Douglas Schweitzer's post about 90 day detention times raises an interesting point, but not entirely a computing one.
Detaining someone for 90 days on the basis that they may be a terrorist is fine, providing you have proof that that is the case. Here in the UK we unfortunately already have cases of people being detained under the terrorism act for comparatively minor offences - including this bizarre event at the Labour Party Conference.
Now while I don't think that somebody would be detained for the full 90 days in similar circumstances, even a few days in this situation can be fatal to a business.
Douglas Schweitzer's post about 90 day detention times raises an interesting point, but not entirely a computing one.
Detaining someone for 90 days on the basis that they may be a terrorist is fine, providing you have proof that that is the case. Here in the UK we unfortunately already have cases of people being detained under the terrorism act for comparatively minor offences - including this bizarre event at the Labour Party Conference.
Now while I don't think that somebody would be detained for the full 90 days in similar circumstances, even a few days in this situation can be fatal to a business.
There's a fascinating piece here about how outsourcing doesn't always work.
I haven't experienced this directly (I'm usually the person brought in on outsource, rather than outsourcing work myself), but it does highlight what is probably an ongoing problem in the outsourcing workspace.
I've spoken before about clearing up after other people's messes, and my wife has in the past experienced issues with some outsourced companies, so I have second-hand (but a very good one) experience of the problems faced.
There's a fascinating piece here about how outsourcing doesn't always work.
I haven't experienced this directly (I'm usually the person brought in on outsource, rather than outsourcing work myself), but it does highlight what is probably an ongoing problem in the outsourcing workspace.
I've spoken before about clearing up after other people's messes, and my wife has in the past experienced issues with some outsourced companies, so I have second-hand (but a very good one) experience of the problems faced.
I hate Internet advertising - not only do I not like seeing it, I refuse to have on any of my websites either.
Why? Mostly because the content of the ad rarely matches the content of the website. Even with the clever work that Google does to target ads according to content, it only takes a few odd words on a site for the content to be strangely irrelevant. For example, visit a specific Jumbo Joke page and you'll get adverts for 'Find your Child', 'Is your teenager taking drugs' and 'Spoiled Tonkinese kittens'.
I hate Internet advertising - not only do I not like seeing it, I refuse to have on any of my websites either.<!--break-->
Why? Mostly because the content of the ad rarely matches the content of the website. Even with the clever work that Google does to target ads according to content, it only takes a few odd words on a site for the content to be strangely irrelevant. For example, visit a specific Jumbo Joke page and you'll get adverts for 'Find your Child', 'Is your teenager taking drugs' and 'Spoiled Tonkinese kittens'.
I visited my parents at the weekend, and as always one of the things I did while there was to do some admin on the computer. Their virus software - CA's ezTrust - had expired (actually, I think the product had been canceled, after them giving it away free through a deal with Microsoft after the SP2 launch). I replaced it with Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus solution - partly because it was easiest, partly cheapest, and partly because it's a product I feel I can trust my parents to use effectively and that will protect their machine without too many potential problems. Personally, I don't use it, both my desktop machines and the servers doing email scanning use ClamAV.
I visited my parents at the weekend, and as always one of the things I did while there was to do some admin on the computer. Their virus software - CA's ezTrust - had expired (actually, I think the product had been canceled, after them giving it away free through a deal with Microsoft after the SP2 launch). I replaced it with Symantec's Norton Anti-Virus solution - partly because it was easiest, partly cheapest, and partly because it's a product I feel I can trust my parents to use effectively and that will protect their machine without too many potential problems. Personally, I don't use it, both my desktop machines and the servers doing email scanning use ClamAV.
Getting a suitable backup solution right often relies on getting the right device, because that device will in turn determine your capacity, rate and the number of tapes required to backup your system.
Tape technology has, for a while, been behind the capacity of the drives on which we store the information, and I've always felt that on a busy disk you need at least it's current capacity plus about 25% to account for changed files.
With individual drives available in 500GB capacities, a milestone in storage is when we can store as much on a single tape as those 500GB drives. Even ignoring the singe drive capacity, it's not uncommon to see half, single or multi-terabyte storage arrays. Now Sun, through their StorageTek division, have achieved that native capacity (up to 1TB compressed) with the new T10000 drive.
Getting a suitable backup solution right often relies on getting the right device, because that device will in turn determine your capacity, rate and the number of tapes required to backup your system.
Tape technology has, for a while, been behind the capacity of the drives on which we store the information, and I've always felt that on a busy disk you need at least it's current capacity plus about 25% to account for changed files.
With individual drives available in 500GB capacities, a milestone in storage is when we can store as much on a single tape as those 500GB drives. Even ignoring the singe drive capacity, it's not uncommon to see half, single or multi-terabyte storage arrays. Now Sun, through their StorageTek division, have achieved that native capacity (up to 1TB compressed) with the new T10000 drive.