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- Did the Y2K failure come to Zune 30 devices 9 years later?
- Did the Y2K failure come to Zune 30 devices 9 years later?Two stuck Zune 30's hereMy wife and I both have frozen Zunes. Mine had been charging yesterday / overnight and found it to be on the logo this morning. My wife's hasn't been used for a couple...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-31
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- Will a flu pandemic really bring down the Internet?
- Is the last bulleted list a joke??That last bulleted list is a joke. It worships a model, and is not the best tool for the job.Keep in mind through all this:-The problem is going to be network congestion. Therefore steps should be taken to [b]REDUCE[/b] network usage."Monitor your VPNs. Make...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
- Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?
- One of the great things about being an Irregular is that every now and again, one of our motley band will toss a pebble into a pond which sends ripples. Last weekend Jeff Nolan, one of our founders and a great personal friend said this: ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- What BearingPoint
- What BearingPointGood riddance?The Brits are finding out the hard way about digitizing medical records. Their own national IT project is way over budget and not very close to a solution (I know because I read the Register!). If the FBI can't even get their case file system working, what chance...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-23
- 30GB Zunes go on strike for New Year
- 30GB Zunes go on strike for New YearEven you must admit...that a hardware failure, such as a hard drive, is not the same as a firmware update that contains a time bomb.Did you buy the puck green one?Never heard of a mass failure of iPods, so this certainly is a...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-31
- Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell you
- Top five issues your IT staff wants to address but is afraid to tell youProgress? By definition..."...there are two other significant factors that can impede our progress. The first is the lack of interest among the millennium generation to work on older technologies and the second is the fact...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Survey: Corporations hold out on VistaLarry isn't going to give it up...It's sad what passes for "journalism" these days. ZDNet and her "sister site" TechRepublic are so one sided it's laughable. Is this "survey" really supposed to be passed as truth? The survey was conducted by a company KACE that...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- The tattered history of OOP
- This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- The CIO's innovation dilemma
- The often uncomfortable relationship between IT and business is nothing new but has taken on fresh piquancy. The visibility achieved by the impact coming from the use of socialprise I have seen among major brands fuels that debate. There is a history here and I sense that...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- After the hello, goodbye and thanks
- After the hello, goodbye and thanksBest of Luck!ntA modified traditional Irish blessingMay the information superhighway rise up to meet youMay the ACL be always at your backThe powerboost shine warm upon your wiresThe load balancers fall soft upon your last mileAnd until we ping againMay QoS hold your packets in...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-14
- How Microsoft puts your data at risk
- 56% of data loss due to system & hardware problems - OntrackData loss is painful and all too common. Why? Because your file system stinks. Microsoft's NTFS (used in XP & Vista) with its de facto monopoly is the worst offender. But Apple and Linux aren't any better. Everyone knows...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009
- The storage version of Y2k? No, it's a function of capacity growth and RAID 5's limitations. If you are thinking about SATA RAID for home or business use, or using RAID today, you need to know why.RAID 5 protects against a single disk failure. You can recover all your data...
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Gillmor's Internet plate tectonics
- Steve Gillmor riffs on my post about Yahoo's lack of a social networking hub, where I state: "Yahoo is about making connections, but right now its more of loose federation of Web applications and servicesâ€"many spokes without a strong hub to hold together a social Web. Yahoo 360 has been...
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- Poll: The final word on DST
- Poll: The final word on DSTAmazingIt amazes me that these companies knew about the DST change back in 2005 and waited until the last minute to get their patches out. Microsoft being one of the worst offenders rolling patches barely 2 weeks before the DST change for some products....
- Discussion threads 2007-03-12
- Robot backers turn to Linux
- Robot backers turn to LinuxJust Goes To ShowThat if you want the job done right and efficiently, you turn to an OS that won't crash during a complicated task.Choose Linux.Hey they want it to workIt only makes sense that they would use Linux. In addition to the financial reasons...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-14
- Alive and Kicking
- Even since the pre-Y2K ERP build-up, conventional wisdom has held that big software systems are on the way out. Open source solutions and software as a service SaaS providers, among other reasons, have put pressure on ERP vendors to come up with new ideas. In SAPs case, for example,...
- Blog posts 2006-04-14
- IT Help Desks in the dog house
- IT Help Desks in the dog houseWell...... is it really a shock that helpdesk is a weak point? Generally helpdesk is a "near" minimum wage job that the people move out of to other better paying jobs inside the first year.Pay the help what they're worth and your...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-18
- PCs out sick more than users
- PCs out sick more than userssorting email manually?Obviously, this company is NOT using Mozilla or any other email client other than what 'comes on the machine.' Even with all the IE add-ons, there is no excuse these days to manually sort emails.Maybe You Shouldn't Have Liad Off Your Network AdminstratorI...
- Discussion threads 2004-06-25
- Last week's mini-Y2K: What went wrong?
- Last week's mini-Y2K: What went wrong?My 1 million year error free systemIn 1992 I overhauled the time system in the big application of our lab. After finding that in UNIX there was nothing accurate, reliable, precise enough for us, I wrote the whole from scratch as I use to, starting...
- Discussion threads 2004-01-13
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