Subtraction: If it looks like a cow, swims like a dolphin and quacks like a duck, it must be enterprise software One of the main problems with enterprise software design is that the person who decides whether to buy the program is usually not the person who ends up having to use it. That leads [...]
Archive | October, 2007
HTTP, the Once And Future King
Not that I’m in the loop or anything, but NBC and Fox’s parent companies have banded together to create an on-demand television show streaming video site. They called it Hulu.com, (which just goes to show you that all the good domain names are already taken.) It’s a YouTube competitor with one thing going for it: [...]
Spiceworks and the Ad-Blockers
A few weeks ago, we wrote a story that got a significant amount of pickup from several sources called “Ad-Block: Adapt or Die,” where we posited that the technically savvy would – and in some cases even should – use the Ad-Block tool, despite the fact that it is disruptive to the advertising business model. [...]
Traffic Shaping and Net Neutrality: Good Versus Evil
By Brian Boyko Editor, Network Performance Daily The Net Neutrality debate can often be overzealously couched by supporters and detractors of Net Neutrality legislation as an apocalyptic fight between good and evil. Weirdly, they’re right. But not in the way you think. See, at the core of Network Neutrality issues are appliances or programs which [...]
Network Performance Links: Data Center OS, U.S. #1?, and Vista Activation Troubles.
ComputerWorld: Opinion: VMware, Cisco say data center OS is on its way John Webster at ComputerWorld waxes philosophical on events at VMworld 2007. “As hard rock throbbed and steam rose from the main stage, I sensed tectonic plates shifting.” (Is this a networking editorial or a romance novel with Fabio on the cover?) VMware Inc. [...]
VoIP Notes: Echo Echo In Voice over IP Systems Systems
Echo is a troubling problem. Most of us have suffered through some call where we had to try to talk with a lot of echo on the wire. It’s very distracting and makes it hard for most people to think straight and talk at the same time. VoIP does not create echo, but due to [...]
Whurley (William Hurley) from BMC on community-building
We were able to catch up with William Hurley, chief architect of open-source strategy for BMC software. He’s also the founder – so much as it has one – of BarCamp, an “un-conference” for IT professionals to exchange ideas, “organized” through a Wiki. We asked him about BarCamp and community building in IT. You can [...]
Network Performance Links: MySpace goes VoIP, MP3 spam, and D&D goes High Tech.
ComputerWorld: MySpace adds Skype VOIP to popular social network From the people who brought back pages that load music the instant you visit them from the dark days of the 1990s Web, MySpace has decided to team up with VoIP network Skype to provide voice service to MySpace’s IM client. The new capabilities will be [...]
Is Web 2.0 an crisis-in-the-making? Jim Metzler speaks about the impact of Web 2.0 on Network Performance
“In fact, I was talking with someone the other day,” said Jim Metzler. “I don’t need to be dramatic, but he said to me, ‘Jim, I look at Web 2.0 the way I look at global warming. We’re just beginning to realize how serious global warming is and take some steps now. We’re not there [...]
Network Performance Links: Apple Leopard, Latency w/ iPhone, Crazy things about IT, and Web Worms
There’s a party tonight at NetQoS, and I hope to have video of it tomorrow. In the meantime, there’s a lot of news from America’s Most Huggable Multi-billion Dollar International Mega-Corporation, Apple. Apple: Mac OS X Leopard Features Apple, set to release the much anticipated “Leopard” operating system before the end of this month, has [...]
Interview with Luke Kanies, developer of Puppet server automation
We ran into Luke Kanies, the founder of Reductive Labs, which develops the open source server and desktop automation tool “Puppet.” Puppet is designed to let you run system administrative tasks automatically on multiple systems – even if those systems use different operating systems. All you do is input the configuration you’re used to handling, [...]
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Tales… from the NOC Keeper
Good Evening, Network EnginSNEERS and System DEFENESTRATORS! It is I, The NOC Keeper, with a tale of ghoulish fright. So keep on reading this Web BLARGH, and be prepared for NETWORK HORROR STORIES! Bill Alderson: (This story is lightly embellished.) An organization long ago experienced a problem with a server mysteriously in the middle of [...]