I think there are quite a few opportunities for keyboard-less or reduced-character keyboards in specialized applications. I remember putting touchscreens out on the manufacturing floor in 1997. We were just...

Very timely, from my point of view, because I was just discussing with my brother the relationship between technology and unsavory activity.

The first thing we have to remember is that...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/1/2011)

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Ron Porter (2/1/2011)

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... Finally, since these servers are going to be put into full service only when something else is down, planned or otherwise, I...

Without getting into the definition of a passive server, here's the way I think it should work.

That disaster-recovery (DR) or high-availability (HA) server does have value because it serves a...

TravisDBA (1/29/2011)

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david_wendelken (1/28/2011)

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The poor quality of reading comprehension skills in our population is scary.

Part of the reason is that people are not taught critical thinking skills.

Part of it...

We call those 'underground projects' here. Everybody from top to bottom in the company knows that they happen. As long as our regular work is getting done, management turns a...

michael sorens (1/11/2011)

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GSquared (1/11/2011)

I just tested my SSC articles in that, and they all came back with pretty much ideal scores. So I also tested the readability of a...

djackson 22568 (1/10/2011)

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Ron Porter (1/10/2011)

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How about the other side of the written communications divide, reading? I've been writing for others for about 30 years now. When I started, I was...

How about the other side of the written communications divide, reading? I've been writing for others for about 30 years now. When I started, I was writing only for other...

I did something similar several years ago (dBXL, so maybe more than several!). It was for our trade show booth, so we had it up on the biggest screen we...

Elliott Whitlow (12/20/2010)

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All the environments I've been in typically use a two hop approach, backups are written to disk and the backups are then swept to tape which are taken...

We backup exclusively to disk and have never been happier. We've always hated tape with a passion, mostly because they've been so unreliable (tape-eating drives and media not readable on...

A few people have commented on the problems associated with taking over some homegrown Access or Excel application built to solved a local business problem. In general, the problems seem...

Point taken 🙂

Revenant (12/7/2010)

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"As more and more electronic machines are being used to record votes, and often being built with very little security, how can we be sure that the data is...