Dear Bob … I’m the first line of defense when it comes to information technology here, here being a 30-person non-profit. I know you normally advise companies a hundred times...…
...watch an all-day cricket match on television. The one thing we know about the mysterious contributor known only as S.K of www.cyberbrahma.com/ is that he understands the game of cricket....…
Why was there was no Keep the Joint Running last week? No, I hadn’t lost interest. www.issurvivor.com was in the throes of a major re-plumbing effort, and an unexpected glitch...…
...to http://www.cages.org/research/pepperberg/index.html to learn more about it. My apologies to any parrots I may have offended by likening them to the wrong class of human beings. Offending human beings is...…
...massive upgrade because it expects larger profits from the increased capacity. The consensus of the InfoWorld Electric Forum on the subject (www.infoworld.com): traffic jams and outages yes, complete collapse no....…
...spin doctoring. Here are two timely examples I found in Edupage (www.educom.edu), which I highly recommend. The first item, sourced from the 2/10/97 St. Petersburg Times, reports that The Software...…
...gored and not someone else’s. OK? Funny thing about the mainframe column. The forum on InfoWorld Electric (http://www.infoworld.com/printlinks/) was pretty lively and ran about 10:1 against my position, often in...…
...the comic strip. Members who visit the Dilbert Zone Web site (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/) are a click away from a catalog of Dilbert calendars, mouse pads and so on: a perfect example...…
...to undo. Computers had, I’d guess, about 1% of today’s processing power. The computation time needed to convert dates to and from integer format would have greatly extended batch processing...…
...that use it. Translation: We have no idea what we want to do. Come up with a system that will do it. – Find this week’s anonymous contributor at www.toomanyplacesonthenet.com...…