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22 Jan 2002 |
F020122hpcompaq |
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29 Jan 2002 |
F020129ibmrevs |
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5 Feb 2002 |
F020205oldpcs |
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download |
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12 Feb 2002 |
F020212gartner |
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19 Feb 2002 |
F020219sun |
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26 Feb 2002 |
F020226erp |
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5 Mar 2002 |
F020305wcit |
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12 Mar 2002 |
F020312imaging |
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19 Mar 2002 |
F020319bugs |
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download |
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26 Mar 2002 |
F020326bag |
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download |
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2 Apr 2002 |
F020402indians |
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download |
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9 Apr 2002 |
F020409studentpoint |
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16 Apr 2002 |
F020416wayback |
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The importance of maintaining our electronic heritage, and a look at www.archive.org and the Wayback machine
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23 April 2002 |
F020423zone |
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30 April 2002 |
F020430hurol |
- A review of Hurol Inan's book "Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Website", and at related issues
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download |
| 7 May 2002 |
F020507numbers |
- How three different reports measure Australia's IT usage, and how the Govt selectively uses them
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| 14 May 2002 |
F020514idc |
- IDC's annual briefing and how boring it has become
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download |
| 21 May 2002 |
F020521dbms |
- Brief history of the DBMS market and how IBM has pulled ahead of Oracle
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| 28 May 2002 |
F020528semweb |
- The Semantic Web and Tim Berners-Lee's plans for the future
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| 4 June 2002 |
F020604teradata |
- Why we use so much storage, with reference to US company Teradata
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download |
| 11 June 2002 |
F020611teradata2 |
- Continuing on from last week's piece
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download |
| 18 June 2002 |
F020618skills |
- Asking the question "Is the IT skills shortage a myth?" Answering it "Yes"
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| 25 June 2002 |
F020625records |
- How Napster and dowloadable music has made record companies move towards online distribution of music
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download |
| 2 July 2002 |
F020702problems |
- Problems with service on GP's trip to the US - and how IT has not given us better service
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| 9 July 2002 |
F020709pcbillion |
- The shipment of the billionth PC and a short history of the PC industry
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download |
| 16 July 2002 |
F020716skills2 |
- Follow up on 18 June piece and the hundreds of emails in agreement
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download |
| 23 July 2002 |
F020723pdacrap |
- Why GP hates PDAs, and how he organises himself
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download |
| 30 July 2002 |
F020730grid |
- Grid computing, and an interview with grid guru Dr Ian Foster
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| 6 Aug 2002 |
F020806newhp |
- The new Hewlett-Packard, and how the merger with Compaq is proceeding
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download |
| 13 Aug 2002 |
F020813iseries |
- IBM's iSeries, and how it has evolved from the AS/400. How it is underrated and underreported
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| 20 Aug 2002 |
F020820netmad |
- How GP never ceases to be amazed at the incredible amount of information on the Internet
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download |
| 27 Aug 2002 |
F020827bromley |
- Obituary for Allan Bromley, computer historian
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| 3 Sept 2002 |
F020903pda2 |
- Follow up on 23 July piece, with particular reference to the Handspring Treo
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download |
| 10 Sept 2002 |
F020919telstra |
- How Telstra is adopting a Sun architecture, with increased emphasis on thin clients
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17 Sept 2002
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F020917wolfram
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- A look at Stephen Wolfram's book "A New Kind of Science" and its theories
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download
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24 Sept 2002 |
F020924lansa |
- The success of the Australian-developed Lansa applications development product
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download |
| 1 Oct 2002 |
F021001skills3 |
- Still more on the so-called IT skills shortage, and the element of racism that has crept into the debate
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download |
| 8 Oct 2002 |
F021008msoft |
- An analysis of Microsoft's suspension of its end user subscription licensing
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download |
| 15 Oct 2002 |
F021015elearning |
- The current state of play in the elearning market
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download |
| 22 Oct 2002 |
F021022selfserve |
- The importance of self service as a component of e-commerce, based on Martin Butler's comments
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download |
| 29 Oct 2002 |
F021029autonomic |
- IBM (and others) move to autonomic computing, where computers maintain themselves
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download |
| 5 Nov 2002 |
F021105allencisco |
- A review of the Allen Consulting report that shows e-commerce booming in Australia
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| 12 Nov 2002 |
F021112mainframe |
- Why mainframes are still needed and still used
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download |
| 19 Nov 2002 |
F021119gartner |
- Gartner's 2002 Symposium and predictions - the real-time enterprise
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download |
| 26 Nov 2002 |
F021126cluster |
- The Western Sydney IT cluster and why it is a good idea
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| 3 Dec 2002 |
F021203dashboard |
- The different technologies and philosophies behind "management dashboards"
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download |
| 10 Dec 2002 |
F021210bioinformatics |
- Bioinformatics - the coming fusion between IT and biotechnology
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download |
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17 Dec 2002
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F021217predicts |
- GP marks himself on accuracy for his 10 IT predictions for 02, made a year ago. Score: 4.5 out of 10
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