Comment Err... (Score 1) 720
Consequently the swedish scientist AND the Discovery magazine should not exist.
Comment DARE!!! (Score 1) 395
SWITCH.
Network Solutions Under Large-Scale DDoS Attack 139
netizen writes "CircleID is reporting a large-scale DDoS attack affecting all of Network Solutions' name servers for the past 48 hours, potentially affecting millions of websites and emails around the world hosting their domain names on the company's servers. The NANOG mailing list indicates that it is due to a very large-scale UDP/53 DDoS which Network Solutions has also confirmed: 'There is a spike in DNS query volumes that is causing latency for the delay in web sites resolving. This is a result of a DDOS attack. We are taking measures to mitigate the attack and speed up queries.""
Comment Re:Hey Faggots (Score 1) 116
So this is what we hear when we would listen to your dect calls?
Comment biting the hand that feeds? (Score 0, Flamebait) 158
Where some say coincidence,
I say consequence !!!
Comment Try Architecture (Score 2) 936
There's loads of jobs one can do in IT outside of programming.
Did you ever think of:
1.) Enterprise Architecture
2.) Business developer
2.) Functional designer
3.) Usability specialist
4.) application manager
5.) project manager
etc. etc. need I go on.
Most code-monkeys actually think these jobs are superfluous because its all about the code.
This, of course, is an illusion which becomes apparent when you look at some of the most brilliant code that produces the most horrifiing interfaces.
It also shows when individual systems try to interface. The stupidity clearly visible when programmers of different systems come together and start blaming the other for not adhering to THEIR brilliant SOAP/RPC/DBI design is sometimes sickening.
In short there's a lot you can do to help all of us, poor souls, lost in IT to create a better world
Study Touting OOXML Over ODF Is Debunked 203
The Burton Group, an IT research company, published a study urging that enterprise organizations adapt OOXML rather than ODF. Their reasons include things like "ODF is controlled indirectly by Sun," "MS Office is cheaper than OpenOffice.org," and "OOXML improved many problems of DOC." The Burton Group also claims that although ODF is well-designed, OOXML is better suited for the specific needs of enterprise organizations. The study claims to be impartial in that Microsoft didn't pay for it. Ars Technica now has up a pretty thorough debunking of the Burton study. Ars wonders how the Burton authors can so blithely overlook Microsoft's vote-buying in Sweden, while wielding unfounded accusations of chicanery in Sun's direction.
