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- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Dish Network DTVPal
- Dish Network DTVPalDTVPAL is junk, dish network a RIPOFF!!!DO NOT BUY THE DTVPAL! DISH NETWORK IS A RIPOFF! THEIR WARRANTY SERVICE DOESNOT EXIST! This company is dishonest and does not support their product.Their alleged warranty isn't worth the paper it's printed on.---After waiting months for the DTVpal, having one order...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Isaac Ferman, ERT, DTVPal, firmware, Dish Network, account number, Paul
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- Stop brain-dead software testing!
- Lousy software testing damages many IT projects. When testing doesn't uncover obvious problems that prevent software from operating as users expect, then failed projects are inevitable. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Software, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Software Testing, Failure, Erik Hollnagel, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals
- Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionalslousy US economy means lousy global economyI was having a similar conversation last night at dinner with a fellow architect from India. He was describing how off-shore development shops in India are worried that the economic slow down...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- BIOS settings demystified
- BIOS settings demystifiedVery good info - thanks!One thing I found which maybe everyone else already knew, and I don't know if it is common to all BIOS versions or just the ASUS KV8 that I have, but under the Advanced tab, there's a Legacy USB support option - having it...
- Tags: BIOS, BIOS Settings
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals
- Forrester's Marc Cecere has just published a report in which he observes that any downturn in the economy will increase "demand for tech professionals specializing in IT architecture as businesses consolidate their operations." As reported in Silicon.com, Cecere predicts that "as organizations look at reducing costs through...
- Tags: Information Technology, SOA, Economy, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'
- Microsoft christens next tool suite release 'Visual Studio 2010'I dont think that's true.VS brings together many well understood tools into a convenient IDE. I mean, if you know unit testing on VS, then running JUnit on Eclipse is a small learning step, right?In many way, Visual Studio does the same...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, .NET, tool, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET, PHP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Walmart to pull plug on DRM servers
- Walmart to pull plug on DRM serversThe lie in their emailBeginning October 9, we will no longer be able [b] [i] refuse [/b] [/i] to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.Edit: Whoops! How do you do a strikethrough in Talkback?Edit edit:...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, server, digital-rights management, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-28
- My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Congress opens Pandora Box of mental health parity
- Congress opens Pandora Box of mental health parityIsn't that what actuaries are for?Assuming that mental health issues are illnesses, isn't is possible to do statistical analyses on various mental health illnesses to figure out their probability of occurring and costs of treatments. That's how other things are insured including...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Professional development, Mental Illness, health care, health parity, Pandora, depression, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Many UK teachers support creationism
- Many UK teachers support creationismWhy doesnt the headline read 72% opposed?Why does the media so often favor or present the minority view while ignoring the majority. Hey reporters! I'm a nut job wank that wants to promote the Gods from Outerspace theory of origins in all schools. ...
- Tags: Quality, creationism
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Grab yourself a 64GB solid-state drive for $99
- Grab yourself a 64GB solid-state drive for $99Comments are lousyI looked through some of the comments at the Newegg site and they are pretty uniformly negative. Apparently the drive has a lot of problems.hoops?The only hoops I ever run into are the norm: you must have bought it in...
- Tags: UPC, original
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- About that London Stock Exchange IT failure
- About that London Stock Exchange IT failureYou do know, right?You do know that the outage was caused by a [b]network[/b] problem, and had nothing to do with MS technology, right?http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/networks/news/index.cfm?newsid=10912And about those performance rantings of yours:http://www.londonstockexchange.com/NR/exeres/5CA1EB52-2B47-4922-A6F1-E9EC32D0152B.htmhttp://www.londonstockexchange.com/NR/exeres/A1B303DD-86EE-4D84-9B4F-BADFA1C770C7.htmSeriously, is there [b]any[/b] truth in any of your rantings? Don't you get tired...
- Tags: .NET, London Stock Exchange IT failure, Murph, LSE, Microsoft Corp., London Stock Exchange Plc., ranting, network story
- Discussion threads 2008-09-13
- My Awesome IT Job: Web developer, Martha Stewart, Webmaster, Emeril Lagasse
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Web Developer, Web, Webmaster, Information Technology, Martha Stewart, New Orleans, New York, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family today
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family todayAh...The Bauble Factory has been fired up again and is ready to blind the clueless into buying yet another brand new bauble to replace the not-so-shiny-anymore bauble.Who knows, maybe this time around they will have Invented the Subscription Service. Then we should...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., new iPod family, iPod family
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....
- Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhone
- Samsung OMNIA first impressions show that Windows Mobile can beat the iPhoneNot fair to compare??Sorry, but I have to disagree. Looking at the price of an iPhone 3G it IS in the same bracket as the more powerful smart phones. All this shows is it is poor value...
- Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Matthew, Samsung OMNIA, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., mobile, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Are we to have two Internets?
- Are we to have two Internets?And what machine were you testing?"Apache dies when hit with about seven to ten thousand user floods. Yaws just kept on going on up to 85,000 simultaneous users."What kind of setup did you test this on?Great responseI don't agree with all your premises but I...
- Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Intranet, Yaws, Microsoft IIS Server, Extranet, Erlang, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet, Microsoft Corp., tool, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-09-01
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