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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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Free TechNet Professional subscription (US, Canada, UK)

Free TechNet Professional subscription (US, Canada, UK)Interesting indeed ...... I'm in. Signed my life away. Confirmation received immediately for UK registration. Interesting to see what it really means." New Subscriptions:If this is a new subscription, once processing of your payment is completed,... you will receive a second email confirmation. Within...

Tags: E-mail, Free TechNet Professional subscription, Free TechNet Professional

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

56th variant of the Koobface worm detected

Researchers from PandaLabs are reporting on the detection of the 56th variant of the Koobface worm (Boface.BJ.worm), spreading across Facebook, Tagged, Friendster, MySpace, MyYearBook, Fubar.com, Hi5 and Bebo since May, 2008. According to the company, the growth of Koobface related infections is as high as 1,200% since...

Tags: Infection, Malware, Social Engineering, Worm, MySpace, Koobface, Cyberthreats, Social Networking, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Site Development, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-15

A mashup of Twitter and Wikipedia

A mashup of Twitter and Wikipedia Say what?The sound/off would say the word or message to lead other socialeezm sites but is this site BOLD enough to do it.RE: A mashup of Twitter and Wikipedia Would be nice if keywords would be linked.FUBAR acronymFucked Up Beyond All Recognition Repair.see also:...

Tags: Wiki, Collaboration, Twitter, mashup, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

Windows 7 updates next week: Don't get too excited

Windows 7 updates next week: Don't get too excitedThis seems incredibly stupidsince there have to be many PCs in the halls of Redmond running, or dual booting this OS. It seems like something that can be handled by a LAN rather than the internet. That is, unless Microsoft has made...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Monster PC upgrades - Without the monster price tag!

Monster PC upgrades - Without the monster price tag!What about RAM?Did you forget about RAM? Most peoples RAM would be incompatible w/ these machines... not to mention that they might not have enough in their current machine to begin with, compatible or not. Theres another 50-100 on top of your...

Tags: Video cards, power supply, video card, RAM, card, Monster

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Desktop virtualization according to Virtual Computer

Desktop virtualization according to Virtual ComputerOne Question - Why?Just because you CAN do it, doesn't mean you SHOULD. Virtualization barely makes sense in the datacenter only for poorly performing OSes like Windoze that cannot run more than one or two server programs at a time, so why would you bring...

Tags: Operating systems, Storage management, Virtual Computer, server, user data, Microsoft Windows, virtual machine, virtualization, desktop, desktop virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

Firefox 3.0.5 woes

Firefox 3.0.5 woesFine on 10.4I'm not having any problems here on 10.4.Have you tried running it from the command line to see what sort of messages it spews out?Please do not advise users to turn off the update systemIt's pretty irresponsible to advise users to disable the security and stability...

Tags: Web browsers, Firefox 3.0.5, Firefox 3.0.5 woe, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Firefox 3.0.5 woes

If you're a Mac Firefox user, I'd recommend staying away from the recently released 3.0.5 update. I stupidly installed it automatically (via Preferences > Advanced > Update) on my MacBook Pro 2.4GHz running Mac OS 10.5.5 and it's completely FUBAR. Tabs don't work, neither Command-T nor File...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus

Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virusWhy aren't they prosecuted?A number of countries have advertising and trade practices legislation. Why the hell isn't Apple called to account for this?RE: Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virusI was always amazed that Nintendo was never sued from the straps breaking on...

Tags: Desktops, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Apple Inc., multiple Anti-Viru, Apple Macintosh, antivirus, Mac-user, CRAPPLE

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu?

The assistant superintendent came to me on Thursday with a very sad laptop; it was malware city, population 1. Although it's his own laptop, he uses it all the time for school-related work, so I was happy to fix it up for him. Well, not happy, exactly, but...

Tags: Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Malware, Hardware, Microsoft Windows XP, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic storm

Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic stormTru Dat!!!Pagan jimRE: Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic stormAgree wholeheartedly. Fear stirred up by our lawmakers and treasury secretary is causing a recession. The recession will last until the fear goes away plus...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

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