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- A magical Maker Faire
- Segway Polo?Didn't Bush already teach us that you must always keep BOTH hands on the controls when riding a Segway?
- Tags: DC Guy
- Discussion threads 2006-04-28
- Factor in the productive hours per day when estimating duration
- Factor in the productive hours per day when estimating durationarticle rootDon't forget travel timeIf your support locations are spread out, in a large metro area, SF BAY congestion can playa big role in planning. It also can play a very large part in response times and timelysupply efforts. Too...
- Tags: DC Guy, duration, Factor, it management, planning, timekeeping
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Charles Manson times ten to the 9th?
- Charles Manson times ten to the 9th?article rootCelebrated scientis advocates death for 5 billion.The links to the various sources won't survive the transcription to this thread. But I checked them out and George Ou's report seems to be accurate. I certainly concur in the reaction, which is to ask how...
- Tags: Social Security, Shawn Carlson, Charles Manson
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- "Glitch?"
- Is anyone else alarmed at seeing the word "glitch" creeping into the popular press? Wire service reports, as quoted verbatim in online journals like StickyMinds.com, always refer to a "glitch" as the cause of computer system malfunctions.A "glitch" was responsible for the parents of hundreds of college-bound high school seniors...
- Tags: computer, DC Guy, defects, news, quality, reporting, software engineering
- Discussion threads 2006-01-31
- Guard against Sony's surreptitious rootkit
- Guard against Sony's surreptitious rootkitarticle rootThis is unbelievableHow much more arrogant will corporations become and still get away with it? Boy, you can sure tell that it's not the 1960s any more!It gets betterexamination of the code showed they'd used some of LAME's software released under LGPL and violated the...
- Tags: corporations, DC Guy, rootkit, security, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-01
- Spying on your staff or your family is still SPYING!If you don't think so, just ask your staff or your family. It's a lazy, seamy, and imperious way to supervise employees or raise children. If it's what you have to resort to in order to get the results you want,...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, DC Guy, spyware
- Discussion threads 2005-11-11
- Changed e-mail address AND forgot password
- I can't get into the Manage My Account Screen to change my e-mail address because I forgot my password. I can't use the Forgot My Password screen because it will be e-mailed to an invalid e-mail address.Help!Private message me...with your current e-mail address and I will send you your current...
- Tags: e-mail address, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2005-11-08
- Technology and the new class divide
- Be careful how you define the "classes."The most important nutritional problem among the poorest Americans today is obesity! You have to delve down into the absolute lowest income percentiles of the population to find people who don't have telephones, TVs, microwave ovens, and automobiles.America's "working poor" and even its welfare...
- Tags: DC Guy, security, internet, marketing, reliability, quality, computer literacy, it management, computer
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Measure your projects, but beware unintended consequences
- QualityThe article touched very briefly on the issue of quality: the troubleshooter who kept a vicious circle of problem reports going because their goal was to close it out quickly rather than to actually fix it.Every software professional in America should have the following tattooed on the inside of their...
- Tags: DC Guy
- Discussion threads 2005-10-04
- Feds to enforce VoIP cutoffs?
- This is just preposterous.Hackers can count the cavities in our teeth, update our software, and hijack our computers to distribute pornography. Websites I visit pop up ads for dating services that will set me up with a "hot lady" in a neighborhood within five miles of my house.But legitimate VOIP...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Discussion threads 2005-09-27
- Managing telecommuters successfully
- The oil industry must not have a stranglehold on the U.K.Telecommuting experiments were wildly successful in the U.S. fifteen years ago--before broadband and webcams made it absurdly easy.Then between 1995 and 2000 every American corporation sent out a terse broadcast: "The telecommuting program is hereby terminated." And we ended up...
- Tags: telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2005-09-27
- Feds announce global antipiracy initiatives
- Cultural issuesDespite the fond hopes of many people, this is not One World. Different civilizations have vastly different cultures and traditions.The concept of "intellectual property" simply has no meaning to a large percentage of earth's population. Attempting to enforce laws of this type where those people live is, from their...
- Tags: antipiracy, copyrights, DC Guy, Feds, intellectual property, international, piracy, security
- Discussion threads 2005-09-22
- New lawsuit looming over Google's use of 'Gmail'?
- Running into limitations of the languageIt's getting difficult to create a five-letter name that isn't already in use by a dozen other people or companies. How many corporations are already using the term "g-mail" internally? I would think anybody who has a lot of dealings with the government stands a...
- Tags: DC Guy, G-mail, gmail, google, Google Gmail, Google Inc., it management, language, trademarks
- Discussion threads 2005-09-15
- Getting Bad with Apple
- I still remember cassette vs. 8-trackMusic stores had to carry albums on vinyl, 8-track tape and cassette tape. This limited our choice of music in a very elementary, physical way: Every title was stored in three different places, so there wasn't as much room for variety.The same thing happened with...
- Tags: 8-Track, Apple Computer Inc., compatibility, DC Guy, ipod, Linux, Microsoft Windows, mp3, music, programming
- Discussion threads 2005-09-13
- Use project metrics to improve processes and declare success
- To measure is to manageThe way it was explained to me twenty years ago by one of my wisest managers:Look up the word "manage" in any dictionary. One of the principal components of its definition is "to control." Then flip the pages back to "control." One of its principal components...
- Tags: Process improvement, small project
- Discussion threads 2005-09-13
- U.S. Copyright Office poll: IE-only OK?
- As usual the government doesn't have a clue.Creative people are Macintosh people. Go to any crafts fair and you'll see that almost all of the artisans use Macs to run their businesses. Walk into the advertising department of most large corporations and you'll find it to be the one exception...
- Tags: Copyright Office, DC Guy, government, mac, Microsoft Internet Explorer, programming, safari, standards, U.S. Copyright Office
- Discussion threads 2005-08-11
- Phishers cash in on ATM cards
- Let's hear the excuse for this oneYou folks keep flaming me for insisting that software engineering is rife with shoddiness that would not be tolerated in other disciplines. You say that computer hardware and software is just too dadgum complicated for us to be realistically expected to work to the...
- Tags: ATM, ATM Card, card, DC Guy, phishing, professionalism, project management, security
- Discussion threads 2005-08-04
- Making the case for registered e-mail servers
- Making the case for registered e-mail serversarticle rootNothing worked with postal junk mailPostal junk mail is a huge problem even though the cost of sending it is substantial. On most days my mailbox is literally full of junk mail with literally no legitimate mail. Frankly, it's far worse than my...
- Tags: advertisement, DC Guy, e-mail, e-mail server, security, server
- Discussion threads 2005-06-24
Additional Resources
- Rational Rose on Windows XP
- HI, I have installed the evaluation version of Rational Rose Enterprise 2003 Edition in Windows XP Professional - SP2. Rational Rose crashes when i try to create a sequence diagram. Is it anything to with the UI ?? Please revert if any of you have a clue...i tried reinstalling which...
- Tags: aru_vaidy@..., IBM Corp., IBM Rational Rose, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Q&A 2005-01-19
- Multiple exchange servers in one domain
- We have two exchange servers in one domain. We installed the second one and moved all the email from the original to the second server. We decided it was nice to have a fall back exchange server on the network so we did not uninstall exchange. Both...
- Tags: server, David__, windows, exchange, networking, e-mail, domain controller
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
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