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- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.
- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilcho. Zero.Sub-Contractor High-FiveANY subcontractor who can get millions out of a company and deliver nothing gets my applause.. do you realize how hard it is to keep taking money when you're not really doing anything viable?Maybe Im just twisted, but this speaks a lot more to me...
- Tags: FUBAR, sincerity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Delivering nada. Zip. Zilch. Zero.
- The aftermath of large-scale failure is never pretty, but sometimes looking back reveals problems so obvious and severe they take your breath away. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Team, Performance, Problem, Bruce Webster, FUBAR, Team Management, Organizational Structure, Management, Human Resources, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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- Yahoo's board to meet: Will Icahn's gang make a difference?
- Yahoo's board to meet: Will Icahn's gang make a difference?Google rules!There is no way Yahoo will ever "catch-up" to Google though I do not care for some of Googles tracking practices. It appears that Yahoo just keeps falling on their own sword. Yahoo early IM was great and...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Google Inc., board
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming serviceGo into a little more detail on MX and Ptr...records being defined. There will have to be a domain registered pointing to a start of authority. DNS servers query for the SOA. Then proceed to the SOA to get the DNS records you are referring...
- Tags: Spam, spamming, Spamming vendor launch, vendor launch, spamming service, e-mail server, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-14
- Red Hat (belatedly) confirms security breach
- Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachthis is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!this is the evidence that open source linux security sucks!RE: Red Hat belatedly confirms security breachLOL!! What have I been saying all along? That linux is NOT secure and is NOT suitable for any purpose....
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Red Hat Inc., security, Linux, security breach, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Exploit code published for Apache Tomcat flaw
- Exploit code published for Apache Tomcat flawand just how long will it take to get 98% of these servers patched?When I read the % of un-patched open source machines out there..... All I can say is, where is the FUDGuess what, it's software, it'll FUBARSoftware is NOT a Religion!!!!How many...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Application servers, Middleware, Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Tomcat, exploit code
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Goodbye, comp-sci -- now it's 'service' as a science
- Goodbye, comp-sci -- now it's 'service' as a scienceI once thought that wayThats until I stop taking what I learned for granted. That happened when I started working with more CIS and MIS people that could whip up a quick VB app for show but brought down servers under load....
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Development tools, service system, goodbye, IDE
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise apps
- Google's culture 'not fit' for enterprise appsTruth, Google will never win the entrprise.Sure they make products/services that geeks or light/occasional users can use, but no way will they win the enterprise over."Open Source as Free Software" = FUBARNo Management, No Structure, No DisciplineEveryone gets to do their own thing.This the...
- Tags: Google Servers, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Firefox 3.0 final available for download
- Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadThose will magcally change ...... once the release is made official.RE: Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadIs this really the final version? Runonce initial page refers to RC as do the release notes?RE: Firefox 3.0 final available for downloadIs this really the final version? The...
- Tags: Web browsers, Version 3, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3.0 Final
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Flash attack may as well have been zero-day
- Flash attack may as well have been zero-dayRE: Flash attack may as well have been zero-dayI just checked the Google Analytic Stats on the site I work on and it looks like I am getting Flash revision information from all the browsers, not just Firefox.The real sad stat is over...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, stat, attack
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup campsUI components are not normally considered services"...they can actually create services on their own."UI components, including composite applications or mashups, are not typically "services." They may be service clients but typically services do *not* provide a user interface.The SOA/Mashup Tension is GOODJackBe agrees that...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, JackBe, SOA, mashup
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Spanning Sync to add Address Book synchronization (updated)
- If you're like me you probably have a Gmail account. Some people use Gmail as their full-time email, others just for large attachments or times when your ISP's email is fubar. Either way, there's no denying the convenience of a good webmail account and I find Gmail to be the...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Google Inc., Google Calendar, Google Gmail, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Spanning Sync
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- I've been fired!
- I've been fired!He did say at the end :"I know this: yesterday wasn’t April fool’s - and tomorrow maybe somebody will think this is funny - but right now it’s about 1:15 in the morning and come 8:30 - I’ll be on the phone to the lawyers."Yes, smells fishy to...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Roger, April Fool, job
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- HP: The ActiveX security follies continue
- HP: The ActiveX security follies continueActiveX has always been a security problem!I still don't understand why ActiveX has been so successful in spite of it being a known security issue!Why ActiveX is the problemAn ActiveX control sitting on your harddrive can be invoked by any webpage you view with IE....
- Tags: ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Middleware, Web browsers, Previous Experience, ActiveX, Mozilla Firefox, tool, Hewlett-Packard Co., security
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...
- Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- Red Hat partners with Amazon for Enterprise Linux fabric in Elastic Compute Cloud
- Red Hat partners with Amazon for Enterprise Linux fabric in Elastic Compute Cloudnice, but expensive compared to base EC2For companies that really want paid support from Red Hat, this is a nice option, and it's great to see Amazon sign up a major partner like this. However, you can already...
- Tags: Business structures, OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise Linux fabric, Red Hat partner, Elastic Compute Cloud, EC2, Enterprise Linux, partnership
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Sun issues patches for 'highly critical' Java flaws
- Sun issues patches for 'highly critical' Java flawsClassic Java FUBARBut then, what can you really expect?After all, they do claim that they are full of beans.... ;0It's not like you don't have to go and dig through the Program Files folder to find their update program.native code is still betterwhy...
- Tags: Programming languages, Sun Microsystems Inc., patch management, Java, applet
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- Here's the real reason Apple is delaying Leopard launch-for iPhone
- My colleague Larry Dignan notes that Apples forthcoming Leopard OS has been seen by analysts as a potential boon to Mac purchases.Yet as Larry and others report, Leopards release is being pushed back from the spring to the fall because Apple feels it needs its engineering resources at...
- Tags: General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Did Microsoft flags 500,000 innocent Windows users as pirates?
- Did Microsoft flags 500,000 innocent Windows users as pirates?Talking about addition and numbers...How can 158% of the people who voted in your poll distrust WGA?Huh, a third party guess?Completely useless...Hey, here you go, I *guess* that lots of pirates are going to get caught.Burden of ProofThe burden of proof should...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Gateway Inc., piracy, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
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