Opinion

The Terry Childs case in its own words

Some documents from the public record of the Terry Childs v City of San Francisco case

Jul 29, 2008 1 min

MySQL OSCON Interview

Is Microsoft irrelevant? Perhaps according to some folks at OSCON.

What happens when a digital camera gets wet?

The saga of a digital camera that got wet, went off for repair, and didn't work when it came back.

By Martin Heller

Jul 29, 2008 3 mins

Settling the ESB/Good SOA Argument

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By Dave Linthicum

Jul 29, 2008 1 min

Long-term concerns about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

It's about the potential power has to corrupt.

By Bob Lewis

Tale of whoa

Why didn't these creepy Men in Black facsimiles from the EPA have their own data forensics team? What did they want with me?

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Jul 29, 2008 3 mins

Data Management

Windows “Mojave:” Another sign that Microsoft just doesn’t get it

Microsoft's latest Vista marketing stunt shows just how out of touch they've become with the enterprise

By Randall Kennedy

Jul 29, 2008 4 mins

Collaboration brings value to VAN clouds

VANs are fast transforming into a forefront for offering integration and collaboration in the cloud

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jul 29, 2008 5 mins

Concurrency Java Software Development

Four harmful Java idioms, and how to fix them

Rewrite convention and optimize your code for maintainability

By John O'Hanley

Jul 29, 2008 17 mins

Is there really such a thing as “programming IQ”?

A new standard test or a silly time-waster? You be the judge.

By Neil McAllister

Jul 29, 2008 5 mins

In memoriam: Ed Foster

We at InfoWorld are sorry to announce that Ed Foster, InfoWorld's venerable The Gripe Line blogger died this past Saturday.

By Galen Gruman

Tim O’Reilly’s OSCON keynote

Tim O'Reilly talks about the value of data and lock-in

VMware’s free Infrastructure Toolkit helps admins with scripting

VMware is leveraging Microsoft's PowerShell to give its virtual infrastructure administrators the ability to easily script repetitive management tasks.

The Terry Childs case cacophony

I've been reading some reports on the Childs' case in the mainstream and IT media today, and I'm fairly amazed at the level of misinformation out there right now

Jul 28, 2008 2 mins

PG&E adds thin provisioning to energy-saving incentive program

Program grew from 3PAR's demonstration that combining storage virtualization and thin provisioning can save power

By Ted Samson

Terry Childs as a symbol

Has the gap widened between what is asked of IT and what is humanly possible? Or is crossing that chasm just part of the job description?

By Eric Knorr

A little note to Network Solutions

A few days ago, I posted an entry where I pointed out that two Network Solutions DNS servers were returning incorrect answers for non-authoritative domains. Matt Ho, a representative for Network Solutions posted two comments on that post stating that

Jul 28, 2008 2 mins

Still excluded from an ITIL project

Office politics when the budget is tight

By Bob Lewis

Cut me some SLAC, Jack

What's going on at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center? Cringely has the inside scoop.

By Robert Cringely

Jul 28, 2008 2 mins

VMware Releases Update 2 for VI3

VMware quietly launches an update of new features and functions to VMware Infrastructure 3, ESX 3.5, and VirtualCenter 2.5 with the release of Update 2.

Jul 27, 2008 4 mins

Did San Francisco undermine its own case in the Childs matter?

The court filings' allegations against Terry Childs don't make sense. If the network was open, then why couldn't the City of San Francisco gain access in the first place?

Jul 27, 2008 3 mins

Quickie on the SF Public VPN passwords story

I've received several anonymous (yet highly detailed) emails from people claiming to work for the City of San Francisco informing me that suddenly, their VPN access does not work. This would seem to corroborate my earlier post that the city did,

Jul 26, 2008 1 min

FastScale releases new version of its Composer Suite

FastScale released an updated version of its software virtualization solution, FastScale Composer Suite, that now includes Microsoft Windows support.

Jul 25, 2008 6 mins

Parallel computing with GPUs

NCAR was able to speed up the Weather Research & Forecasting Model by 20% by parallelizing one component of the model with NVIDIA CUDA software and a many-core GPU Computing Processor called Tesla.

By Martin Heller

Jul 25, 2008 3 mins

The anti-admin stance and the Childs case

In my reading of a few blogs and articles regarding the Childs case, I keep coming across statements that seem to be extremely anti-administrator.

Jul 25, 2008 2 mins

Microsoft + Yahoo: RIP?

Our long national nightmare is over — or so it would seem. After Yahoo gave Carl Icahn a seat at its table, Microsoft walked away, allegedly for good. Is this truly the end of MicroHoo? Cringely has his doubts.

By Robert Cringely

Jul 25, 2008 3 mins

OSCON 2008 in photos

Larry Wall, Tim O'Reilly, Brian Aker, Michael Tiemann and more

Jul 25, 2008 1 min

SourceForge Community Choice Awards winners

Some likely and unlikely candidates snap up SourceForge Community Choice Awards

By Savio Rodrigues

Jul 25, 2008 1 min

Yahoo plays defunct DRM tune

<P>It's getting to be an old song. This week the Yahoo Music Store <A href="http://opinion.latimes.com/bitplayer/files/the_yahoo_music_store_will_be_closing">sent a message to customers</A> saying they will turn off t

By Ed Foster

Jul 25, 2008 3 mins

Finally, some actual information on the Childs case

I've finally received some information from the city's court filing opposing the reduction in bail for Terry Childs. It's a frankly disturbing account of events and scenarios.

Jul 25, 2008 4 mins

VMware giving it away for free while Verari doubles it up

VMware's new CEO, Paul Maritz, says HE knows how to beat Microsoft! And part of that answer seems to be by giving away products. And while people continue to invest in virtualization to consolidate their data centers, Verari Systems hopes to hel

Jul 24, 2008 1 min

Network Solutions DNS Servers hacked already?

I was just hipped to the fact that two DNS servers apparently operated by Network Solutions aren't returning valid results for some domains, notably www.google.com: [pvenezia@mba ~]$ nslookup www.google.com Server: 172.16.32.10 Address: 172.16.3

Jul 24, 2008 1 min

Did Childs really install 1,100 modems?

I can't believe I missed this in the San Francisco Chronicle article yesterday: "Investigators say they are still worried about the modems hidden away in locked filing cabinets in public buildings around the city."

Jul 24, 2008 2 mins

Last ESB/Architecture Post, for Now

The last word on EA and ESB.

By Dave Linthicum

Jul 24, 2008 4 mins

Yahoo’s Zimbra goes to 11

CTO Scott Dietzen takes on a bigger role in Yahoo

Jul 24, 2008 3 mins

Making sense of the open source job boom

A report suggests 5%-15% of IT jobs call for open source software skills. Understand the research methodology before deciding where to focus your learning.

By Savio Rodrigues

Jul 24, 2008 2 mins

Battle for the Cloud: Google vs. Microsoft

Independent developers must choose between two radically different approaches to cloud computing.

By Neil McAllister

Jul 24, 2008 5 mins

The open source jobs boom

As many as 15 percent of the available IT jobs call for open source skills

By Bill Snyder

Jul 24, 2008 5 mins

IT admins should also think green

Your list of IT duties may be long, but viewing that list through green-hued glasses can reap dividends for you and your organization

By Ted Samson

Jul 24, 2008 7 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Why iPhone 2.0 won’t yet rule the roost in the enterprise

The 13 key omissions Apple must fix before it can really compete with BlackBerry and Treo

By Galen Gruman

Jul 24, 2008 12 mins

Accenture primes tech tools for green consulting

Consultancy unveils new suite of tools to bolster its burgeoning green consulting services

By Ted Samson

Jul 23, 2008 4 mins

A thousand thoughts on the iPhone

Okay, so I've been using an iPhone for a week now. I previously posted seven reasons why the iPhone wasn't for me, and now that I've had a chance to use one, I have to say that all of them still apply, with the possible exception of th

Jul 23, 2008 3 mins

Another dissection of reports on the Terry Childs case

In another San Francisco Chronicle article today, there are some quotes and summarizations from this morning's bail hearing: A judge refused today to lower the $5 million bail for a San Francisco computer engineer accused of hijacking the city&#

Jul 23, 2008 3 mins

The Annotated Turing

Charles Petzold's book The Annotated Turing, which covers Turing's 1936 paper on computable numbers and much of the background material needed to understand it, is more than decent.

By Martin Heller

Jul 23, 2008 2 mins

ESBs on trial?

Why I continue to be right on this issue.

By Dave Linthicum

Jul 23, 2008 3 mins

Childs’ motion for reduced bail has been denied

Terry Childs remains in jail for lack of $5 million bail. Apparently, the city claims that there are still three networks that remain "locked", and bullets were found in Childs' home during the police search. The city also brought up h

Jul 23, 2008 1 min

Media still not getting it right in Childs case

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story today on Mayor Newsom's intervention in the Terry Childs case. Unfortunately, they continued the spate of inaccuracies surrounding this case: "But there was a snag, Ballard said – the code that Childs

Jul 23, 2008 2 mins

Wednesday party at Oscon 8pm – midnight

party on, garth!

Jul 23, 2008 1 min

Beyond the Childs case: The network as art, and why managers need to get that

More information coming to light shows just how in the dark Terry Childs' managers really are.

Jul 23, 2008 5 mins

Data security meets disco fever

Seductive Asian agents, wayward Brits, purloined Blackberries — it sounds like a LeCarre novel, but it's really a true story. Cringely dives deep into a sex/spy scandal of Olympian proportions and talks about what this means for you and your da

By Robert Cringely

Jul 23, 2008 4 mins