Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage

 Linux, Open Source, Operating Sys, Technology  No Responses »
Aug 242013
 

By Cade Metz at Wired.com…

Alex Polvi is living the great Silicon Valley archetype. Together with some old school friends, he’s piecing together a tech revolution from inside a two-car Palo Alto garage.

He’s like Dave Packard or Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin — at least up to a point. The difference is that, from his vantage point here in the 21st century, Polvi views his garage with a certain sense of irony — “straight-up Palo Alto-style,” he says — and he harbors ambitions that suit our particular time. He wants to change the way we build the entire internet, making this worldwide network of computer servers as easy to update as the browsers on our laptops.

via Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.

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3 Crazy Excel Formulas That Do Amazing Things

 Applications, Microsoft, Office 2013, Productivity, Technology  No Responses »
Jul 192013
 

Some good tips for Excel users.  The screen shots are Excel 2013 and Excel 2010 users should be able to follow along.  By Ryan Dube at MakeUseOf.com…

I’ve always believed that Excel is one of the most powerful software tools out there. It isn’t just the fact that it’s spreadsheet software, which is by its nature powerful anyway. No, Microsoft Excel 2013 itself has such an awesome collection of built-in tools and features that it has beyond any doubt, become one of the most useful tools for so many things. In this article, I plan to show you how powerful formulas and conditional formatting can be, with three pretty useful examples.

via 3 Crazy Excel Formulas That Do Amazing Things.

Editorial: Apple, Google and the failure of Android’s open

 Apple, iOS, Linux, Open Source, Operating Sys, OS X, Technology, Windows  No Responses »
Jul 072013
 

A well written article on why open source is not profitable (not that it is intended to be) and some interesting analysis on the success and failures of many initiatives.  By Daniel Eran Dilger at AppleInsider.com…

Open Source enthusiasts love to tell you Android is winning, and that it is winning because it is open. But they’re wrong on both counts. The history of computing makes that abundantly clear, as do the current leaders in profitability.

via Editorial: Apple, Google and the failure of Android’s open.

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Why Education Leaders Can’t Ignore Online Classes

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Jul 012013
 

As a CTO I think this short article offers compelling logic for further investment in online education.  By Tanya Roscorla at the Center for Digital Education…

SAN ANTONIO — The pressure is on for school districts to adopt online learning — and the pressure is coming from both parents and students.

via Why Education Leaders Can’t Ignore Online Classes.

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How to successfully implement the principle of least privilege | TechRepublic

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Jun 022013
 

By Dominic Vogel at TechRepublic.com…

The bane of many information security pros’ existence is the never-ending quest of attempting to enforce the principle of least privilege. At its core, this is a data security issue, limiting the number of people having access to more data than they should (for example, someone in marketing having access to payroll records). Generally, any attempts to rein in access levels tend to be met with disdain as they are perceived as “trust” issues. While we can’t strip away all their privileges (this would grind the business to a halt, you can’t be too liberal either. This leads to privilege abuse or people being too timid about their data security responsibilities.

via How to successfully implement the principle of least privilege | TechRepublic.

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Top 10 Reasons to Learn COBOL

 Programming, Technology  1 Response »
May 212013
 

To help out I’ve been asked to teach a COBOL programming class in the fall.  I have not committed to teaching the class yet but here is an interesting post by Scot Nielsen at MicroFocus.com…

What is the first thing which springs to mind when you think of COBOL? Did you know that 200 times more transactions are processed daily by COBOL business applications than there are Google and You Tube searches made? COBOL is not about to drop dead – it still dominates the business language world. Here are our top ten reasons for learning COBOL.

via Top 10 Reasons to Learn COBOL | Micro Focus Blog.

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How to prevent IT department overload

 Leadership, Project Mgmt, Strategic Planning, Technology  1 Response »
May 202013
 

By Minda Zetlin at ComputerWorld.com…

Not long ago, IT consultant Mark A. Gilmore was called in to help an IT department that was struggling with project overload. “They’d gotten this kind of attitude — the executive vice president calls it ‘Burger King Syndrome,'” he recalls. “Their approach was, ‘You can have it your way.'”

The business executives believed IT could supply whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted it. Salespeople had gotten into the habit of asking the development team to create applications within a week to fulfill promises they’d made to customers. As a result, IT employees were spending about 80% of their time reacting to crises or struggling to meet impossible deadlines rather than calmly planning their workloads, says Gilmore, president of Wired Integrations in San Jose.

via How to prevent IT department overload – IT transformation, management, Burger King, Gartner, applications, Networking, software, project management – Computerworld.

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