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Google+ and the fear of a garden planet

Google+ and the fear of a garden planet

Google+ is a social network that looks every bit as good as its competitors. But Google has introduced something far more audacious while we were distracted Read more

17 July, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Steve Jobs, the mean dictator -- Paul Graham

...Towards the end, he says he's worried about another "era of monoculture" where software developers concentrate on a single platform. Last time it was... Read more

10 March, 2011
Anonymous and DDoS: I predict a riot

Anonymous and DDoS: I predict a riot

...this growing volunteer botnet. There's nothing criminals love more than a monoculture. There are already tens of thousands of downloads of the attack tool... Read more

2 January, 2011 by Rik Ferguson
Building the perfect enterprise storage cloud

Building the perfect enterprise storage cloud

Most enterprises are taking a cautious approach to committing their precious data to a remote datacentre run by a third party. We examine the technology trends that, in time, could drive enterprise data towards the cloud Read more

15 December, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Auckland Insider 1.2

Auckland Insider 1.2

...and seen the changes it has wrought. Ditto, beer to wine. Ditto, monoculture to dual culture to multi-culture.We also want to keep you... Read more

1 September, 2011
Agriculture Encyclopedia 1.0

Agriculture Encyclopedia 1.0

...Encyclopedia topics like: Tillage, Cultivate, Sustainable Agriculture, Intensive farming, Production system, Shifting, Monoculture etc, and much more ...The topics covered by this fabulous Encyclopedia are... Read more

15 February, 2011
Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth by Mark Sloan, M.D. 3.0.1

Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth by Mark Sloan, M.D. 3.0.1

...Victoria, a nineteenth-century medical brawl, and the rise of todays epidural monoculture Daddiesraging paternal hormones, hidden anxieties, and the emotional evolution of men (including... Read more

26 August, 2010

She's back, only different

...wipe out an entire field in no time. Experts call it a monoculture. And that's what the computing environment has become: a monoculture of... Read more

25 October, 1999 by Jim Kerstetter

Sun and AMD play the same game

Sun is copying Linux. AMD is copying Intel. It may look like a lack of new ideas, but it's actually good news for technology Read more

15 November, 2004 by Leader

Symantec: Beware the Microsoft 'monoculture

...on security. "If all of a sudden the whole world uses the monoculture of Microsoft and the monoculture of Microsoft security capability, I am not... Read more

24 May, 2006 by Joris Evers
Impact of IT <endeca_term>Monoculture</endeca_term> on Behavioral End Host Intrusion Detection

Impact of IT Monoculture on Behavioral End Host Intrusion Detection

...study the impact of today's IT policies, defined based upon a monoculture approach, on the performance of end host anomaly detectors. This approach leads... Read more

21 August, 2009

Devil's Advocate: Why Microsoft should be happy about open source

Roll on Mono, not a monoculture Microsoft is betting billions and years of development on its .Net software... Read more

17 February, 2004 by Martin Brampton

The CCIA report - why the remedies are unfair

...of that tree on which they hang is a total prohibition of monoculture coupled to a requirement of standard-based interoperability." (page 19) International standards... Read more

10 October, 2003 by John Carroll

Saving the world one file format at a time

...better accessibility, plus competition — not a sole-source provider. In biology, a monoculture — a singular species that supplants all others — is a bad thing. When... Read more

29 November, 2005 by Daniel Geer

CCIA vs Microsoft - the core issues

...this case might be far worse than the disease. In short, though monoculture has its own set of risks, the costs of those risks can... Read more

7 October, 2003 by John Carroll

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

3 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

5 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

6 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

8 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

8 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

9 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

11 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

12 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

12 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

14 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

14 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

16 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

16 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

16 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

20 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

22 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry