Year: 2013
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Why Did I Create Open Source Checklists
These three topic areas were developed originally because when we started moving our LMS from a commercial product to OSS in 2004-2005 (Moodle was our/my first enterprise OSS venture) there was a lot of skepticism (to say the least). Yep, I used to get hammered for suggesting such moves. In fact it was probably uglier…
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Don’t “Jenny” Your Personal Privacy with Poor Password Selection
There could be many titles for this post: “Don’t call the Helpdesk at 867-5309 when your account gets compromised!” or “Jenny Jenny Please Change your Number” but I settled on Don’t “Jenny” Your Personal Privacy with Poor Password Selection. This is an interesting story on all users lack of creativity in password creation and how…
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Getting to the Cloud Under the Tail of a T-Rex
Until recently I lived in a location serviced only by satellite based internet service which from my experience generally provides far less bandwidth than the advertised download speed and this was. When I have brought up this variation in services and cost between rural and urban areas over the years the response usually ranges…
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Is your Premise Equipment Vendor about to be “Twinkied” by the Cloud
The rush to the cloud is underway in both the public and private sector. Companies such as Vivantech ,a Higher Education ERP service and implementation provider, by introducing Cloud Centric software deployments are certainly changing the outlook for the traditional rack and stack server deployment. Although there are still concerns about security, regulatory compliance ,…