of Ron Nutter’s Help Desk Tool Chest. On this edition of Help Desk Tool Chest is Mail Call where listeners questions are answered. This weeks Tools of the Trade is Knoppix. In the How To To Corner, you will find out how to boot Knoppix from a USB Flash Drive. (42:50)
A new art gallery in san Francisco called ’20 goto 10′ that shows fine art, but also opens its doors to … hackers. Twisted Pair podcast: Apple’s not all lollipops and puppy dogs
Keith and Jason discuss Google opening up its social network, the fast-selling Apple Leopard OS, and the biggest pet peeves they have about co-workers’ office habits. (34:26)
Panorama podcast: 5 Myths about 802.11n wirelessThe emergence of 802.11n wireless technology has lots of people and vendors excited, but there are several misconceptions out there regarding this new technology. Bill Kish, co-founder of Ruckus Wireless, talks with Keith Shaw about the five myths surrounding 802.11n, and potential pitfalls for enterprises looking to deploy the technology (19:54). Voices from IT Roadmap podcast: Better patient care through wireless
Delivering patient date where its needed is key for any hospital. For Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, the company rolled out multi-campus wireless project to help get medical records to clinicians at the point of care. Steve Horsley, director of information technology at Swedish Medical Center, explains the challenges involved in his group’s ambitious project. (8:12)
Panorama podcast: How to prepare your staff for a security attackBeing prepared before the next security attack is critical for your enterprise. Learn three strategies that can help you create a security aware culture at your company. Keith Shaw talks with Paula Hamm, (pictured) VP of education and business critical services for Symantec Global Services, about the processes and strategies involved with being ready for a data security attack (19:28). Forrester Fundamentals podcast: How IT service providers are accelerating ROIA shift in the IT services space is being caused by the growth of solution accelerators, internally developed software that can customize a particular business process or aspect of product development for several clients. Denise and Alex talk with Forrester VP and Principal Analyst John McCarthy about recent research on solution accelerators. Find out what factors are driving IT services firms to develop these, how they compare with framework attempts, and what how it will impact enterprise IT’s use of IT services (13:15). LinuxWorld podcast: Writing JavaScript in a Java IDE: Bruce Johnson
If you think that doing an AJAX app would be fun if you just didn’t have to tweak around with browser compatibility problems, and you could use a regular IDE and debugger, Google has a development tool for you. Bruce Johnson, engineering manager at Google, explains the possibilities that Google Web Toolkit opens up for web developers. (13:37)
JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider podcast: Scott Davis on Groovy programming for Java guysScott Davis is the self-proclaimed “Java guy” who today edits aboutGroovy.com. Davis believes Groovy is “what the Java language would look like had it been written in the 21st century,” and calls it a “concise, natural” language for Java development. In this conversation with Daniel Steinberg, find out what has Davis sold on Groovy (and Grails) and what he has to say about scripting with other dynamic languages for the Java platform, including JRuby and Jython.
