Disturbances in the cloud
[Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:32:28 +0000]
Cloud computing is cool, no doubt about that. There have never been more good looking and futuristic looking schematics been made in Visio. Thousands of presentations, workshops and even conferences have been held on the subject.
One question however has not be clearly answered yet … what about data ownership? What about privacy of that data? [...]
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Prank calls and counter measures.
[Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:15:55 +0000]
Gunnar Peterson linked to this fun but interesting story:
âHe sounded just like Obama,â she said on Thursday, referring to President-elect Barack Obama.
Sensing she was the victim of a spoof by a South Florida radio station, she promptly disconnected the call.
Trouble was, it was Obama.
A chagrined Ros-Lehtinen told the Fox News Channel that she also hung [...]
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And the solution is … SSL!
[Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:53:04 +0000]
Today I attented a talk from Microsoft about their new Azure Cloud Computing platform. They had hired David Chappell to present the first topics that introduced the whole concept and the specific offering Microsoft is making in this area.
It was all interesting, David Chappell is a gifted speaker. At one point however I got disappointed. [...]
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Fly secure, don’t drink
[Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:15:09 +0000]
We all know how these days you are not allowed to bring any significant amount of liquid on the airplane. Every liquid you do bring with you is taken away swiftly. Bruce Schneier has an excellent blog entry on the usefulness of this rule.
In Belgium we have this television series “Airport Security” about the day [...]
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DropBox + PasswordSafe = Good ??
[Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:25:06 +0000]
When I read Joel Spolsky’s post about DropBox combined with PasswordSafe I kind of fell from my chair. Apparently he was looking for a way to store his passwords in a safe way and be able to access them on any computer he uses. This is what he proposes:
Install DropBox on all your computers. DropBox [...]
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HR, your source of identies?
[Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:26:21 +0000]
For a few years I had the pleasure to work for Novell. I did several consulting projects with Identit Manager and even have some experience with the predecessor DirXML. After the Novell era, I worked for an independent service provider and got to know Sun Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Identity Manager. This just to [...]
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YouTube vs. Viacom … what about privacy?
[Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:51:57 +0000]
Most of you have probably heard about the case where a judge ordered Google to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube user. That includes the user’s name and IP addresses. This in response to complaint filed by Viacom against Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube. [...]
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From here to there … AS-IS and TO-BE
[Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:36:31 +0000]
All people in ICT have come across projects that will replace a current situation (the AS-IS) with a desired future situation (the TO-BE). At first sight it looks great: you analyze the current situation, including shortcomings and issues, and you document it in an AS-IS document. Then based on the results of this AS-IS and [...]
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Flex … not that flexible it seems …
[Tue, 27 May 2008 07:36:44 +0000]
In the last few weeks I have come into contact with Adobe Flex to create a separate Flex front-end that talks to a back-end using web services. The advantage would be rapid development of a front-end that can use the tons of fancy UI features offered by Flex.
After a few proof of concepts I quickly [...]
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What about me !?
[Tue, 27 May 2008 06:23:17 +0000]
Paul Madsen got a Facebook invite from Ping’s Patrick Harding. It seems he was very proud of it until he discovered that, quoting Paul, “Patrick is making more friends then Britney backstage at a ‘Boyz II Men’ reunion tour.“
I jumped over to Facebook to see if Patrick had already invited me and, if he did, [...]
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