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File |
Synopsis |
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16 Jan 2001 |
F010116hal |
- Musings on the speed at which technology changes, with reference to Arthur C Clarke
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download |
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23 Jan 2001 |
F010123mobiles |
- The ubiquity of mobile phones, and the move to 3G
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download |
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30 Jan 2001 |
F010130pcsales |
- The decline in the PC market — we are at saturation point.
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download |
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6 Feb 2001 |
F010206govtit |
- The Australian government’s pathetic record in IT policy
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download |
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13 Feb 2001 |
F010213neweconomy |
- The death (or non-birth) of the “new economy”
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download |
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20 Feb 2001 |
F010220integ |
- The story of Steve Killelea and Integrated Research
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download |
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27 Feb 2001 |
F010227govtit2 |
- Responses to 6 Feb’s column on the ineptitude of the government’s IT policies
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download |
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6 Mar 2001 |
F010306bloatware |
- How a lot of software, particularly that from Microsoft, is inefficient and over-functioned
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download |
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13 Mar 2001 |
F010313harmer |
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download |
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20 Mar 2001 |
F010320ideas |
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download |
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27 Mar 2001 |
F010327plowman |
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download |
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3 April 2001 |
F010403merced |
- The release (finally) of the Merced IA64 chip
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download |
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10 April 2001 |
F010410china |
- How the Chinese IT industry is growing and why Aussie companies should go there
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download |
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17 April 2001 |
F010417atoms |
- The growth of 3G and wireless, and why we should stop turning digits into atoms and back again
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download |
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24 April 2001 |
F010424access |
- Why MS Access is the work of the devil
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download |
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1 May 2001 |
F010501jedi |
- How the Internet “can help a lie go round the world while truth is still putting on its boots”, with reference to the campaign to put “Jedi Knight as one’s religion on census forms
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download |
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8 May 2001 |
F010508informix |
- IBM’s purchase of DBMS company Informix
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download |
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15 May 2001 |
F010515filemaker |
- Why Filemaker is so much better the MS Access
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download |
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22 May 2001 |
F010522backup |
- The recent theft of GP’s laptop and the importance of backing up data
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download |
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29 May 2001 |
F010529sropsys |
- Strategic Research’s analysis of relative strengths of various operating systems
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download |
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5 Jun 2001 |
F010605backup2 |
- Responses to 22 May column on backups
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download |
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12 Jun 2001 |
F010612indbodies |
- How vendors set up supposedly independent IT industry forums
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download |
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19 Jun 2001 |
F010619linuxbigots |
- How the Linux bigots came out in force to flame GP for reporting it’s not as strong as many think
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download |
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26 Jun 2001 |
F010626univac |
- The 50th anniversary of UNIVAC and the birth of commercial computing
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download |
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3 July 2001 |
F010703openpm |
- An open letter to Australian PM John Howard berating him for selectively quoting GP in parliament
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download |
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10 July 2001 |
F010710alpha |
- The demise of the Alpha chip and a comment on the chip wars
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download |
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17 July 2001 |
F010717westpac |
- GP’s attempts to set up Internet banking through Westpac
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download |
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24 July 2001 |
F010724sitesuite |
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download |
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31 July 2001 |
F010731aiia |
- An examination of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)
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download |
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7 Aug 2001 |
F010807ibmpc |
- The 20th anniversary of the IBM PC
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download |
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14 Aug 2001 |
F010814downturn2001 |
- The downturn in the IT industry, and in IT publications
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download |
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21 Aug 2001 |
F010821shannon |
- Analyst Terry Shannon’s views on the future of Compaq
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download |
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28 Aug 2001 |
F010828bell |
- An interview with Internet pioneer and IT guru Gordon Bell
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download |
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4 Sep 2001 |
F010904acs |
- Australian Computer Society president John Ridge on how the ACS has changed
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download |
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11 Sep 2001 |
F010911webdesign |
- Tim O’Brien and the fundamentals of good web design
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download |
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18 Sep 2001 |
F010918snailbrain |
- How researchers in Germany have connected living tissue with silicon chips, and what this means for the future of the human race
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download |
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25 Sep 2001 |
F010925hpcompaq
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- Comments on the proposed HP takeover of Compaq
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download
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2 Oct 2001 |
F011002expenditure |
- The changing nature of IT expenditure, away from hardware and towards services
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download |
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9 Oct 2001 |
F011009bifail |
- How a lack of good business intelligence causes many companies to fail
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download |
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16 Oct 2001 |
F011016newlaws |
- Kevin Kelly’s Rules for the New Economy revisited
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download |
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23 Oct 2001 |
F011023demant |
- A review of David Demant’s book “The First Computer Mouse”
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download |
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30 Oct 2001 |
F011030msxp |
- Microsoft’s Windows XP and the history of its OS strategy
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download |
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6 Nov 2001 |
F011106powerpoint |
- How GP gave a presentation without Powerpoint, and why that product is often misused
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download |
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13 Nov 2001 |
F011113bookplug |
- GP shamelessly reviews and plugs the CCH book he edited (Australian Guide to eBusiness)
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download |
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20 Nov 2001 |
F011120anal |
- Gartner, Forrester, Meta and IDC on how the IT world changed after 11 September, and their forecasts for the next year
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download |
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27 Nov 2001 |
F011127oswar2 |
- Windows vs Linux vs Unix — why operating systems don’t matter so much any more
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download |
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4 Dec 2001 |
F011204winebase |
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download |
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11 Dec 2001 |
F011211yearend |
- A look at the year in IT, and ten predictions for 2002
|
download |
