…it’s not AI.
Funny.
Just ran across a great paper written by Eve Phillips documenting a history of artificial intelligence. Well worth a read. The title made me smile because my first job in IT was writing an expert system and it most certainly didn’t work. Must have been AI then.
The above paper [...]

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I complained in my recent Microsoft mypopia post that Microsoft had failed to support the main unit testing framework inside Visual Studio.
Happily, I’ve found a solution in the form of a Visual Studio add-in called TestDriven.NET. Now I can execute and debug my NUnit tests all from inside Visual Studio.
Just need a bit [...]

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John Willis over at IT Management and Cloud Blog posted an interesting post I’d like to reply to.
The key question is will “Enterprise” customers make an investment in companies like OpenNMS and Nagios with out the warm and fuzzy that “Software Companies” provide.
That’s certainly an interesting perspective John…
It isn’t that Nagios/OpenNMS aren’t hitting enterprise customers. [...]

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After a brief two week hiatus on the website (it was only supposed to be one) I am now back onto writing Power Round Robin Database with Dean.
I am currently in the never never land of broken builds and failing unit tests struggling for the time when everything just works again.
When things are green this [...]

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I passed the marker buoy on the journey to middle age last week. At least according to the Collins Dictionary anyway. Of course, according to the Oxford English Dictionary definition, I’ve got a further five years to go.
To celebrate I treat my family (all twelve of them) to a play at the Theatre [...]

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Great post by Chris Sanders on ARP poisoning for protocol analysis. Well worth a read.
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Are you wanting to get into OpenNMS but are struggling to get started? OpenNMS are running a series of training courses in Europe during May.
The introductory course titled “OpenNMS - A Day in the Life” will serve as an introduction to get you started with OpenNMS.
At the end of the day, you should have [...]

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Well, one anyway…a follow up on the first part of the Atari story by Landon Dyer detailing his experience on the Atari ST project.
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You wanna do what? Ventriloquism on radio? Oh sure…sounds great. You can start next week!
Currently being re-run on BBC Radio 7 is the Educating Archie show. Which features Peter Brough & Archie Andrews his ventriloquist dummy.
I wonder if Brough used to take Archie to recording sessions? I mean, without it you’d just have a routine [...]

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Just where the heck are Microsoft on the cloud computing thing? Ten years ago they wouldn’t have given their competitors years head start in a market without a response.
Microsoft’s really are going to be IBM. Are they going to be the 60s IBM or the 80s IBM. At the moment it’s looking like 80s IBM.
You [...]

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