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Downtime: Amazon S3
ReadWriteWeb reports an outage over at Amazon S3: Today’s big news is that Amazon’s S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog’s images on S3,...
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Niel Nickolaisen is My Hero
I have a pile of “CIO Decisions” on my desk. They’re good bathroom reading for IT people. The content is not what I would call deep and rigorous, but even when it is just complete fluff it is...
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How To Hire A Sysadmin, Part I
There’s lots of lists out there for “interview questions” to ask IT people when you are interviewing them for a new position. Many of those lists are pretty worthless in practice, as they actually ask...
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How To Hire A Sysadmin, Part II
As promised, albeit a bit later than originally scheduled, the second part of “How To Hire A Sysadmin”, with the Second Question to ask a potential hire: “You are sitting at your desk one day when the...
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An Observation about MBAs
In the course of my MSIS/PhD education, I’ve been exposed to a lot of organizational science (or management theory, depending upon how you want to classify the particular chunk of knowledge). I’ve...
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Useful Satire
From Coderoom, a post entitled: 3 Simple Rules That Will Make You a ‘Superstar’ Developer Read the whole thing, if you run any sort of technical or programming project team. From the end of the post:...
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Dr. Rob
Dr. Rob over at Distractible Mind has unwittingly written a more universal post than he may have thought he was. Go read it. Then copy it into a word processor, and do a search/replace on the word...
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Just Don’t Forget the Middle Part
“Pay them enough to take money off the table” (also remember that “taking money off the table” means something entirely different to a 26 year-old bachelor and a 32 year-old father of two, and that...
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Audit
There are typically four major processes that people talk about when they’re talking about security – identification, authentication, authorization, and audit. It’s pretty typical for people to talk...
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Suppose You Get Hit By A Truck
Sitting here in class (Crisis Management, so far a fun class!), I was struck by an observation that you, general public, may find useful. Every competent information technology professional I’ve ever...
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