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What to expect in 2008 and beyond…. Ross Dawson, January 21, 2008 2:06 AM US PT Nowandnext.com and Future Exploration Network have once again collaborated to create a trend map for 2008 and beyond. MORE
Others who are currently running Windows Server 2008 R2 have notably been a little more relaxed but have too taken an interest in what Windows Server 2012 R2 and its inherent gateway to the cloud capability and with good reason. Step 5: Removing the Windows 2008 R2 domain controller. MORE
Like many others, I gave myself a 50 book challenge for 2008. Actually my personal challenge went from 1 Dec 07 to 30 Nov 08, but that’s a minor detail.) MORE
So far this is been pretty informative. Guy Kawasaki kicked off the morning in the Keynote, if you've not heard Guy speak before, he's fantastic. Later in the morning there was a panel comprised of CIO /IT Directors from a range of firms, including Ashurt from the UK. No surprises, everyone was still very much challenged with how to manage e-mail. In a room with well over 100 people, only 3 hands went up when the moderator asked who had 75% or higher of adoption for e-mail filing. MORE
Thu Dec 11, 2008. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. One Hundred Pushups. Photographer: Frank C. MORE
Fri Nov 14, 2008. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple. MORE
Watch for virtualization launch event 18 September 2008 in Seattle. Recently, I attended Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, TX and I'm sweating just recalling the weather in Houston in July. Weather aside, there were some important announcements and random observations that I wanted to summarize. Given how busy my July turned out to be, I'll break convention with my 2006 and 2007 posts and summarize the relevant bits at a somewhat higher level than before. MORE
Mon Sep 8, 2008. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Why are you still shopping offline? Today I visited one of the largest national office supply outlets. I had a specific purpose in mind. I needed to pickup 2 wireless routers and 1 audio cable. MORE
Reporting by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley in Bloomberg is shedding new light on a destructive attack against an oil pipeline that caused a massive explosion in Refahiye Turkey in 2008. Was 2008 Turkish Pipeline Explosion Caused by Cyber Attack? By Bob Gourley. MORE
Thursday, December 04, 2008. ▼ 2008. (21). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « New Guidance for Deploying SharePoint Globally | Main | SPC 2008 -- Kurt DelBene Keynote » March 07, 2008 SPC 2008 -- BillG Keynote Although far more capable writers will do far more capable job than I of chronicling these events, herewith find your humble scribes impressions of this weeks SharePoint Conference 2008 (SPC2008). MORE
Tuesday, November 18, 2008. ▼ 2008. (21). Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Customer Service Trouble: Changing Flights on Continental. MORE
Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « SPC 2008 -- BillG Keynote | Main | SPC 2008 Session -- RMS and SharePoint » March 08, 2008 SPC 2008 -- Kurt DelBene Keynote Kurt DelBene is Microsoft’s Senior Corporate Vice President for the Office Business Platform business, which includes Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. MORE
A: On the server: it is incorporated into Windows Server 2008 operating system. MORE
Tagging + E-mail » April 02, 2008 CIMS, Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 -- the 2008 version I recently had the opportunity to listen, learn, and think at the Center for Information Management Studies at Babson College , and the topic, "From Web 2.0 MORE
Monday, December 15, 2008. According to this Pew report in 2008 55% of Americans have a home broadband connection. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Broadband for the Masses - Maybe. MORE
Monday, December 29, 2008. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Richmond IT Jobs. A job lead passed on from a business colleague, email me if you want his phone number: 45 IT positions opened with my client this evening. MORE
Saturday, December 6, 2008. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Effect of Unemployment. I read an article in the paper tonight that claimed the unemployment rate could approach 10% before employers begin hiring again. MORE
GNU Screen Image via Wikipedia Despite living in the age of multicore processors, GUI everything and mountains of ram, I continually find myself more productive with a terminal open. Especially when that terminal is running GNU Screen. About GNU Screen GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session MORE
Friday, December 12, 2008. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Fun or Work? A funny thing I ran across, in the midst of the pay-for-play thing going on in Illinois. You have to know someone was going to mention this guys hair. MORE
It seems all of a sudden, the two buzz words in the corporate IT world are wiki and blog. Corporate wikis are emerging as cheap, intelligent, flexible systems for shared-document collaboration and content management. Because they are browser based, wikis are quite easy to implement and deploy. The wiki works well in the corporate world as it solves two problematic areas, the need for internal collaboration and document management MORE
100 Saturday, December 6, 2008. December 10, 2008 9 AM – 3 PM The Sheraton – West 6624 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230 Schedule of Presentations 9:30-10:00 Ive Been Laid Off, Now What? CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! MORE
Image via Wikipedia Over the last 2 weeks I have found myself asking that question more times than I can remember. When I first heard about microblogging—or Twitter, the primary service that started the microblogging movement—over a year ago I thought it was a stupid fad and wouldn’t last. I mean what value can possibly be passed along in 140 characters or less. 2 weeks ago I was convinced to try Twitter and I am hooked MORE
SVK is a client for SVN built using perl. It makes a number of improvements over the standard svn client, while retaining much of the same feel. It works with the standard Subversion server and works perfectly in an environment with some users using svn and some using svk on the client side. It provides a number of sizable advantages over the standard svn client and is a must have for any development project MORE
100 One of the things that makes vim great is that it can be extended through plugins. There are plugins for more than you would expect. I have gathered together the 15 best plugins. I’ve included these plugins as part of my ultimate VIM configuration which has been featured on many sites and is hosted on github. I’ve also begun a series of posts on some of these plugins including snipmate and NerdCommenter MORE
Today I visited one of the largest national office supply outlets. I had a specific purpose in mind. I needed to pickup 2 wireless routers and 1 audio cable. What transpired caused me to wonder why anyone does any offline shopping anymore. My experience at the store caused me to reflect on the many things we simply put up with at the store which we would never permit online MORE
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Of particular interest is that Twitter’s peak of usage in Australia was at the time of the Future of Media Summit 2008 , on July 15. Hitwise has just released statistics on Twitter usage in Australia , showing that Twitter usage is up over 500% over the last year. MORE
Image via Wikipedia One of the great features of Firefox is the ability to manage multiple profiles. This is a very handy feature with many different uses. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to do on a mac. I will show you how to setup multiple profiles on a mac that appear and run like normal mac applications so you can click on them and run them from quicksilver MORE
At Portero we had an issue with our network. I know enough about networking to understand the basics. I actually used to work on the IOS back during the dawn of the internet. Though things have changed since then, the biggest issue is I don’t remember enough to fix network configuration issues on the router level. Before I took the post at Portero, we had a company we contracted to configure all of our Cisco equipment MORE
Permit me to shamelesly announce my promotion to Chief Information Officer at Portero Inc. Here is the Press Release on the wire this week. Portero, Inc., is pleased to announce the promotion of Steve P. Francia to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO), effective immediately. He will continue to report to Michael Sheldon, the company’s chairman and CEO, and will be responsible for operations and technology for the company MORE
Photographer: Frank C. Müller A while back a bunch of people were twittering about the 100 pushup challenge. Thanksgiving was the catalyst for me. I began my quest for better health about a week ago. The premise of the challenge is quite simple. It is a six week program, that if followed, you can do 100 consecutive good form push ups at the end of the program MORE
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Image representing iPhone 3G as depicted in Crunchbase Hint: It has nothing to do with touch screens. While RIM scrambles to create the next greatest device, or their “iPhone killer” it needs to recognize that it’s no longer about the device. RIM don’t you remember that touchscreens aren’t new. Palm had them back in the 90?s s … before you crushed them. When RIM ruled the world RIM knows what it takes to dethrone the current market leader MORE
I am happy to announce that Portero has raised $6.6 million in funding. The round was led by LFE Capital joined by returning backers including Grosvenor Funds. TechCrunch picked up the announcement early this morning and featured us on their home page. As I have a bit of an insiders view, I felt it was my place to provide a bit of insight into why Portero is such a great company MORE
100 Image via Wikipedia I don’t know very many people that haven’t been devastated by the loss of data… Yet I am baffled that millions of professional IT workers still ignore backing up their data. Since computers are great at doing repetitive things like backups. why not spend 20 minutes setting up your machine to backup your files for you. This guide will be specific to mysql to create a local copy of the backup MORE
One of the worst experiences you can have as a computer operator is to realize you (or something else) just did something and wiped out your files. The purpose of this article is to show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically. I use this setup to backup my documents every hour (I save more often then that). This gives me hourly versions of all my files I am working on MORE
2008 Related Topics CTOvision
DECEMBER 13, 2014
Reporting by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley in Bloomberg is shedding new light on a destructive attack against an oil pipeline that caused a massive explosion in Refahiye Turkey in 2008. Was 2008 Turkish Pipeline Explosion Caused by Cyber Attack? By Bob Gourley.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
APRIL 22, 2008
So far this is been pretty informative. Guy Kawasaki kicked off the morning in the Keynote, if you've not heard Guy speak before, he's fantastic. Later in the morning there was a panel comprised of CIO /IT Directors from a range of firms, including Ashurt from the UK. No surprises, everyone was still very much challenged with how to manage e-mail. In a room with well over 100 people, only 3 hands went up when the moderator asked who had 75% or higher of adoption for e-mail filing.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
MARCH 10, 2008
A: On the server: it is incorporated into Windows Server 2008 operating system.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
DECEMBER 17, 2008
Like many others, I gave myself a 50 book challenge for 2008. Actually my personal challenge went from 1 Dec 07 to 30 Nov 08, but that’s a minor detail.)
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
AUGUST 3, 2008
Watch for virtualization launch event 18 September 2008 in Seattle. Recently, I attended Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, TX and I'm sweating just recalling the weather in Houston in July. Weather aside, there were some important announcements and random observations that I wanted to summarize. Given how busy my July turned out to be, I'll break convention with my 2006 and 2007 posts and summarize the relevant bits at a somewhat higher level than before.
SPF13
DECEMBER 11, 2008
Thu Dec 11, 2008. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. One Hundred Pushups. Photographer: Frank C.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 14, 2008
Fri Nov 14, 2008. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
MARCH 7, 2008
Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « New Guidance for Deploying SharePoint Globally | Main | SPC 2008 -- Kurt DelBene Keynote » March 07, 2008 SPC 2008 -- BillG Keynote Although far more capable writers will do far more capable job than I of chronicling these events, herewith find your humble scribes impressions of this weeks SharePoint Conference 2008 (SPC2008).
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
APRIL 2, 2008
Tagging + E-mail » April 02, 2008 CIMS, Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 -- the 2008 version I recently had the opportunity to listen, learn, and think at the Center for Information Management Studies at Babson College , and the topic, "From Web 2.0
SPF13
AUGUST 26, 2008
Image via Wikipedia One of the great features of Firefox is the ability to manage multiple profiles. This is a very handy feature with many different uses. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to do on a mac. I will show you how to setup multiple profiles on a mac that appear and run like normal mac applications so you can click on them and run them from quicksilver
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008. ▼ 2008. (21). Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Customer Service Trouble: Changing Flights on Continental.
CIO Musings
DECEMBER 29, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Richmond IT Jobs. A job lead passed on from a business colleague, email me if you want his phone number: 45 IT positions opened with my client this evening.
CanITPro
MAY 27, 2014
Others who are currently running Windows Server 2008 R2 have notably been a little more relaxed but have too taken an interest in what Windows Server 2012 R2 and its inherent gateway to the cloud capability and with good reason. Step 5: Removing the Windows 2008 R2 domain controller.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 21, 2008
What to expect in 2008 and beyond…. Ross Dawson, January 21, 2008 2:06 AM US PT Nowandnext.com and Future Exploration Network have once again collaborated to create a trend map for 2008 and beyond.
CIO Musings
DECEMBER 15, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008. According to this Pew report in 2008 55% of Americans have a home broadband connection. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Broadband for the Masses - Maybe.
CIO Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008. December 10, 2008 9 AM – 3 PM The Sheraton – West 6624 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23230 Schedule of Presentations 9:30-10:00 Ive Been Laid Off, Now What? CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy!
CIO Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Effect of Unemployment. I read an article in the paper tonight that claimed the unemployment rate could approach 10% before employers begin hiring again.
CIO Musings
DECEMBER 12, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008. CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Fun or Work? A funny thing I ran across, in the midst of the pay-for-play thing going on in Illinois. You have to know someone was going to mention this guys hair.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Mon Sep 8, 2008. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Why are you still shopping offline? Today I visited one of the largest national office supply outlets. I had a specific purpose in mind. I needed to pickup 2 wireless routers and 1 audio cable.
SPF13
DECEMBER 28, 2008
One of the worst experiences you can have as a computer operator is to realize you (or something else) just did something and wiped out your files. The purpose of this article is to show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically. I use this setup to backup my documents every hour (I save more often then that). This gives me hourly versions of all my files I am working on
SPF13
DECEMBER 18, 2008
I am happy to announce that Portero has raised $6.6 million in funding. The round was led by LFE Capital joined by returning backers including Grosvenor Funds. TechCrunch picked up the announcement early this morning and featured us on their home page. As I have a bit of an insiders view, I felt it was my place to provide a bit of insight into why Portero is such a great company
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
MARCH 8, 2008
Web/Tech Weblogs Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blogs feed See how were connected « SPC 2008 -- BillG Keynote | Main | SPC 2008 Session -- RMS and SharePoint » March 08, 2008 SPC 2008 -- Kurt DelBene Keynote Kurt DelBene is Microsoft’s Senior Corporate Vice President for the Office Business Platform business, which includes Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
SPF13
DECEMBER 11, 2008
Image via Wikipedia I don’t know very many people that haven’t been devastated by the loss of data… Yet I am baffled that millions of professional IT workers still ignore backing up their data. Since computers are great at doing repetitive things like backups. why not spend 20 minutes setting up your machine to backup your files for you. This guide will be specific to mysql to create a local copy of the backup
SPF13
DECEMBER 10, 2008
Photographer: Frank C. Müller A while back a bunch of people were twittering about the 100 pushup challenge. Thanksgiving was the catalyst for me. I began my quest for better health about a week ago. The premise of the challenge is quite simple. It is a six week program, that if followed, you can do 100 consecutive good form push ups at the end of the program
SPF13
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Image representing iPhone 3G as depicted in Crunchbase Hint: It has nothing to do with touch screens. While RIM scrambles to create the next greatest device, or their “iPhone killer” it needs to recognize that it’s no longer about the device. RIM don’t you remember that touchscreens aren’t new. Palm had them back in the 90?s s … before you crushed them. When RIM ruled the world RIM knows what it takes to dethrone the current market leader
SPF13
OCTOBER 20, 2008
At Portero we had an issue with our network. I know enough about networking to understand the basics. I actually used to work on the IOS back during the dawn of the internet. Though things have changed since then, the biggest issue is I don’t remember enough to fix network configuration issues on the router level. Before I took the post at Portero, we had a company we contracted to configure all of our Cisco equipment
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Permit me to shamelesly announce my promotion to Chief Information Officer at Portero Inc. Here is the Press Release on the wire this week. Portero, Inc., is pleased to announce the promotion of Steve P. Francia to the position of Chief Information Officer (CIO), effective immediately. He will continue to report to Michael Sheldon, the company’s chairman and CEO, and will be responsible for operations and technology for the company
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
Today I visited one of the largest national office supply outlets. I had a specific purpose in mind. I needed to pickup 2 wireless routers and 1 audio cable. What transpired caused me to wonder why anyone does any offline shopping anymore. My experience at the store caused me to reflect on the many things we simply put up with at the store which we would never permit online
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 3, 2008
Thursday, December 04, 2008. ▼ 2008. (21). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
SPF13
AUGUST 22, 2008
SVK is a client for SVN built using perl. It makes a number of improvements over the standard svn client, while retaining much of the same feel. It works with the standard Subversion server and works perfectly in an environment with some users using svn and some using svk on the client side. It provides a number of sizable advantages over the standard svn client and is a must have for any development project
SPF13
JULY 24, 2008
It seems all of a sudden, the two buzz words in the corporate IT world are wiki and blog. Corporate wikis are emerging as cheap, intelligent, flexible systems for shared-document collaboration and content management. Because they are browser based, wikis are quite easy to implement and deploy. The wiki works well in the corporate world as it solves two problematic areas, the need for internal collaboration and document management
SPF13
JULY 10, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Over the last 2 weeks I have found myself asking that question more times than I can remember. When I first heard about microblogging—or Twitter, the primary service that started the microblogging movement—over a year ago I thought it was a stupid fad and wouldn’t last. I mean what value can possibly be passed along in 140 characters or less. 2 weeks ago I was convinced to try Twitter and I am hooked
SPF13
JULY 2, 2008
GNU Screen Image via Wikipedia Despite living in the age of multicore processors, GUI everything and mountains of ram, I continually find myself more productive with a terminal open. Especially when that terminal is running GNU Screen. About GNU Screen GNU Screen is a free terminal multiplexer developed by the GNU Project. It allows a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session
Trends in the Living Networks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Of particular interest is that Twitter’s peak of usage in Australia was at the time of the Future of Media Summit 2008 , on July 15. Hitwise has just released statistics on Twitter usage in Australia , showing that Twitter usage is up over 500% over the last year.
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008. ▼ 2008. (21). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
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