Sunday, November 17, 2002

There is more than computers in this world: Did you see The Dish? If not, it's really great to watch (watched it again a couple of hours ago). 8:01:38 PM

W3C Rejects Patents on Net Tech[wired.com]. I think this is a good thing (for the next couple of months, anyway), RIAA and M$ will weasle around it after that timeframe. 7:48:33 PM

Is it just me or is there a new trend in IT? More and more companies don't want to pay an expert in the field but hire someone who knows squat about IT and let him/her 'design' the network and infrastructure up to the servers; the obvious follows, everything kind of works ableit slow. Next step is to 'hire' an expert ("how much do you charge? Our IT specialist who designed the infrastructure came much cheaper!") and blow off the results of a created study about the problems ("That can't be, our IT specialist told us MS-Exchange is perfect for the task!" (4 employees communicating via e-mail)). Inevitably the next part of the discussion: "What is a 'CobaltCube' or this 'X-Serve' thing your are talking about?" "Given the price, it can't be up to the job!" "What is this virus-talk about, we never needed to check the systems! We're protected by a NAT-firewall!" "All our systems use FCR-something numbers that won't be routed, we're perfectly save!" etc. ;-) I've had discussions like these a lot, most of the times the 'IT Specialist' mumbles something about 'Industry Standards' and "'.NET' will improve the whole situation anyway." Based on recent findings all this glossy-paper hype about security happens to be a joke IMHO. 7:32:46 PM

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