Welcome to 2010. Good luck with that new operating system, people really seem to like their Windows XP. Too bad about Vista though.

You must not work in the corporate world. If you were not a confident idiot before joining, you will be after (or you'll be laid off). The guy who marches in the room with all the answers -> high value employee who knows his job and gets shit done. The guy who has more questions than answers? Incompetent idiot who ratholes meetings and deviates from the issue.

The irony is that usually the second guy is the more knowledgeable person, he knows enough to know he doesn't know shit. Unfortunately as in politics, the person with the snappy answer sets policy.

... I mean that Asian girls prefer men who lack self-confidence. Maybe because they're easier targets to walk all over?
this isn't scientific, so I'll stop here.

I have found that if I sound confident, other people will listen and follow, regardless of whether I know what I am talking about. I have also found that women tend to be attracted to confident, self-assured men, and are less concerned about whether the guy is actually right or wrong. So, if my theory is correct, men should display more self-confidence. Maybe the author already considered gender differences, but I didn't RTFA, I am just assuming that I am right.

The goal of an effective document retention policy is to identify documents that can be destroyed and destroy them as soon as it is permissible to do so. Old documents are a court case with a broad discovery order away from becoming a big cost. It's very cheap to say "the retention policy says these documents are only kept five years and we physically destroy them shortly after this date".

I know of a county government in New York that kept their backups tapes from their mail server as a method of retention. There was some political trouble with a mayor (who used the county's email system) and a contractor - suspicion of giving no-bid contracts or something like that. A request came to the county's doorstep for all of the email correspondence between the two for the four years the mayor was in office. The county had to buy a spare server and restore each monthly tape to it and manually pick out the email messages. It cost them $190,000. It would have been better for them to either have an effective archiving plan, or to have deleted them. Keeping stuff "just in case" is a horrible idea.

Of course, if these documents are being singled out for aggressive purging and other documents are not, then there may be some funny business going on.

Yet another clueless anti-systemd rant by Paul Venezia, yawn.

So now he goes on an ad hominen and labels systemd proponents as clueless noobs, while serious admins hate it. Right. I, for one, in one of my duties as a professional system admin manage hundreds of Linux machines, can't wait until we finally get rid of that SysV init crap in favor of systemd (I won't rehash all the advantages systemd brings here). Due to EL7 switching, we'll eventually get there, thanks Redhat!

You are kidding right? The /etc/init.d/apache2 have 282 lines, which such nice loops like "# wait until really stopped if [ -n "${PID:-}" ]; then i=0 while kill -0 ${PID:-}" 2> /dev/null; do ..." that are obsolete in systemd, and hackery like "if $APACHE2CTL configtest > /dev/null 2> then # if the config is ok than we just stop normaly $APACHE2CTL stop 2>&1 | grep -v 'not running' >&2 || true else ..."

Can it diagnose for Ebola? If everybody wears wearable gadgets, can we force-quarantine people based on the data from their devices?

Actually, as a former short time IBMer, I think you're both right. IBM core has lifers that have been sucked in and have worked there for years, most without skulls that ate actually marketable outside of IBM (yes, really). This self feeds where the vast majority internally still are riding on skills from 20yrs ago, and so the company competes over the past several years by bleeding out acquisitions it makes as it tries to buy its way into new markets without a real coherent strategy (see everything from storage platforms to their analytics acquisitions over past several years). Its a sales company where they try and compete on their long, slow, stodgy, established contracts, every once in awhile buying a new company and then rolling the capabilities under existing software contracts and agreements, adjusting the margin charge yearly to justify.

  This hasn't been working for several years at this point, anyone who understands basic financials can see the company has been playing financial games for about the last 4yrs (Money Mag gets credit for being one of the first mainstream places to call this out about a yr ago, even questuoning Buffets inVestment).

So yes, they are tech in the sense they invest quite a bit into r&d to establish a patent hold, if someone else comes up with a remotely competent product that sells, IBM goes through this portfolio to attain a royalty stake while divesting itself of the risk.

Does that sound like a tech company?

128,908 + 14,337j feet....

I don't use a smart phone you insensitive clod.

And actually I don't .. I use an original RAZR .. which does all that I want a phone to do - make phone calls. And I only need to charge it twice a week.