You can often tell who owns data by asking who has the right to delete it.

This is a very hard sell for me at work. Has anyone gone through the process of changing a culture from using GUI based installers to one using a text/scripting...

Am I spoiled by the fact that I'm willing to lug my digital SLR virtually everywhere?

This is another case where open source excels- there is no legacy revenue stream to protect. Eventually Oracle and Microsoft with adopt, extend and deploy what is happening here.

I've had health problems which can really limit what I can do. I also have a sub optimal reaction to stress. My people skills aren't as good as my technical...

I'd really like a log created of every time a log in is attempted to any service that has a password. At least you would have a concrete place to...

Thierry,,

Intellectual property comes in different forms. Their are copyrights and patents, and then there are trade secrets. All of them are easy and frequently violated. The redress isn't technical but...

Thierry,

That would mean there is no way to obfuscate your intellectual property. Protecting it is a whole other matter.

I'm really not sure why benchmarking isn't done more often, before and also during a performance crisis.

The joke put one over on me. I'm not sure if the problem is that doing on calls is hard, or what you were explaining didn't make sense.

But yeah, I...