Sun.May 29, 2016

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Proper LAN Testing Equipment Part 3

IT Toolbox

Given the digital transmission nature of baseband LANs, one might easily overlook the need for analog test equipment. Three devices are valuable additions to the tool kit: the volt-ohm-milliameter (VOM), the oscilloscope, and the transmission impairment measurement system (TIMS).

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FBI raids home of researcher who reported unsecured patient data on public server

Network World

What does a security researcher get for responsibly disclosing a dental database vulnerability exposing the sensitive information of tens of thousands of patients? Not a bug bounty monetary reward. Not even a “thank you” from the company. He gets raided by a least a dozen armed FBI agents and may be charged under CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act).

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Laugh and the world laughs with you!

IT Toolbox

In the workplace, there?s a culture of seriousness. Your mainframe is running transactions that keep your company in business. Using your mainframe is giving your organization some kind of business advantage over your competitors. If it?s not performing optimally, then you could lose that advantage. So, just what is there to laugh at? Isn?t it important to take work seriously ?

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Iran orders messaging apps to store data of local users in the country

Network World

Iran has ordered foreign messaging apps to transfer data and activity records of Iranian users to local servers within a year, a move that will give the country a greater ability to monitor and censor the online activity of its people. The country’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace has issued instructions to foreign messaging companies active in the country, requiring them “to transfer all data and activity linked to Iranian citizens into the country in order to ensure their continued activity," ne

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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The Business Model as an Enterprise Architecture view

IT Toolbox

continuing. A Business Model expressed as a Value Chain (VC) shows the sequence of top processes that add to the VC Margin and accumulate cost at each stage of the chain.

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Wholesale Mortgage Rates Comparison

Galido

In the market to buy a home? Here are some good tools to help you find loans and calculate your mortgage payment. Mortgage News Daily. Mortgage News Daily has a nice easy interface that allows you to easily select your state and provides an output of various lenders and rates. Advertised rates are submitted by each individual lender/broker on the date indicated.

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How to turn a 'toxic' IT shop into a trusted business partner

ComputerWorld IT Management

"We were an organization of 'no' and we had to transform to an organization of 'how,'" said Robert Fecteau, CIO of government contractor SAIC, describing his effort to turn the IT department into a partner trusted by other parts of the business.

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What is Microsoft hoping to achieve?

IT Toolbox

Those who know me know that I am a Linux person. I like Linux, I like the flexibility it gives me and I like the general philosophy behind it. I am not keen on either Apple or Microsoft for their philosophy of restriction and secrecy. Not to mention their corporate attitude that everything has to make money. So what ever I write here I am certain it will be thought of as being a biased viewpoint.

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Five Questions to Improve IT Maturity

Future of CIO

To improve IT maturity, IT needs to change the emphasis to an “outside-in” approach with that vital focus on users. Although IT has touched almost every corner of the business right now, the majority of IT organizations still get stuck at the lower level of maturity, struggle at the stage of the business and IT alignment. IT is business, with the increasing speed of change, many think that the gap between business and IT has actually widened.

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Moore's Law

IT Toolbox

In 1965, Gordon Moore, an engineer at Intel, observed that every year, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit board doubled. This observation has come to be recognized as Moore's Law. It addresses the rate of technology advancement over time.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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One signal for many slots

IT Toolbox

The signal and slot paradigm which Qt uses is very different from the event based systems of other languages and frameworks. The event based systems are very tightly coupled together. In other words there is one event handler for one type of event and the event and event handler must have the same type of arguments. While this works and can work well with the right programming, it is limiting.

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The Business Model represented as an Enterprise Architecture view

IT Toolbox

continuing. A Business Model expressed as a Value Chain would show the sequence of high level processes that add to the margin and accumulate cost at each stage of the chain.

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Nightmare on the Firing (Time)Line

IT Toolbox

tik, tok, the Crock is after you!

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