February 2007 Entries

Simplifying Jargon
Competition. Think of some managementspeak, and propose a plain-English translation/definition. For example ... Mindset - attitude/opinion/stance/view? Thinking outside of the envelope - thinking creatively? Customer centric - focused on the customer? Your turn
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Posted On Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:36 AM | Feedback (0)

Why didn't I patent this!
A while back, um, quite a while back now [2nd Sept 2002], I wrote a piece for Computer Weekly about how AV can't work perfectly. As part of that, I said a little something about how an operating system should do more to protect the user - by not automatically starting processes that the user hadn't authorized, e.g., say process A [which you trust] suddenly tries to start process B [which you don't trust] - well, the OS should tell you about this and ask for permission! The bit of this - that made...
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Posted On Friday, February 02, 2007 7:47 PM | Feedback (0)