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Search does not need engines, knowledge and decision does.

May 28th, 2009 at 11:25 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Google, Intelligence, Microsoft



Search engine are not doing search anymore… No search is for small player, now the real thing is to have an evolved engine. Where Wolframalpha offer a computational knowledge engine, Bing offer a decision engine. So far Google can keep being Google fearless ; )
Bing (also known as Kumo) should be publicly available on June 3rd. At least the name [...]

Know our history: Pirate of Silicon Valley.

May 27th, 2009 at 11:25 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Microsoft, Videos



Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, a biographical look at the men who founded Apple and Microsoft and a look at the early days of the companies.

Enjoy,
Ahmet

Wanna try Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 ?

May 25th, 2009 at 10:16 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in CSharp, Microsoft



Just noticed that Visual Studio 2010 pro (beta 1) is now available to download as a web installer.
I am personnaly quite new to the VS world, I have been using it daily for only 9 month now. I must say that I am still quite impresse by the simplicity and the power this tool have.
Just try [...]

Wolfram Alpha, a Revolution for the Web?

May 18th, 2009 at 9:51 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Google, Intelligence



Wolframalpha the so called computational knowledge engine, is finally available to the public :)
Why and when would you want to switch from Google, Yahoo or Live?
The answer is quite simple: Wolfram will give you an answer while other search engines will gives you a (too huge) set of related pages where you can go if the [...]

Rule your files – get permission on most of your pc files.

May 7th, 2009 at 5:58 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Windows



Sometimes it happens that you need to manually delete files and windows kindly inform you that you don’t have enough privileges to do so, even as an administrator of your own machine…
To fix this problem you will have to use cmd.exe (as an administrator):
> cd /d c:\thepath\whereYouWantControl\
Now you want to take ownership of this folder:
> [...]