Dang, that is right on man. I've been an Oracle DBA and Basis Admin before... and there certainly is that issue. If you don't hire a competent person and are willing to pay that person for their skills, they will flounder and that part of your implementation will suffer (and if Basis suffers everyone does).
Come on... this is ridiculous, MS would never support something that destroys lockin. If "maybe someday" constitutes a promise in anyone's mind... they should be shot.
It is fair to say that. But the question is where are those gaps?? I look for them every day (believe me). And no the whole B2B stuff was marketing bs. (Believe me.. i work with SAP B2B stuff) The really sad part is that yes, your company looks at you as an asset or a resource now instead of a thinking individual.. and whats happening is (at least where i work) that these managers who know squat about implementation of business systems are directing the projects... and the knowledge workers are treated like worker bees instead of.... people who are knowledgable.. geez what a concept.. and managers never ask for advice on how things can be done effectively.. and you know thats how it seems the rest of corporate america is too.. basically the "knowledge workers" are probably worth their weight in cash 9/10 times, but they are underutilized...
true enough, but.. what's going to happen is that the people who are "do it yourself" are getting out of college (which you have to have), getting certified, doing what they can to wow companies, and getting themselves into debt -- heavily (college loans, etc) then eventually when those guys cant find a job, they will be in the same spot as the manufacturing guys who are living hand to mouth... what sucks even worse is that taking away jobs from the US economy WILL have broader implications as in.. who will buy stuff??.. i guess we should start exporting TONS more goods to India??
Acxiom, who in my mind are far worse than data hoes... they sell your information to the highest bidder.. and thats their business model.. Wallyworld would never give up their data... for their own self interest of course
here at our company, we were hit w/ this virus a few days ago.. of course since IE is our standard browser.. well you get the picture.. anyway, the virus uses a few vulns.. one is the link spoofer and the spoofed link (in an email from the infected box which pulls any email addy it can to trick you) is a link to the infected box.. which then uses the noted vulnerabilty and the process repeats... so basically
fair enough... seeing that the US is thinking of shutting down the shuttle missions soon, and it sending astronauts by way of the Russian rockets.. maybe china will come out on top after all in the next round of the space race (Man on mars??)
well... here is one firmware hack for the NEC-3500 that supposedly lets you write slower media at a faster rate... i could see some benefit in that;)
http://www.justcdr.net/modules.php?name=News&file= article&sid=247
according to the review its at the top of the list... the drive is only about 65-70 bucks and it has very hackable firmware, and I personally (since i own one) have never had any coaster from the drive... btw.. use Riteks
yahoo's is slightly better in some areas
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google is great.. let me say that first. But, when you are looking for professional services, listings, and more commercial solutions to your problem, i find that yahoo does slightly better ( i still try to stick to google). that said, i hope google isn't trying to become more like yahoo... simpler is always better
amen.. if i hadn't posted earlier i would have given you some of my mod points... couldn't be a truer statement. As for the company I work for... we are starting to outsource (b/c we havent been too profitable lately.. so we have to run leaner/meaner.. quite literally). And this is after the first "successful" outsourcing project hasn't accomplished squat.. service levels are down in that area, and people are generally unhappy about the support/service they are getting from our currently outsourced division. But of course it was a success and so they are moving forward. I wish my company would learn...
one of my friends works there
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... and she says its hell on wheels.. and they don't get paid well according to industry standards... i guess thats the walmart way.. makem work hard, dont pay too much, $$$profit
It's nice that Gartner poked its little head out again, but what my question to them would be.. where'd you get your data from? (and no, i wont pay 300 bucks for your stupid report).. my bet is that MSFT gave them some figures on winders update and then compared them to sales figures... so those that didnt match up MUST be PC's sold w/ linux on them (not even considering whiteboxes, home built, etc)
after messing with the gimp for a bit (sounds dirty doesnt it).. i am relieved to know there is a simpler program for linux out there where i can do my image editing... not saying gimp is bad.. just a little hard to figure out at certain points
The writer is saying that OSS developers dont have the right tools/expertise to check for security in their projects. So in essence, do we need an open source code quality managment system to be written for extensions for python, c, c++, assembler, etc? If that could be accomplished without a proprietary product, that would be the end all be all for code quality/security... b/c even the proprietary companies would use it (though not admittedly).
There is a way to display your filemaker info out on a php page. The php library is called FX and it is a wonderful tool that will allow you to code in selects on a filemaker db along w/ selects on other dbs...
Yeah, i see a lot of people on this list complaining about Mozilla having so many patches... dang, at least they put them out there... also im sure the opensource nature of mozilla/firefox lets many eyes see the bugs... while in IE there could be millions of little goodies that could be exploited and we would never know. I'm just impressed that the coding team has fixed the bugs so quickly. Yes.. they do need to build in a better patching mechanism.. but every project has a few growing pains.
well, sgi uses/hacks NUMA, spinlocks, etc to make this happen in a more efficient manner. We recently had a SGI rep come and explain their 512CPU architechture at our LUG meeting... and he basically said that SGI has their own implementation of all of the clustering/cpu stacking techs... which they will eventually feed back into the community.. all good stuff.. understandably they will wait for a year or so so they can get their money's worth before they release their changes.
One of the most interesting things about the article is that when they surveyed on the interoperability issue.. MS scored dang low... geez surprise.. and also Linux/oss projects scored fairly high.. Also, InformationWeek did a good job of presenting the results in a professional manner... hey helps oss's cause.. especially when I show this stuff to my manager.
So while OSS continues to make great inroads in the OS space, for example (lots of interesting work there), it's hard to picture a loose collection of programmers building a serious contender to SAP or PeopleSoft's product set.
Actually GNUe is meant to do just that... now I dont know how you can compare it to SAP.. but I guess we'll see...
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yes yes i know, this is a common saying but it definitely should apply here... the RIAA is a totally American organization that the government/law basically supports through the DMCA and other stupid laws....
while debeers is a multinational corp that makes tons of $$ but our govt has not made any diamond protection laws for them....
Remember this one thing about security: Your security on your boxes is proportional to your sysadmin's intelligence/paranoia levels. Ok... now, if we factor out human error... The question that remains is: Which OS is more securable: from my experience it is BSD... (pain in the ass.. but worth it in the end if you are super paranoid).. but not all apps will run in BSD... so for most people, Linux is their best bet.. yes.. people will be stupid and not patch their systems.. but that is the admin's fault (same w/ MS admins) but at least you know whats going on with your system, what services are running, and you can patch without restarting (big plus).. while on MS systems you are at the mercy of your system... especially when things start going awry.. most of the time the solution for MS server admins (as far as ive seen) when their server is bombing... is to reimage the server:P... so too bad if its a production server
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Dang, that is right on man. I've been an Oracle DBA and Basis Admin before... and there certainly is that issue. If you don't hire a competent person and are willing to pay that person for their skills, they will flounder and that part of your implementation will suffer (and if Basis suffers everyone does).
Come on... this is ridiculous, MS would never support something that destroys lockin. If "maybe someday" constitutes a promise in anyone's mind... they should be shot.
It is fair to say that. But the question is where are those gaps?? I look for them every day (believe me). And no the whole B2B stuff was marketing bs. (Believe me.. i work with SAP B2B stuff) The really sad part is that yes, your company looks at you as an asset or a resource now instead of a thinking individual.. and whats happening is (at least where i work) that these managers who know squat about implementation of business systems are directing the projects... and the knowledge workers are treated like worker bees instead of.... people who are knowledgable .. geez what a concept.. and managers never ask for advice on how things can be done effectively.. and you know thats how it seems the rest of corporate america is too.. basically the "knowledge workers" are probably worth their weight in cash 9/10 times, but they are underutilized...
true enough, but.. what's going to happen is that the people who are "do it yourself" are getting out of college (which you have to have), getting certified, doing what they can to wow companies, and getting themselves into debt -- heavily (college loans, etc) then eventually when those guys cant find a job, they will be in the same spot as the manufacturing guys who are living hand to mouth... what sucks even worse is that taking away jobs from the US economy WILL have broader implications as in.. who will buy stuff??.. i guess we should start exporting TONS more goods to India??
Acxiom, who in my mind are far worse than data hoes... they sell your information to the highest bidder.. and thats their business model.. Wallyworld would never give up their data... for their own self interest of course
here at our company, we were hit w/ this virus a few days ago.. of course since IE is our standard browser.. well you get the picture.. anyway, the virus uses a few vulns.. one is the link spoofer and the spoofed link (in an email from the infected box which pulls any email addy it can to trick you) is a link to the infected box.. which then uses the noted vulnerabilty and the process repeats... so basically
fair enough... seeing that the US is thinking of shutting down the shuttle missions soon, and it sending astronauts by way of the Russian rockets.. maybe china will come out on top after all in the next round of the space race (Man on mars??)
but does anyone else think this sounds like some cheezy anime cartoon??? taikonauts on the Shinzu??
well... here is one firmware hack for the NEC-3500 that supposedly lets you write slower media at a faster rate... i could see some benefit in that ;)
http://www.justcdr.net/modules.php?name=News&file= article&sid=247
according to the review its at the top of the list... the drive is only about 65-70 bucks and it has very hackable firmware, and I personally (since i own one) have never had any coaster from the drive ... btw.. use Riteks
hey at least we're not the pits ;p
google is great.. let me say that first. But, when you are looking for professional services, listings, and more commercial solutions to your problem, i find that yahoo does slightly better ( i still try to stick to google). that said, i hope google isn't trying to become more like yahoo... simpler is always better
amen.. if i hadn't posted earlier i would have given you some of my mod points... couldn't be a truer statement. As for the company I work for... we are starting to outsource (b/c we havent been too profitable lately.. so we have to run leaner/meaner.. quite literally). And this is after the first "successful" outsourcing project hasn't accomplished squat.. service levels are down in that area, and people are generally unhappy about the support/service they are getting from our currently outsourced division. But of course it was a success and so they are moving forward. I wish my company would learn...
... and she says its hell on wheels.. and they don't get paid well according to industry standards... i guess thats the walmart way.. makem work hard, dont pay too much, $$$profit
It's nice that Gartner poked its little head out again, but what my question to them would be.. where'd you get your data from? (and no, i wont pay 300 bucks for your stupid report).. my bet is that MSFT gave them some figures on winders update and then compared them to sales figures... so those that didnt match up MUST be PC's sold w/ linux on them (not even considering whiteboxes, home built, etc)
after messing with the gimp for a bit (sounds dirty doesnt it).. i am relieved to know there is a simpler program for linux out there where i can do my image editing... not saying gimp is bad.. just a little hard to figure out at certain points
The writer is saying that OSS developers dont have the right tools/expertise to check for security in their projects. So in essence, do we need an open source code quality managment system to be written for extensions for python, c, c++, assembler, etc? If that could be accomplished without a proprietary product, that would be the end all be all for code quality/security... b/c even the proprietary companies would use it (though not admittedly).
There is a way to display your filemaker info out on a php page. The php library is called FX and it is a wonderful tool that will allow you to code in selects on a filemaker db along w/ selects on other dbs...
Yeah, i see a lot of people on this list complaining about Mozilla having so many patches... dang, at least they put them out there... also im sure the opensource nature of mozilla/firefox lets many eyes see the bugs... while in IE there could be millions of little goodies that could be exploited and we would never know. I'm just impressed that the coding team has fixed the bugs so quickly. Yes.. they do need to build in a better patching mechanism.. but every project has a few growing pains.
well, sgi uses/hacks NUMA, spinlocks, etc to make this happen in a more efficient manner. We recently had a SGI rep come and explain their 512CPU architechture at our LUG meeting... and he basically said that SGI has their own implementation of all of the clustering/cpu stacking techs... which they will eventually feed back into the community.. all good stuff.. understandably they will wait for a year or so so they can get their money's worth before they release their changes.
I'm sure some corp will pick up the project... I know a lot of people use it.. so i dont really see any reason for it to die
One of the most interesting things about the article is that when they surveyed on the interoperability issue.. MS scored dang low... geez surprise.. and also Linux/oss projects scored fairly high..
Also, InformationWeek did a good job of presenting the results in a professional manner... hey helps oss's cause.. especially when I show this stuff to my manager.
So while OSS continues to make great inroads in the OS space, for example (lots of interesting work there), it's hard to picture a loose collection of programmers building a serious contender to SAP or PeopleSoft's product set.
Actually GNUe is meant to do just that... now I dont know how you can compare it to SAP.. but I guess we'll see... checkem out at Their website
yes yes i know, this is a common saying but it definitely should apply here... the RIAA is a totally American organization that the government/law basically supports through the DMCA and other stupid laws....
while debeers is a multinational corp that makes tons of $$ but our govt has not made any diamond protection laws for them....
Remember this one thing about security: Your security on your boxes is proportional to your sysadmin's intelligence/paranoia levels. Ok... now, if we factor out human error... The question that remains is: Which OS is more securable: from my experience it is BSD... (pain in the ass.. but worth it in the end if you are super paranoid).. but not all apps will run in BSD... so for most people, Linux is their best bet.. yes.. people will be stupid and not patch their systems.. but that is the admin's fault (same w/ MS admins) but at least you know whats going on with your system, what services are running, and you can patch without restarting (big plus) .. while on MS systems you are at the mercy of your system... especially when things start going awry.. most of the time the solution for MS server admins (as far as ive seen) when their server is bombing... is to reimage the server :P ... so too bad if its a production server