Sure, well, I use Lotus Notes, because we use that as our enterprise application, and I use the e-productivity add-on to the Lotus Notes that my friend Eric Mack designed, which turbocharges the list management and the e-mail and calendar management within that context in a GTD kind of way. So that's how I manage [my] calendar and my action list and so forth. I'm still syncing to a BlackBerry, because we haven't upgraded our back-end server so we can do these on iPhones; I will do that as soon as we can do that.

News—I use the word to describe the news distribution media—is not about informing us about newsworthy events going on around us. Rather, it's about delivering captive eyeballs to advertisers who in turn pay the news media the money they need in order to keep on doing what it is that they do, which is to say, making a profit.

The year 1977 was an important one for music. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks were released. Elvis left the building for the last time, dying at the age of only 42. But amid all this rock'n'roll history another less celebrated but far more significant album was quietly being made.
Fashioned from copper rather than vinyl, and plated with gold for longevity,The Sounds Of Earth was compiled by the American astronomer Carl Sagan. It was a broader range of music than most of the other albums released that year, aiming to encapsulate 5,000 years of human culture; from an Australian Aborigine song and an Indian raga to Azerbaijani bagpipes, bamboo flutes, Bach, Beethoven and Chuck Berry.

In the next two decades, diminishing transistor-speed scaling and practical energy limits create new challenges for continued performance scaling. As a result, the frequency of operations will increase slowly, with energy the key limiter of performance, forcing designs to use large-scale parallelism, heterogeneous cores, and accelerators to achieve performance and energy efficiency. Software-hardware partnership to achieve efficient data orchestration is increasingly critical in the drive toward energy-proportional computing.

Our aim here is to reflect and project the macro trends shaping the future of microprocessors and sketch in broad strokes where processor design is going. We enumerate key research challenges and suggest promising research directions. Since dramatic changes are coming, we also seek to inspire the research community to invent new ideas and solutions address how to sustain computing's exponential improvement.

One of the great benefits of mobile technology and devices is that they can make it really obvious when you don’t know what you’re doing — it’s forcing a whole lot of people to be executives about their own lives. Executives have always had the problem of I have too much information, I have to triage, make some sort of order out of all this. That’s always been true, it’s just that now you probably have half the workforce – not just 1 percent – that has to do the same thing.

A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times. Now students who refuse to be monitored say they are feeling the repercussions.

Some pupils say they are already seeing the impact, though, and it’s not one they are very anxious to experience. Students who refuse to walk the schoolhouse halls with a location-sensitive sensor in their pocket or around their neck are being tormented by instructors and being barred from participating in certain school-wide functions, with some saying they are even being turned away from common areas like cafeterias and libraries.

Dan Zentgraf of Ascendent Technology, an IBM Business Partner, describes the challenges inherent in transforming from traditional development approaches to emerging DevOps practices and the changes required to do so.

HTML5, the new HTML standard, supports a wide array of new functions and layout techniques. It fully supports multimedia, CSS3, and drawing capabilities with canvas and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). HTML5 offers new semantic elements, and also provides a legitimate way to create HTML web applications using application cache, JavaScript workers, a new version of XMLHttpRequest, and something called web storage. This article discusses the power of web storage and why it's a better storage method than cookies. Learn about the basic concepts, browser support, and the HTML5 web storage objects.

„Wer auf die elektronische Aufrüstung seines Heimes verzichtet, büßt keine Lebensqualität ein.“ Heute, fast 30 Jahre später, wissen wir es besser. Mehr als drei Viertel der Deutschen sind im Internet unterwegs, der Computer gehört zur Standardausstattung der meisten Haushalte, und Smartphones begleiten uns in vielen Lebenssituationen.

Performance issues can be difficult to diagnose and fix. Often issues crop up when least expected. Usually, they gradually develop and sometimes can cause outage of the application using the database. It is important from the DBA's point of view to be aware of a proactive approach to addressing performance even before it starts hurting the business. This article discusses an analytical process that will help DBAs to get to the root of the issue in a few simple steps.

Use your existing Windows systems administration skills to ease the learning curve for Linux systems administration and broaden your skill set. This knowledge path guides you through the process from understanding the file system and files to managing accounts, running software, and monitoring and maintenance to put you on the fast track to managing servers that run on a variety of hardware architectures.

hat versions of Lotus Notes are supported on Apple's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion?
The week of October 1st, 2012, IBM will release a Notes 8.5.3 slipstream as well as Interim Fix 1 for Notes 8.5.3 Fix Pack 2, both of which introduce support for OS X 10.8. The same support will be included in Notes 8.5.3 Fix Pack 3 (currently planned for release in November 2012) and in all future Notes releases.

The updated installer will replace "Notes" in the Applications folder with "Lotus Notes".

How many times have you manually applied the same steps when creating an infrastructure, or relied on another team to set up an environment for you? What if all of these actions were scripted and versioned just like the rest of the software system? In this Agile DevOps installment, DevOps expert Paul Duvall shows how Chef and Puppet enable you to automate infrastructure provisioning. He covers the basics of each of these tools — along with their similarities, use cases, and differences — and provides a video demo of scripting with Puppet.

Damaru shows how to turn a Kindle into a monitor using a Raspberry Pi.

Using the Kindle as a screen, Damaru use a Raspberry Pi, a couple USB cables, and a keyboard to create a very minimal little computer. You do have to jailbreak the Kindle for this to work, but the rest of the process is pretty simple. From there, you only need to run a few things to get the screen sharing to work, create a system for automatic login, and you're done.

The Yocto Project™ is an open source project formed with the goal of making embedded Linux® development easier and more portable across architectures. This article introduces the project and provides a step-by-step walk through on how to get started.

This website is here to guide you through the process of developing very basic operating systems on the Raspberry Pi! This website is aimed at people aged 16 and upwards, although younger readers may still find some of it accessible, particularly with assistance. More lessons may be added to this course in time.

This course takes you through the basics of operating systems development in assembly code. I have tried not to assume any prior knowledge of operating systems development or assembly code. It may be helpful to have some programming experience, but the course should be accessible without. This course is divided into a series of 'lessons' designed to be taken in order as below. Each 'lesson' includes some theory, and also a practical exercise, complete with a full answer.

James Lyne changed out of the tweed jacket he normally wears when giving presentations for Sophos, and jumped on his bicycle for a 91 mile (147 km) cycle ride across central London.

Here’s a quick summary of the top findings of Project Warbike:

106,874 individual hotspots detected across more than 91 miles of central London

Obviously, scheduling a long flight as a form of writing retreat is stupid in all sorts of ways. Unless someone else is paying you to travel, it’s crazy expensive. And even if someone’s paying you to fly to Adelaide for a few days, it’s got massive environmental impacts. So I’m thinking about a business that lets you stay on the ground, but rent a writing space that mimics the key features of a long plane flight.

No connectivity – I’ve been productive on long flights where I’ve had internet access, but it’s a very different form of productivity. Craig Newmark and I were invited to the same conference in South Korea some years back and sat side by side for 15 hours, answering email on the way from NYC to Seoul. I reached inbox zero, but I didn’t write anything I was proud of, as I kept getting distracted by incoming mail. And that was before Twitter.

“Long Flight” facilities will be located inside Faraday cages. Once you enter the facility, your phone will be cut off from GSM and CDMA networks, and Wifi won’t work. You’ll be encouraged to download and cache anything you’ll need to read ahead of time.

Fixed duration – I work well in libraries, but I tend to leave them after I’ve accomplished the main task I’d had on my to do list. One of the reason long flights are so productive is that you’re committed to staying in a space well beyond the time you need to accomplish a task. For me, that means I get a blogpost or chapter written, but I also catch up on papers I’ve needed to read.

“Long Flight” facilities will be bookable for durations of 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 hours. We’ll refer to the duration by the names of cities – book an 8 hour session at our Boston facility and we’ll reference your stint as an “Istanbul”. You’ll be free to walk around the facility, pass other people’s compartments, access the rest rooms and snack counter, but your access key won’t let you leave the building until your session is up. (You’ll sign a waiver that prevents us from being charged with holding you against your will. And we’ll have

Today, you can still buy new 1.44MB floppy drives and floppy disks, but for the other formats you need to look to eBay or yard sales. If you really want a new 3.5” drive or disks, I'd get them sooner than later. Their day is almost done.

But, as they disappear even from memory, we should strive to remember just how vitally important floppy disks were in their day. Without them, our current computer world simply could not exist. Before the Internet was open to the public, it was floppy disks that let us create and trade programs and files. They really were what put the personal in “personal computing.”

Our governments don’t help. Our Governments are filled with politicians that are so unimaginative they studied politics at Uni. Instead of our governments being filled with engineers, scientists and doctors, our parliaments are filled with lawyers and professional politicians. (In my opinion) People who lacked the ability to dream as children are now in charge. They are the people who tell us we can’t afford space programmes, better schools, better health care, etc. Collectively we accept it because we have become used to hearing the word no. We stop questioning why we can’t say yes. I heard a stat last year, which I looked up again last night. The official cost of the Apollo program was nearly $25 billion. Adjusted, this would be almost £100 billion. Last year the cost of the UK’s banking sector bailout was put at £955 billion.