Dr Wingnut

Category: Computer

  • Success

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    The [application] development isn’t successful if the infrastructure team that builds the physical system isn’t successful.  The infrastructure team isn’t successful if the operations team doesn’t know how to measure the system.  They all are measured in their success based on the final impact to the business.Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman

  • Twenty IT blunders that you should avoid

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    InfoWorld’s Chad Dickerson gathered responses from a bulletin set up for IT managers and vendors asking them for the most common mistakes they ve made and then distilled them down into a list of 20 IT blunders that you should avoid.  The lessons learned from these tales from the trenches touch on a wide array…

  • That’s the way I want to go

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    Kenneth Iverson, who received the ACM‘s Turing Award in 1979 for creating the APL programming language died on October 19th at age 83.  Three days earlier on Saturday evening, he suffered a stroke at home in front of the computer.

  • Reporting Vendors

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    The following list of vendors were included in a survey of reporting software vendors.  I had heard about some of them, but not all of them so I thought that keeping the list would be prudent. ActuateBusiness Objects who now also owns the Crystal Decisions product line. Data Dynamics Extentech InetSoft Jinfonet Panscopic Quadbase Quest…

  • Ignomoment

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    IgnomomentThe split second following a definitive action when you realize you’ve just made a tragic mistake.  For network administrators, this means the difference between going home at 5 PM or 5 AM.Infoworld Magazine, 8 Nov 2004, Pg. 48

  • Failure

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    There’s always a reason why something doesn’t work  Finding that reason is the hard part.Richard Wilmott, IBM Tivoli

  • Finally someone understands my job

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    Nobody has to tell you that overseeing a complex, inter-networked system of IT systems is a difficult existence.  You can become so bogged down in the daily struggle to respond to rapidly changing requirements and to continuously perform delicate maintenance on the Gordian knot of interdependencies that you find it nigh impossible to step back…