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Submission + - Cyberwar - Where do your loyalties lie?

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jxs2151

on Thursday July 05, 2007 @04:35PM

jxs2151 writes: "It's the year 2013 and the world is fully involved in the first open 'cyberwar' in history. The Chinese are disrupting PC's with massive virus attacks, Russia is disabling satellites, the US is spreading nanobots throughout the world, Europe is in the grips of a medical panic as instruments in hospitals cease to work. Jihadis are shutting down websites left and right. Online banking is impossible and commerce is slowly grinding to a halt. Normal communications become strained as the load on the infrastructure increases. There is no way to tell how it all started. Your country calls on your skills and talents. What do you do? Where do your loyalties lie?"

Submission + - What do you do when you can't afford a SAN?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @06:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: What's the next best solution to having a full SAN setup for central data storage? Setting up an enterprise level SAN is so expensive that the company I work for wants to know what other solutions there are to this situation. NAS is cool for at home, but would it work for a high trafficked website? I don't know of any self contained NAS solutions that offer data redundancy. The only way I can think of to get that would be to have an actual server with RAID set up on the disks. I have searched the web, reading white papers and other material, but I would like to hear from the horse's mouth what works best and is easiest to set up. One thing to keep in mind, and I know many /. readers will not like this but, we are in a Windows environment, and the gears that turn will not be able to change this.

Submission + - Oracle deteriorating: Sony Pictures CIO

Submitted by daria42 on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @06:28PM

daria42 writes: Sony Pictures chief information officer David Cortese has slammed Oracle's aquisition strategy claiming customer service levels have dropped and its products have become "stale". Cortese's application portfolio in recent years has included PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Demantra and Hyperion. All have been acquired by Oracle in the last few years. "The good thing is I only have to write one cheque instead of four. The bad news is it's Oracle," he said.

Feed Judge Drops Case Against Former H.P. Chairwoman (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @06:12PM

Charges against Patricia Dunn were dismissed in the corporate spying case. Three other defendants were ordered to perform community service.

Submission + - If you could do it all over, would you choose IT?

Submitted by on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @04:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Given some of the complaints against IT and software as careers (long hours, offshoring, visa workers, ageism, boring projects, etc...), what would you do differently if you could do it all over again? Knowing what you know now, would you choose the same college major and the same career?

Submission + - Companies apologetic after data breaches

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jbrodkin

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @04:05PM

jbrodkin writes: "This two-story package examines the many apologies companies have been forced to make after exposing the sensitive personal information of Americans. This story — http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031407-wider -net-apologies-letters.html — gives 10 examples of company apologies and rates the effectiveness of each one on a scale of 1 to 10. This story — http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/031407-wider -net-apologies.html — examines the typical mistakes companies make when they apologize for data breaches. Often, a bad apology can make the situation worse."

Submission + - Internet Radio In Peril

Submitted by h890231398021 on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:50PM

h890231398021 writes: A recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB, a part of the U.S. Copyright Office) will significantly increase royalty rates on internet broadcasters, to the point at which most small/medium internet streams will be financially unable to operate because all of their revenues will go to paying royalties, leaving nothing for bandwidth fees, staff salaries, etc. This site provides more information, and claims the CRB decision is all part of the master RIAA plan to Make More Money and shut out independent artists. CNN has a brief summary as well.

Submission + - On Becoming The Family Tech Support Guru

Submitted by

tiktok

on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @02:33PM

tiktok writes: "GOTD has a humorous article about the dangers of offering tech support to family members. We've all been in this situation before, where you have fixed one family member's "minor" computer problem, and all of a sudden, you're the one expert that everyone in the family relies on for all their technical support."

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