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CDR Sam

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  • Internet Radio

    Posted on Sunday January 10th, 2010 at 05:28 pm in internet radio, wifi radio, wifi music

    Internet radio has been around awhile along with it’s counterpart podcasts.  The difference is Internet radio operates on streaming and not a file download.  It does require a wireless network (WiFi) and from there a connection to the Interne...

  • Medical Digital Revolution?

    Posted on Saturday January 2nd, 2010 at 04:59 pm in healthcare, data storage

    So, is it going to happen?  Will we see a great change in the way medical records are handled now? Will various electronic medical systems be able to finally speak a common language? These questions continue to be unanswered and yet a standard has t...

  • Who Wants to be in the Clouds: What Really is Cloud Computing

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 01:29 pm in data storage, cloud computing, thoughts about cloud computing

    ISPs have been providing what is now called ‘cloud computing’ for years.  AOL,  CompuServe,  Prodigy even the BBS were clouds in their own right.   The idea that somehow the ‘dumb terminal’ is a new concept is a frightenin...

  • Putting Down Roots in Data Storage

    Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 03:42 pm in data storage

    As computers were a revolution in themselves, data storage and analysis will be the next revolution.   I’m referencing Google’s great book scanning project.  It’s mind boggling to consider the information that will be available (...

  • What has the Internet given us?

    Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 11:24 am in random blackouts

    “What the Internet has done is given us a nation that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing” A quote from Bill Maloney, CEO of the American Society of Travel Agent about the increase in Travel Agent use and the decline of Interne...

  • Back-Up Using Tape

    Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 08:38 pm in usb drives, dlt, usb flash and flash memory, back up tape, flash drive backup

    I have to say after several years of using a DLT drive from a very well known American computer manufacturer and having to replace it every year that I wonder about our technology.  I see the same Tech every year and we discuss the state of equipmen...

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