As soon as I see a reviewer or a book talk about 'overcoming old-world ideas,' it enters the garbage pile.
Overcoming old-world ideas... sounds a lot like "P/E ratios of 90+ are the way of today! The rules have changed! It's all about potential and thinking OUTSIDE OF THE BOX!" That was just four years ago...
The meat of it is that there's a valid need for management to analyze how IT spending itself is being analyzed. As time goes on infotech plays a greater and greater role in the fabric of the whole business, and where the return is on that investment needs to be carefully determined. Hasty analysis will always lead to fingers pointed at IT's budget.
And as far as fragmenting IT... IMO that just makes it much harder for things to get done efficiently, company-wide.
IT is often looked at with a frown because of what it tends to be in most organizations: a very expensive division whose responsibility is to provide critical tools to perform business, with the ultimate goal being to produce a result, typically profit. Unfortunately, there are plenty of decision-makers who don't think far enough to recongnize the link from tool to result. Sales is seen to generate revenue. Marketing is seen to create and position the products for sale. Finance bills and spends. IT ties those pieces to one another and allows them to function, but you have to think creatively to draw a line from revenue to IT spending.
Now that I think about it, I wonder how many parallels you could draw between HR and IT. HR is the machine that provides people and benefits to those people, without which the company ceases to function. In a more abstract sense people are tools (whoa), and HR can certainly be viewed as a cash drain with no direct revenue...
Thank you. What do you find more rewarding? I've done a mix of sysad and ops management, with programming/dev only at the academic level. I found many aspects of management enjoyable and challenging, but am now back to infrastructure management because I worried I strayed too far from the hands-on work that got me to management to begin with. I'm wondering if my future in infotech management will suffer because I don't have professional program development in my resume.
This is a simple case of desperate politicians trying to make up for sudden budget shortfalls, which are a consequence of increased spending during recent times-of-plenty. Politicians try to reduce spending last because it will inevitably hurt someone in some way; they focus first on means of increasing revenue that is provided by existing resources (taxes, tolls, etc.).
angry_commuter (-2) Negative: WATCH OUT BAD EBAYER DID NOT DELIVER AS PROMISED!!1 STILL SITTING IN TRAFFIC1 FFFF--- Response from stateofwa (3877): Did not promise no accidents or bad weather. Crazy bidder...
Actually, it would be nice to slow down the pounceposters who stab us with one-liners as soon as an article hits the front page in order to grab that funny karma goodness...
I don't necessarily want an IDS to run around correcting or cleaning things... it's usefulness is in the fact it's a watchdog. It's light and focused, with elegance in simplicity despite capability.
These new product strategies they seem to be developing really dilute what little niche Sun could still claim. I'm not saying that the damage hasn't mostly come from the rest of the market -- Intel boxes with linux, FreeBSD, or Win2K server are more than up to the task these days in terms of reliability. It used to be (and still is by a few accounts) that if you wanted a commercial server that was even close to reliable, you had to shell out for what Sun offered.
But Sun simply seems to be flailing about wildly trying to incorporate linux, Intel parts, and whatever other bits that are actually saleable into their unreasonably expensive product lineup (these new machines have more reasonable prices but I don't know that they beat similar offerings as they claim). Didn't they have a linux strategy recently fall flat on its face?
If these so-called fanboys want to draw a bunch of conclusions about life and its meaning from a movie, what of it? You're simply coming across as yet another uptight nerd who makes up for his shortcomings by seeking out reasons to cross your arms, snicker, roll your eyes, and call people dumb.
Take a deep breath, relax, and stop concerning yourself about people treading on your educated opinions. You studied, you know. Good for you. Now shut up about it.
It's a marketing gimmick to get less savvy IT managers to think that going with Symantec will get them ahead of the game. They're burning themselves twice: they'll alienate the infosec community that rightfully believes that knowledge of a potential devastating exploit gained in advance of its use should be shared, and they'll make very poor relationships with customers who fall for this kind of marketing and never have their expectations met down the road.
Television, like most media, offers opportunities to learn. Sure, what you watch will be presented with the bias of the creators, but everything is that way: newspapers, historical texts, music...
Insight can guide you if you listen. It's not necessary to pull the shades and stop all your magazine subscriptions to accomplish that. In fact, the more opinions and attitudes you expose yourself to, the better.
Sounds wonderful, but unless you fall ass-backwards into consulting independently, going freelance has risk of its own. I tried to do it over a year ago and was one client away from having enough of a stable to pull it off. Unfortunately, I was getting married and had to grab something that would be more stable for a little while. Now I'm looking at a short road that includes kids and a mortgage so the increased experience I will obtain over time (making me a more valuable consultant) will at least be partially cancelled out by the increase in risk.
Eventually, I will hang the shingle out there, but it will be a gamble to some degree and plenty of stress will come with it...
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I didn't want to have to block mail from even more tainted subnets. ^_^
As soon as I see a reviewer or a book talk about 'overcoming old-world ideas,' it enters the garbage pile.
Overcoming old-world ideas... sounds a lot like "P/E ratios of 90+ are the way of today! The rules have changed! It's all about potential and thinking OUTSIDE OF THE BOX!" That was just four years ago...
The meat of it is that there's a valid need for management to analyze how IT spending itself is being analyzed. As time goes on infotech plays a greater and greater role in the fabric of the whole business, and where the return is on that investment needs to be carefully determined. Hasty analysis will always lead to fingers pointed at IT's budget.
And as far as fragmenting IT... IMO that just makes it much harder for things to get done efficiently, company-wide.
A little too much Harvard Business Review and not enough real-world day-to-day...
IT is often looked at with a frown because of what it tends to be in most organizations: a very expensive division whose responsibility is to provide critical tools to perform business, with the ultimate goal being to produce a result, typically profit. Unfortunately, there are plenty of decision-makers who don't think far enough to recongnize the link from tool to result. Sales is seen to generate revenue. Marketing is seen to create and position the products for sale. Finance bills and spends. IT ties those pieces to one another and allows them to function, but you have to think creatively to draw a line from revenue to IT spending.
Now that I think about it, I wonder how many parallels you could draw between HR and IT. HR is the machine that provides people and benefits to those people, without which the company ceases to function. In a more abstract sense people are tools (whoa), and HR can certainly be viewed as a cash drain with no direct revenue...
Thank you. What do you find more rewarding? I've done a mix of sysad and ops management, with programming/dev only at the academic level. I found many aspects of management enjoyable and challenging, but am now back to infrastructure management because I worried I strayed too far from the hands-on work that got me to management to begin with. I'm wondering if my future in infotech management will suffer because I don't have professional program development in my resume.
This is a simple case of desperate politicians trying to make up for sudden budget shortfalls, which are a consequence of increased spending during recent times-of-plenty. Politicians try to reduce spending last because it will inevitably hurt someone in some way; they focus first on means of increasing revenue that is provided by existing resources (taxes, tolls, etc.).
angry_commuter (-2)
Negative: WATCH OUT BAD EBAYER DID NOT DELIVER AS PROMISED!!1 STILL SITTING IN TRAFFIC1 FFFF---
Response from stateofwa (3877): Did not promise no accidents or bad weather. Crazy bidder...
That was fantastic. I think that really is the saddest the saddest scale could reach. Thank you!
Actually, it would be nice to slow down the pounceposters who stab us with one-liners as soon as an article hits the front page in order to grab that funny karma goodness...
Didn't you ever watch Jake and the Fatman? He was handy with a pistol, no doubt about it.
It is pretty obvious that these guys are geeks yes?
Geeks or kindergartners, sure.
Depdends. Was your shelf headed upward at a thousand miles an hour?
(If it was, tell me where you got your shelf.)
I agree that it's largely a boon for national prestige, but I wonder if there's some kind of strategic value to be the only campers on the moon.
I can see that making our US administration a bit nervous.
Watch your tongue. God forbid the US comes in second on anything.
Other than education or welfare, of course.
Popularity can be determined by measure. Whether or not something is good is a matter of opinion.
Which model were you referring to?
I don't necessarily want an IDS to run around correcting or cleaning things... it's usefulness is in the fact it's a watchdog. It's light and focused, with elegance in simplicity despite capability.
These new product strategies they seem to be developing really dilute what little niche Sun could still claim. I'm not saying that the damage hasn't mostly come from the rest of the market -- Intel boxes with linux, FreeBSD, or Win2K server are more than up to the task these days in terms of reliability. It used to be (and still is by a few accounts) that if you wanted a commercial server that was even close to reliable, you had to shell out for what Sun offered.
But Sun simply seems to be flailing about wildly trying to incorporate linux, Intel parts, and whatever other bits that are actually saleable into their unreasonably expensive product lineup (these new machines have more reasonable prices but I don't know that they beat similar offerings as they claim). Didn't they have a linux strategy recently fall flat on its face?
Very trendy stuff these days. It's right up there with
If these so-called fanboys want to draw a bunch of conclusions about life and its meaning from a movie, what of it? You're simply coming across as yet another uptight nerd who makes up for his shortcomings by seeking out reasons to cross your arms, snicker, roll your eyes, and call people dumb.
Take a deep breath, relax, and stop concerning yourself about people treading on your educated opinions. You studied, you know. Good for you. Now shut up about it.
It's a marketing gimmick to get less savvy IT managers to think that going with Symantec will get them ahead of the game. They're burning themselves twice: they'll alienate the infosec community that rightfully believes that knowledge of a potential devastating exploit gained in advance of its use should be shared, and they'll make very poor relationships with customers who fall for this kind of marketing and never have their expectations met down the road.
... as previous crops of contenders have been underrepresented among these groups.
Those groups are "underrepresented" among engineers!
Heh... I can count on one hand, and have fingers left over, the number of copies of SQL Server that are probably running in all of Iraq.
Talk about a friendly-fire incident...
Television, like most media, offers opportunities to learn. Sure, what you watch will be presented with the bias of the creators, but everything is that way: newspapers, historical texts, music...
Insight can guide you if you listen. It's not necessary to pull the shades and stop all your magazine subscriptions to accomplish that. In fact, the more opinions and attitudes you expose yourself to, the better.
Sounds wonderful, but unless you fall ass-backwards into consulting independently, going freelance has risk of its own. I tried to do it over a year ago and was one client away from having enough of a stable to pull it off. Unfortunately, I was getting married and had to grab something that would be more stable for a little while. Now I'm looking at a short road that includes kids and a mortgage so the increased experience I will obtain over time (making me a more valuable consultant) will at least be partially cancelled out by the increase in risk.
Eventually, I will hang the shingle out there, but it will be a gamble to some degree and plenty of stress will come with it...