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A stalwart Tiger user, I was hesitant to upgrade to Leopard. Let everyone else hammer out the bugs, I figured; I can wait. But when an upgrade became unavoidable, first-hand experience with those bugs made me regret ever moving "forward".

Apple, probably because they don't offer SCSI Attached Storage (SAS) hard drives as standard or add-on option for their machines, neglected to mention that the RAID card they are selling for their MacPros is also a SAS RAID card(!)

Dell CEO Michael Dell showed off a multi-touch Windows XP Tablet PC at Oracle OpenWorld this week, which Dell said would become available "in a couple of months."

The UAE's tech plan.

Readers weigh in with their own take on home office energy efficiency.

One of the more tedious tasks of IT is retrieving archived data. Here's one company that claims to make the effort a snap.

This support pilot fish works under contract to a big company, and usually when software needs to be installed it can be done over the network. But some actually require disks.

I don't think there's a downside to the legislation covered in this article "E-government bill clears senate government panel". This bill just reauthorizes an Act that's already been on the books since 2002. The E-Government Act of 2002 seeks to make government information more accessible online. As far as I'm concerned, the Internet is the ideal place for getting information out to the public - especially data that qualifies under the Freedom of Information Act.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which IBM announces its Blue Cloud effort. Not to mention User Friendly's take on bricked iPhones...

Todd R. Weiss and James Niccolai tag-team:

In a move to create more robust, scalable computing systems that can power the expanding needs of new Web 2.0 and mobile applications, IBM today said it will unveil its first enterprise-ready cloud computing hardware in the first quarter of next year ... blade servers running x86 and IBM Power processors, followed later by System z mainframes and a cloud environment based on highly dense rack clusters ... to link together large pools of systems that specifically are aimed at handling the design and performance needs of emerging Web 2.0 and mobile applications.

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I received this e-mail today from Fred Wagner, a document systems specialist for the City of Long Beach, Calif.:

The Crimson, the student-run newspaper at Harvard, has a report of an unusual incident in a campus library. Administrators at the Harvard Business School library were forced to block a user's IP address from accessing Factiva, an online database of news articles and other text documents, after determining that the user had downloaded millions of articles in the span of a few months. From The Crimson:

Looks like the Army has taken steps to make sure their data on laptops is secure.

Tim Berners-Lee is an academic and a visionary and probably the best person to urge openness with the mobile Internet.

If we're to believe the U.K. newspaper The Times, the U.K. is being threatened by a Wi-Fi crime wave, in which Wi-Fi freeloaders commit the "serious offense" of use other people's Wi-Fi networks without their knowledge.

If Apple can maintain their current EPS (earnings per share) growth rate of a little more than 40% the projected stock price in 5 years would be about 650% or 50% compounded. That's a big if, but lets take a look at some graphs demonstrating this potential.