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- 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
- A consequence of convergence?
- A consequence of convergence?Maybe it's that off-line capabilitywhich is - NOTHING. The network goes down, the thin-client stares stupidly into space. I guess "The network is the computer" is true in this case.With a good distributed computer topology, that 3.2 Ghz desktop computer and all its kin - can be...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, NETWORKING, WTF, Roger, server, Sun Ray, network, SunRay, computer, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- Zune and the uplift wars
- Zune and the uplift warsBack on planet Earth...So how do you make a Blackberry or similar device work with the Sun Ray architecture?Roger's answer of "the Sun Ray has 4 USB ports, so you can connect a Blackberry to it" made obvious sense. Your answer implies a flaw in...
- Tags: Handhelds, Roger, Microsoft Zune, RIM BlackBerry, SunRay
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- Cyber crime gangs are learning to work together
- According to the just released Exploit Prevalence Survey for the month of September, web based exploits against the IE VML flaw are the most widely distributed exploit ever. The report is put together by Exploit Prevention Labs XPL. They use a distributed network of computers to scan the web...
- Tags: exploit, Roger
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- An odd E-voting bit
- An odd E-voting bitCable problems continueAccess to my site - and my access to your comments and this site - will continue to be highly variable until Shaw gets their problem fixed.They promised by the day before yesterday....eVotingThe reason that Delay's name has to appear on the ballot is that...
- Tags: INTERNET, Roger, ballot, e-voting, Sun Microsystems Inc., Murph
- Discussion threads 2006-09-07
- Distributed computing - the promise unbroken
- Distributed computing - the promise unbroken2 Questions and a couple of comments Roger...First: good article Roger so Y and :-) (sorry, to much used to Microsoft)I have a question thoughI know this comment is a point of view thing, but it's a prequel to a question.... You wrote that you...
- Tags: Network technology, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, WAN Connections, Roger, distributed computing, Linux, Murphy, server, network
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30th
- Crowd gathers for Homebrew Computer Club's 30thAh, the good old daysYes, before M$hills you had people that wanted computers. It really didn't matter what kind of computer you had - it was just such a novelty that you had one. People freely talked about Atari and Commodore and PC in...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, PC, computer, Roger
- Discussion threads 2005-11-07
- A grab bag of odd thoughts
- A grab bag of odd thoughtsIt's either that or..."...it's that when we lack the contextual information, aka experience, needed to make valid judgements, we simply imagine that we do know and go ahead and make the judgements anyway."It's either that, or not accomplish anything because of insufficient information. While it's...
- Tags: Roger, judgement, information technology
- Discussion threads 2005-10-14
- Is the Earth elastic?
- Is the Earth elastic?This has been known for yearsThe Earth is still rebounding from the last ice age. The scandanavian countries are "going up" by a few inches per century I believe - consequences of the heavy ice disappearing - and that happened almost 10,000 years ago! The effect is...
- Tags: Roger
- Discussion threads 2005-10-05
- Is Airgo the uncrowned king of 802.11n MIMO?
- Is Airgo the uncrowned king of 802.11n MIMO?3 channels is ridiculousJust what good is a multiple-channel technology, when you have just 3 channels? If there were 100 channels, then you could do this and NOT interfere with others . . .I wonder if WiMAX will use this technology . ....
- Tags: WIRELESS, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Airgo Networks, Roger, MIMO, IEEE 802.11n, performance, WiMAX
- Discussion threads 2005-06-20
- Wi-Fi gets ready for next-generation Net
- Wi-Fi gets ready for next-generation NetIPv6I really wonder if we NEED IPv6. I work for a company that has a class A network, and we have less than 256,000 computers including new VoIP phones for everyone - which means that we have 7x too many numbers. Large companies such as...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, Roger, IPv6, class-A network, class-A
- Discussion threads 2004-10-27
Additional Resources
- The Techie Hall of Shame
- A SFGate story began this week with the all-too-familiar line--"A disgruntled computer engineer..." before going on to list the disgrace of the day, in this case virtually commandeering San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network and hacking it to deny access to top administrators. He's now locked up with a $5...
- Tags: Network, Computer, Productivity, Networking, Security, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
- Say it ain't so AVG, say it ain't so: AVG LinkScanner = Badware?
- The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to try to protect users, but uses a user agent that makes the software appear to be Internet Explorer. This pre-crawling is flooding websites with...
- Tags: Webmaster, Traffic, Malware, Register, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Scanners, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Hardware, Peripherals, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold Edition (exe)
- AV Voice Changer Software Gold can change your voice in real time to sound like the voice of a young or old man, a sexy woman, the lovely voice of a baby, or an infinite number of variations. With these altered voices, you can complete any audio project such as...
- Tags: Software, Voice, Avnex, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2008-07-03
- Achieving magical results in IT
- Achieving magical results in ITClient assignments, no thanksI agree that Trust and empowerment are powerful motivators, but I doubt that there will be many cases where empowerment will be on the menu while assigned to a client area. This will require a similar shift in thinking for the client, away...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone rates
- Canucks freaking over Rogers iPhone ratesYou should see how much Rogers charges for cableThey do like their high prices. With the Canadian market being only 10% of the size of the US market, the level of competition between sellers is not the same as the US.For that matter, you should...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Rogers, Rogers iPhone, Canucks, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- Critical security alert issued for Tor
- If you use Tor for anonymity/privacy on the Web, you might want to pay attention to this critical security announcement from project leader Roger Dingledine. According to the advisory, a known vulnerability in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution's OpenSSL package could allow an attacker to figure out private...
- Tags: OpenSSL, Security Alert, Tor, Ssl/Tls, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Low-risk offenders' wives stand by their men
- Low-risk offenders' wives stand by their menLow-risk offenders' wives stand by their menUnfortunately, states routinely put the larger percentage of sex offenders into tier III which should only reflect the MOST dangerous and reflect the recidivist rate for that state. Recidivist rates over all, is in the single digits. Labeling...
- Tags: offender, residency restriction, Low-risk, Low-risk offender, wive, sex offender
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Why James Bond looks so healthy
- According to The Telegraph, shaken martinis might be the secret of Bond's success. In fact, two UK researchers, a psychologist and a chemist, are collaborating with a French bartender to prove that 'shaken, not stirred' martinis are different. They'll show the difference on June 4, 2008, during the Cheltenham Science...
- Tags: James Bond, Food & Beverage, Investment, Manufacturing, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
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