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IT Unwrapped Episode 2 for Saturday, May 13, 2011
Intro
Welcome to IT Unwrapped
Tech News
- What we use or where we go to get our tech news info
- an app?
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- Dean uses “tech news” for WP7 and “Siesmic – directory, tech section”
- Google? Steve mentioned “Tech republic.com” as a good resource for news.
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- Opinion, which sites usually seem to have the “breaking stories” the fastest?
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- Twitter add-on “TWinbox” to Outlook and how it helps to get news faster through search and filters.
- Stories
- “mashable.com” – Amazon servers may have been used in Sony Playstation network hack.
- They say a source said someone or “someone’s” set up a amazon cloud computing server with fake information and used the server to mount the attack. The FBI will be looking into the amazon servers where the attack came from.
- “mashable.com” – Amazon servers may have been used in Sony Playstation network hack.
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- Sony still believes that the hackers were “anonymous” citing the calling card phrase “We are legion” found on sony’s servers.
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- The Amazon account has been disabled
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- Yet Another strike for cloud computing?
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- “http://www.thedailybeast.com” – titled – “facebook-busted-in-clumsy-smear-attempt-on-google”
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- Burson-Marsteller was hired by facebook to put out a smear campaign against google. Chris Soghoian was asked to help with the smears and instead posted the e-mails from Burson. The e-mails were posted.
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- Smear campaign basically said that google was going too far by posting peoples information in google’s “ Social Circle” tool.
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- TIVO
- Hulu announced that it was coming to Tivo back in Sept. “http://www.zatznotfunny.com” says that they are doing Beta testing for Hulu on the Tivo.
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- “Technolog” , msnbc- Youtube announced that they will have 3,000 movies available for stream soon. This will give them 6,000 movies available total which will put them in the running to compete with Netflix and Amazon…. $3.99 each -vs- $9/month for netflix
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- Comcast will make their “on demand” compatible with Tivo. I was told that “on demand” wasn’t compatible with “tivo” firmware in the past. Had to pay $100 for a tech to come out and install a cablecard.
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- Amazon and Netflix are available through Tivo already which makes it even more desirable.
Forum Post Of The Week
“Are IT always the last to know?” – Spiceworks
Chicago Pete:
Same here across the pond mate.
We have new employees show up on Monday’s, HR tells us they need a email account etc…, we ask where are they sitting, what PC are they using and do they need a phone – all of which we do not have. Fine impression for a new employee.
Left hand meet Right hand…
Quivern:
A good CIO/IT director/IS director makes a point to be proactively talking to the other business unit managers to find out if anything is coming down the pipe. It’s fairly rare for business unit managers to remember that business decisions are likely to have IT consequences, so it’s the role of the CIO to make sure that the IT consequences are considered. If you do this aggressively enough, eventually your senior management will get the hint and require business unit managers to get IT signoff on any new proposal.
Nick1337:
sadly, i think that we’ll make them feel stupid when we point out the obvious, even though we do our best to buck that stereotype, i think that’s why people avoid telling us things.
Dan5825:
Whears when HR gets a new user, their first thought might not be getting logon details for them, you’d have thought when management teams from 2 schools get together and school A specifically tells school B “Your IT team will now need to look after this”, you would expect the management team at school B to then tell school B’s IT team.
The sad thing is not only did I see it coming, if the situation was reversed we’d probably not get told either. We’d just get a call out of the blue a few months later “can you come here and fix my computer?” “I’m sorry, where are you calling from?”
HR software company
A HR company that has heavy integration with AD so that makes it harder for there to be mistakes made. They provide a GUI for HR people that syncs with their HR software that automatically will keep AD up do date if someone gets added/removed/changed in HR system.
another post if we have time: “What are your morning IT tasks?”
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/139608-network-admin
