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- The Open Source Commandments
- The Open Source CommandmentsFirst CommandmentShouldn't the first commandment be: "Microsoft is Evil"?;-)RE: The Open Source CommandmentsWhat about the other commandments:"Thou shalt insult anyone who criticizes open source""Thou shalt not use any other software except the ones we use"Religion and sciencewhat a great taste that tastes great together. Someone calls...
- Tags: commandment, open source, Passover Family Experience, Open Source Commandments, OSS
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear change
- I've been wracking my brain for a commandment which would fit with the theme this week, and I figured that the commandment "Thou Shalt Recognize the Inherent Superiority of Microsoft Software" might be a tad too partisan, particularly coming from guy who works for Microsoft in its IPTV division (queue...
- Tags: information technology, outsourcing
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- IT Commandment: Put thy users first, above all else
- While the concept of IT commandments sounds rigid and inflexible to me, I will admit there are some core truths that should almost never be violated. Fellow ZDNetter Paul Murphy has recently blazed this trail here and here and it's an interesting experiment in seeing what people...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Reheated Bagle smokes out antivirus defenses
- Reheated Bagle smokes out antivirus defensesNot to worry if...Your Symantec Live Update was scheduled for 11:00 AM or later. Already a fix out there.1st CommandmentThou shalt not open attachments2nd CommandmentThou shalt not use Microsloth E-mail products to open your mail.Use Thunderbird.So let it be written, so let it...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Symantec Corp., antivirus, Commandment, virus, e-mail, TruPrevent
- Discussion threads 2004-10-29
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- The Open Source Commandments
- Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...
- Tags: Industry, Microsoft Corp., Pharaoh Rameses, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Microsoft's bid for Yahoo--it's a Tom Cruise story
- Microsoft's bid for Yahoo--it's a Tom Cruise storyproblem with fameSometimes fame thinks it's fame from is it's own doing. You're assuming Thomas Microsoft Cruise sees something is amiss with himself. Isn't there some Ballmer commandment: Thou shalt not let feelings get in the way for the pursuit of greed and...
- Tags: Time Warner Inc., Tom Cruise, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstation
- Mac Pro is now the cheapest high-end workstationIndeed but not at $3000You built a server not a wrkstation, and a stripped down server at that, without disk or memory, and without a decent workstation class garphic card.If you want to build a dual xeon with 1600 FSB today, and still...
- Tags: Workstations, MAC Pro, RAM, Apple Inc., workstation, memory
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- Microsoft makes refurbished PCs its latest WGA anti-piracy target
- Microsoft makes refurbished PCs its latest WGA anti-piracy targetperformanceI've sold many refurbished PC's.Most are running Linux despite having a valid Windows license. Using PClinuxOS the learning curve is small and above all the performance difference is huge. These systems are dog slow running fully updated XP.Most people suffer from ignorance....
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Notebooks, refurbished-PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, latest WGA anti-piracy, WGA Anti-Piracy, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, laptop computer, performance
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Google's OpenSocial: What it means
- Google's OpenSocial: What it meansHuge Opportunity for Business Social NetworksI was struck by how many business related partners they are. It made me think about the unique opportunity business social networking has with an open API like this:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/ubiquitous-social-networks-for-business/Google outsmarts Microsoft againWhy bank on a single social network, when you...
- Tags: Google OpenSocial, Google Inc., social networking, network
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Gates in '04 said 'spam soon to be thing of past' and me on Charlie Rose about the real solution
- Gates in '04 said 'spam soon to be thing of past' and me on Charlie Rose about the real solutionThe answer is obviousEveryone has known the answer to spam for a long time. No one wants to implement it:1) Have every email go to a digital "Post Office". That Post...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Charlie Rose, e-mail, spam, counter
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- Feds out for hacker's blood
- Feds out for hacker's bloodAnd Big Brother reaches out againrequiring a DNA sample for hacking??? that's just database building.and unacceptable, IMOGubment shortsitedOur gubment goes to all this trouble to chase down these hackers, try them in our kangaroo court system, convict them, yadi yadi, yadi yadi, etc. Now,...
- Tags: Hacking, Biotechnology, SECURITY, religion, hacker, gubment, Bible, DNA
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcasta practical addition George.."But we want to avoid bad RFID implementations like the Dutch passport which according to Mahaffey was extremely simple to break because it had an effective entropy of 30 bits in the encryption key."That was already known about 15 months ago here......
- Tags: Government, Palestine, Roma, Bible, RFID Passport, RFID, Babylon, VeriChip, liberty, passport, security, podcast
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- So about those student information systems...
- Earlier last week I read the article "Student data systems going south." I was struck by the similarity to my own post from a couple months ago (Scheduling enough said), in which I actually called for an open-source solution to these student data systems. For any of you...
- Tags: information system
- Blog posts 2006-05-21
- Born to be service-oriented
- One of the goals of this Weblog is to go beyond theories and talk about actual examples of SOA at work. Such is the case with Harley-Davidson. Last month at an IBM press conference, CIO Jim Haney explained how SOA has helped the company embrace opportunities in the spring riding...
- Tags: Harley-Davidson Inc., Haney
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
- Capitalism Gone Amok
- I never would have believed that the day would come when I thought that Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, even George Bush all showed more moral fiber than the leaders of the finest companies in the world’s greatest country. However, judging by last week’s visit of China’s premier Hu...
- Tags: Bill Gates
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hackedWow, that's 15 IT Commandments....I wonder how many stone tablets will be needed to write them all down? Wait a sec, it's the 21st century, we could just put it on a Tablet PC and be done with it! ;)Seriously...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, server, IT Commandment, information technology, Web server
- Discussion threads 2006-04-14
- Linux zombies show platforms don't matter
- [Updated 4/17/2006:] When fellow blogger Richard Stiennon posted this blog/podcast about new types of alarming DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attacks where an army of Linux zombies were used, he got a bit of a bashing by some of the Linux fans. Ironically, Richard himself has recently bashed...
- Tags: Linux, Apache Software Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked
- Over the past few months I've become increasingly aware of the number of web sites being compromised and used for phishing and/or dropping malware. I expect the owners of the sites were unaware of what was going on. I've contacted ISPs and gotten a number of such sites shut...
- Tags: Web server, server
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- Where and why do we still need tight coupling?
- In my previous post, I discussed the virtues of loosely coupling, rising it to the level of an IT commandment. One reader, Richard Veryard, responded in his own Weblog, however, that maybe loose coupling isn't appropriate in all situations, and there still is a place for tight coupling.As Veryard puts...
- Tags: coupling.As Veryard, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- IT Commandments: Ignore at your own risk
- IT Commandments: Ignore at your own risk11th IT CommandmentThou shallt remember that the neck of the bottle is at the top of the bottle...14 Thou shalt not screw your employees to make your self look good14 Thou shalt not screw your employees to make your self look good15 Honour thy...
- Tags: IT Commandment, information technology, training material, backup
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
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