Monthly Archives: March 2014

The Evolution of the VM

For the past several months I have been working extensively with Oracle’s Virtual Box. As I learn new technologies, operating systems and Applications, I have installed, cloned and deployed various virtual machines. I picked up a used Del T7500 with … Continue reading

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VR and the Business Meeting

Yesterday Facebook announced that it had purchased a company in California called Oculus VR for two billion dollars. Oculus has been manufacturing a headset and shipping a developer’s kit for the last year that has been widely accepted by the … Continue reading

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Keeping it Simple

When it comes to designing software there are those who look for the absolute best technical solution and those who do their best to keep things simple. I have witnessed projects that have become so complex that new designers take … Continue reading

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Politics and Business

Politics and Business have been linked for as long as I can remember. It seems that politicians target business to help finance the country and business owners look to politicians to help finance their companies. Bullies exist in both places … Continue reading

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An so ends another hockey season

This weekend in Carp Ontario we saw the end to yet another season of West Carleton Old Timers Hockey. One of the things that makes this league unique is the way the teams balance out and the way one or … Continue reading

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Bio-Enhancements (Bionic Eyes)

Google is already working on vision enhancement with Google Glass and the number of applications that will use Google glass continues to grow. I can imagine that Google glass could migrate into Google vision with contacts and retina projection, but … Continue reading

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Bio-Enhancements (Bionic ear)

What would it take to improve on what nature has provided? I ask myself that question and I come up with a number of answers. The first enhancement that comes to mind is better hearing. As we age our hearing … Continue reading

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Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

The networking industry is about to be introduced to two new networking technologies. The promoters of these new technologies are claiming that they are complementary but they do seem to be at odds. These technologies are NFV and SDN. I … Continue reading

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