The wikileaks don't add up
The wikileaks don't add up - not only couldn't the leaks happen as described without gross negligence somewhere, but the contents seem remarkably one sided.
Managing L'unix
A free-ranging daily blog on issues related to Unix - including Linux, BSD, and Solaris - with a particular focus on enterprise-level decision-making.
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy (a pseudonym) is an IT consultant specializing in Unix and related technologies.
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Asking readers for some help
A quick request for some reader help - testing google alerts and similar software.
Giving thanks for failure: The ID card mess five years later
Money has momentum - and one consequence of the present TSA uproar is likely to be a revival in national ID card proposals as bureaucrats ignore a decade of data processing failures in making this work, to order up more of the same.
Buying for tomorrow: Cryptography and SPARC/CMT
When in doubt, bet on the future coming sooner rather than later - because it's better to be ahead of the eight ball, than under it.
Things are looking up!
Just last week American voters did the right thing - and pretty soon you may have a new job, or a better one. Great! but remember, change brings both opportunity and risk - so do the right thing: don't just celebrate, study.
Pagan Agnostics
Does the PC empower the user? I don't think so - well, unless you wipe out Windows and install Linux or a BSD, then maybe.
The iPad in business
When Motorola and Boeing's desktops were taken over by wintel bigots the stacks of abandoned Macs on the loading docks signaled the end of the company's dominance in their fields - now iDevices threaten to reverse those losses, giving control back to the users.
Another open letter to Larry Ellison<
This year's rather one sided polls in the American election suggest that vote cheating won't affect many outcomes - but races in 2012 may be tighter and reducing the uncertainties this creates for the economy is both a technology and a leadership challenge.
The more things change
134 students, 83 smart phones, 8 laptops - 3 of them macs. Sorry guys, but the PC just isn't cool anymore. It's back to the future: the 1980s in this case, this time with different bad guys and better answers.
IT cost, ignorance, and the race to the bottom
Look at the new crop of "smartphones" in the context of what happened with the PC - and you'll predict a race to the bottom as claims for the things escalate and both price and actual functionality fall.