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  • Comprehension and Retention

    By Paul Murphy | November 19, 2006, 8:52am PST

    This is important because a difference in either, or both, comprehension and retention, would mean that a wide range of significant endeavours, from stock market and related financial decision making to public education, have been more affected by the transition from paper to screen than we previously understood.

  • How and why to use Sun Ray

    By Paul Murphy | August 16, 2006, 6:45am PDT

    I’ve just moved from Ontario back to my home province of Alberta - where the Sun shines, the air is clean, and the economy is booming.
    During the move we ran a series of eight chapter summaries, or notes to myself, for a possible book on how and why to use Sun’s Sun Ray thin [...]

  • Ageism, IT, and Jobs

    By Paul Murphy | April 6, 2006, 4:13am PDT

    The answer to a skills deficit is education and practice, the answer to prejudice is community.

  • How to deploy Windows software on Sun Ray

    By Paul Murphy | February 10, 2006, 1:18pm PST

    here are many different ways to provide access to Windows applications on Sun Ray smart displays.
    This Sun page
    offers “white papers” and real how-to information on a wide range of choices.

  • Are Wi-Fi security myths good for deterrence?

    By George Ou | January 24, 2006, 2:10am PST

    “SSID suppression”, “DHCP restrictions”, and “MAC filtering” are a huge waste of time. If you absolutely can’t run good WPA security, just turn on WEP for some real deterrence. Having said that, it’s ironic that WPA-PSK security when used correctly has no known method of being cracked yet it’s even easier to deploy than WEP which is breakable in a couple of minutes. WEP on the other hand is much easier to deploy than MAC filtering which is breakable in a matter of seconds using freely available GUI tools that run on Linux.

  • Can you make Linux easy?

    By Dana Blankenhorn | December 1, 2005, 1:19pm PST

    Want some free Linux?

  • So why do people hate Windows?

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 28, 2005, 5:00pm PST

    Windows winds down hardware. As time goes by, patches and updates and upgrades and necessary applications load my box up with code that hogs my memory, and takes up CPU cycles, until the memory and cycles needed for new work magically disappear. Then you’re supposed to replace the box, and over time buy new software.

  • Does Windows rule?

    By Paul Murphy | November 28, 2005, 4:29pm PST

    it’s possible to see this report as wrong on all counts, and not only credit the
    authors with a legitimate attempt to come to grips with a real problem but feel sorry for them
    because what they ended up, in all innocence, writing a case study on how not to deploy Linux.

  • How do you stop Sony's rootkit at the office?

    By George Ou | November 15, 2005, 10:30am PST

    Companies are not helpless against Sony’s rootkit; they can preemptively stop it in the first place with Active Directory Group Policy.

  • Lost in the Ethernet

    By Dana Blankenhorn | November 1, 2005, 11:56am PST

    To make 802.11 happen under Linux with Linksys, you need an access card that works with Linux.