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C.V. Vick is Intel's Mobile Software Architect responsible for defining and directing Intel's mobile application solutions, and the design and use of context aware and adaptive mobile software across Intel's product lines. C.V. Vick has held various technical positions at Intel over the last 10 years, including several years in Information Technology developing middleware and security solutions, and within the Software and Solutions Group where he consulted with external customers and end-users on solution architecture, and the design and implementation of Web Services and Mobile Applications. Before Intel, C.V. was a Consultant providing distributed systems design expertise for mission critical applications to Fortune 500 companies. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Software Engineering.

...violets are blue and my MacBook Pro's screen is too

By C.V. Vick (6 posts) on February 8, 2007 at 3:56 pm
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Well it happened. Today my MacBook Pro blue-screened. I was in the middle of troubleshooting a WLAN connectivity issue*, and BAM!, IRQ_NOT_EQUAL or something. A nice touch was the magenta square in the the middle of the field of blue. I've been running XP/Boot camp on my MacBook Pro for several months. I had some hardware issues, [...]

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Thin, thick, and chubby clients ' Software as a Service and Web 2.0

By C.V. Vick (6 posts) on November 6, 2006 at 4:04 pm
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In addition to my job as head bottlewasher at Intel, lately I've been working quite a bit on "Software as a Service" (SaaS) trying to understand the implications of SaaS for our customers and product lines. As with any emerging technologies, definitions of SaaS are varied and broad (read: marketecture driven), so I won't try [...]

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The MacBook Pro is Dead; Long Live the MacBook Pro!

By C.V. Vick (6 posts) on October 17, 2006 at 7:33 pm
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My new MacBook Pro recently developed a terrible tic. Actually it would be best described as a terrible ticking. I also noticed the MacBook Pro was get very hot, VERY HOT. (more than usual) I realized that there was a faint clicking sound coming from inside the notebook. Using advance deduction methodologies, I figure that [...]

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Using a MacBook at Intel

By C.V. Vick (6 posts) on August 29, 2006 at 10:54 pm
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Recently, I got a new dual core MacBook Pro to be my main computer at Intel. Here are some tips. In general, there are three ways to get your MacBook Pro on the Intel's corporate network: Windows XP using Boot Camp, Mac OsX, and Parallel's virtual machine. All three methods have been used at Intel, but [...]

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Mashup Camp - impressions and learnings

By C.V. Vick (6 posts) on July 24, 2006 at 3:31 pm
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A couple a weeks ago I attended the Mashup Camp "unconference" held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA (a couple of blocks from Google's HQ). The unconference format was very interesting and I believe it was the best model for a conference of this type. It ensured that the conference covered the topics [...]

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Pigs and Chickens

By C.V. Vick (6 posts) on July 7, 2006 at 9:23 pm
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Here's goes something... My name is is C.V. Vick (don't ask... there was an unfortunate naming accident at my birth) and I'm a software architect in the software side of the Intel house. I must it admit it's a bit challenging (strange, surreal, Pythonesque?) to "do" software in a hardware company, but I believe it's important [...]

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Category: Mobility