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16 commentsMonday, January 26, 2009
Addressing the State of the White House Technology
Maintaining Balance Between Transparency and Security
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16 Comments
Combine
Yes, it's great if we combine politics and with web based technology.
wow more politics and more
wow more politics and more web based opinions.
I hope Obama embraces
I hope Obama embraces open-source software in the government. I think that a major switch to open source technologies could really help are economy. It might not be good for Redmond, but it would definitely be a step in the right direction.
This just matches up
To the Mac and PC commercials from Apple, same smugness, same attitude, same resistant ideas to REAL due dilligence to security of the mac OS 5 and server. The real security hell hole IS MICROSOFT!! P E R I O D !! Keep the suit and tie and all the IT people its about 3 MS to 1 Apple. Those are YOUR dollars at "work". Assuming you are a taxpayer as a goverment employee IS NOT A TAX PAYER AT ALL (not generated income).Look at how much time and $$ are spent on viruses! I am on number 32 of PC's for me to fix for innocent internet surfing folks around here with the AntiVirus 2009 ripoff from Russia . (not Mac which I type on now, and running for 2 (two) years since scrub and restoring from scratch, two PC' have to be done every 6-8 months)
Just lookup at www.fsecure.com
Downadup worm continues to spread
Several organizations and corporate networks are currently affected by an unusually nasty worm, referred to as Downadup.
These (Botnets) are almost ALL stiff necked Microsoft PC's and they are attacking more PC's
Must go, fire call BYE
That crazy increase in
That crazy increase in traffic must have helped their organic listings, One thing i have wondered about is the fact that twitter converts URL's into Tiny URL's? Why does it do this and not just make the links 'no follow'
Just because Joe the Web
Just because Joe the Web Surfer is still using a 5 year old computer with Internet Exploder and has to patch his security holes every five seconds doesn't mean the leader of the free world has to. America is about innovation and exploration- so the Captain of the ship should have the best tools available. Microsoft built their business model on slavish dependency and charging developers for the privelege of using their OS. Apple built theirs on open source and collaborative workflow. With Intel Macs now you can use both. Win-win, I say.
Whats Next?
Are they all going to want iPhone 3G's then? Can't think of any better way to spend MY tax dollars than buying a $200+ mobile phone that will cost $60+ a month each to run and then dropping $1,200 a desktop for the iMacs when I could get a nice Windows machine for half that.
To Owen Thomas at Valleywag, to sit here today and still call Vista clunky and buggy is ignorant, you should be ashamed to call yourself any kind of a proficient IT person. When was the last time you pulled up Vista on a good machine? Did you upgrade from Win XP on your old 1.2GHz machine and the minimum 1GB RAM? If you are any kind of proficient IT person, you would know that's stupid, you can't run today's applications on a machine that's 5 years old. Yes, maybe Vista is a resource hog, but when you have the hardware out there to run it and are too cheap to buy a new computer that has decent specs (not one of those cheap arse $299 or $399 ones), then stick with XP, don't be an idiot and keep calling Vista clunky and buggy, it's a big fat lie manufactured by Crapple, I mean Apple.
Are you serious?
Are you kidding me? The computers don't get the viruses, it's the computer ILliterate morons that download something because a flash advertisement says "punch the monkey and win $1,000" and so they do it and get a trojan. There is no reason to go out and buy all new Macs, I agree with the other guy, sounds like these guys just want new toys. If they are running Win XP and Office XP, there is no need to upgrade right now, they can wait until the economy is better.
IT staff
The IT section are not part of the new team surely? Are they not just government workers - the same this week as last month. It's just the way they are being instructed has changed...
Yes
And in an idiotic and wasteful way (how they are being instructed). Obviously Obama and/or his IT guys are still in an alternate reality. They come in touting "change change change" and talking about how they are going to stimulate our economy, but they want to spend what is most likely MILLIONS of dollars overhauling stuff **THAT WORKS** during an "economic crisis?" These guys are out of touch with reality, and I've said that from day one on Obama's campaign trail.
Tech Change
obviously you seperate the open sections from the real security needs.
open source is by nature insecure as anyone can add new applications and features.
public acces net for schools, politicians and information like library of Congress, legislation and govt departments for public information. and LAN net local for internal department with autocopy barriered archives to prevent rewriting histories.
For the President and staff, State, Fed Reserve
Fibreoptic line networks for the internal net with automatic records cashing to prevent deletions like auto burnt DVD servers..
FBI,CIA,NAsa etc. auto copy to tech head for white house briefings
research and backup for raw date mining for other recomendations.
total of four networks all archived for scrutiny by access card no delete ability for anyone.
Reality bites
Seriously folks. Apple isn't the only tech out there. And open source for the white house are we serious? Quit crying and get back to work. Or just get to work. Focus on the tools you have and realize you are doing the nations business. Poor babies.
Obama is like a Script
Obama is like a Script Kiddie... A person that knows about a few programs but doesnt really understand how it all works.
I really hope he doesnt start making decisions like, the white house needs macs! not windows!
that is horrible. I thought our economy was in the hell hole? Shouldnt we not be thinking of spending money!
White House Technology
Reality bytes. As an IT professional for 28 years I can backup statements of this article about the security concerns and corporate real world platforms. Sure, bleeding edge technology may be fancy and flashy, but security is unproven. Fiscally responsible IT budgets don't throw money at the "latest and greatest" unproven software and technologies.
Before you buy into the hype that the Bush administration was in the stone age, look at what is being used in "the real world". Sounds like someone wants us to buy them new toys. I am certain there is room for some updating but one has to be realistic and a total revamp would be a security and support nightmare.
LOL! "You can tell the
LOL! "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in their back"
White House IT
This is not a corporate environment. It's the white house. Change is on their priority list and a president should have the tools to do his work.
Things can't change instantly, and use of public and commercial channels should be taken with precaution.
It is the IT's departments responsibility to ensure proper use of tools the president and it's staff requires. It's not the IT staff job to say: we can't. In this situation IT staff is actually saying they are not willing to change infrastructural or technical support, with as main reasoning: everybody uses this, and: we are used to work like this. Those are reasons that can be dismissed with: work, and, learn.
Change is required (by your boss) and you have to work a bit harder (for your boss) it's that simple!
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