Taken from http://franksworld.com/blog/archive/2005/01/04/600 .aspx
Chapter 2: Destructional Patterns
2.4 Detonator
The Detonator is extremely common, but often undetected. A common example is the calculations based on a 2 digit year field. This bomb is out there, and waiting to explode!
So here we go again.
People always complain loudly when someone posts a stupid question, but here I see about 95% stupid answers:
- First: there's no such thing as a ITIL compliant software package. ITIL is not a standard it's a collection of best practices.
- Second: The FQ (f**cking question) says 250 users and local government. That scream we're broke from the beginning.
And all I see here are proposal for some crappy $50k packages (Openview, remedy), requiring at least the same in consulting to get up and running.
It's completely possible to tailor your usage of nearly any worth its salt task tracking / helpdesk software package to your interpretation of the ITIL guidelines...
There are plenty of software packages filling your requirements: request tracker (OSS) and JIRA (proprietary) are the two first examples coming to my mind. But please not Openview,remedy or other "fill the resellers pockets" crapware....
Sorry for the rant, ha!
Q.
First, I perfectly see your point and I agree with it...
But you forgot one of the most important (don't know if it's listed on the atlassian website):
Userfriendliness
Bugzilla: maybe in version 10, but right now it is a royal pain, to the point of people developing alternative UIs for it.
SugarCRM: somewhat, but like all these CRM tools it's really bloated.
The great power of JIRA is more in the details, because on paper, bugzilla is really as good. But put both in the hands of some real users and you will quickly see the problem...
And the integration between JIRA, Confluence and CVS must be quite interesting in a development environment, even though I have only tested JIRA...
First thing I noticed is that their homepage doesn't validate as correct HTML because it's missing the DOCTYPE part...
Then I remembered that they get 1800 queries per second, that means also about 1800 homepage/result page views.
So to have the page validate would cost them about: 1800 * 3600 * 24 * 150 bytes (size of the DOCTYPE def. to be added) = 21.72 Gigabytes of Bandwidth per day!!! You can't refuse these kind of savings...
On the other hand, some of the special language versions certainly add more than 150 bytes to the homepage length...
The business week article is not really good journalism:
The Film Ms and Mr. Iyer is not a bollywood movie (not a single song in it...) more a movie about Hindi/muslim differences see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329393 for IMDB info
there is no price for best asian film at the Locarno film festival, this film got second prize from the youth jury...
Take two boxes of blue vicks mints...
Put in a vodka bottle and let the mints dissolve completely (they will...)
Do not forget to put the bottle in the freezer... and you will get something really refreshing...
Apart from the single-point-of-failure problem, why on earth are we running updates from a machine with more holes than a swiss cheese?
As a swiss citizen, I cannot accept this kind of insult to our good products. A swiss cheese has far less holes than that, and moreover, I have yet to see a Postgres version for Gruyeres or Emmental...
Hey Bill, I've heard there will be nice bundles of the new Gran Turismo 4 with the PS2 for christmas...
Maybe it would be a little more appropriate and a bit cheaper?
Jeez: a fun page on MS' site...
including a funnier poll than the ones here...
And I could have dreamt but I saw the clippy on the left below the menu saying "all your base are belong to us"
Q.
Language: many different languages are not helping it: try to say "I'll kick your ass " in portuguese, german and polish... On the other hand many europeans speak english between themselves
Broadband access: Even in rich countries like Switzerland and Germany, broadband is not quite the rage. And at least sony's offering is broadband only, no modems allowed...
PCs: people buy broadband because they have a PC, and guess what, they already play games on it (Half-life anyone?). They don't need or want it for their console (if they have one)...
By the way, I'm quite impressed by sony's online offering (currently in beta in europe). the few games using it seem cool (no lag, good perfs....)
Euro notesfor the US citizens who might not have seen them yet... Swiss banknotes also a favorite of drug dealers... Please notice that they include many security features (like euros) and the 4 national languages (the fourth one is spoken by only 30000-50000 people). Notice the 1000 (~650 $) francs note, highest bill in circulation in the world. You can buy your car in switzerland and not even look like you have much money in your wallet... These are always carefully checked...
Lastly the new 20 pesos bill from México (third from the top). It's polymer based and includes a little transparent window... Supposedly undestroyable (except by fire...)
For the ones not willing to change their OS only for the trafic shaper DSL trick, here's the link for linux: (including many other very interesting things...)
Linux advanced routing and traffic control
enjoy it!
Q.
I had good experience with the following tools:
cacti It's based on RRD the successor of MRTG (not much developed anymore, but still a good tool). Thanks Tobi btw. OpenNMS is a really powerful realtime monitoring tool Nagios also...
Don't forget snort for your IDS needs and add acidlab for good visualization of snort's results.
Slashdot Mirror
Seeing the current rate of development of both MySQL and PostgreSQL
this can only be a bad joke...
Taken from http://franksworld.com/blog/archive/2005/01/04/600 .aspx
Chapter 2: Destructional Patterns
2.4 Detonator
The Detonator is extremely common, but often undetected. A common
example is the calculations based on a 2 digit year field. This bomb
is out there, and waiting to explode!
Hey dude, turn left, Oktoberfest is definitely not this way...
So here we go again. People always complain loudly when someone posts a stupid question, but here I see about 95% stupid answers:
- First: there's no such thing as a ITIL compliant software package. ITIL is not a standard it's a collection of best practices.
- Second: The FQ (f**cking question) says 250 users and local government. That scream we're broke from the beginning.
And all I see here are proposal for some crappy $50k packages (Openview, remedy), requiring at least the same in consulting to get up and running.
It's completely possible to tailor your usage of nearly any worth its salt task tracking / helpdesk software package to your interpretation of the ITIL guidelines...
There are plenty of software packages filling your requirements: request tracker (OSS) and JIRA (proprietary) are the two first examples coming to my mind. But please not Openview,remedy or other "fill the resellers pockets" crapware....
Sorry for the rant, ha!
Q.
First, I perfectly see your point and I agree with it...
But you forgot one of the most important (don't know if it's listed on the atlassian website):
Userfriendliness
Bugzilla: maybe in version 10, but right now it is a royal pain, to the point of people developing alternative UIs for it.
SugarCRM: somewhat, but like all these CRM tools it's really bloated.
The great power of JIRA is more in the details, because on paper, bugzilla is really as good. But put both in the hands of some real users and you will quickly see the problem...
And the integration between JIRA, Confluence and CVS must be quite interesting in a development environment, even though I have only tested JIRA...
You look like the perfect customer for Atlassian JIRA http://www.atlassian.com/
It's cheap and it perfectly fills your requirements list.
Q.
The GlazedLists lib looks really cool...
What would be even cooler is an equivalent JSP taglib...
Does anyone know if such a component exists ?
Q.
First GET
First thing I noticed is that their homepage doesn't validate as correct HTML because it's missing the DOCTYPE part... :
.000000002 Gigabytes...
Then I remembered that they get 1800 queries per second, that means also about 1800 homepage/result page views.
So to have the page validate would cost them about
1800 * 3600 * 24 * 150 bytes (size of the DOCTYPE def. to be added) = 21.72 Gigabytes of Bandwidth per day!!!
You can't refuse these kind of savings...
On the other hand, some of the special language versions certainly add more than 150 bytes to the homepage length...
just my
Q.
If (like for me) this name sounds familiar to you, it's because Jean Rene (her husband) is the boss of Vivendi Universal...
How funny...
In switzerland you can get problems if your front seat passenger is drunk...
If you drive a drunk person, you should put him on the rear seats...
Moreso, if you're not drunk and the passenger of a drunk driver, you can face the same charges as him...
- The Film Ms and Mr. Iyer is not a bollywood movie (not a single song in it...) more a movie about Hindi/muslim differences see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329393 for IMDB info
- there is no price for best asian film at the Locarno film festival, this film got second prize from the youth jury...
my 2 words...450 of them in the sea looks more like an ecological disaster to me...
Q
Take two boxes of blue vicks mints...
Put in a vodka bottle and let the mints dissolve completely (they will...)
Do not forget to put the bottle in the freezer... and you will get something really refreshing...
Apart from the single-point-of-failure problem, why on earth are we running updates from a machine with more holes than a swiss cheese?
As a swiss citizen, I cannot accept this kind of insult to our good products. A swiss cheese has far less holes than that, and moreover, I have yet to see a Postgres version for Gruyeres or Emmental...
Q
Hey Bill, I've heard there will be nice bundles of the new Gran Turismo 4 with the PS2 for christmas...
Maybe it would be a little more appropriate and a bit cheaper?
Q
There has to be some trick...
At least in this case nobody can say we're comparing apple to oranges....
Q.
Jeez: a fun page on MS' site...
including a funnier poll than the ones here...
And I could have dreamt but I saw the clippy on the left below the menu saying "all your base are belong to us"
Q.
Hatch is the son of Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Isn't this the guy who had links to porn sites on his senator website?
- Language: many different languages are not helping it: try to say "I'll kick your ass " in portuguese, german and polish... On the other hand many europeans speak english between themselves
- Broadband access: Even in rich countries like Switzerland and Germany, broadband is not quite the rage. And at least sony's offering is broadband only, no modems allowed...
- PCs: people buy broadband because they have a PC, and guess what, they already play games on it (Half-life anyone?). They don't need or want it for their console (if they have one)...
By the way, I'm quite impressed by sony's online offering (currently in beta in europe). the few games using it seem cool (no lag, good perfs....)Euro notesfor the US citizens who might not have seen them yet...
Swiss banknotes also a favorite of drug dealers... Please notice that they include many security features (like euros) and the 4 national languages (the fourth one is spoken by only 30000-50000 people).
Notice the 1000 (~650 $) francs note, highest bill in circulation in the world. You can buy your car in switzerland and not even look like you have much money in your wallet... These are always carefully checked...
Lastly the new 20 pesos bill from México (third from the top). It's polymer based and includes a little transparent window... Supposedly undestroyable (except by fire...)
For the ones not willing to change their OS only for the trafic shaper DSL trick, here's the link for linux: (including many other very interesting things...) Linux advanced routing and traffic control
enjoy it!
Q.
I had good experience with the following tools: cacti
It's based on RRD the successor of MRTG (not much developed anymore, but still a good tool). Thanks Tobi btw.
OpenNMS is a really powerful realtime monitoring tool
Nagios also...
Don't forget snort for your IDS needs and add acidlab for good visualization of snort's results.
Debian runs perfectly on my TiBook
Even installed without problems, except for XFree...