Interesting!! A failover IT admin would have saved them some grief!
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Here is another related article:
How to Protect Your Network from Rogue IT Employees
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network - Network World
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Oracle Introduces BI Application for iPhone
Oracle announced today the release Oracle Business Indicators, an iPhone-native application that will enable executives and managers to access "key metrics and analytical data" from Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Bringing real science into Second Life
SL5B Roundtable: Scientists and Science Outreach Event on July 1, to showcase how science outreach specialists are bringing real science into Second Life and to inspire new ideas of science in future.
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Another blog site (Second Sight) by somebody who is on one such panel and has been involved with Second Life a lot more.
Access Second Life keynote Speeches here
Getting started with AJAX using PHP
Very simple tutorial on how to implement AJAX using PHP.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Chuck Norris Beats The Hulk (3-1) !!!
In a poll recently conducted at Anil's blog, Chuck Norris beats The Hulk (3-1). Who's next?
Monday, June 16, 2008
Top 10 Qualities of an Excellent Manager
It is a bit of text book article. Yet, it is good to be back to the basics, once in a while.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Why Outsourcing Fails, Even with Good Project Management
This article came across to my reader from a Project Management feed.
The programming press and IT journals are full of stories about the failure of software outsourcing. The statistics are sobering. Less than 50% of outsourcing meets financial objectives. The outsourcing of many business processes besides software development also has the same less-than-stellar results.
Interesting article and it narrows it down to a very basic and critical piece that a software development process should have as a first step towards success of the project ... outsourced or not (I think).
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Chuck Norris beats Indiana Jones!!!
In a poll recently conducted at Anil's blog, Chuck Norris beats Indiana Jones hands down! (4-1).
Who should Chuck Norris compete with next?
Friday, May 30, 2008
21 Project Management Success Tips
After all that we learnt in PM class this spring... here is a more comprehensive approach!
Managing software projects is difficult under the best circumstances. The project manager must balance competing stakeholder interests against the constraints of limited resources and time, ever-changing technologies, and unachievable demands from unreasonable people. Project management is people management, technology management, business management, risk management, and expectation management. It's a juggling act, with too many balls in the air at once. Read more
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
802.11n Is Here. Wire-Free Enterprise? Not quite.
This article came down my google reader today from Network Computing. The article highlights issues a Wi-Fi Enterprise might face and the challenges Wireless Voice Telephony presents to it.
Voice Is A Bump On Road To Wireless
You may also catch the original article at 802.11n Is Here. Get Ready For A Wire-Free Enterprise
What do you think?
Chuck Norris Wins!!!
In a poll recently conducted at by Anil's blog, Chuck Norris wins 7-6 over Iron Man.
Who should Chuck Norris compete with next? Chime in.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Second Life getting ready for its 5th Birthday!
Each year, on the date that Second Life came out of beta (June 23rd 2003), Residents and Lindens have gathered to celebrate the amazing world. This year's theme is “Celebrating the cultural diversity of Second Life”.
Interesting Article ... More Details Here
Monday, May 19, 2008
'Second Life' and AI Research
Meet Edd Hifeng, a creation of artificial intelligence (AI) by researchers at Rensselaer Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning Laboratory, who endows him with a limited ability to converse and reason. It turns out "Second Life" is more than a place where pixelated avatars chat, interact and fly about. It's also a frontier in AI research because it's a controllable environment where testing intelligent creations is easier.
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3G iPhone... Apple keeping it under wraps?
Don't expect Apple to talk about it these days. Any acknowledgement by the company that a 3G iPhone is coming will cause sales of existing iPhones to plummet. Why spend $400 or $500 on an iPhone now when there's a faster, cooler one just around the corner?
No wonder Apple is keeping quiet while iPhone rumors swirl. Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai has reportedly received an order to make a "more advanced version" of the iPhone. A Bank of America analyst says the 3G iPhone will be here by summer, and predicts that Apple will produce 8 million in the third quarter alone. Apple has said it wants to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008.
All this discussion of a new iPhone could put a damper on sales of the current models. That's why you won't hear any 3G talk coming from the company until the phone is ready for the stores -- and then the Apple hype machine will kick in.
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Keys to Rescuing Ailing Projects
Here is an interesting article on keys to rescuing ailing projects and steps to explore some of the reasons why projects derail and how to use four vital success measures to revive them. More Details
Sunday, May 18, 2008
What is PhotoSynth?
A Photosynth experience begins with a bunch of digital photos. They might all have been taken by one person, or they might be a mixture of images from many different cameras, shooting conditions, dates, times of day, resolutions, and so on.
Each photo is processed by computer vision algorithms to extract hundreds of distinctive features, like the corner of a window frame or a door handle. Photos that share features are then linked together in a web. When the same feature is found in multiple images, its 3D position can be calculated. It's similar to depth perception - what your brain does to perceive the 3D positions of things in your field of view based on their images in both of your eyes. Photosynth's 3D model is just the cloud of points showing where those features are in space.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Google SketchUp is 3D for everyone
Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, export and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models for Google Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.
Touchscreen BlackBerry "Thunder" Due by September
The Wall Street Journal confirms all of the details unearthed a few days ago about BlackBerry's touchscreen Apple killah: Dubbed Thunder, it's only got four physical keys and it'll be exclusive to Verizon Wireless in the US and Vodafone abroad. They also toss in a launch date—Q3 of this year, meaning September at the latest, practically right on the heels of the BlackBerry Bold. Looks like RIM is seriously stepping up its game—whether or not it's 'cause of the iPhone, we like it. [WSJ]
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