Computers & Technology

Sun Microsystems just announced a new release of their StarOffice productivity suite, and they have changed the way they license the software for people in the education community.

From Sun's web page at http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/faqs.jsp :

What are the pricing changes to StarOffice 9 Software?
A:
There are four key changes:
Subscription pricing added as an option, subscriptions include license, support and indemnification.
Education pricing is no longer free.

This makes me sad.

Service management is a set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to customers in the form of services.

A service is a means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes the customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs or risks.

According to ITIL v3, the service lifecycle is an organization model providing insight into the way service management is structured, the way various components are linked to each other, and the impact that changes in one component will have on other system components and on the entire system.

The service lifecycle consists of which five phases?

If you have the Chrome web browser installed (by Google, see google.com/chrome), try typing this into the address/search bar:

about:memory


and press ENTER, you will get a page displaying browser memory information..

"About memory | Measuring memory usage in a multi-process browser."

It gives you a "summary of memory used by currently active browsers". So if you have Firefox and Internet Explorer (and Opera and Safari) open at the time you type that command, it shows you memory information for those browsers as well. And it details how much memory is being used by the different tabs.

Lookie here: