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Digital asset management - guts versus gloss
Blog I guess so. They nearly lost me when they started talking about ‘dashboard widgets’ for at-a-glance system admin viewing pleasure, but I guess they had to put the gloss in somewhere. So there are gutsy stories out there in amongst all the gloss, I...
[February 16, 2009, 11:11]
"♬ Service Pack 3 Done give me the Blues♬♬"
Blog I have no clear idea but I do have a guess I'll share. My guess is that we haven't heard the end of it yet. I stupidly went at it again. This time I installed all the idiotic updates and security patches to bring the SP2 machine that wouldn't...
[June 17, 2008, 1:44]
Strong passwords a must for web apps
News Of course, longer or more complex passwords do not eliminate the risk of brute-force attacks, in which hackers try all possible combinations of characters to guess the right password. Look at the numbersIf you're not convinced of the importance of...
[March 25, 2003, 13:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Guess how many people know this. Now guess how many people know how to check that their 802.11a equipment conforms. Alternatively, guess how many people just buy their kit from shops and on the Net and wouldn't know 802.11a from a tap-dancing frog...
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
What to expect from Sun's JavaOne 2009
Blog JavaFX is currently available for both browser/desktop & mobile - my guess is that mobile will be the most newsworthy area, but we will have to see. My best guess is that he'll echo the statement I heard from an Eclipse employee back in London who...
[June 1, 2009, 1:11]
GNU Windows 7?
Blog I guess it helped that I didn't need any.help. I guess its grandaughter or grandson is now a download-able 473 MB executable. I found something in Windows 7 that seems to have been around awhile, Unix Application Services.
[April 9, 2009, 11:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog That annex guaranteed the property and safety of the inhabitants of the villages there: as you might guess, this didn't pan out. Your guess is as good as mine. Thursday 15/12/2005 It's Fab Time. The highlight of the trip awaits.
[January 6, 2006, 17:40]
iPhone in India- Finally!
Blog So, it's any body's guess where things might be headed. But I guess they have a disadvantage vis-a-vis iPhone, I mean people want to buy it 'cause it is iPhone and can there product beat that. After a long wait eventually iPhone was launched in...
[August 26, 2008, 8:22]
The Software What IBM Wrote
Blog I don’t know - I would hazard a guess and say no, but surely this must help. Anyway, if you’re not a Morecambe and Wise fan, I guess you may not follow the meaning behind my above title. Keen to make sure we can all develop applications really good...
[August 1, 2008, 11:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The plod wasn't detailed about how much looking is required to allay their suspicion - the more the merrier, I guess. Whether this is true or just a tale told by the police to defence briefs to keep their clients quiet, I guess we'll find out - put...
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
PC vendors snub antitrust altered Windows
Talkback I guess people have to die in numbers before governments will intervene. But I guess it was cheaper to simply pay the relatives off or blame it on the computer (failing computers is accepted behaviour nowedays, remember?
[June 18, 2005, 0:10]
When will virtualisation be real?
Blog For some of us, the jury on virtualisation is just out in general I guess. My best guess is that it does what it says on the tin, but with all this big talk and every vendor from Microsoft to IBM keen to snuggle up with the darling of the...
[September 15, 2008, 20:11]
SCO warns businesses over Linux liabilities
News I guess SCO is really attempting to create a fairly large disruption of Linux, and will attempt to take the Linux community with them in the defense of their intellectual property, regardless of how poorly it goes off in the Linux community.
[May 15, 2003, 7:28]
Companies struggling to stop song swappers
Talkback I guess next time I'm at work I should ask my boss to pay me for my past 2 weeks, while for the last week and a half I haven't been worth a damn. If not, I guess they'll continue to prosecute and lose potential earnings until they realize how...
[September 9, 2003, 23:12]
Australian Collaboration Situation
Blog It’s a fair argument I guess, organisational change can only be successfully implemented with the buy-in of the people it affects. Trust the Aussie to know how to organise a get together then - from the beach to the development shop I guess.
[August 17, 2009, 10:02]
Economic uncertainty foils Gartner forecast
News While Gartner is certain that IT budgets will slow, Sondergaard did not venture to guess for how long they will head south. Your guess is as good as anybody else's," he told journalists. Analyst firm Gartner has found itself short of an explanation...
[November 11, 2008, 12:54]
Windows Longhorn: a first look inside the new OS
Talkback But lets face it,, it isnt gonna revolutionize guis,, just made them easier to look cool, the extended xml lang for avalon looks cool and i guess works perfectly with c# glade in linux have just been able to define guis in xml for years now
[May 8, 2005, 23:19]
Online florist divulges customer details
News Moreover, the identifiers used by FTD.com's e-commerce system were seemingly sequential, not random, making it easier to guess the numbers of other valid cookies, he said. A combination of predictable identifiers for customer transactions and the...
[February 14, 2003, 13:50]
Mobile search advertisements: nicer or nastier?
Blog I guess it doesn’t as a previous career in advertising has given me in innate distrust of any type of publicity. I appreciate the technology side of this argument and I guess we are moving forward. Recent events have conspired to expose me to a...
[December 11, 2007, 18:15]
Does TwitterGate point towards bigger Cloud security issues?
Blog Use a password system no one could ever guess. Ian Watches Formula 1 Every Other Sunday would become IWF1EOS — who is ever going to guess that as a password? Factor in that the sentence could be about ANY aspect of your life and it becomes harder...
[July 17, 2009, 10:50]
