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Could it be that people simply make up stats to put in their articles? You be the judge.

Through the magic of Google, here is a definitive list of what ~65% of IT managers thought, through the ages (of the net that is):

65% of IT managers report that their websites were unavailable to customers over a 6-month period

65% of IT managers surveyed by InformationWeek Research say Windows 2000 won't reduce their number of system administrators or related costs a year from now.

65% of IT managers said it's very important for vendors to offer consistent PC configurations over the course of a multiphase PC rollout.

Over 65% of IT Managers and CIOs in Southern California expected their level of hiring to remain the same or even increase in the post-Y2K age

67% of IT managers have been contacted by headhunters in the last year

67% of IT managers would rather pretend to understand an acronym than admit they didn't know what it meant. [tlu - here's one that sounds low to me]

66% of IT Managers have experienced "complete project failure" [tlu - hopefully not in bed]

(66%) of IT managers said the best solution for preventing monopolies in IT is a combination of moderate government regulation and market forces

Could it be that people simply make up stats to put in their articles? You be the judge.

Through the magic of Google, here is a definitive list of what ~65% of IT managers thought, through the ages (of the net that is):

65% of IT managers report that their websites were unavailable to customers over a 6-month period

65% of IT managers surveyed by InformationWeek Research say Windows 2000 won't reduce their number of system administrators or related costs a year from now.

65% of IT managers said it's very important for vendors to offer consistent PC configurations over the course of a multiphase PC rollout.

Over 65% of IT Managers and CIOs in Southern California expected their level of hiring to remain the same or even increase in the post-Y2K age

67% of IT managers have been contacted by headhunters in the last year

67% of IT managers would rather pretend to understand an acronym than admit they didn't know what it meant. [tlu - here's one that sounds low to me]

66% of IT Managers have experienced "complete project failure" [tlu - hopefully not in bed]

(66%) of IT managers said the best solution for preventing monopolies in IT is a combination of moderate government regulation and market forces

Intel was responsible enough to disclose the problem and do a recall instead of hiding the problem and quietly repacing "defective" processers on a case by case basis as many companies do.

Nice history re-write!

What actually happened was much less forthright and upstanding - you had to prove to Intel that the problem DID - not would or could - affect you before they would replace the defective CPU.

Intel Corp.'s response to the flap over its Pentium processor bug is turning into a textbook example of how not to handle a delicate situation. Angry customers have posted hundreds of complaints on CompuServe and the Usenet. These users, who paid top dollar for the most expensive microprocessor in its class, have learned that the chip doesn't handle floating-point division consistently. When the users request help, the Intel "sysbot" repeats, "If you have questions about the subtle floating-point unit flaw of the Intel Pentium processor, cal l 1-800-628-8686." (from an article in InformationWeek appearing 12-19-1994, my emphasis)

And:

While Intel president Andy Grove now says he's "truly sorry," the company pooh-poohed user concerns at first, claiming its chip problem would affect "users of the Pentium processor who are engaged in heavy-duty scientific/floating-point calculations," as Grove's Internet posting put it. Users, upon reaching Intel's 800 number, apparently go through a lengthy interview process to see if Intel deems them worthy of receiving a corrected chip. If you can't convince Intel that you may encounter the bug in daily life, you just don't make the cut. ( Intel To Users: 'Humbug! )

Threats of class action lawsuits probably had something to do with Intel being "responsible enough to disclose the problem and do a recall instead of hiding the problem and quietly repacing "defective" processers on a case by case basis as many companies do."

Actually, you can afford it; I submitted this a couple days ago, but I guess it didn't make the cut:

And the Debut Price on the Opteron is... $283!!!

How many people in IT have heard BS like this time after time year after year...?

Its bad enough I have to hear this bullshit at work, 'forecasts' made by a buzzspeaking fuckstick that never ring true, but *please* don't let this garbage take over Slashdot...It may not be much, but this place is all I have left...*sniff*

Seriously, if you want to read garbage like this pick up a Information Week Red Herring or Business 2.0 then look at the people that are reading them.

Dont want to read it anymore do you?

I've never used them, but this is pretty much the ultimate in hands off maintenance.

heh, I was wondering... so that means that by 2010 there will finally be demand for the supply of it & tech workers that was created in the 90's?

infoweek article on IT unemployment (nice graph)

The Print This Article URL has the article as one long clean simple relatively standard relatively undecorated web page. It's the one you want.

Or, you can just go to the printer-friendly page. One page format, and no ads. Fine, there's a banner ad at the top and bottom, but much fewer ads.

Legacy-Free PCs (printer friendly)

page 2. once you're there, links to page 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 should work as well. looks like some kind of scripting error on their part. the extra '/' character was borking access to the next pages.

In contrast, EFI is written in C, the world's most popular high-end programming language, and EFI isn't space-constrained because its data resides in a special reserved area of the hard drive.
WTF?
Also, to continue onto the following pages just add the appropriate page number to the end. For example, page 3

Here's a single-page link for the IRQ set.

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I don't understand why Slashdot doesn't always link to the 'printable version', I doubt that many people prefer to click through pages 1 to 5 rather than just scrolling through the whole article.

Use http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030404S0 003/2 to get to the second page. Replace the "2" at the end with the page you want to see next.

It's got too many slashes preventing you from changing pages. Remove the slash at the end and it will work right. Here's the correct link:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030404S0 003

the link to the article is broken and should be THIS

Most (if not all non-.net) Windows XP applications will run on earlier versions of windows. Plus, XP certified apps are more likely to be certified for other versions.

And they advertise this, just below the "Certified for XP" logo?

Right.

Again we see the evil side of Microsoft coming out - the Marketing Department. If my sister were to walk into Office Depot and see that a particular software package had a "Windows XP" logo of some sort on it, she would be inclined to want to upgrade to that version. (Not that shit-canning any Win9x is bad, but I digress...).

XP is a fine OS to be sure, and Microsoft should be promoting it. This, however, is further evidence of Microsoft leveraging thier OS monopoly to feed thier ravenous share holders in a underhanded way. How can I put this... They use the fact that most users of thier software are not quite educated about it, and so can be easily steered into doing what Microsoft wants. Office Depot is buying into that.

Yeah, they can do this legally and all, but using the fact that someone is uneducated about the products they sell in order to sell more is insidious, IMHO. Whatever happened to "An Educated Consumer is Our Best Customer."?

Soko

Even as recently as last month, MSIE came in 6 out of 6 in a comparison of web browsers. Opera and Mozilla, among others, have it beat by a long shot in all categories (well, Opera costs, but I get my boss to pay). It's even documented in U.S. Federal Court records that MSIE acheived market share over Netscape by bundling MSIE with new copies of MS-Windows.

Quattro, Lotus 1-2-3 and other spread sheets were faster and more mature. It wasn't until MS-Excel v4 when Microsoft's alternativs started to come up to near the same grade as competitors.

Likewise with small desktop databases. Foxpro, dBase, FileMaker, Reflex, and others were still a length ahead of MS-Access. After all Microsoft is still playing catchup, though they did manage to buy out Foxpro. Oracle9i and IBM's DB2 by far offer the best performance and functionality for high end SQL servers. Postgresql and MySQL have the mid-range covered and would be what Microsoft's SQL server is trying hardest to compete with. The Microsoft SQL server is not up to snuff nor is it secure.

But almost-as-good won't displaced established tools. That's where leveraging and sales pitches comes in.

Early versions MS-Word were a unique exception among Microsoft's products in that they were actually competitive with contemporary products. However, whether MS-Word variants were actually better than WordPerfect, AMI and others is probably more an issue of taste than something objective. It and MS-Windows were used to shoehorn MS-Excel into sites.

Sure, that's what they want you to think. ;-) It says here that some RFID tags can be read up to 300 feet away. (Alien Technology says its RFID tags can be read up to 15 feet away, but it would not be difficult to build a beefier transmitter and a more sensitive receiver that would make the range far greater.) <PARANOIA MODE=ON>The tags can supposedly be easily destroyed via a reader, but it's pretty easy to design an RC-timer circuit that would just deactivate it for a period of time.</PARANOIA>

With the help of Google I found the article here:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020111S0 046

If data formats are open and well-documented, then users are also free to migrate to other applications as either applications or needs change. Unfortunately, Microsoft has already stated a public position against such open formats. Presumably because, no matter how it is done, it will cut the legs from under the existing revenue model for MS-Office.

I read a pretty balanced and well thought-out article article the other day, that you probably won't read with an open mind, but I will post it anyway. It is 5 pages long, and on page 3 it says:
...These numbers may surprise you because we've all seen a veritable blizzard of patches and updates issued from Redmond. But Microsoft currently has 157 software products under active support, and a typical PC may have not only a Microsoft operating system but also a Microsoft browser, mail program, media player, office suite, and more. In the aggregate, the total number of bugs and patches to keep up with for all this software is daunting. And some of the issues have indeed been severe. (For example, Outlook Express was for years the very worst security hole on most PCs.)

But, if it's unfair to lump all open source software together for bug-counting purposes, it's also unfair to do the same thing for all Microsoft software. (Otherwise, to get an accurate assessment for Linux systems, you'd have to include the bugs from open source browsers and all other normal system add-ins or add-ons, on top of Linux's own bugs.) Instead, to avoid an apples/oranges comparison, it's better to look at specific brands, types, and builds of products across similar amounts of time: That's the only accurate way to see how, say, operating systems compare, or browsers compare, or E-mail programs compare, and so on.

But for how long... according to this article Gillette recently bought 500 million radio-frequency identification tags, enough to tag every blade.

According to the article at Infoweek, NAI plans to call their product SpamKiller, not SpamAsassin. Looks like the OSS version may be ok name-wise after all.

Info Week Version, for those slashdotting CNN

Mitnick was freed in January 2000. The terms of his probation, which expire January 20, require he get government permission before using computers, software, modems or any devices that connect to the Internet. His travel and employment also are limited.

Also:

Christopher Painter, deputy chief of the Justice Department's computer crime section and the former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Mitnick, said that once the former hacker's probation is over, he won't be subject to any special surveillance.

"Not any more than anyone else would," Painter said. He added that "if there's any indication that anyone is engaged in illegal conduct, we're going to look into that."

So, it's not all reset-button and blue skies against Da Man. Until Mitnick gets a full-blown Presidential pardon, he's going to remain a marked man.

I should say interesting boon to history buffs and genealogists alike provided that NASA can keep a lid on their own internal struggles.

I heard very strictly "off the record" from someone who interned at M$, and via another source who works there about a projects code-named Glimmer and Avalon. Avalon was apparently an attempt to build a rich-client-in-the-browser similar to flashMX, that might replace windows forms in .NET (that sounded pretty un-likely to me, but you never know...). Glimmer was apparently a sub-set of that. The only URL which details any of this is this fluff piece from InfoWeek. If M$ are working on something like this then a possible purchase of Macromedia would be very interesting.....

For SmartRight to be effective, it would have to be adopted by makers of high-definition TVs, set-top boxes, digital video recorders, and PCs. Thomson makes high-definition televisions, set-top boxes, and satellite television hardware, but it would need the cooperation of computer makers and legislators, who would have to mandate the inclusion of the technology in future hardware

2. I am, there is nothing more important to me.

3. I do, see url above.

Now fuck off and stop trolling.

And when you say you want "flexible", what's more flexible than a system that you have complete freedom to tailor, can be deployed on whatever hardware you deem appropriate, and doesn't come with ties to the future whims of a proprietary OS provider.

The web site version of this article is here.

According to this timeline, M$ was found to be a monopoly back in 1999 - and I thought that was the second time, but I couldn't find anything that backs up my vague memories of that right now.

The labels/convictions don't actually seem to slow M$ down much, and from what I've read so far, CKK's ruling isn't gonna do much either.

Russ

I was surprised that Corel's Grafigo Tablet grahics /colaboration application was not mentioned. It has already been previewed last Sept at Seybold and got good reviews here. Corel started development early with Microsoft and designed it from scratch for the Tablet PC. From all accounts it is one of the best apps.

More can be found here, here and here.

If you have the money, you can claim anything as your own.

More can be found here, here and here.

If you have the money, you can claim anything as your own.

The R&D guys are truly talented. Just wish they would blow through that 5 billion per annum a little bit more productively.

You know, MS research is where the rubber meets the sky

I think the above is what CEOs, boards and shareholders want to see. IT gives them this. Whether they are smart enough to admit or not.

I just recently read this article at InformationWeek.com. It refers to Cisco CEO John Chambers, Cisco's positive third quarter report, and most importantly, the referred to study by the U.S. Labor Department. I quote, "The U.S. Labor Department on Tuesday said workforce productivity increased 8.6% in the first quarter of 2002, up from a 5.5% increase in the last quarter of 2001. According to Chambers, increased productivity is the impetus for U.S. companies to spend on high-tech computing and networking products.". Now, certainly Chambers is going to be biased, but I don't think the U.S. Labor Dept. is (at least I don't think so.)

Chambers also brought up and interesting point in another article I read. He said something to the affect of (I'm paraphrasing here) from the statistics he had seen concerning productivity over the past 3-5 years (or so) productivity is on an upswing, which meant to him that we are just now learning to utilize all of this IT stuff we've bought in the past few years and what's more important, we're still learning how to be productive with it.

I think those that criticize IT should stop and ask themselves if they are more productive with it. Do they like having shared drives to collaborate off of? Do they like having word processors, spreadsheets and of course databases? How about faster mainframes and servers that decrease the amount of time spent finalizing a transaction?

Without a doubt, time is money. I see IT as saving loads of time and thereby loads of money.

Just my 2 cents. YMMV.

I think the above is what CEOs, boards and shareholders want to see. IT gives them this. Whether they are smart enough to admit or not.

I just recently read this article at InformationWeek.com. It refers to Cisco CEO John Chambers, Cisco's positive third quarter report, and most importantly, the referred to study by the U.S. Labor Department. I quote, "The U.S. Labor Department on Tuesday said workforce productivity increased 8.6% in the first quarter of 2002, up from a 5.5% increase in the last quarter of 2001. According to Chambers, increased productivity is the impetus for U.S. companies to spend on high-tech computing and networking products.". Now, certainly Chambers is going to be biased, but I don't think the U.S. Labor Dept. is (at least I don't think so.)

Chambers also brought up and interesting point in another article I read. He said something to the affect of (I'm paraphrasing here) from the statistics he had seen concerning productivity over the past 3-5 years (or so) productivity is on an upswing, which meant to him that we are just now learning to utilize all of this IT stuff we've bought in the past few years and what's more important, we're still learning how to be productive with it.

I think those that criticize IT should stop and ask themselves if they are more productive with it. Do they like having shared drives to collaborate off of? Do they like having word processors, spreadsheets and of course databases? How about faster mainframes and servers that decrease the amount of time spent finalizing a transaction?

Without a doubt, time is money. I see IT as saving loads of time and thereby loads of money.

Just my 2 cents. YMMV.

Are you sure you aren't thinking about Adrian Lamo who broke into the New York Times internal site and found the home phone numbers for the op-ed contributors in February 2002. A reputable source said he also had access to social security numbers for people like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Bloomberg, and Bill Gates. This detail is not in any of the news reports I found, though. As of early July the NY Times has not pressed charges.

Information Week recently ran a piece on the major IT transition at General Motors. While not using this kind of hologram technology, they are making good use of projected 3-D models combined with VR headsets.

Here's a little more detail on the system and how to use it to frighten children. (And no, it doesn't involve 3-D displays of Pontiac Azteks....) If you read this article, note the slip of the car name...the article says it's "Solaris", when it it's actually "Solstice"

Information Week recently ran a piece on the major IT transition at General Motors. While not using this kind of hologram technology, they are making good use of projected 3-D models combined with VR headsets.

Here's a little more detail on the system and how to use it to frighten children. (And no, it doesn't involve 3-D displays of Pontiac Azteks....) If you read this article, note the slip of the car name...the article says it's "Solaris", when it it's actually "Solstice"

Hundred "lol msnbc rotfl lol" one liners already?

Bashing articles like this takes patience, and (lucky for me) always starts with a little character assasination:

A quick google on Jown w. schoen shows us john (whose lastname translates to "shoe" in dutch btw, for those who where wondering) likes to write stories. None of these apear to be hosted at nasa.gov , so we just assume he is no rocket scientist. Most of his stories come from msnbc And they tell us about how "local busineses go for the gold at the olympics and the Insurance industry thriving post-9/11 . Now, in his favour, google turns up some searches indicating he (or someone with his name) wants to preserve wildlife(bears and birds ), I may be ruthless with other peoples character, but on these issues I agree and think he should perhaps consider a full time career couse he does a way better job at writing about birds then he does on "hightech-biz-hype" issues where he just does the pressrelease/minute counting game to find out whats "hot" (hype)

Righ now is the time to note his stories are not hosted at ADTI, either. Nice for him you might think, couse documents once posted there, tend to change over time, but there is another reason. It seems john has found a platform for his text in wich there is little bother about their contents as long as they match the general small to thinking-they-are-big busineses line of interests. No critical journalism, and no conclusion of any sort in this article whatsoever, by no means a targeted fud compaign.

So what remains of this particular story: "At tech expo, open source software is hard to find" is the sub-headline for those of us who (like me) didn`t bother to read the article completely, thats all what this story is about and it just heapons to be a quote from someone who is in those silent spots at "tech expo". Wich expo is he talking about anyway, ah there is the link in the article, you know a good journalist has done his/her job when you see one link in the article, it tells you that he has listened to every side on the matter on which he (or she) is reporting. Tech expo must be a fun place to be, especially for serious programmer will feel right at home at the informationweek sponsored (another reputable magazine with such high ranking "news sources" as the bsa!) where the most sophistacated topic seams to "securing wireless networks using nice shiny gui software", one has to wonder in what cave those who hear of wireless insecurity for the first time have been living, but it aint the one with our friendly OOG

And now I might have lost the readers looking for a nice conspiracy theory about well targeted fud already, dont throw away those tinfoil hats yet couse msnbc actually reports the scary story that there is an FBI booth at pc expo where real fbi officers (no "I could have sworn it was a booth babe when I asked about getting a picture of her kissing me" stories this time)hand out application forms becouse, acording to msnbc "where better to find certified computer experts" Now that is scary becouse from what I read in the rest of the story, this expo doesn`t really match computex, hacking at large or e3 for that matter, so I think the FBI should have a chat with Cia recruting or perhaps see if the nsa has some cryptographers left couse I have the feeling they wont find any real technical help at this expo (other then those who put ten years of wireless mcse window 2000 experience with webservices .net and iis on their cv).