Minor Technical Difficulties

As a follow up to the medical records startup, an article on a plethora of

First coined in 1987, even the Moore’s law march of time hasn’t undermined the rule. Their calculation compares the cost of holding a record (or page) permanently in memory with the cost of performing disk I/O each time the record (or page) is accessed, using appropriate fractional prices of RAM chips and disk drives. The [...]

The Air Force has forced requested Microsoft to produce a version of Windows XP that is secure out of the box. The Air Force, on the verge of renegotiating its desktop-software contract with Microsoft, met with Ballmer and asked the company to deliver a secure configuration of Windows XP out of the box. That way, [...]

Not only did I used to play this game, I still do (it’s available through iTunes). Ah, command line D&D. I’m so glad I’m married, because the above sentence would probably make me radioactive to a large percentage of the female population in America. (Hi, Snookums!)

I found this story to be rather amusing for several reasons. For starters, I’ve been around in the industry long enough to remember using almost all of these techniques as a part of my job. But, the main thing for me is that these approaches are still in use today for edge conditions. For example, [...]

A while back, a good and highly esteemed colleague approached me about a startup to do online medical records. I think he thought of me due to an idea we discussed some years ago about processing insurance claims in a more efficient fashion. We went back and forth between the two of us, a money [...]

For those out there looking for an new product idea, here’s a good one: build a plug in for Outlook (or Gmail) that Disables The “Reply To All” option. I’m sure you have all heard horror stories about people who hit the reply to all (hereafter referred to as RTA); if you haven’t, I’ll throw some of the more outrageous ones after the jump.

From Edglings, Michael Malone’s thoughts on who’s going to do well (and not so well) after the recession. Short version: Winners Maybes Losers Apple (with a big if) Oracle Android Intel Cisco LinkedIn IBM Some undiscovered iPhone app HP Google Facebook Palm / Blackberry Tesla Motors Microsoft eBay Dell Yahoo!

Oracle wants to buy Sun. Initially, I’m not so sure that’s a good idea, but as I think about it, I can think I may be able to see the concept. Oracle has tried being a hardware vendor before (anyone else remember NC)? That many people don’t is a pretty good indicator of how bad [...]

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