Target IT dept fail many ways. 1) If Target blocked all connections to botnet centers, the malware could not send data out. 2) The HVAC vendor said they didn't monitor Target remotely, why did Target give them a corp/network...
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I agree with what you say in your comment, Doug, but I'd have to add that, if nothing else, Pivotal has stolen a march for VMware by establishing Cloud Froundry so convincingly as a PaaS supplier. Now its showing the value...
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@ Laurianne, I second you in this. Tablets are no more entertainment devices or something that people would like to have in their hands only because they it is in other people's hands. People who require travelling a lot...
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@ PaulS681, I share your suspicion. After reading this news, the first thing that came to my mind was the same that may be Microsoft did intentionally leak the update to check the limited response about their much waited...
In reply to: Re : Microsoft Windows 8.1 Update Surfaces
It looks like manufacturers are trying to come up with a tablet that could be somewhat smaller and more portable than laptops while performing all a laptop can. This one mentioned in this article comes close to that yet...
In reply to: Re : Samsung's 12-Inch Tablet: Is It Worth $850?
Y2K was a little more complicated than checking PCs BIOS to see if they would behave on and after January 1, 2000. There were millions of programs, many of which were used to run hospitals, universities, banks, airplanes,...
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I am in with you people on newsfeed filtering. We could call it searchability may be? Whatever may be the suitable word, everyone would like to have in front of him by just entering a couple of words instead of scrolling...
In reply to: Re : Facebook Redesign: 4 Missed Chances
I thought of it something like we used to read when it mentions privacy advocates. It is kind of redundant that privacy advocates say about privacy violations and that too goes without any action taken. This time it is different...
In reply to: Re : Facebook's WhatsApp Deal Under Fire
Very good article. We lack of a complete knowledge and Support for the whole platform: Z/OS, ISV's, and many critical business aplications running inside the BOX. Is sad to said that Im the younger profesional interacting...
In reply to: Mainframe VS Youngsters
Personally, I would love to be able to run Windows and Android apps side by side, or at least be able to run Android apps in a virtual machine within Windows. Dual-boot may have more appeal to software developers. ...
In reply to: Re: Dual-boot tablet appeal?
No way, COBOL is actually very easy to read, document, follow, debug than many languages that are out there. It reads like simple english. I have written many applications in Cobol and it was never tough to create something...
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@Alison Thanks for the article and the story. Doctors need to understand two things: 1) their patient-facing employees are their brand (a.k.a., practice); and, 2) treat patients like customers. In the age of the internet...
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Well, if companies didn't lay so many of us "Old Timers", Cobol, PLEX, BAL, PLI & Systems Programers off in the last 20 years because they were going to "Downsize", go to "Distributed networks" Migrate to Microsoft servers...
In reply to: Response to Mainframe Guys
The REAL reason everyone is trying so hard to get people to move off XP is that it is the last version of the MS OS without the built-in NSA backdoor.
In reply to: The Real Reason
I think we are too early in the process of creating cloud computing for anyone to be able to say, "There is just one open source PaaS." On the other hand, I remember Marc Fleury telling me that to be dominant in open source,...
In reply to: Open source debate: Is one PaaS enough?
The software-development, cloud-platform, and data-management aspects of the Pivotal One platform all have followers and legacy customer bases, but is the combination of all three really compelling and natural? Proponents...
In reply to: Which need is driving the selection of Pivotal?
OK, that makes sense. Talk about a PR nightmare otherwise -- card declined, possibly a language barrier to boot.
In reply to: Re: Declined
I didn't get a chance to ask. Bill Scott once had a consulting company, LooksGoodWorksWell. And his blog still appears under that name. Is this a line from his first review as a programmer? You can see the irony, if it i...
In reply to: A line from his first review?
Why dual boot Windows and Linux just use Robolinux which runs Windows XP and or 7 inside it totally immuned to viruses. I surf in Linux on top of my MS applications which run natively inside Robolinux. It just doesn't get...
In reply to: Re: Windows XP holdouts
No, what he's saying is that non-EMV transactions are so risky that many banks are starting to decline them by default unless you specifically call in and notify them you'll be travelling to the US (or other non-EMV country)....
In reply to: Re: Declined
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