(Reuters) – Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the world’s largest software company’s long-time leader is stuck in the past. He says Microsoft is stuck in the past… I don’t agree with this. i am far from a Microsoft evangelist, however, the …
Month: May 2011
Internet Explorer does not retry bad proxy server for 30 minutes After deploying a proxy server using WPAD (proxy autoconfiguration scripts) i found that firefox always works as intended, yet internet explorer 7 has some wierd behavior. For one thing, IE7 caches proxy lookups and refuses to to failover properly. In some cases, webpages …
Well, we all knew that this would happen some day. Medical Professionals are having patients sign a “mutual privacy agreement” granting ownership of any online commentary you make about the visit to the doctor? The concern that the doctors have is valid, i mean come on, who wants to be slandered by some customer and …
Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second. read the full story here! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13469924 My favorite snippet from the article states “”The problem was they didn’t have just one laser, they had something like 370 lasers, which is an incredibly expensive thing. …
Epic Management’s Network Engineer Matt Steele proposed to his girlfriend, Jenny on Sunday the 22nd in a pretty cool way. The story would make good cinema and i give Matt props for the idea and execution. After a day of running around in “The amazing Race” he then went to a small secluded beach near …
Fun with Citrix and Legacy Applications Legacy applications sometimes have issues when you publish them as a seamless application in Citrix Xenapp. We recently came across this when publishing McKesson Practice Plus and found a fix that seems to work well. I wanted to pass this along since im sure there are plenty of Citrix …
I am sure you saw the news the other day. A very weird thing has happened. Microsoft has purchased Skype for 5.xx billion dollars. You may hear that Skype is not really worth it, and you may be right. But im betting the reason Microsoft inked the deal had less to do with its profitability, …