You cannot increase scope without increasing budget or removing other scope items…
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Buzz W0rds
Ours is an industry rife with buzz words. They seem to come and go with every passing financial quarter with regularity. Each one gets over used and then forgotten, but they all have a reason and they all start somewhere. I don’t really have much more to say about it…
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Green Computing
So it seems like the magazines and web sites of supposed IT pundits are abuzz with the concept of Green Computing. Lower the cost of your data center seems to be the concept being pitched for the most part. But the thing is, energy cannot be created nor destroyed… So how do we do it? Well we’re packing more and more information into those little chips. This makes them more powerful. And they need to use less electricity as the amount of space on those chips to hold it is reduced. Therefore you end up with more data getting thrown through the chip and them using less power at the…
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On the Road: Gaining Weight
It sure is a good feeling to be the one that figures out the impossible. When you’re at a client and you can walk out of there with that kind of feeling, you feel like you own the world. That is, until you realize you’re in a small town in the middle of nowhere and the only thing open is a Taco Bell. Then you realize you didn’t bother to eat lunch or dinner and you scarf down more food than you really should. That’s when you realize, sitting in your hotel room, that you haven’t worked out in months, your surfboard has run off with a boogie board (well…
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Windows XP Is No More… Kindof…
Microsoft has announced that as of June 30th, 2008 Windows XP will no longer be distributed. You will still be able to buy machines that run Windows XP but it will become increasingly difficult in the months that follow. Windows XP will be supported by Microsoft until April 14th, 2014. However, only security-specific patches will be released for XP after June.
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Network Terminology
1000Base-LX/FX Gigabit Ethernet over fibre optic cable 1000Base-T 1000Mbps, All four pairs of Cat6 cable utilized at 250Mbps per pair 100Base-FX 100 Mbps Ethernet data transmissions over Fibre optic cable 100Base-LX Long wavelength fibre optic transmissions at 100 Mbps. 100Base-SX Short wavelength fibre optic transmissions at 100 Mbps. 100Base-T2 100 Mbps Ethernet running over two twisted pairs 100Base-T4 Four pairs of Cat3 or better cable. Transmits at 25Mbps on all four pairs. 100Base-TX 100 Mbps Ethernet running over twisted pair copper. Full duplex 10Base-2 Thin Ethernet, called thin net or coax 10Base-5 Thick Ethernet cable capable of data transmissions up to 500 meters. 10BaseT 10 Mbps Ethernet running over twisted…
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Microsoft Data Centers
Microsoft is shipping servers sealed in a container later this year. This is pretty interesting stuff. You see, they arrive racked and stacked in a sealed container and all you have to do is plug them in and hook them up to air conditioning. Servers are clustered and when enough of the servers start to go out in the cluster then Microsoft just sends you a new container. Management required for hardware: zilch. To be worried about this type of thing taking away if you’re in the field a lot: nope. Why, because as you gain experience you’re hopefully not dealing with hardware any more. Otherwise, move up and over…
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On the Road: Death and Taxes
Be careful with keeping expenses used for work separate from those used for taxes. You see the last thing you want is to have to get IRS help from someone like American Tax Relief. Not that there’s anything wrong with that type of company, but no one wants a IRS problem. They can be timely and costly. So, don’t expense things your job pays you back for…
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OpenXML Draft Approval
The Microsoft Open XML standard is what Microsoft is hoping will be the standard in document formats. The first step in that process is now complete with Office Open XML being accepted as a draft standard by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization. ISO is the world’s largest developer of standards and has no governmental affiliation. Office 2007 created a stir by omitting the Open Document Format (ODF), which is already an ISO standard. Many had hoped that ODF would help to spark an uptick in the interest of applications such as OpenOffice.org as a replacement for the Microsoft Office Suite of applications. However, the ODF standard has had slow…
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Sun Datacenter in a Can
http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/gallery/index.xml?t=1&p=1&s=1