Project Management

I would like to commend John Pickett for his view that good programmers are an asset to be cherished, and are not simply another liability on a balance sheet like office supplies.

When you're churning out around 70 million tons of iron ore a year, maintenance hangups are not on the agenda. For Hamersley Iron Pty. Ltd., which produces 60 per cent of Australia's iron ore for global iron and steel industries, maintenance is part of its goal for world-class practices.

Every now and then, an ambitious technology project rolls around that requires investigation of a technology area with which you may not be familiar. You may never have deeply investigated it before, and you don't have expert knowledge to draw upon.

It's the Reader's Digest for penetration testers: "@Risk: The Consensus Security Alert" is a new online newsletter that highlights the week in software vulnerabilities, with analysis and commentary by leading security experts.

Real Software Inc. Wednesday released a new version of its Realbasic cross-platform product that allows developers to write applications for Linux using Windows or Macintosh systems.

A security vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could have allowed a hacker to gain control of the operating system on user machines has been patched by the open-source community and Linux vendors.

The reason no one does data backups is because it's ghastly. Normally I don't like to reveal my ineptitude, but when you add my uselessness to the utter crap we call backup software, you end up with, at best, a potential disaster.

It's 1985, and this computer room has a big, red panic button next to the door