* Posts by Igor Sfiligoi

3 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2008

NORKS? Pffft. Infosec bods BLAME disgruntled insiders for savage Sony hack

Igor Sfiligoi

Terabytes

I am tired of hearing how "it must have lasted months, given that they took terabytes of data".

I have worked with organizations that transferred tens of terabytes PER HOUR, 24/7!

e.g. http://display.grid.iu.edu/

Please get in the 21st century!

Google Chrome OS - do we want another monoculture?

Igor Sfiligoi
Go

It actually makes sense, after some thought

My first thought when I started reading was:

"Why the heck would I want something like this??????????"

And indeed, I probably never will.

But then I though of my mom;

All she needs is a way to browse the web, access her web mail (which happens to be gmail) and look at some photos.

So ChromeOS provides all that she needs... without all the the "crapware" provided with the OS (and I already switched her to Linux).

So for her is the ideal solution... it will likely be much safer than it is now, and probably faster, too.

Of course, I need to see what hardware will support it and what will be the pricing, but the idea has indeed a lot of merit!

Agile development - can’t scale, won’t scale?

Igor Sfiligoi
Stop

KISS

"Keep It Simple S****"

When the projects becomes too big, no matter the methodology, it will fail.

You need to keep the software projects small; that is the only way to make it work.

Instead of having a 500 people project, create 10 projects of 20 people and a tree of say 1+4 integration projects each with 2 or 3 people each.

You will get the project done faster and with less people.

And if any sub-project fails, you can replace the team of just that sub-project and still manage to get to an end.

KISS