by Ardrich
December 19, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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Tony Bates is the recently appointed CEO of Skype. Bates replaced former CEO Josh Silverman in October.
Before Skype, Bates was the Senior Vice President of Cisco where he was responsible for the multi-billion-dollar enterprise, commercial and small business division.
by Ardrich
December 9, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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Pulsing zombie is a form of DoS attack known as a degradation-of-service attack, as opposed to a denial-of-service attack. Unlike a regular zombie that paralyzes a system by inundating it with a steady stream of attack traffic, the pulsing zombie attacks with irregular small bursts of attack traffic from multiple sources on a single target over an extended period of time.
by Ardrich
December 9, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Lateral Thinking
Q: There are three boxes. One is labeled “APPLES” another is labeled “ORANGES”. The last one is labeled “APPLES AND ORANGES”. You know that each is labeled incorrectly. You may ask me to pick one fruit from one box which you choose. How can you label the boxes correctly?
by Ardrich
December 9, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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Lars Rasmussen is a computer scientist and a software developer best know as the co-founder of Google Maps.
Born in Denmark, Lars has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Aarhus, an MSc in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from the University of California at Berkley.
by Ardrich
December 9, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it. ~ Max Frisch
by Ardrich
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
Lateral Thinking
Q: You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
by admin
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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Master data, also called reference data master data is any information that is considered to play a key role in the core operation of a business. Master data may include data about clients and customers, employees, inventory, suppliers, analytics and more.
by Ardrich
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra
by Ardrich
October 28, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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Joe Stump is CTO and co-founder of SimpleGeo, a location-based service for web developers. Before SimpleGeo, Stump was the Lead Architect of the social bookmarking site Digg.
Born in 1980 in Michigan, US, Stump spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn, Michigan.
by Ardrich
October 14, 2010 in Micro-Bites
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
~ Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb’s Journal
