Posts by hidaraf

Dell buying EMC: Is this the end times, or the road to salvation?

IEM

Yep it looks good.

IF it begins being sold by IBM ,

AND

Purchased by the BIG Players , Then we will see something.

BUT it goes against the incumbents, Gartner,Accenture, ...

So it will take some time.

May you live interesting times, they curse you with

I will be out of the treadmill before that.

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Houston Astros 'hack' row: St Louis Cardinals fire their chief scout

Not a hack/unauthorized access

It looks worse.

Bet they just plugged in a <cleaned< backup of the database and the application. And forgot about the DBA´s identity.

And it was too much bother to change everything, Including scripts, scheduling, housekeeping,etc

So I suppose there is still a long way till the lawyers finish.

Not a hack/unauthorized access

It looks worse.

Bet they just plugged in a <cleaned< backup of the database and the application. And forgot about the DBA´s identity.

And it was too much bother to change everything, Including scripts, scheduling, houskeeping,etc

So I suppose there is still a long way yill the lawyers finish.

Boffins raise five-week-old fetal human brain in the lab for experimentation

Futures, futures..

On the one hand, there maybe starts The Culture

On the other hand, The Ship who Sang, and/or Soldier Blue shows a terrible possibility.

On the Gripping Hand, there comes to mind a number of "futures", from Kree's Supreme Intelligence to "I will Fear No Evil"

Here There Be Dragons.

I don´t think there is something, be it One or Many (the Pope or the UN) able, at this time, to make an intelligent (not even ethical) decision.

Gives food for thought.

Luckily, I won´t be here by then. I hope.

Euro banks will rip out EVERYTHING and buy proper backend systems ... LOL, fooled ya

So what?

Banking core has 30+ years of age. Yes.

Was done by retired (age, RIF,..) people.

Nobody understands it. Not the new Kids in management, all ful of really new concepts, slides, and nice words.

Thing is, Banking needs security. So that means Good programming techniques, Good performance,Resiliency, DR practices, Change management... .

Knowledge.

Samething nowadays is missing/failing/dying.

Remember RBS.

Who paid for the FAIL ?

You know all those resources we're about to run out of? No, we aren't

I would argue the situation was even worse

Assuming that they ARE graduates. Maybe only literate, able to read the sports page. Or..

Oh, yes, they do know how to play "get the quango" but..

How Microsoft can keep Win XP alive – and WHY: A real-world example

Remember NTbackup?

I think I remember NTBackup does Not run more than a OS change away.

So XP--> Vista --> Win 7 --> Win 8 makes at least 3.

Will it restore?

Start setting up VMs....

Oh well , had nothing better for the weekend

CIOs on the scrapheap - The Register wants your input for vox pop article

Re: Is it important for a CIO to understand IT on more than a superficial level?

Should be. Should understand much more tha PowerPoint

Re: Is it important for a CIO to understand IT on more than a superficial level?

Should be. Should understand much more tha PowerPoint