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HR managers can't handle big dataview story

http://www.itwire.com – Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: TechnologyLarge enterprises and Governments need to get a much more granular understanding of their workforce if they are to lift productivity and performance, and big data could be a significant ally – if only HR managers knew how to make use of it. (IT news)

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Profiles in Linux: H. Peter Anvinview story

https://www.linux.com – Every time you boot a CD or DVD, thank Peter Anvin for making it possible. And, as a key Linux contributor that's not all Peter has done in his long Linux career. Every time you boot a CD or DVD, thank Peter Anvin for making it possible. And, as a key Linux contributor that's not all Peter has done in his long Linux career. H. (Software)

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Oracle Buys Involver, CRM Wars Shift to Social Mediaview story

http://www.thevarguy.com – Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has acquired Involver, a social media platform that powers marketing at Target, Facebook, Razorfish and Best Buy. Strangely, an Oracle webpage describing the deal appears to be offline as of 7:00 p.m. ET on July 11 — but Involver’s own blog continues to confirm the deal. (IT news)

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Are You Putting Too Much Pressure on Your Prospecting?view story

http://www.thevarguy.com – Prospecting for new customers can be easy or difficult. As I’ve written in my book and in dozens of articles, working at it consistently, providing value to prospects and having a little fun can go a long way. But even with that said, I often find that salespeople unintentionally make lead generation harder than it has to be. (IT news)

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Microsoft WPC: Office 365 And Cloud Revenues Doublingview story

http://www.thevarguy.com – Microsoft’s cloud revenues are doubling annually, according to Channel Chief Jon Roskill, speaking at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC12) in Toronto. He’s describing how Microsoft is increasing partner cloud incentives by 40 percent. “Don’t hold back, don’t hold back, don’t hold back,” Roskill chanted to partners. (IT news)

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Fresh Meat!view story

http://forums.fedoraforum.org – As you may have already noticed, our small forum staff has increased by two victims er ... members today. Please welcome Gareth Jones and DBelton to the staff as Community Managers. After long observation these two were chosen due to both their reliable, helpful nature, and their abilities to resist temptation to join in forum hairpulls with the usual squeals of glee. (HowTos)

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The Non Sequencer is a powerful real-time, pattern-based MIDI sequencer for Linux--released under the GPL.view story

http://linuxlandit.blogspot.com – The Non Sequencer is a powerful real-time, pattern-based MIDI sequencer for Linux--released under the GPL. Filling the void left by countless DAWs, piano-roll editors, and other purely performance based solutions, it is a compositional tool--one that transforms MIDI music-making on Linux from a complex nightmare into a pleasurable, efficient, and streamlined process. (HowTos)

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Global vs. Regional Staffing Models in the Cloud Eraview story

http://www.thevarguy.com – Members of a channel programs team from a large, global software company sat across the table from me in a legitimate quandary. They were debating whether to continue to require their global system integrators (SIs) and IT outsourcers to have technical staff on the ground with local language skills in each and every country where the partner was authorized to sell the vendor’s software. (IT news)

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Torque/PBS on Fedora 17 using yum repository.view story

http://forums.fedoraforum.org – This took me a little while to figure out, so I've decided to post here for anyone interested in getting a single-node batch scheduling system running on Fedora 17 using torque from the fedora repository. These are really just a bunch of notes I took during the process. I have a dual quad-core machine and this just allows me to make use of idle cores. (HowTos)

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[all variants] power management without loginview story

http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi, I have been trying to understand this with google for a day now, it's time to ask. I don't fully understand how the power management works in ubuntu desktop and it's derivatives. My question is which services influence the computer when no user is logged in but the X environment is loaded? (Hardware)