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Comment on I Hate Word 2007 by Paul, Perth, Australia

Paul, Perth, Australia — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:00:53 +0000

I hate fucking Word period. And fucking Microsoft for wasting so much of my time, and I just decided to Google that phrase to see if there’s a ‘hate’ site out there that might get MS idiots off their arses and take notice of long suffering workers forced by dickhead IT staff to use this crap. I’m amazed actually at how few people there are complaining. 6 months or so ago I was changed across to 2010 Office suite, and honestly, it’s gotten worse than 2007, which was a crap version of 2003, in itself not great. It is so unbelievably buggy, what the fuck have the MS prats been doing all this time. JP, someone who has patience sure needs to document it all – $10,000 wouldn’t be half of what I’ve had to charge my clients because of Word stuff-ups. My company has 37,000 people, probably all battling like me – how expensive is that?? Me, I’d rather use my own iPad for work (which I’m going to do once the v3 comes out) and screw what our IT say.

Comment on Rise of the Robots by Justin Warren

Justin Warren — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:45:22 +0000

Hi Anthony,

An interesting read, yes. Users will bypass internal IT now, because they can. The locus of control has shifted, and many in IT aren’t ready for it.

Comment on Rise of the Robots by Anthony Vandewerdt

Anthony Vandewerdt — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:02:09 +0000

I saw Brian Madden in Melbourne recently, he did a great story about the consumerisation of IT. Really thought provoking…
http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2011/06/02/the-consumerization-of-it-why-most-vendors-get-it-wrong-and-why-it-s-a-real-challenge-today-part-1.aspx

Comment on Rise of the Robots by Justin Warren

Justin Warren — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:29:46 +0000

I’ve seen companies pony up the dough, only to have internal IT screw it up because they don’t know how to design a service and just buy shiny toys instead.

Piecemeal funding is worse, it’s true.

This has to be driven by the CIO, or at the very least GM of IT infrastructure.

Comment on Rise of the Robots by Mick C

Mick C — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:17:57 +0000

i’m sure one can find a business willing to pony up money upfront to deliver this capability internally?

oh, there we go

piecemeal project delivery of IT assets hampers establishing any of the overarching requirements for delivering XaaS internally.

Comment on SNIA BlogFest 2 by Rise of the Robots | eigenmagic

Rise of the Robots | eigenmagic — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:38:22 +0000

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Comment on BlogFest2: Symantec by Justin Warren

Justin Warren — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:59:40 +0000

We don’t really need more branded trinkets. Better to save the money and invest in better slide decks.

Comment on BlogFest2: Symantec by Anthony Vandewerdt

Anthony Vandewerdt — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:35:08 +0000

Great write up, but seriously, just water?
Not even a pad or a pen?
I can see why they need to work on their marketing. #;-)

Comment on BlogFest2: Dell by Justin Warren

Justin Warren — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:41:28 +0000

Maybe they just use different LZ variants based on which one works better in the context?
We didn’t cover Ocarina much on the day, and the slides don’t have much more detail. It’s not available until 2nd half of 2011, so hopefully we’ll hear more about it soon.

Comment on BlogFest2: Dell by Ben Di Qual

Ben Di Qual — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:46:46 +0000

Not sure about Ocarina accuracy. I heard some Occarina guys on a InfoSmack podcast a year or so ago and they stated they use the Lempel-Ziv variant (LZ) compression algorithm across the board, nothing is special in their compression, but their secret sauce is in how they do the compression.
I for one am a bit confused about