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About Paul Murphy
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Originally a Math/Physics graduate who couldn't cut it in his own field, Paul Murphy (a pseudonym) became an IT consultant specializing in Unix and related technologies after a stint working for a DARPA contractor programming in Fortran and APL. Since then he's worked in both systems management and consulting for a range of employers including KPMG, the government of Alberta, and his own firm. In those roles he's "been there and done that" for just about every aspect of systems management and operation.
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Paul Murphy
I do not work for, or otherwise receive anything from, any of the companies I write about. I have some money in a number of funds that bet on the markets, including the technology market, but have no direct control over how these funds are administered or what investments are made. I use Sun and Apple technology both at home and at work.
Biography
Paul Murphy
Originally a Math/Physics graduate who couldn't cut it in his own field, Paul Murphy (a pseudonym) became an IT consultant specializing in Unix and related technologies after a stint working for a DARPA contractor programming in Fortran and APL. Since then he's worked in both systems management and consulting for a range of employers including KPMG, the government of Alberta, and his own firm. In those roles he's "been there and done that" for just about every aspect of systems management and operation.
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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.
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Asking readers for some help
A quick request for some reader help - testing google alerts and similar software.
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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...
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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.
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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:...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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A guy called Joe
The world's best advice: "if it doesn't work, stop doing it", applies to mergers as much as to government - and ignoring it was probably Sun's single biggest mistake.
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Oracle's invisible elephant
From Oracle OpenWorld: nothing but good news - and a missing elephant, or maybe two.
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The CIO role in the Unix Enterprise
There's really not much to running a Unix system in the enterprise: as CIO all you need to do is create your own mini-me s in user departments, continually beat back the wintel/dp bigots, avoid...
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Thin clients vs. Smart Displays
If you want to understand what happened to Sun, look no further than Sun Marketing's insistence on selling the Sun Ray as a thin client - something it isn't. Thin clients have few organizational...
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Unix vs Wintel/DP: the cost/benefit issue
An imaginary wall to wall Wintel/DP to Unix conversion produces what? Operating cost savings and a dramatic turn-around in IT organizational posture: from blocking force to business enabler.
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Tragedy: Waiting for the laughter to start
Usually I ignore idiotic comment but sometimes the idiocy is so apropos that the petty response is the right response - here because the writer is normally sane but produced a stunning indictment...
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Forces of nature
Answering sparkle farkle - with a detour through history that should be about 10,000 words long but isn't.
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Drones, arrogance, and fate
Sometimes, particularly when you look at someone else's mess, you can see the rock coming but not get them to move out of the way - and in that situation the only thing you can do is speculate...
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Who does client-server serve?
On the surface one of the oddest things about a large client-server operation that grew from an earlier 327X style system is that they didn't meet their SLA terms then, and don't now - but the...
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The real meaning of the service level agreement
I believe that outsourcing It is almost always wrong - but it has its uses if you want someone else to take the hit for forcing IT management change.
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