Google blogged Tuesday night about a new project, the Google Chrome Operating System. Highlights include: Read more
According to The Guardian:
The man who leaked the real election results from the Interior Ministry - the ones showing Ahmadinejad coming third - was killed in a suspicious car accident, according to unconfirmed reports, writes Saeed Kamali Dehghan in Tehran.
Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran's interior ministry, was killed yesterday in Tehran.
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I posted today elsewhere about The Future of Data Marts. Key points include:
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Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis turned away patients in ambulances for two hours Tuesday morning, according to an article in the Indianapolis Star. Why? Because a power surge blew out their computers, which house their electronic health records (EHRs), and after half a day or so the backlog on their paperwork was intolerable.
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In the course of my research, I'm running across some VERY large data warehouses. Several of them, especially in the web log/network event area, are in the multi-petabyte range. Perhaps most surprisingly, they're run on a broad range of data management software -- not just Teradata, but also Greenplum, Hadoop/Hive (which isn't even a DBMS!), Greenplum, and others.
My current golly-gee-that's-really-big list goes something like this:
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The Register ran a long article to the effect of "A guy tried to engage in pedophile activity and got off with a slap on the wrist because he informed on hacker activity." That's distressing, whether or not one agrees with the article's slant suggesting this was a foolish Faustian bargain.
But part of the story was actually golly-gee-whiz interesting amusing, namely the lengths hackers went to attack each other. For example,
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A reporter just sent me an embargoed press release from IBM which includes the oft-used quote:
By 2010, the codified information base of the world is expected to double every 11 hours.
(Other versions refer to "human knowledge" as being what will double.)
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Aneesh Chopra, the newly-announced United States Chief Technology Officer, is getting Read more
rave reviews, including a detailed and highly influential one from Tim O'Reilly.
Last August, Greenplum and Aster Data made a very appealing case for enterprise use of DBMS-integrated MapReduce. Despite slow adoption, I still think the case has merit. Monday, however, was a bad night for the MapReduce advocates. First, famed MapReduce skeptics Michael Stonebraker and David DeWitt released a series of benchmarks that suggest MPP database management systems far outperform MapReduce. Read more
Twitter was hit today by the StalkDaily virus. The long version of the story is in my prior post on the subject, and its comment thread. The super-short version is:
1. Twitter had a virus (or worm) whose main symptom is that your Twitter account sends out tweets like:
Hey everyone, join www. StalkDaily. com. It's a site like Twitter but with pictures, videos, and so much more! :)
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A Twitter virus has shown up. Tweetstreams, including mine, send out the message:
Hey everyone, join www. StalkDaily. com. It's a site like Twitter but with pictures, videos, and so much more! :)
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I believe that almost every IT professional should write a blog. It can be anonymous. It can contain only a couple of posts per year. It can be done for zero cash cost. It can be extremely beneficial to you even if it only ever getting a few readers. Read more
I'm recusing myself from April Fool's Day this year. Not only were the events of several weeks ago stranger than fiction, but I keep reminding people of them in a plea for tolerance for being behind on my work. So pranking today would, I th Read more
The Star Trek:The Next Generation cast came together for a Galaxy Quest-like episode of Family Guy this week. The promo video gives a flavor. It's obvious from this article and Twitter alike that most or all concerned were great sports. Read more
As I wrote before, celebrities are flocking to Twitter. Here are some who I think are using the medium particularly well, and capturing my interest at least occasionally, tech industry folks excepted: Read more
The New Scientist recently posted a nightmare scenario for the destruction of the electric grid. Apparently, a solar incident no worse than something actually observed in 1859 -- the "Carrington event" -- could destroy all the transformers in the US. Or in the world. We don't have close to sufficient spares sitting around. Read more
I recently blogged that non-tech celebrities are increasingly active on Twitter. Subsequently, I got into a meaning-of-life kind of Twitter chat with LeVar Burton, only to find out at that moment that my house was on fire. Read more
The New York Times blogged today about humor on Twitter, rightly suggesting that the 140-character limit inspires people to toss off one-liners. Indeed, just such a one-liner was the genesis of a hot-meme-of-the-day, leading to my own most recent Twitter-related blog post. Read more
A Twitter quip made the Digg/Reddit/Techmeme rounds recently to the effect that "Social media is like teen sex." (I got it from this blog post.) The three reasons given in the original tweet were: Read more
Curt Monash is a leading analyst of and strategic advisor to the software industry. Praised by Lawrence J. Ellison for his "unmatched insight into technology and marketplace trends," Curt was the software/services industry's #1 ranked stock analyst while at PaineWebber, Inc., where he served as a First Vice President until 1987. He subsequently co-founded Evernet, Inc., a $40 million networking systems integrator. Since 1990, he has owned and operated Monash Research, an analysis and advisory firm covering software-intensive sectors of the technology industry. In that period he also has been co-founder, president, or chairman of several other technology startups.
Curt has served as a strategic advisor to many well-known firms, including Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, AOL, CA, and Netezza. Curt earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (Game Theory) from Harvard University. He has held faculty positions in mathematics, economics and public policy at Harvard, Yale, and Suffolk universities.
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