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Submission + - How the CIA uses Scrum (opensourceconnections.com)

Submitted by

Stultsinator

on Sunday May 17, 2009 @02:43PM

Stultsinator writes: "The CIA's Deputy CIO Jill Singer came to the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce to discuss the process they use for evaluating, architecting and implementing their internal IT projects. What was surprising to me was that they use the Scrum methodology extensively."

Comment Re:Why would any one? (Score 1) 210

by Stultsinator on Monday February 16, 2009 @06:16PM (#26878253) Attached to: Does Your Vendor Issue Gag Orders?

Of course such insane arrangements with respect to investments lead to a portion of the financial meltdown.

Oh no...

This may be a valid analogy, but I can totally see it getting out of hand.

The Pirate Bay Trial, Prosecutor:
"Your honor, what The Pirate Bay is promoting, in essence, is the same thing that caused the meltdown of financial systems worldwide!" (followed by dubious lines of logic.)

Comment Re:Yeah... (Score 1) 468

by Stultsinator on Monday February 09, 2009 @11:40PM (#26793289) Attached to: How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything?

That's an excellent point. Although I think you're arguing against wholesale encryption, I'd stop a little short of that and say that an encryption policy is incomplete without a disaster recovery policy.

Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:20PM from the just-no-more-muppets-please dept.

jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?

Comment Re:sue Amtrak and JetBlue (Score 1) 675

by Stultsinator on Sunday January 04, 2009 @10:59PM (#26325537) Attached to: Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police

A big difference between JetBlue and Amtrak is, Amtrak is a government-owned company.

Google Chrome Is Out of Beta 444

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, 2008 @05:33PM from the could-be-a-contender dept.

BitZtream writes "This morning Google announced that Chrome is out of Beta, and showing improvements for plugin support, most notably video speed improvements. It also contains an updated javascript engine, claiming that it operates 1.4 times faster than the beta version, and work has begun on an extensions platform to allow easier integration with the browser by third parties."

Comment Re:So.. (Score 1) 618

by Stultsinator on Thursday November 13, 2008 @03:06PM (#25750525) Attached to: Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy

According to Wikipedia this technology is having trouble becoming self-sustaining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_arc_waste_disposal

Submission + - Looking inside the Second Life data centers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08, 2007 @04:17PM

An anonymous reader writes: InformationWeek looks inside the data centers that power the game Second Life. Tidbits from the article: The software architecture is an extension of the virtual world metaphor of Second Life. At any time, it's possible to walk into one of Second Life's two data centers, pat one of the rack-mounted servers, and say that particular server is running virtual New York, or San Francisco, or ancient Rome, and imagine itty-bitty people and buildings inside the 1U rack-mounted servers. Linden Lab, which develops and maintains Second Life, runs 2,000 Intel- and AMD-based servers in two co-location facilities in San Francisco and Dallas. And, contrary to widespread belief among Second Life users, Linden Lab has not decided whether to open-source the Second Life server software.

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