tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12110620289747808152024-08-28T22:57:59.293-04:00The title says it all. If you are looking for some politically correct nicety, this isn't the place for you. I call it as I see it and I'm not prone to making it pretty.Faulkeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17054645191799503792noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1211062028974780815.post-8552614717728883822008-01-02T14:28:00.001-05:002008-01-02T14:30:14.444-05:00

Well, I got the first feedback from one of the people I most respect in the IT industry. I wouldn't say all was glowing but the information was useful, pertinent and really useful.Now to hear from the others I'll be contacting and see what they have to say.

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Looking for comments, suggestions, links to existing (current and up to date preferred) implementations of these types of projects which exist in the open source world.

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I thought I would post some screenshots while I was playing Glest. Although there is still much to do with the development of this game, it is by far one of the best free 3D Multi-Player RTS games I have found to date.

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Well, I guess it isn't so much of a secret if you start blogging about it. If you have read any of my other posts below regarding management, goals/objectives, change/configuration as well as charting, you will now have some clue as to what my new project is.The domain is registered, the preliminary scope statement is almost finished. It will be released under the BSD license (although I may

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In what is probably one of the most fantastic tools Google has released to date, is the new Chart API. This is a simple URL based format for generating all different sorts of graphs (pie, line, dot, you name it).Users are limited to 50,000 requests per day (so says google, no word on if a pay version exists). Even with that limitation this is an awesome tool for developers and management to

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I was giving some thought to my earlier post about Metrics for IT Management, part of which included a brief discussion of Change/Configuration management. I went looking around to see what existed in the OSS world for such a package. The majority of what I came up with dealt specifically and only with software development.This started me thinking that either I was looking in the wrong places (

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I was trolling through some random blog (I forget who, else I would give credit) and came across a link to Glestwhich purported to be a multi-platform, multi-player RTS.We all need distractions at times and amusements, so I figured I would give it a shot. The first attempt at compiling it from the soureforge provided zip files failed miserably. Small issues like having to convert conf files

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We all know of our basic type of metrics (say uptime/downtime, traffic in/out) and from there we branch into looking at what ITIL provides (such as say, change management). When you go looking for software to monitor/measure/report or god forbid quantify these, you come up with either Cognos or Accenture. Now, not to shove a stick in the big players eyes (and not to say they don't offer good

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I came across this from slashdot that Intel (as well as others such as Cisco) had recently released patches to allow linux to support Fibre Channel over Ethernet. You can find the direct page at http://open-fcoe.org with additional information.Currently it looks like there is some required patching as it isn't in the official tree yet. This is however a significant advance as it would allow

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Goals come first, they represent what the organization wishes to achieve, they reflect the history, values, politics, beliefs of the organization.Objectives are the second part, they are the steps and milestones which lead to the completion of the organizations goals.Tasks are the lowest level, they represent the individual or group work requirements which are required to reach the objectvies and

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This is just one of those huge but often overlooked, under developed areas of business. It is something in my opinion so easy to articulate, so trivial to define and yet so often horribly done by those who seem to control the direction.I recently had a conversation with a potential business opportunity, after the initial greeting and basic background introductions, of which there was a lot of

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