Fountainhead

JANUARY 19, 2012

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, January 19, 2012. It Will Be a Data-Centric (Cloudy) World. (Or, Where Tomorrows Clouds Will Form). Move Mohammed to the mountain, or the mountain to Mohammed? In the context of data, applications and cloud computing, this question takes on a new perspective - and the role of Mohammed and the Mountain may soon reverse.

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CIO Musings

JANUARY 17, 2012

'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! Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Vegan Chili Recipe. Vegan Chili Recipe - Crock Pot. 1 Can Black Beans rinsed. 1 Can Chili Beans rinsed. 2 Medium Carrots - Diced. 2 Small Red Potatoes - Diced. 1 Sweet Red or Orange Bell Pepper -

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Government 150

Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 17, 2012

The latest issue of the annual publication Media Trends + Strategy magazine kicks off with a feature article I wrote titled The Decade Ahead for Media. Here is the article: The decade ahead for media. The future of the media industry as a whole is extraordinarily bright. Alongside the extraordinary rise of social media and a connected world, in the last years we have learned the previously undiscovered depths of the intrinsic hunger humans have for media.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 16, 2012

'[link]. When your IT employees aren’t complaining, that means that you’re doing a good job as CIO, right? Actually, it turns out that the answer is no. Dr. Anderson identifies why having quiet employees may be a bad thing for CIOs. He identifies who in your IT department is going to speak up first and who isn’t. Finally, Dr. Anderson shares his tips for how a CIO can get his or her employees to start talking to you!

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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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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 17, 2012

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. How to Enable Auto-Logon for your Server. WARNING : This Post reduces the physical security of your server, leaving the server open for anyone for a brief period of time after reboot. So, you are still reading after the warning above.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 20, 2012

'Seattle EOC Activated. The Seattle area and I just went through a four day snow/ice storm event. The City of Seattle’s emergency operations center (EOC) was activated and coordinated the City government’s response. That response received high marks from the public and media for a variety of reasons ( see Seattle Times editorial here ), including the leadership of Mayor Michael McGinn.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 18, 2012

'Get over your excitement about clouds and start asking questions. I love clouds, you love clouds, we all love clouds. It seems like everyone in IT is talking about cloud computing and how it’s the next big thing. Cloud computing has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. Look, I think that there’s a lot of good things about cloud computing, but I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for everyone.

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 18, 2012

'Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to Wikipedia, sites all over the web — including this one — are asking you to help stop this dangerous legislation from being passed. Please click the link below to learn how this legislation will affect internet freedom.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 16, 2012

In December I created a list of 12 themes to frame the year ahead, and then explored the ideas in a number of media interviews. The slides for the 12 themes have been seen almost 50,000 times now, suggesting they struck a chord somewhere. It’s now interesting to reflect on these, especially the response from the media. 2012: 12 Themes – What to expect in the year ahead.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 19, 2012

SOPA, The Stop Online Piracy Act , is big news in many ways, not least in marking what is likely to be a historical landmark in the battle between traditional media and a now-powerful new media, played out in political influence and the shaping of critical legislation. One of the most important ways to beat SOPA is to provide a good alternative. The majority of politicians seem to think that online intellectual property rights need better protection, so to kill SOPA requires providing something

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 20, 2012

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Friday, January 20, 2012. Developers! How to List your Small Business Server and Windows home Server Apps on Microsoft Pinpoint. Are you a developer or developer firm that’s built an application for SBS 2011 Essentials , SBS 2011 Premium Add-on , Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials , and Windows Home Server 2011 ?

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Sean Daniel

JANUARY 16, 2012

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, January 16, 2012. Sean’s Top 10 Recommended iOS apps for Productivity. Before the slew of Windows 8 tablets come out, most folks have an iPad or iPad 2. If you go online looking for popular apps, you’ll either get a list of games or a list of apps without a description of what they do.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JANUARY 17, 2012

[This post first appeared on Getting Results From Crowds book website]. Harvard Business Review has once again kicked off the year with a List of Audacious Ideas. One of them is Crowdsourcing Management Reviews for Better Management. Authors Linda Hill and Kent Lineback say: Here’s the situation we described: A group of employees has set up an independent website where all employees can use online social collaboration tools to assess their bosses on eight key managerial dimensions — such a

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