* Gearhead: AutoMate, er, automates * Backspin: I for information or imperious? * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: AutoMate, er, automates
To keep you in that state of wild exhilaration after last week’s foray into prebuilt virtual machines, this week we have a tool that could make your life easier, a prospect that may induce something akin to ecstasy.
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Backspin: I for information or imperious?
“It makes men imperious to sit a horse; no man governs his fellows so well as from this living throne.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Elsie Venner
What if we substitute IT for men, network for horse, provides service for governs and users for fellows? I think you get my drift – there’s still way too much arrogance in IT groups, because they see themselves in a position of power.
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Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
This Week in Backspin: I for Information or Imperious?
There’s still way too much arrogance in IT groups simply because they see themselves in a position of power. This is because IT knows the arcane formulae and incantations that summon forth the angels of networking and chases away the digital demons and as some kind of penance for this exalted status IT has to speak to mere end users who know not of what they speak. Why and what might change this is this week’s topic …
This Week in Gearhead: AutoMate, er, automates
This week in Gearhead we discuss automation using AutoMate 6.0 from Network Automation, Inc. Yet again, we are beside ourselves with excitement …
Google on Processing Large Data Sets
Google are doing some really interesting research and the fact that they are making a lot of it public is remarkable. A recent paper Interpreting the Data:Parallel Analysis with Sawzall discusses a new data processing language, Sawzall, and shows some fascinating results …
Security and the Omega Threat
I’m noticing a major uptick in reporting on computer security issues in the press, both mainstream and computer-related. Which makes me wonder: Are things getting worse or is the world just starting to figure out that things are already really bad?
