Canadian geeks snub Sun's McNealy
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Would prefer a RIM job For Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy, it could be the ultimate disgrace. A group of Canadian technophiles have organized a Geeks on Ice hockey tournament and not invited the technology world's most famous puck-hunting executive. Instead, the Geeks on Ice crew have tried to convince RIM CEO Jim Balsillie to attend their gig, and Balsillie has returned the favor by ignoring the Canucks.â¦
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If you have an aversion to sunshine, you would probably be better off giving Australia a miss.
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Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy celebrated his 50th birthday on Nov. 13 -- and two days later his company hit another milestone.
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Sun doesn't want to bring its Solaris operating sytem to Intel's Itanium chip. This week.
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Keep praising your troops and maybe they&#39;ll win the fight. Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) Chief Executive Scott McNealy saw good in earnings that were somewhat worse than expected.
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(InfoWorld) - Strange but true, some people -- certified techies among them -- prefer to turn it all off when theyâre on holiday. [See also: Great escapes for geeks | Top 10 vacations] Stanton W. Schmidt writes, âI really do want to leave it all behind when I go on vacation. With that in mind I would recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. There, you cannot get a signal for your cell phone, no matter which provider you have. You don't drive in, you paddle in (no boat motors allowed either). And they don't even allow you to carry in cans or bottles. And no matter where you go, you are likely not to see another human being for most of your trip.â âI purposefully select vacation choices where it's extremely difficult to geek out every day,â replied Ed Kummel. âMy last vacation was in Durango, Colo. Sure, there are coffeehouses in town that have Internet access, but the bike ride down and back up the mountain is not worth it! I learned to make do with my BlackBerry for that week!â For those who would brave the mountain for some quality Internet time, hereâs your real cold turkey, from Gregg Cooke: âThe banks of West Virginia's Greenbrier River, most of which lies inside the National Radio Quiet Zone, so named because it is a 13,000-square-mile âholeâ in the eastern part of the state centered over the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Even the slightest radio transmissions are hunted down by a team of radio detectives and silenced â¦ they even find malfunctioning microwaves and mistuned automobiles. (Your tax dollars go toward this, you know.) The result is blissful radio silence for the gi-normous radio dishes the NRAO operates to scan the skies and look deep into celestial radio sources. You'll get no cell or wireless signal here, guaranteed!â
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Multithread frenzy takes another step at Sun: "Victoria Falls" chip will mean 128 threads in a single server.Video: Sun CEO looks to future
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An extreme shortage of oenophile gizmos is undoubtedly the reason most nerds shun the fruit of the vine. Problem solved! Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Federal officials flatly rejected the $12-billion-plus price tag attached Friday to the provinces&#39;s prescription for fixing Canada&#39;s health care system.
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Tycho:   It has become the Saturday tradition to do the next strip upon the expo's stark and terrifying stage, but since Armadeaddon needed its proper epilogue it got moved out to Wednesday.  Gabe was highly indulgent of audience suggestions in the final version, far more than he is to me, adding many, many things based on them being called out from the microphone - he has a version with more additions still that he'll be putting up later today.  But there are things in there like the blue ball in the last panel - to say nothing of the official "Hot-Dog Fairy" merchandise! - that began as anecdotes and have now graduated to true PAX lore.
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM Want to travel abroad but don&#39;t want to be tagged as an American? A New Mexico T-shirt company suggests going Canadian.
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And prevent global warming Letters Lots to cover today, so let's get right to it. We start with a dig at Scott "The Green" McNealy, who described this week how he and Sun could stop global warming armed with nothing more than a bic biro, a used washing-up liquid bottle and some sticky-backed plastic (OK, maybe that wasn't quite what he said, but you know what we mean):â¦
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OTTAWA -- A little too much West Coast sunshine? Too close to Disneyland? Heck, dude, maybe it's just that Canadian ways don't translate in California once the snow melts north of the border. Eh?
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Ziff Davis - Sun's plans to offer Solaris code to the open-source community leaves some analysts scratching their heads.
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The NHL and the Players Association did not deliver an early Christmas present to fans across North America. The NHL Players Association and the league both rejected counter-proposals during a three-hour meeting in Toronto on Tuesday.
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Perens said the legal arrangement between Sun and Microsoft was &quot;creepy.&quot; The agreement, he added, &quot;essentially says that Sun will not stand together with the open source developers who contributed
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Research suggests that the sun's activity is not responsible for the onset of global warming.