Articles by Dice Staff

• Low-Power Slab Server Pairs ARM with Linux

  [caption id="attachment_3836" align="aligncenter" width="618"] A rendering of Codethink's Baserock Slab ARM Server.[/caption] Are you a data-center operator with a love for Linux? Are you curious…
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  Don't Change Your Social Policy, Change Your Culture

  A very hot topic of discussion in the blogger lounge at this year's SHRM National Conference was whether or not your company should have a social media policy. John Sumser (@johnsumser), founder…
• Good News, Bad News for OnLive Employees

  Onlive, the streaming game company, looks like it will survive in some form as it proceeds with an asset restructuring under venture capital firm Lauder Partners. While fully half of its staff wi…
• ToS;DR Shows the Bottom Line of Websites' Terms of Service

  ToS;DR is a young project -- started just two months ago -- that seeks to end what TechCrunch calls "the biggest lie on the Web." The lie revolves around websites' terms of service. ToS:DR -- whi…
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  Put A Practical Command Line On Android Tablets

  I do a fair amount of command line work on my Asus Transformer Prime, many times connected to a remote Linux machine using SSH. I thought I'd get into how to get everything configured so you can…
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  IT Hiring Manager Critiques Grad's Programmer Resume

  Earlier this week, Roberta Fricker, who recently earned a certificate in computer science from Santa Barbara City College in California, had her resume critiqued by a senior IT recruiter. Today,…
• Simplivity Announces Data Center in a Box

  Simplivity would like you to rip out your established data center infrastructure and replace it with one of its data centers in a box. Or, failing that, simply use one of its OmniCubes to start f…
• My Lesson on Workplace Discrimination

  Last week, a user complained when I illustrated a workplace gossip story with the image of a woman posing like a cat. (You can see the post here.) I think the fact that this story associates "off…
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  How to Work with Scribus's Graphical Document Layout

  Scribus is a great Open Source application -- available for Windows, Mac and Linux -- that's used to lay out pages for brochures, calendars, books and professional-quality PDF documents. It’s a p…
• Partners Spin Impact of Microsoft's Surface

  Microsoft kicked off this summer by announcing its first tablet, Surface. At first no one thought it could rival the iPad, but within days people began changing their opinion and saw that it coul…