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September, 2008

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September 17, 2008  7:12 PM

Overheard: Excuse me, is that a supercomputer under your desk?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Cray, Microsoft, supercomputer

cray_cx1.jpg The CX1 is Cray's new personal supercomputer. The unit is small -- it's meant to fit beside a desk -- and it can be...

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September 17, 2008  5:37 PM

Overheard: CRUD



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
CRUD, master data, Technology

crud.jpg The single most depressing thing for me in IT is how many applications are really just Mainframe data processing solutions...

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September 16, 2008  6:34 PM

Overheard: NBAR is a powerful application-layer firewall



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
application-layer firewall, Cisco, deep packet inspection, firewalls, NBAR

ddavis.jpg NBAR is a...

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September 15, 2008  5:14 PM

Overheard: Chrome is Window’s fork?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology

scott_hanselman.jpg Take a look at the Terms and Conditions for the...

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September 15, 2008  5:00 PM

Overheard: Berkeley software development



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
openBSD, Technology

jeremy_anderson.jpg “There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We...

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September 15, 2008  2:55 PM

Overheard: Open source forks



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
forking, Open source

sam_nurmi.jpg A benefit of open source software is the ability to take the code base of an application and develop it in a new...

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September 9, 2008  4:31 PM

Overheard: Explaining IT to the business side – marketecture



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
marketecture, SOA

jason_bloomberg.jpg It seems that every presentation has that one attractively drawn diagram that purports to illustrate...

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September 9, 2008  3:58 PM

Overheard: Hadron and F-BS



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Hadron Collider

charles_king.jpg I believe that much of the public reaction to the Large Hadron Collider is grounded in a kind of ignorance...

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September 9, 2008  3:36 PM

Overheard: Moving from a culture of “need to know” to one of “need to share”



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Enterprise content management, knowledge management

cornelius_doug.jpg ECM is about software. But is also about knowing the workflow of your people, where the information is...

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September 8, 2008  4:44 PM

Overheard: WEP and weak IVs



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
cryptography, Encryption, Security, Seth Fogie, WEP

fogie_seth.jpg The problem arises when you have duplicate IV values. If an attacker knows the content of one of the packets he...

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