I was recently asked for some advice to find a way to “bypass the great firewall of China.” The company is trying to allow Chinese developers access and program a website for this company. In other words, the “GFOC” is blocking internal business affairs of the legitimate company – yes that’s communism hard at work…that [...]
I was intrigued by a recent article so I sent this email: Hi Cathy, I just read the write-up on your efforts here: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/157/cathy-davidson-duke-university-hastac …and you are so right! I’ve worked in IT for about 15 years and currently own an IT company. During my career I’ve recommended AGAINST the use of new technology in [...]
1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte 1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte 1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/29/visualized-a-zettabyte/
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6
Revolutionary. Game-Changing. Breakthrough. Our love for new technology is a story as old as the human race and to display our affinity for new tech we discuss, publish and blog about it in the superlative. We love it, we hate it. It’ll never fail (or sink like the Titanic), it has no chance of success [...]
David Barksdale was a site reliability engineer at Google when he was fired last July after it was discovered he had been accessing users’ accounts to find personal information. According to reports, he snooped through one 15-year-old boy’s Google Voice call logs to find out the name of the kid’s girlfriend and then threatened to [...]
Windows 7…released two months ago and it is the greatest thing since…since…the last best version of Windows?? From an IT perspective I’ve been disappointed by a several missing core features that should have been included. These missing “core features” are a huge oversight by MS. Why did Microsoft skip them? Functionality is the most important [...]