NCI Renews Technical Project Management Contract

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Fairfax, VA – November 27, 2009 – Lantern Three announced today that its contract to provide Technical Project Management Services has been renewed.

Topic(s): Press Release

Published: March 31, 2010





Minimalist X window managers – xmonad on Apple OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)

This post will outline the steps you can use to build xmonad cleanly on a Snow Leopard system. This is a follow-up post to our prior post on minimalist X window managers on OS X which addressed xmonad and ratpoison on OS X Leopard. The rationale and benefits of a simple and clean X11 window… Read More

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Topic(s): How to,Technical

Published: March 5, 2010





Critique: Apple Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

This critique is not a review, but a summary of experiences from a real-world implementation of a Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server.

Topic(s): Critique

Published: February 22, 2010





Oracle on ZFS

A first go at running a Oracle database on Sun’s ZFS.

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Topic(s): Review

Published: February 2, 2010





Managing Projects with Merlin2 for MacOS

Merlin2 is a MacOS Cocoa application that is a full replacement for MS Project, including web-based collaboration using Sharepoint.

Topic(s): Project Management

Published: January 22, 2010





Not-so Customer Service

What’s wrong with this email Verizon sent me today? from: Do_Not_Reply@verizon.com date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:08 PM subject: VEC Inactivate User 90-days Warning Notification mailed-by: verizon.com Dear John Eisenschmidt, We noticed you have not logged on to the Verizon Enterprise Center in 90 days. Did you know that this portal provides joint access… Read More

Topic(s): Critique

Published: November 17, 2009





Sipping Our Own Champagne – Lighting the Lantern 3

This is the third in a multi-part Lighting the Lantern series about the origin of Lantern Three.

Topic(s): Behind the Scenes

Published: November 12, 2009





So, you’re thinking about a SAN… (part 3)

Now that the transport has been established, the next decision is what storage system(s) to use to provide the data.  For most, this decision has the most impact on performance.  Controller performance, either in throughput or in Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS), number of spindles (physical disks), type of disk (FC, SATA, SAS, SSD, etc.),… Read More

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Topic(s): Comparison

Published: November 8, 2009





Stokefire’s Guest Post on Lantern Three

The second post in our Lighting the Lantern series focused on Stokefire’s development of our brand. Since there are two sides to every story, we invited the Stokefire team to share their experiences working with us. Our thanks to them for accepting the invitation.

Topic(s): Behind the Scenes

Published: November 6, 2009





What’s in a Name? – Lighting the Lantern 2

This is the second in a multi-part Lighting the Lantern series about the origin of Lantern Three.

Topic(s): Behind the Scenes

Published: November 6, 2009





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