有一点是肯定的，千万不能安装 奇虎360 和 瑞星，反正都不是好东西。

经过碎片整理，打 Vista 的 99 个 Update ， 然后 SP1 ， 然后 SP2，总算能在5分钟之内启动完毕了。看到了微软官方网站上的这篇文章，才理解原来微软的 Desktop OS Performance 就是这几班斧。

1. Clean up disk errors
2. Remove temporary files
3. Rearrange your data
4. Make Internet Explorer run faster
5. Automate Microsoft Update
6. Install antivirus and antispyware programs

结合其他 Vista 优化的文章，我的理解是安装一个 CCleaner 以及 Auslogics Disk Defrag，并定期运行，基本上应该可以解决性能问题。

IE 应该不是问题，因为我基本上不用 IE，FireFox 的性能问题基本上可以通过 NoScript和 AdBlock Plus 插件。

在 Facebook 的介绍中是这样写的：

It is inside Facebook’s engineering ranks that the company’s love of risk really reveals itself. “We move very fast,” says Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, an engineer who heads up Facebook’s “boot camp,” a six-week introduction into its code and customs that he calls a “cultural indoctrination” for incoming engineers. “And we definitely fight. We expect people to be passionate, and they’re going to fight to make their case.” In fact, “fight,” along with “entrepreneurial” and “impact,” are words one hears constantly on the Facebook campus. Bosworth arrived via Harvard — he was Zuckerberg’s teacher in an artificial-intelligence class — and Microsoft, an environment he suggests is less than inspired. (“It’s a world like ‘insert product specification, receive code,’ ” he says.) At Facebook, by contrast, “it’s free form. If you’re not coming up with new ideas, then you’re just along for the ride.”

前20名：

1. Facebook   Ranked 15 Last Year
2. Amazon    Ranked 9 Last Year
3. Apple  Ranked 4 Last Year
4. Google Ranked 2 Last Year
5. Huawei
6. First Solar  Ranked 18 Last Year
7. PG&E
8. Novartis
9. Walmart  Ranked 33 Last Year
10. HP   Ranked 12 Last Year

11. Hulu Ranked 3 Last Year

12. Netflix

13. Nike Ranked 27 Last Year
14. Intel  Ranked 6 Last Year
15. Spotify
16. BYD  Ranked 45 Last Year
17. Cisco Systems Ranked 5 Last Year
18. IBM  Ranked 19 Last Year
19. GE  Ranked 11 Last Year
20. Disney Ranked 22 Last Year

1. Facebook

2. Amazon

3. Apple

4. Google

5. Huawei

6. First Solar

7. PG&E

8. Novartis

9. Walmart

10. HP

11. Hulu

12. Netflix

13. Nike

14. Intel

15. Spotify

16. BYD

17. Cisco Systems

18. IBM

19. GE

20. Disney

21. Gilt Groupe

22. Indian Premier League

23. PatientsLikeMe

24. Grey New York

25. BMW DesignworksUSA

26. Synthetic Genomics

27. FiLife

28. Frito-Lay

29. Alibaba

30. MITRE

31. HTC

32. Diller Scofidio + Renfro

33. Firstborn

34. Sportvision

35. Ideo

36. Samsung

37. Glam Media

38. Ngmoco

39. VNL

40. Aldi Süd

41. Fast Retailing

42.Huayi Brothers

43. Athenahealth

44. MVRDV

45. Alstom

46. Quantcast

47. Good Guide

48. Microsoft

49. Politico

50. Twitter

You’ve probably seen the news – the Sun/Oracle transaction has closed. With the passing of that milestone, I can once again speak freely.

Having had nine months to accelerate down the runway, there’s not a doubt in my mind Oracle’s takeoff and ascent will be fast and dramatic. I wish the combined entity the best of luck, and have enormous confidence in the opportunity.

Greg Papadopoulos, one of the brightest people I’ve ever known, once made a very interesting statement – all technology ultimately becomes a fashion item. It was true for timekeeping, and it’s definitely true of computing and telecommunications. To that law, I’d like to add a simple corollary: the technology industry only gets more interesting. It’s been true my entire life.

As for where life takes me next, you should follow me via Twitter at openjonathan to find out. I’ll also be rehosting this blog (and again, stay tuned to Twitter by following me here). I expect to do my part to keep things interesting.

Thank you for your support and commitment. I wish you all the best of luck building, taking advantage of (and likely wearing) the future!

Jonathan Schwartz
CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

平心而论，Google 在 Android 上发布的天象软件对天文爱好者应该是不错的选择，然而，火星，是不是有点太遥远？还没有那么多的爱好者可以 Follow 吧？ 而 Google 似乎也应该在地图上做得更加细一点，比起 Bing 的地图来，似乎 bing 更胜一筹，后浪推前浪吧？

1. * Cloud computing
2. * Advanced analytics
3. * Client computing
4. * IT for Green
5. * Reshaping the data centre.
6. * Social software and social computing
7. * User activity monitoring (security)
8. * Flash memory
9. * Virtualisation for availability
10. * Mobile applications

IMO, It’s more about green IT, i.e. green is in the core.  Flash Memory/Virtulization/Data Center Re-Shaping /Cloud Computing are all those around the core.

For a CIO, Mobile may not in the focus compared with other technology. IMO, Enterprise Instant Messaging still a long way to go to improve the enterprise collaboration effective and efficiency.

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Gartner Lays Out Top 10 Strategic Technologies

– Kathryn Edwards, Computerworld Australia

November 20, 2009
At this week’s Gartner Symposium in Sydney, the analyst firm presented its top 10 strategic technologies for 2010.

Gartner senior analyst and mobile guru, Nick Jones, presented the strategic technologies, and defined them as the ones which will impact CIOs within the mainstream enterprise between the next 12 to 36 months.

“Strategic technologies will drive significant change, disruption, modifications to your strategy,” Jones said, urging all CIOs to explicitly address them in their strategy, plans and IT architecture.

According to Jones, Gartner develops its top 10 list by sourcing information from CIOs, hype cycles, analyst questions and the top technologies people ask about.

However, he warned this list is not exclusive, and there are likely to be more strategic technologies that CIOs should track throughout the year.

Top 10 strategic technologies 2010:

1. * Cloud computing
2. * Advanced analytics
3. * Client computing
4. * IT for Green
5. * Reshaping the data centre.
6. * Social software and social computing
7. * User activity monitoring (security)
8. * Flash memory
9. * Virtualisation for availability
10. * Mobile applications

Cloud computing: Jones said cloud computing continues to grow in importance. According to Gartner, the three important areas of corporate use of the cloud are consumption of cloud services, developing cloud based applications and implementing private cloud computing environments.

“Not everything is appropriate in a public cloud at this point in time,” Jones said. “Regulatory and maturity issues may mean you don’t want to put things on public clouds, but you may want to experiment with cloud computing, so private clouds may be the answer.”

He said CIOs are going to need to explore cloud computing at many different levels of the organisation.

Virtualisation for availability: Virtualisation has been very popular in past top 10 lists as a consolidation technique but Jones said “migration and system availability” is a new use that’s begun to emerge.

“With live migration what you can do is take the data and state of a virtual machine, take it off one virtual machine and put it onto another virtual machine, and at some point the application can stop executing – the last instruction executes on your previous machine, and the next instruction executes of your new machine,” Jones said, adding that you are effectively teleporting your application.

He said this method of technology can then become the basis for high availability systems.

IT for green: Jones said green IT remains important, but acknowledged that many IT managers still felt the cost will outweigh the value of implementation.

“Some of the emphasis on green IT has shifted, it’s now not just about making the organisation’s IT function more green, it’s about using IT to support the overall corporate green goals,” Jones said.

According to Gartner, the new emphasis on green IT covers corporate issues such as document management, telepresence, teleworking, smart buildings, carbon tracking, and logistics.

Client computing:The dominant client computing model was and still is Windows on a PC, according to Jones. However, that model is starting to break down as more options become available to IT managers.

He said technologies such as virtual desktops, thin clients and BYO IT are challenging this model.

Mobile applications: “Mobile applications are becoming very important to the CIO,” Jones said. “What we’re seeing is as people deliver more business to consumer applications, three major B2C architectures have begun to emerge.”

Those are SMS, mobile web and native applications delivered by an app store.

Although expensive, Jones said developing a native application is the best way to reach your customers.

Advanced analytics: “Analytics is the new face of business intelligence, not just processing data after the event, but analysing what’s happening now to predict what’s going to happen in the future,” Jones said.

Advanced analytics is about using analytical tools and models to maximise business process and decision.

“It’s about, for example, predicting fraud instead of detecting fraud,” Jones said.

Social software and social computing: According to Gartner, three aspects of social computing have grown in the enterprise, and therefore must be considered a strategic technology.

* Internal social computing, such as wikis

* Public social computing, such as Facebook and MySpace, not only through your employees’ use, but also monitoring such networks to identify your company’s public image.

* B2B social media and customer communities

“You can start building communities of business related customers and partners, so they can share information and you can share information with them,” Jones said. “There are all sorts of ways in which you can use social computing as part of your enterprise strategy.”

Flash memory: By 2012, Gartner predicts that flash memory will cost about 16 cents per gigabyte, which could open up the potential for technologies such as terabyte memory sticks.

“A lot of new and interesting opportunities will be enabled by flash memory,” Jones said.

User activity monitoring (security): Jones said security is something IT managers all have to worry about and that they must know what all their users are doing across the network.

According to Gartner new types of technologies, network access and security attacks means IT managers must be extra vigilant in this area.

“All of the new forms of attack and vulnerability mean we have to pay increased attention in monitoring our users and what users are doing over the next five years,” Jones said.
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正好手头有一台 Lenovo F41 的笔记本电脑，配置了 150GB 的磁盘，1GB 的内存，安装了  Windows Vista Home Basic 的 OS ，无奈内存太小，就听见硬盘不停的咳咳声。如果以后这 SSD 可以像 U 盘一样，插入笔记本引导各种不同的 OS ，然后把笔记本内置的硬盘作为备份盘，这样，或许 1000 人民币的上网本配上一定价格的 SSD ，就可以实现高性能的网络本。

当然，上网本的缺点还是不能用于高要求的游戏，高清播放等。因为上网本不可能配置高内存，高 CPU ，特别是高端的视频卡。

所以说，中国大众的娱乐，大多数还是属于低端。就如这台 F41 的 Owner ，基本上是用来去看网上视频的。

目前的时代是一个信息爆炸的时代， Information Overload 太厉害。以投资来比喻，这可以说是一个信息密集型的产业，从基本面的数据，到技术面的分析，可以说各种数据拿来使用，公说公有理，婆说婆有理。因此，到最后基本上都是废话。这就是我认为不能相信电视台，广播电台，报纸上那些理财专家，投资分析师，甚至是经济学家的所谓预测。

每个人取数据或者说事实的方位不同，分析的方法不一样，到最后的结果就千差万别。更加何况有的人取的根本就不是事实，然后用的方法根本就是错误。

对企业运营而言，更应该看重实际的运营数据，并和外面的企业做一个 Benchmark 的比较，知识管理里面的所谓“标杆”。

所以，对症下药，因材施教，这些老祖宗说过的话，对于我们现在管理企业，投资，育儿等等都是最好的药方，一味的去追求所谓的信息，但是没有甄别这些信息的能力和知识，到最后还是一场空。

我们要学会渔，而不是简单的要鱼。

经济学的原理很清楚的告诉我们，理性的“市场先生”总是追逐价廉物美的商品，这也是为什么 MySQL 这么畅销的原因。

Skype 从本质上应该开源！