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The goal of any DevOps solution is to optimize multiple processes in an
organization. And success does not necessarily require that in executing the
strategy everything needs to be automated to produce an effective plan. Yet,
it is important that processes are put in place to handle a necessary list of
items.
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The distinct challenge of a skills shortage in this area and how
organizations are coping to meet demands with limited resources. The
technical requirements: From stacks to scripts, and what works. The practical
and political challenges: Beyond the stacks and the human element... (more)
Mark R. Hinkle: "Linux is ready for the desktop"
In my view, Linux on the desktop is a viable operating system.
It offers many features that are more innovative than commercial solutions.
Virtual consoles, secure remote access solutions, true multi-tasking, and the
ability to use robust journaling file systems all come to mind. Despite these
advanced features, I have also noticed some parallels between Linux and some
earlier versions of Windows. Let’s term these similarities as “growing
pains.”
I do feel that there are many cases today where Linux is an inadequate
solution, specifically in the area where James Turner's complaint lies - in
laptops(docking is my pet peeve) and multimedia. However, I believe James to
be a high-needs user; it’s my contention that much of the computing world
comprises low-needs users. These terms should not reflect poorly on either
group... (more)
LinuxWorld here brings you the article verbatim. The headline is in the
original Moscow Times version:
Rampant E-Mail Virus Traced to Russia Friday, Jan. 30, 2004
By Simon Ostrovsky Staff Writer
"MyDoom, the fastest-proliferating computer virus ever, has been traced to
Russia.
Using location-sensing software, Kaspersky Labs has traced the first e-mails
infected with MyDoom back to addresses with Russian Internet providers.
"It's scary, but most serious viruses are written in Russia," said Denis
Zenkov, spokesman for Kaspersky, the country's largest anti-virus software
company.
Ever since it first appeared Monday night, the virus has managed to latch
onto every 12th e-mail sent, slowing down Internet traffic around the world.
"This virus can only be compared to chemical warfare, an indiscriminate
weapon of mass destruction," said Mikhail Yakushev, a legal adviser for ... (more)
Here is the posting, from January 30, 2004 12:33 PM, posted by "mhp": the
headline is from the original.
www.sco.com is a weapon of mass destruction
"Much of the commentary on the SCO distributed denial of service scenario,
including our own [at Netcraft.com] , has been based on the premise that SCO
badly wants to keep their web site running. This may not be the case: unlike
Microsoft, which has a real business to run and a real need to keep its web
site operational, SCO Executives may not strongly care about the availability
of www.sco.com. After all, Michael Doyle’s half a billion dollar patent win
against Microsoft scarcely hinged on the response times of the Eolas web
site.
In fact, the author of the MyDoom virus has delegated control of directing
the most enormous volume of http traffic that the Internet has yet seen to
[email protected] On a whim, SCO can di... (more)
Novell Fills EMEA Slot
Novell, which has been moving its senior management around, has named Volker
Smid, who's been serving as GM for Central Europe for the last 18 months,
president of Novell EMEA. He succeeds Tom Francesese who was tapped to run
worldwide sales in October.
Ho, Ho, Ho: Intel to AMD
Lehman Brothers, which thinks that AMD is capacity-constrained, also thinks
that Intel may be aggressively pricing products and quotes China-based
Commercial Times, which cites PC OEMs as its sources, as saying that Intel
may again cut prices on its P4s by better than 60% on January 21. Lehman,
acknowledging that Intel has not confirmed the story, believes the "pricing
environment for MPUs is one of the most crucial variables impacting AMD" and
attributes Intel's aggressiveness to "AMD's margin shortfall in 3Q06 - and
remains a risk that we acknowledge the company has li... (more)
One of the coolest parts of the new SproutCore View layer is its ability to
use aspect-based programming to add behaviors to views.
Aspect-based programming is built on the premise that often objects that
don’t follow from the same class hierarchy may in fact need similar
behaviors.
This is especially true in GUI programming when designers come to you and say
something like “I came up with this new widget - it looks kind of like a
progress bar but it acts like a button when you click on it”.
In SproutCore, you capture these common behaviors in a “mixin”. A mixin
is just a collection or properties and methods that are added to your class
when you define it. The view layer will actually look for specific hooks on
your mixin so that you can automatically hook into the drawing engine, listen
for events, etc. It’s very powerful.
Take the example above: with the button... (more)
Related Links:
Wanted: 19 More of the Top Software People in the World Sung and Unsung
i-Technology Heroes Who's Missing from SYS-CON's i-Technology Top Twenty?"
Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing
completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving
the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical
order.
Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not
(yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do
to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see
end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve,
December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of
each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
Tim Berner... (more)
In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010)
being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time
to give my earlier list a complete overhaul.
Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the
Cloud Ecosystem.
I have increased it from the 'mere' 150 I identified back in January of this
year, to 250, testimony – as if any were needed! – to the fierce and
continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of
enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web
sites of the companies themselves. Omissions to this Top 250 list should be
sent to me via Twitter (twitter.com/jg21) and I will endeavor to include them
in any future revision of this newly expanded rou... (more)
My recent switch to a single-boot Ubuntu setup on my Thinkpad T60 simply
floors me on a regular basis. Most recently it's had to do with the
experience of maintaining the software. Fresh from a very long Windows 2000
experience and a four-month Windows XP experience along with a long-time
Linux sys admin role puts me in a great position to assess Ubuntu. Three
prior attempts over the years at using Linux as my daily desktop OS had me
primed for failure. Well, Ubuntu takes Linux where I've long hoped it would
go - easy to use, reliable, dependable, great applications too but more on
that later. It has some elegance to it - bet you never heard that about a
Linux desktop before.
There are many night-and-day differences between Windows and Ubuntu and, for
a guy that does 80% standard office tasks and the rest of the time I'm doing
Linux admin tasks, it was nearly all i... (more)
Related Links: Linus Torvalds Isn't the "Father of Linux"
"Ok, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the
Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus."
Thus begins a characteristically Torvaldsian e-mail to LinuxWorld News Desk
sent by Linus Torvalds in response to our invitation to comment on the
sensationalist claims this morning that he isn't, after all, the inventor of
Linux.
"They (for obvious reasons) couldn't step forward to admit that they had
gotten bitten by the computer bug, and had been developing a series of
operating systems on their own during the off season. But when they started
with Linux (which they originally called Freax - they do feel like outsiders,
you know, and that's a whole sad story in itself), they felt that they could
no longer just let it languish in obscurity. They started to look for a
front-man, and since Santa Claus is fr... (more)
In an open letter to the OS community, Darl McBride writes: 'The most
controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the
ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This
battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell
proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO
Group, became a focus of this controversy when we filed a lawsuit against IBM
alleging that SCO's proprietary Unix code has been illegally copied into the
free Linux operating system...' Read the full letter here:
The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is
the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This
battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell
proprietary software, and the Open Source community. My company, the SCO
Group, became a ... (more)
CloudEXPO Stories By Zakia Bouachraoui  The precious oil is extracted from the seeds of prickly pear cactus plant. After taking out the seeds from the fruits, they are adequately dried and then cold pressed to obtain the oil. Indeed, the prickly seed oil is quite expensive. Well, that is understandable when you consider the fact that the seeds are really tiny and each seed contain only about 5% of oil in it at most, plus the seeds are usually handpicked from the fruits. This means it will take tons of these seeds to produce just one bottle of the oil for commercial purpose. But from its medical properties to its culinary importance, skin lightening, moisturizing, and protection abilities, down to its extraordinary hair care properties, prickly seed oil has got lots of excellent rewards for anyone who pays the price. Sep. 4, 2019 10:45 PM EDT | By Elizabeth White  The platform combines the strengths of Singtel's extensive, intelligent network capabilities with Microsoft's cloud expertise to create a unique solution that sets new standards for IoT applications," said Mr Diomedes Kastanis, Head of IoT at Singtel. "Our solution provides speed, transparency and flexibility, paving the way for a more pervasive use of IoT to accelerate enterprises' digitalisation efforts. AI-powered intelligent connectivity over Microsoft Azure will be the fastest connected path for IoT innovators to scale globally, and the smartest path to cross-device synergy in an instrumented, connected world.
Jul. 1, 2019 07:30 AM EDT | By Zakia Bouachraoui  There are many examples of disruption in consumer space – Uber disrupting the cab industry, Airbnb disrupting the hospitality industry and so on; but have you wondered who is disrupting support and operations? AISERA helps make businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like user experience for support and operations. We have built the world’s first AI-driven IT / HR / Cloud / Customer Support and Operations solution. Jun. 27, 2019 08:00 AM EDT | By Liz McMillan  ScaleMP is presenting at CloudEXPO 2019, held June 24-26 in Santa Clara, and we’d love to see you there. At the conference, we’ll demonstrate how ScaleMP is solving one of the most vexing challenges for cloud — memory cost and limit of scale — and how our innovative vSMP MemoryONE solution provides affordable larger server memory for the private and public cloud. Please visit us at Booth No. 519 to connect with our experts and learn more about vSMP MemoryONE and how it is already serving some of the world’s largest data centers. Click here to schedule a meeting with our experts and executives. Jun. 25, 2019 07:15 AM EDT | By Liz McMillan  Darktrace is the world's leading AI company for cyber security. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System is the first non-consumer application of machine learning to work at scale, across all network types, from physical, virtualized, and cloud, through to IoT and industrial control systems. Installed as a self-configuring cyber defense platform, Darktrace continuously learns what is ‘normal' for all devices and users, updating its understanding as the environment changes. Jun. 25, 2019 01:00 AM EDT |
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