This is just a pilot project. Before we start rolling it out for real, we'll make sure to create the training and system documentation, the capacity plan, the backup and recovery plan, the business continuity plan, the refresh cycle plan, the communication plan, and we'll shoot an email to the Help Desk.
Weird question from someone with a low number Slashdot id
That's because he was on Slashdot before this Interwebs thingy was invented and doesn't know how those newfangled inventions called "domain names" work.;)
I would fucking kill for software developers to be licensed like an engineering displine
Out of all your rant, I agree with this. Engineering got licensing because of human deaths attributable to lack of enforceable standards. I think the same will have to happen in I.T. - some huge disaster will happen that kills thousands of people, and then the population will arm itself with torches and pitchforks and require us to police ourselves adequately and put our very livelihoods on the line each time we claim something is ready to promote to production.
The Oracle Identity Manager appeared to be rolled out with default settings
Rumour within my organisation is that Oracle themselves have admitted to our architects that they don't know how their own Identity Management suite really works. They advised us to hire a systems integrator that had worked with all the pieces prior to Oracle's acquiring them.
Now even the Rocket Scientists are being "kaizened" out of a job. Next it'll be Brain Surgeons, and then we'll be all out of metaphors for doing difficult stuff.
The first thing this will be used for is going to be porn, not Shakespeare.
Hey, it's not "either-or".
HAMLET to OPHELIA: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? OPHELIA: No, my lord. HAMLET: I mean, my head upon your lap? OPHELIA: Ay, my lord. HAMLET: Do you think I meant CoUNTry matters? OPHELIA: I think nothing, my lord. HAMLET: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
I imagine pretty soon China and North Korea will be sending their drones to the U.S. to take out dissident Chinese and North Korean citizens who are trying to crack their infrastructure from afar. Drones on foreign soil to execute dissident expatriots... soon to be a global phenomenon.
If we theorize some more and discover that yes, it's possible for us to 'crack' part of the universe hard enough to push it out of the metastable state....
There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. (L. Cohen)
I bet when all the kids were super-excited about programming on the i386 with its "OMG VIRTUAL MEMORY!!!" the older guys who had worked on mainframes just rolled their eyes.:)
You talking about the same old grey beards that gasped when the kids opened the cover on a server and added their own memory, network adaptors, backplanes, disk drives, etc without having to call IBM out to do it?
Yeah, and then rolled their eyes again because the kids didn't know about change control, didn't notify the users about the outage, didn't verify that their backups were good (if they even had backups), and lost 6 months worth of corporate data as a result.
RIM was there first, only the other way around. The BlackBerry handset has the voice+data plan; the Playbook tablet uses a Bluetooth connection back to the handset to browse, read email.
However, not to be a denier just a questioner, how can we tell if this is just part of the statistical variations to be expected over time rather than an actual real trend?
And we'll let everyone in the engineering company design parts for the next bridge we build. What could possibly go wrong? Well, they'd be in violation of the Professional Engineering legislation in their jurisdiction, for one thing. IT still has nothing like professional licensing: There is absolutely nothing preventing rank amateurs from producing code for production. That's why software crashes are a lot more common than bridges collapse. It's going to take decades, and probably some fatalities, but eventually the world will hold IT accountable for its mistakes, just like the history of engineering, medicine, pharmacy, etc.
People interested in this topic may wish to read Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. In my opinion Pinker does a more convincing job of documenting that violence has declined rather than why, but it's a fun read.
We used to name servers after planets in our solar system. Then in 2006 the name space shrank by one and we had to make some hard decisions about which services to shut off.
In America, he's more famous for saying, "Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made." Though he probably never said it.
He might have said it. A search on German Google finds a lot of hits attributed to him (and not Saxe) for variations on "The less the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep."
Je weniger die Leute wissen, wie Würste und Gesetze gemacht werden, desto besser schlafen sie.
Why? Because he's self-satirizing! He's never had a real IT job, yet he condescends to lecture those with decades of hard-earned "lessons learned" who have seen this plan go belly-up before.
This is just another pendulum swing. Another 7 years and it'll be swinging the other way due to some highly publicized lawsuits and jail terms.We'll see ol' Galen eat crow then. In the mean time just grin and bear it; it' can't be stopped.
Look at his biography over on Infoworld. He ran a desktop publishing company. He wrote some books about it. He's a journalist. But he has no real IT experience. He's clueless about what it really takes to manage thousands of users in a regulated industry. He's just an armchair quarterback.
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Weird question from someone with a low number Slashdot id
That's because he was on Slashdot before this Interwebs thingy was invented and doesn't know how those newfangled inventions called "domain names" work. ;)
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I would fucking kill for software developers to be licensed like an engineering displine
Out of all your rant, I agree with this. Engineering got licensing because of human deaths attributable to lack of enforceable standards. I think the same will have to happen in I.T. - some huge disaster will happen that kills thousands of people, and then the population will arm itself with torches and pitchforks and require us to police ourselves adequately and put our very livelihoods on the line each time we claim something is ready to promote to production.
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The "hol" in hologram comes from whole, not hole, which is where the "hol" in hollow comes from.
Sorry, it comes from the ancient Greek word 'holos' (modern 'olos') which means whole, complete, or entire.
The word 'holy' is an English word, not a Greek word.
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As you say, this should be modded Funny. If that's all one needs an identity and access management suite for, fill yer boots cowboy. :)
Rumour within my organisation is that Oracle themselves have admitted to our architects that they don't know how their own Identity Management suite really works. They advised us to hire a systems integrator that had worked with all the pieces prior to Oracle's acquiring them.
Why call it a "mini computer" when that is so confusingly close to the well-understood term "minicomputer"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer
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Hey, it's not "either-or".
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I imagine pretty soon China and North Korea will be sending their drones to the U.S. to take out dissident Chinese and North Korean citizens who are trying to crack their infrastructure from afar. Drones on foreign soil to execute dissident expatriots... soon to be a global phenomenon.
If we theorize some more and discover that yes, it's possible for us to 'crack' part of the universe hard enough to push it out of the metastable state....
There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. (L. Cohen)
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I bet when all the kids were super-excited about programming on the i386 with its "OMG VIRTUAL MEMORY!!!" the older guys who had worked on mainframes just rolled their eyes. :)
You talking about the same old grey beards that gasped when the kids opened the cover on a server and added their own memory, network adaptors, backplanes, disk drives, etc without having to call IBM out to do it?
Yeah, and then rolled their eyes again because the kids didn't know about change control, didn't notify the users about the outage, didn't verify that their backups were good (if they even had backups), and lost 6 months worth of corporate data as a result.
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Have a regular chin-wag about the ugly stuff seen on thedailywtf.com
However, not to be a denier just a questioner, how can we tell if this is just part of the statistical variations to be expected over time rather than an actual real trend?
A part of the answer to your question can be found here: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/history.html . To get the full impact you need to watch the whole thing right to the very end, 3:15.
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Global atmospheric CO2 levels are highly cyclic, and have been above the current level many many times before
Not according to this: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/history.html. (You need to watch all 3 minutes of it to get the point. It's rather dramatic.)
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And we'll let everyone in the engineering company design parts for the next bridge we build. What could possibly go wrong? Well, they'd be in violation of the Professional Engineering legislation in their jurisdiction, for one thing. IT still has nothing like professional licensing: There is absolutely nothing preventing rank amateurs from producing code for production. That's why software crashes are a lot more common than bridges collapse. It's going to take decades, and probably some fatalities, but eventually the world will hold IT accountable for its mistakes, just like the history of engineering, medicine, pharmacy, etc.
The data exists to serve the needs of the business and programmers/developers work to serve those needs.
+1. Every developer should be made to write 100 times on the whiteboard: "The data belongs to the enterprise, not to the application."
Data architecture is a discipline in itself, not something a developer does off the side of his/her desk.
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Washington has begun to cross the Rubicon.
I thought Washington crossed the Delaware. When was he in Italy? Now I'm all confused.
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In America, he's more famous for saying, "Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made." Though he probably never said it.
He might have said it. A search on German Google finds a lot of hits attributed to him (and not Saxe) for variations on "The less the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep."
Je weniger die Leute wissen, wie Würste und Gesetze gemacht werden, desto besser schlafen sie.
Re:Why link to another Galen Gruman article?
Why? Because he's self-satirizing! He's never had a real IT job, yet he condescends to lecture those with decades of hard-earned "lessons learned" who have seen this plan go belly-up before.
This is just another pendulum swing. Another 7 years and it'll be swinging the other way due to some highly publicized lawsuits and jail terms.We'll see ol' Galen eat crow then. In the mean time just grin and bear it; it' can't be stopped.
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