Where to go now
I usually don’t let my political reading bleed over into my technical writing, but this is something that I really think deserves to be shared with my fellow tech workers. Much wisdom follows. Read on.
In response to a diary by a recently laid off tech guy:
Where to go to now!
Here’s what I do, I go [...]
This is why we have teams
Just had another reminder of why we have, or at least used to have, teams to do various things in Information Technology. A good friend and colleague was stumped by a problem with their code and asked me to take a look. Of course his code is way more sophisticated than my pathetic attempts at [...]
Taking a step back: The Sad Story of My VMware Downgrade
A short time ago I wrote about upgrading my personal systems at home and work to VMware Server 2.0, and gave what I thought were some compelling reasons why it was A Good Thing ™.
Unfortunately, the one issue I haven’t been able to work around has been my inability to get any guest, whether upgraded [...]
Breaking News: The (Outsourcing) Morons Get It!
Well, nearly.
The New Economics of Outsourcing
So now Infosys, Tata and others are looking to meet U.S. companies demand for “nearsourcing”, due to falling savings from getting services out of the increasingly higher-priced labor in India and elsewhere. So, of course, they’re looking in places like Brazil, whose economy is red hot and getting hotter [...]
Good reason to have onsite admins!
There’s an article up on Slash , Sun to Create Underground Japanese Datacenter. From the article:
Kurtz’sKompund writes with word of a Sun project in Japan, one that’s taking a somewhat non-standard approach to data center construction. To save on power, heating, and water costs, the consortium is going to be building their center in an [...]
Oracle 11g Insecure due to "Stupid" Developer Mistakes
Oops. I mean, “stupid mistakes made by developers”.
Here’s the scoop from that leader in corporate IT communications, ComputerWorld:
Expert finds ’stupid’ vulnerabilities in Oracle 11g
Most of the above article lays out what the quoted db security expert says are “stupid” vulnerabilities in Oracle’s latest database product that result from mistakes by it’s developers. While calling on [...]