TECHNOLOGY: An internet of things is crowded

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2011/080211-80211-networks.html

Why Wi-Fi as we know it is in trouble
Today, 8/02/11, is the perfect time to contemplate the future of 802.11 networks
By Bill McFarland, VP of technology for Qualcomm Atheros, special to Network World
August 02, 2011 12:08 AM ET

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With 1 trillion-plus devices coming online soon, it’s imperative that the 802.11ac standard gets ratified, and devices are launched as soon as possible. 802.11n was slowed by vendor in-fighting. It’s critical to avoid such foot-dragging this time, since we are entering an era where Internet-connected devices will be responsible for everything from flood control in dams to airport runway safety.

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An argument AGAINST cloud?

Even if you have connectivity, all the rich content will crowd you out.

Interesting.

And, the prediction is that it will become an internet of things.

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TECHNOLOGY: Another way to self-publish

Saturday, July 30, 2011

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/05/why-and-how-i-self-published-a-book/

Why and How I Self-Published a Book
Posted by James Altucher on May 22nd, 2011

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I just self-published a book. “How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive”. I published it in paperback form, kindle form, and free PDF (see directions below to get free PDF). The entire process took me three weeks. Using an established publisher would’ve taken over a year.

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I did mine with Lulu. He did his with Amazon.

Is there any doubt that the publishing industry is dead?

Borders is just the first casualty.

Content is king!

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TECHNOLOGY: Test identity; not for drugs

Friday, July 29, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Man-with-nine-different-names-created–massive-benefits-fraud-from-Thailand-126005948.html

Man with nine different names created massive benefits fraud from Thailand
Dublin man jailed for social welfare fraud
By CATHAL DERVAN, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Friday, July 22, 2011, 8:04 AM

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An Irish emigrant has been jailed for orchestrating a massive social welfare fraud across the border counties – while living it up in Thailand.

Paul Murray swindled the Irish taxpayer out of half a million dollars using nine different names in an elaborate international hoax.

The 63-year-old emigrated to Thailand in the 1970s but returned home every three months to collect his fraudulent social welfare payments.

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Interesting.

The gang known as the State of Florida wants to test welfare recipients for illegal drugs.

Here’s an idea. DNA test all welfare recipients to establish identity.

Here’s another. Eliminate the dole. Period.

The Gooferment: Immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. In example after example.

Let’s use technology to solve problems?

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TECHNOLOGY: A real time coffee pot for Dunkin Dounuts

Thursday, July 28, 2011

http://netjmc.com/future-intranet/way-of-working/real-time-intranet-from-20-years-ago

Real-time intranet from 20 years ago
July 25, 2011 | Comments (0), | Categories: New Ways of Working |

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My first vision of the potential of intranets was back in 1994 when an Italian engineer working at an American company located in Sophia Antipolis, high tech park in the South of France, showed me the famous, now defunct, Trojan Room coffee pot at Cambridge University from his own desktop in France.

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I have several Dunkin Donuts in my area.

My grand niece in law, and her two siblings, my grand nephews in law, all under 10 ish, have very specific likes in donuts. I was invited to dinner and as usual I was tasked to bring the donuts.

I arrived at the closest DD and to my horror I find I can’t complete the usual order.

Aside: DD has committed terminal stupidity. Cost cutting the bakers. Donuts are delivered daily. When they are out they are out. You can but your favorites as long as they have them. Dumb! Certainly, opens a hole for a competitor who wants to go back to the old model. Fresh donuts baked as needed. Stupid.

So, why don’t they have a real time display of what’s for sale at each of the three locations. I can go where I can get my order filled.

Better yet, why can’t I submit my order by the web and be assured it’s ready for me.

Bottom line: I substituted, children didn’t seem to mind, but I didn’t have the kind I liked. Dissatisfied Customer.

(What’s worse. I blog.)

Think anyone at DD will notice?

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TECHNOLOGY: CISCO does evil with Gooferment help

Thursday, July 28, 2011

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/a-pound-of-flesh-how-ciscos-unmitigated-gall-derailed-one-mans-life.ars/1

A pound of flesh: how Cisco’s “unmitigated gall” derailed one man’s life

By Ian Mulgrew

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In May 2011, nearly a year to the day after his deposition and arrest, Adekeye was vindicated. In a stinging decision, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ronald McKinnon rebuked both Canadian and American authorities for an appalling abuse of process and, in a rare move, he stayed extradition proceedings against Adekeye.

Justice McKinnon was stunned that a trivial $14,000 civil tort had been transformed into a criminal proceeding so as to engage the full might and resources of two governments and to mislead one of Canada’s senior trial courts. It was shocking, he said.

The justice dismissed three thick volumes of legal precedent filed by Canadian federal government lawyer Diba Majzub, who said that it didn’t matter if Adekeye was falsely characterized. At the end of the last century, after several high-profile requests dragged on for years (some as long as a decade), the government changed the Extradition Act to make the court’s job little more than that of a rubber stamp. It was America’s job, said Majzub, to rule on the merits of Adekey’s case—not Canada’s.

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Seem like anyone dealing with CISCO should be very careful.

Unlike Google’s “Don’t be evil”, CISCO seems to have a different ethic.

So, ostracize CISCO?

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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX not recommended

Thursday, July 28, 2011

(1) Crashing stopped

(2) Some accounts display nothing; other accounts headers only; others display normally.

(3) Attempt to send message from accounts says “settings wrong”.

Totally frustrated, and not willing to debug further.

I’ve lost a lot of time and emails that I’d have preferred to keep.

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Postbox Support wrote:

## In replies all text above this line is added to the ticket ##

Ticket #12986: Postbox seems to be not starting correctly; objects to this a…

Your request (#12986) has been updated.

To review the status of the request and add additional comments, follow the link below:

http://support.postbox-inc.com/tickets/12986

You can also add a comment by replying to this email.

Scott MacGregor, Jul-25 11:51 am (PDT):

Hi,

Can you try this special version of 2.5.0 that has symbols:

https://download.getpostbox.com.s3.amazonaws.com/experimental/2.5.0-symbols-d2e1689795a8108dfa03db67b16d1c99ad898120/postbox-2.5.0-symbols.mac64.dmg

and attach the crash report this symbols build generates?

Thanks!

-Scott

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Fedinand Reinke, Jul-21 07:36 pm (PDT):

Deleted half of the accounts. Try indexing. Try compacting. Keeps crashing.

Is there any way to export the archives or is it all just locked up.

fjohn

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Process: postbox-bin [22927]

Path: /Applications/Postbox.app/Contents/MacOS/postbox-bin

Identifier: com.postbox-inc.postbox

Version: 2.5.0 (2.5.0)

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: ??? [1]

Date/Time: 2011-07-21 22:33:07.013 -0400

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)

Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 565631 sec

Crashes Since Last Report: 6

Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 6377 sec

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 3

Anonymous UUID: E6211619-FAFE-4714-9786-4FC5FC23B229

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SERVICE: “The Cloud” is undependable

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

http://www.wxpnews.com/archives/wxpnews-489-20110726.htm

Vol. 1, #79 – Jul 26, 2011 – Issue #489
Burned by the Cloud
WXPNEWS

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Well, it turns out a company doesn’t even have to fail for you to suddenly lose everything you entrusted to it. This week ZDNet blogger Ed Bott tweeted the URL to the story of a former enthusiastic Google advocate and evangelist who, for reasons unknown to him, one day woke up to find his Google account shut down. The post is a long one, but the gist of it was that he had gone “all in” with Google because he considered it a trustworthy company: he consolidated all his mail to one Gmail account, had all his photos, voice mail, Google Reader articles, contacts, docs and calendar on Google services. He lost saved maps, travel history, medical records and a blogger account. You can read the whole sad tale here:

http://www.wxpnews.com/110726-Dear-Google

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The “cloud” can leave one high and dry.

I’ll be going back over my SOPs for exposure.

I’m not a cloud fan already because one can NOT always have access to the inet. Even if you’ve bought and paid for it. The ISP have no duty to supply service. Forget what they say in the ads. If you have it great; if not, too bad.

This just reinforces the concern over the availability issues.

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TECHNOLOGY: The “cloud” can disappear in a heartbeat

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Frugal aka frugal_squirrel to reinkefj

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The Fiction Forum has been closed and will not be reopening.

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Argh!

This was my first real forum where I posted my original writings. Got good feedback and encouragement. Read interesting stuff.

Gone.

In a flash.

All the bits just vaporized. Lost connections. Lost ideas. Lost a collective “soul”.

CEOs, CIOs, CTO, and Users best take this to heart. When you cast your bits into the “cloud”, they may NOT be coming back. Better include that in your plans.

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TECHNOLOGY: “Human Resouce” problems on both sides of the fence

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/071811-10-hard-truths-it-must.html?page=4

10 hard truths IT must learn to accept
Unsanctioned devices, compromised networks, downtime — today’s IT is all about embracing imperfections
By Dan Tynan, InfoWorld
July 18, 2011 06:08 AM ET

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IT concession No. 6: You will never have enough hands on deck. IT departments often want a fairer shake when it comes to outsourcing and head count reductions, but they’re not likely to get it, says Meikle.

Because the tech outsourcing industry is much more mature than, say, legal services or HR outsourcing, IT is often the first to suffer when corporate bloodletting occurs. That’s not likely to change.

The solution to IT manpower problems, says Meikle, is to take advantage of third-party outsourcers and integrate with them as much as possible. The bodies are still available; they’re just not under your own roof anymore.

Also, says Meikle, be sure look out for No. 1. Keep your tech chops current with an eye on the next job before the current one evaporates.

“IT pros need to understand they work for themselves first, the organization second,” he says. “They need to continue developing their network and contacts, marketing themselves, and developing a personal brand even when they are employed. Like it or not, IT pros may have to pony up some dough personally to pay for their education and marketability, but that will pay dividends when the chips are down.”

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I see several facets in this item. None good for folks stuck in the old memes!

1. Corporations are going to need help. Regardless of their plans for HR.

2. Employees must recognize that they are “consultants”. Very expensive and very expendable.

3. Technology obsolescence will quickly and silently hit corporations and individuals.

Make plans accordingly.

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TECHNOLOGY: “Cramming” on the phone bill

Monday, July 25, 2011

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2011/07/18/crammed-a-shocking-utility-tale/

Crammed! A Shocking Utility Tale
Monday, 18th July 2011 (by Donna Freedman)

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Sometimes we don’t pay attention. Sometimes we don’t do what we know we should do. Sometimes life happens. But life also goes on. So learn from my mistakes. Read your utility bills, whether you get them on paper or online. Dispute charges you don’t recognize. Don’t give a crammer a dime of your business.

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Argh!

The politicians and bureaucrats setup this system for us to fail?

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