westajay

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by westajay 8y ago
Your efforts are noticeable and appreciated! It was always a mystery to me why the Windows console was stuck in time from the NT days, and your work sends a signal to all those doing sysadmin and programming work that Microsoft is supportin
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by westajay 10y ago
I found this talk to be really interesting, as SuperH chips were used in so many applications in the 90's. One significant application I'm familiar with were Roland synthesizers. It's very interesting that this group decided
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by westajay 15y ago
When I wrote my comment I wasn't thinking of lots of up-front planning. I was thinking along more simple lines like root cause analysis using a human factors or equipment taxonomy (much more affective then 5-whys).. and simple logging of in
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by westajay 15y ago
In other industries, such as petroleum refining, pipelines and nuclear power, their are structured methodologies for determining root causes. Some of these take into account equipment failure, and modelling is often done on equipment life c
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by westajay 15y ago
This reminds me of Gerstner's OS/2 move with IBM in the early 90's. Does anyone have insight into why Palm (pre & post HP) struggled to get the hardware right and remove glitchy behaviour from the OS?
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by westajay 15y ago
I think the conceptual switch in licensing model is fair.. from cpu-cores to vRAM entitlement.. But the vRAM allocations per license are not right. It puts sysadmins in a real bind.. having to report bad news to mgmt. They need to to the ri
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by westajay 15y ago
That's a good point, and poor cost accounting practices.. I have a friend (an engineer) who is doing his MBA right now. At his school he said there is a big focus on ethics and ethical behaviour. Based on what I've witnessed in business, I
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by westajay 15y ago
A counter argument to this was Carlos Ghosn's experience with Nissan. He said that one of Nissan's problems was engineers making cars for engineers, but that people did not want to buy. In reality creating, marketing and being successful wi
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by westajay 15y ago
I've performed some of those audits, and that was not my response.
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by westajay 15y ago
It's sad when you can't be candid in a company and have to resort to sending an external letter to get through to management. I think lack of candour when problems abound is the kiss of death for many companies.
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by westajay 15y ago
One of the reasons I ditched my Torch was I would often get "java.lang.NullPointerExceptions" dialogs when I received SMS's. Pretty bad from a user experience standpoint. Also lots of other quirkiness in the OS drove me batty. BTW, the RIM
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by westajay 15y ago
BES is yet another piece of software to manage if you are a mail administrator, and it is a pretty complex beast at that. You can have just as secure a sync solution with straight iphone/exchange by using Exchange Activesync with a VPN clie
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by westajay 15y ago
This reminds me of when Microsoft was hyping touch user interface features in the run-up to the Windows 7 launch (without anything tangible in the field). Then Apple released multi-touch gesture pads on their laptops and furthered the reach
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by westajay 15y ago
RIM has been releasing products with terrible software and usability bugs for a while. My torch would regularly report java.lang.NullPointerExceptions when receiving SMS's. Playbook apps have lots of glitches.. crash for no reason. Users ar
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by westajay 16y ago
This topic could be boiled down to "nerds crapping on other peoples work". I've had a few direct emails with rim, and regarding playbook, they're listening. This is a new platform, analogous to apple when they migrated to osx. If this was 1
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by westajay 16y ago
I went through the same process, but didn't think it was that bad. RIMs web signup download process needs to be cleaned up, and the Mac installer thing was a bit weird, but I thought the docs were straightforward, and only took me a couple
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by westajay 16y ago
Offshoring is an economic phenomenon involving organizations that only know how to measure their IT effectiveness using cost. Personal experience is that I've never seen it work, but that's only from my own sample set. Have also seen a lot
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by westajay 16y ago
This is really about conflict of interest. Perhaps it is time for regulation mandating the split of telecom from media content ownership. In Canada, the telecoms own most of the major media assets (Shaw, rogers, bell).
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by westajay 16y ago
They also operate their own internet backbone and sell access to corporate clients.
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by westajay 16y ago
It is bad. We never started with caps in Canada so we're losing a lot. In australia you get ripped so badly for broadband it is not funny. This affects not only consumers, but also the whole tech ecosystem.. For example business models that
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by westajay 16y ago
This could snowball with a nasty public backlash. Can anyone tell me if this is specific to bell? If so, how would this affect us out west where our wholesale provider might be telus, shaw or allstream?
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by westajay 16y ago
I think that's a good point. The scale of the gulf weather events on urban populations (also thinking of Rita and the Houston evacuation) is just astounding. I guess all reminders of our planet's volatility no matter where we choose to sett
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by westajay 16y ago
I think your poke at Rudd was somewhat justified, since we all know Rudd as a media whore. :-) But yeah, nice to see the politicos getting dirty, and I think it's pretty clear even from press conferences that there is sincerity involved on
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by westajay 16y ago
Ex-PM assisting with flood clean-up. Compare with Bush response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqTnJK3uEi8
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by westajay 16y ago
This kind of platform volatility doesn't bode well for developers. Who wants to invest their time learning something that will just be deprecated shortly after? Before RIM started hyping playbook, 8 months ago they were hyping OS 6. Now you
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by westajay 16y ago
My primary phone is a Torch 9800. I wanted an e-mail processing device with a real keyboard and decent browser. This is my third blackberry and I wonder why I persist with the bugs. In Canada the phone cost about the same as an iPhone. The
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by westajay 16y ago
My town had a lot of early agile projects in the first part of the decade. The consultants only talked about the successes and not the many failures at conferences. Specifically WRT scrum and XP. I can tell you about a scrum failure that wa
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by westajay 17y ago
Buy the CD, install it on an old machine and play with it over a weekend. OpenBSD has some unique and fantastic features.. everything from PF (its firewall) to spamd (Spam trapping daemon). It's also nice to use a finely crafted piece of so