Magazine Notes

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Warning signs

Nice article on identifying the need for change on RedNova.

"Part of the reason that people and companies don't anticipate or even respond to change is that, while the world is changing continuously, the perception of such change can happen only from time to time. We don't see the warning signs or, at least, are not aware of what these signs imply."

The five warning signals: minor defects, dissonance, serendipity, paradox, and boredom.

"These five types of weak signals/warning signs have one thing in common: People tend to disregard them, to treat them as irrelevant. They will have doubts about the instrument used rather than about the theory behind it. They will ask Kepler to double-check his night observations of the sky, not question Copernicus's principles that are challenged by these observations. That's how we miss opportunities and make mistakes. "

Article: http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=192341&source=r_science

Bill Vilberg

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// posted by Bill @ Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Friday, June 10, 2005

Solution from PC Magazine: Are Pa55.W0rd5 Dead?

Rather than a typical password, this article suggests that you use a long sentence or phrase with all the spaces and everything.

Solution from PC Magazine: Are Pa55.W0rd5 Dead?

// posted by Bill @ Friday, June 10, 2005

Password Crackers

Nice article on Password Crackers

// posted by Bill @ Friday, June 10, 2005

Friday, May 20, 2005

cairo.com

Want to know where to go to buy the cheapest milk in your neighborhood? Or who is running specials on CD-R media? Go to cairo.com, enter your zip code, tell it what you are looking for and how far you are willing to go, and it will come back with stores that are featuring your items in their ads. Pretty neat.

// posted by Bill @ Friday, May 20, 2005

iPod has 68% market share

According to PC Magazine, iPod has a 68% market share in the digital music player space.