The Phoenix Project takes a novel approach (pun intended) to help convey lessons on changing IT to enable a business to succeed. From the authors of the often recommended The Visible Ops Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps, this book tells a story of an organization that is under pressure to quickly adapt and become more effective or else the IT … [Read more...]

Using Twitter, Intel teased the 4th generation of the Intel Core processors were coming this Summer. In a way that imitated the NY Times ad for Game of Thrones, the Intel ad tells us to hold on until this Summer. Ivy Bridge is the code name for the current 3rd generation CPU microarchitecture and it will be succeeded by code name Haswell. … [Read more...]

Solid State Drives are one of the best upgrades to happen to PCs for a while. If you disagree, upgrade somebody's computer to use an SSD and then after two weeks try to take it back. There is no going back for the lower electricity usage, durability, and snappier response. Particularly when it comes to laptops which might get bumped around, could previously have a 5400 RPM … [Read more...]

PBS Off Book covers the topic 'Can Hackers be Heroes?'. It mainly gets into the history of the term 'hacker' and its evolution to go through programmers to trespassers to makers. The video does a good job covering that topic but doesn't really answer their own question of whether hackers can be heroes. You can see the video embedded below. … [Read more...]