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One of the many facinating things I discovered at LISA was that almost no one has heard of (no one at my sessions at LISA anyway) Dr. G: Medical Examiner Jan C. Garavaglia, M.D., (aka "Dr. G") is the chief medical examiner for the District Nine (Orange-Osceola) Medical Examiner's Office in Florida. An assortment of her cases are strung together to create the weekly show on Discovery Health "Dr. G: Medical Examiner." Another......
News is popping up that will interest those interested in the Sun/Oracle deal. I've made peace with Jonathan Schwartz but those who haven't will no doubt love to bash on his pay. The first data I've seen in a while comes fresh from the AP: Sun CEO's pay package cut by a third in '09. According to the article, his 2008FY compensation was $11.1 Million, and it looks like 2009FY will come in at only $7 Million, information which came from ...
Little hobby electronics company SparkFun Electronics just got a cease-and-decist from SPARC International because "SparkFun" may be confused by consumers as being associated with the SPARC trademarks. Come on guys.... lets be level headed. I think its a clever branding and they are in no way confused with SPARC processors or any of the companies that are members of SI.
Recently we talked about Solaris Auditing (BSM) in the Real World. Like BSM, Extended Accounting is a fantastic feature of Solaris that is utterly useless without tools. Solaris goes so far as giving you the capability but not so far as to hand you the rest of the solution on a silver platter. On one hand this means that the technology isn't pigeon holed due to the capabilities of a single tool, but at the same time it creates a barrier to ...
Quite some time ago I wrote about this subject: I See You!: Solaris Auditing (BSM). As much information is out there regarding Solaris Auditing the post was well received and pretty popular but I've never been happy with where I left it. Many people feel that auditing is "difficult". Why? Because its hard to enable? No, thats simple, just run bsmconv and your done, edit 2 simple configs in /etc/security to tweak it... whats hard about ...
Tonight was a significant evening for Sun & Oracle. The opening keynote of Oracle OpenWorld 2009 was provided by Scott McNealy with an appearance by Larry Ellison. There is a lot to unpack here, so I'm going to break it down into sections. The Acquisition This is the first event I've attended as "press". As such I got all the press perks, namely access to announcement details in the press room and early access to the keynote for prime ...
Oracle OpenWorld is starting right now (Sunday) in San Francisco. Shockingly I applied for a press/blogger pass and got one! So i'm heading there tonight for the big opening keynote starring Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy. But if you can't make it, watch it! Oracle OpenWorld is streaming live!. Stay tuned for updates tonight following the keynote.
In an effort to reach out to "new media", HP had a tech-day event at the Cupertino Campus for a variety of invited bloggers. For some reason I was among them, because inviting a Sun zealot to an HP-UX love-fest is always a recipe for a good time. I wore a Sun Microsystems shirt, of course, just to keep things clear. Some of the other attendees included David Adams of OS News, Saurabh Dubey of ActiveWin, and Andy McCaskey of SDR News. ...
For some reason I love "work clothes", in particular construction trade clothing. I suppose it comes from wearing a kilt for so long. When I first started wearing kilts on a daily basis, years ago, I did so because a) you stick out in a crowd, b) they are super comfortable, and c) they just look kool. Kilts are the ultimate "man" clothing. Thanks to the Utilikilt I also found kilts to be far more versatile and functional than traditional ...
If your interested in motivation and management, this TED talk is really interesting. Interesting primarily because it says what most of us already know. What would you prefer? To get paid $80,000 a year in a supportive and fullfilling environment or get paid $100,000 in a dull one where you feel alone? Brings to mind the IBM Songbook. Keeping employees motivated and esprit de corpse high, while maintaining a balance of order ...