links for 2006-07-01
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The Internets are tubes…and you might get tangled up them, a briar patch, if you will.
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Another high-profile fella switches from Mac: to ThinkPad + Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems to be the switching OS of choice.
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I’m actually not very good at this kind of stuff, but it looks interesting for all those enterprisey people who struggled with ass-loads of data. You know who you are ;)
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“The industry leader in online bookings is JetBlue Airways Corp., which at the end of 2005 reported that 77% of its bookings come through its Web site.” And they say IT doesn’t matter…
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Getting back to using just CRUD-think, plus the architecture of HTTP. REST with ruby code samples.
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“At Sun there are some of the smartest minds in the industry, there is a leader I trust, but everyone in the middle is up for debate.” As I’ve said before, I prefer public domain and all the use/etc. that implies.
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Pre-packaged Eclipse for various dev enviornments, Java, ruby, Desktop Java, LAMP, PHP, rails, python, etc.
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Leading with selfish users to get group benefts, and some links to more tag-theory.
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“If the DabbleDB boys think this will fly on the consumer front then they are sadly mistaken. On the business front - itâs dead in the water (as it stands.) But donât lose heart. Itâs not that many years ago that Oracle had similar problems in its w
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Security in eVoting machines looks for crap.
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DC exports muncipal data as XML. Mashups at 11.
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“[I]t has since emerged the worker, who was placed on administrative leave during the course of an inquiry, had written permission to take the sensitive data away from VA offices in order to work from home.”
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Another exciting thing I should probably read up more on.
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PR on Aperi.
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Wherein, we get many more details in public than we’ve had thus far, in nice, concise fashion.
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“Both storage and security are cash cows that are purchased without the prerequisite of doing a lot of business value justification. Blend them together and you have the perfect storm.” But…
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Commentary on some weird storage thinking…
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Hrm, good direction for CMDBs, but it still seems quite heavy. What if I just want to make things better right now with an eye towards the future? Can people do it better than software? What if I just make my people happy instead of my CMDB? Pipe-dream?
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Snatching up some service desk and ITIL,
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“But relationship-based cultures are quite different. Behavior is governed by relationships, not rules. Rules are simply guidelines, to be evaluated in the context of each particular situationânot something rigid and unchanging.”
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“The core volumes will be reduced from seven to five. The new core volumes will be organised in more of a lifecycle approach, with working titles as follows: service strategies, service design, service introduction, service operation and continuing servic
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…some Cote’ quotes on using open source to make sure standards are progressing well.
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Commentary on Cisco climbing up the value chain…or are they pulling the value chain down to their level?
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While I agree with the spirit of all this hand-wringing — we don’t want to be prohibted from doing things because of stupid, moralistic, idiot-think — the kind of rhetorical “assume the worst” in the commets is equally stupid and useless.
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Some super-fan art for the DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast. Yuh!
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Mail.app makes Mark angry.
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