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Yes it is. Yes it is. 
I was just too ashamed to send out a newsletter with only two items in it.
TTFN - Kent
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Both the Gartner and IDC research firms have submitted their PC shipment numbers for the fourth quarter of 2014, but this time they appear to be in a disagreement. Gartner says that worldwide shipments of PCs went up by 1% during the final quarter of 2014, while IDC counters that with a 2.4% decline. Brought to you by the "our research costs thousands of dollars a year" random number generators
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Some OSes are more personal than others.
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Yes, and I wish they'd respect my personal space sometimes.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Probably differs on the definition of a "PC".
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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The newly-discovered "Skeleton Key" malware is able to circumvent authentication on Active Directory systems, according to Dell researchers. Wow. You "just" need existing admin (and physical) access.
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That's nice.
Now I'm going to go live under a bridge.
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Ron Anders wrote: go live under a bridge.
We all float down here.
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Is this by any chance a reference to Modest Mouse ? 
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Ron Anders wrote: Now I'm going to go live under a bridge.
"Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the troll. 
Marc
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Yeah, that would be fun.
"These questions three"
1. What is an iNode?
2. What is a pNode?
3. What is the air speed of an IT tech when skeleton key is found on network?
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Gates, Jobs or Torvalds IT tech?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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That is nothing new as many security "vulnerabilities" start with "after you get admin access to a server...". And yes whatever happens next is limited just by imagination but it is hardly a security vulnerability.
So what is it here? Fingerprint readers are not selling well enough?
--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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It’s official, the Visual F# project has moved from Codeplex to GitHub! I'm guessing you wouldn't want to be on the Codeplex team these days
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Big data promises to upend the business intelligence market, but it won't do so until the tools around it become easier to use. Yeah, but you can't call yourself a "complicated business intelligence expert", and rake in the dough
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The thing about big data is that its big. Really big. You might think your shopping list is big, but that's just peanuts to big data
When data gets this big, then making sense out of it is less of a business intelligence issue and more of a machine learning issue. And - so long as the machine learning environment can get at the data it doesn't really matter if the tools are there or not.
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The Year of Big Data comes after the Year of Linux.
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When I think big data, I think Large Hadron Collider big. As in "petabytes per millisecond" big. As in "we can't use standard hardware any more because no drive (spinning, solid state, RAM or otherwise) writes fast enough" big.
Anything less is marketers re-using a word they know nothing about.
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Not sure I agree - the "everything being sold at all Target stores worldwide" to me is the classic example. That, and a lot of broad actuarial data to me qualify as "big data".
But yeah, sorry. Maybe I do see what you mean. I've heard people calling their website log files as "Big data". Not even close there.
TTFN - Kent
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Meet Firefox Hello, the easiest way to connect for free over video with anyone, anywhere. "Is it me you're looking for?"
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Are we in a mood today?
Lionel Richie...really!
Tell me you didn't think disco was just a fad.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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I was going to add an apology to that one. Guess I really should have. 
ABBA coming up next
TTFN - Kent
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 Kent Sharkey wrote: ABBA coming up next
At least you have a well rounded music appreciation!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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ABBA, well-rounded, shurely you're thinking of the Weather Girls.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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