Google Has Been Collecting Wi-Fi Data, Accidentally

Google says it’s inadvertently been recording packets from unsecured Wi-Fi networks while sniffing for publicly available information : Remember how Google said its scans of Wi-Fi networks while carrying out Street View photography were innocuous? Remember how I defended the practice, and said nothing in what Google was doing was different or more personally invasive than Skyhook Wireless or others?

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HP support for vWorkspace Linux client

We have been asked on several occasions which HP thin clients ship with the Quest vWorkspace client so I just wanted post a brief paragraph to answer this question. The current ThinPro range ships with the vWorkspace client, this includes the T5545, T5745, T5325 and GT7725. The thin client section of the HP website can be viewed here

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Planet Network Management Highlights 2010 Week 19

Highlights from Planet Network Management for Week 19. RiverMuse Announces New Commercial Product – RiverMuse announces the release of RiverMuse Pro v2.0 Bug #3000000 – Pandora FMS is honoured to have bug #3000000 on SourceForge Datacenter Barometer: Building a Cloud Ark for the Coming Data Flood – with the volume of data currently being produced where is it all going to be stored?

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Igel Technology announce inclusion of vWorkspace 6.x Linux client

  Thin Client vendor Igel Technology have added the Quest vWorkspace 6.2 linux client to their latest firmware release, the exact build is 4.01.500. The firmware will run on any hardware that supports the Universal Desktop image.

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Ssshhh…don’t tell Bob

Veverka’s Mantis Shrimp is a favorite at Andros South, and since I’ll be headed there for FIBFest in less than 24 hours I thought it wise to screw up a few more flies prior to departure. I’ve already tied a handful of Bob Veverka’s brilliant creation, but after staring at them a bit I thought they were missing something (besides, of course, the application of actual fly tying skills). This go-round I went for short shank #1 hooks (Gamy SC15s), and added flash antennae.

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Android Update Adds Tethering and Hotspot

TechCrunch reports that the Android 2.2 mobile operating system update brings a couple terrific features to capable phones: The release will add USB tethering, in which a phone acts like a 3G modem for a laptop over USB, and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot, which lets a phone share a 3G connection to nearby devices over Wi-Fi. Of course, providing these options in the OS isn’t the same as carriers enabling them. Verizon allows hotspot use from the Palm Pro models (Pre and Pixi), dropping the price for the feature to $0 recently

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The 2010 CSTA Elections

For the first time, CSTA used on-line voting for determining its representatives to the Board of Directors. I’d first like to start by congratulating the winners of the contested elections: Duncan Buell: University Representative Myra Deister: At-large Representative Deborah Seehorn: State Department Representative But the main point of this blog post is to discuss my experiences with the process of on-line voting. The process used was to send the membership a SurveyMonkey URL where they could go to vote

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The 2010 CSTA Elections

Microsoft at Citrix Synergy 2010: From the Desktop to the Cloud

Hello from San Francisco, host city of Citrix Synergy , where I will be joining Citrix’s CEO, Mark Templeton, for a keynote on desktop virtualization, Microsoft’s vision for the datacenter, and how we will extend our partnership to help you in the cloud. Helping business and IT manage across shifting conditions has been a shared focus between Microsoft and Citrix. It was just a little over a year ago that I penned an internal memorandum that talked about Microsoft’s user centric computing vision, which I also shared with the executive team at Citrix

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Quest vWorkspace 7.1 Feature Spotlight: Management Console Usability Improvements

One of the core objectives here at Quest is to provide our customers with solutions to be smarter about systems management. The single vWorkspace Management Console approach in vWorkspace is e perfect example of that. With vWorkspace 7.1 we have made some more enhancements to the vWorkspace Management to allow customers to be even more efficient at managing their desktop virtualization environment.

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Analyze This!

I consider myself blessed to have found a challenging job at a very cool company.  Sonoma Partners provides me with interesting client work full of developer problems to solve AND supports me in exploring new tools and techniques that can make our team more effective.  I recently took on an initiative with my teammate Dave Smith to incorporate static code analysis into our project development life cycle.  Since other developer teams may be making the jump to Visual Studio 2010, we wanted to share our experiences applying the VS2010 code analysis tool on top of our projects. For those of you new to code analysis, I strongly recommend perusing the Microsoft Code Analysis team blog ; if you are migrating to VS2010 Premium or Ultimate edition, you can jump straight to their post on what’s new in VS2010 code analysis .  In essence, you can configure the code analysis tool (or FxCop if you don’t have VS2010 Premium or Ultimate) to walk through your code (intermediate language following a build, to be precise) and alert you about rules that your code violates.  As you learn about the warnings and update your code, you become a better coder, your code becomes more [performant|readable|maintainable|secure] and the sun shines just a little bit brighter. Our vision is to ease our developer team in to the code analysis world by applying a basic ruleset – for us, this was everything except Microsoft.Reliability and Microsoft.Globalization, but subject to change - and begin enforcing it on all new projects.  Initially, as developers get accustomed to fixing warnings and ensuring zero-warning code, we’re going to leave the enforcement on at the developer machine level.  We do this by utilizing a project template that is preconfigured to use our ruleset and our custom dictionary .  Eventually, when the developers are all acquainted with this process, we are going to enable build-level enforcement of the rules on the build box.  There are already some resources on the web that describe the process, but when we go ahead and set build-level enforcement, I’ll post about the process and our experience.

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Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12 2010

Things are a little scary in Washington DC these days. From the ISTE Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech The 2011 federal budget eliminates funding for Enhancing Education Through Technology, or EETT, which is the only dedicated funding stream for education technology.

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Join the Campaign! Tweet and Blog for Ed Tech May 12 2010

Computer Courses

Don’t forget that the Kamloops Library has free computer courses! Coming up: May 11 Excel 10-11:30am May 12 Basic 7-8:30pm May 13 Intermediate Internet Skills 10-11:30am May 14 WWW 10-11:30am May 19 Word 7-8:30pm May 20 Searching the Internet 10-11:30am May 21 Facebook, Twitter and Social Networking 10-11:30am Sign up by calling 250-372-5145

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Uncle Sam Tries to Figure Out Crazy Trading
Why Having Multiple Product Owners Is a Bad Idea

The other day I had a presentation on Kanban in my company and during Q&A session we were going through the case of one of our teams which, among other problems, has to deal with a few people playing concurrently the role of product owner. It wasn’t much later when I read Johanna Rothman’s post touching the very same subject . Johanna shares some advice how to deal with environment where there are more product owners than teams

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What Is a Universal Print Driver? Is It Like Esperanto?

PrinTip: Universal Print Drivers Aim to Simplify Printing to Multiple Printers But Fall Short A universal print driver is like the universal spoken language, Esperanto . Created with hopes of high adoption rates, neither has lived up to its expectations. Every printer requires a software program — or print driver — to serve as an intermediary between it and your computer

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President tells Colombo based foreign diplomats: National security prime concern

South Asian Foreign Relations posted a photo: President Rajapaksa yesterday said that national security is the Government’s prime concern and the Government takes every possible effort to ensure that terrorism would not raise its ugly head on Sri Lanka soil again.

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China’s consumer prices, bank lending rise in April

China said Tuesday that consumer prices and bank lending accelerated in April, fuelling fears the economy may overheat and building pressure on Beijing to hike interest rates and let its currency rise.

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Economic Report: China’s inflation rate accelerates, lending surges

China’s inflation rate accelerated in April, as consumer and producer prices beat estimates, while data also showed bank lending gathering pace.

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Economic Report: China’s inflation rate accelerates, lending surges