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My question is has innovation died? For large businesses that do not have a
vibrant, and fearless leadership (see Apple under Steve jobs), I think is has. If you look at the organizational charts for
many of the large corporate megaliths you will see a plethora of middle
managers who are so risk averse that innovation (any change involves risk) is choked
off since there are no innovation champions in the middle layers. And innovation driven top down can only happen
when you have a visionary in the top ranks, and that is also very rare.So where is actual innovation happening, at the bottom
layer, the people who live in the trenches…
The people who live for a challenge.
So how can big business leverage this innovation layer? Remove the middle management layer. Provide an innovation champion who has an
R&D budget and is tasked with working with the bottom layer of a company,
the engineers, developers and business analysts
that live on the edge (Where the corporate tires meet the road).
Here are two innovation failures I will tell you about, and both
have been impacted by a company so risk averse it is starting to fail in its
primary business ventures:
This company initiated an innovation process several years
ago. The process was driven companywide
with team managers being the central points of collection of innovative ideas. These managers were given no budget to do
anything with these ideas. There was no
process or incentive for these managers to drive it about their team. This lasted close to a year and the
innovation program slowly slipped into oblivion….
A second example:
This same company failed an attempt to market a consumer product in a
line where there was already a major market leader. This product was under development for several
years and needed to provide some major device differentiation form the current
market leader. This same company had a
large Lead Technologist community made up of real innovators in all areas of
technology. Did this same company
leverage the skills and experience of this internal community, NO!!!
So to wrap this up, if large companies really want to survive,
then they need to start acting like a small company. Support those innovators and risk takers! Reward them by implementing their innovative
ideas. Champion (from the top down)
innovation (found at the bottom) in your companies. Remember if you stand still you are really falling
behind.Do it now! Take a risk!
We (a contractor, actually) are implementing an off the shelf system to replace a legacy homegrown system for the core domain of the company (designing widgets). Unfortunately both systems will have to run concurrently for some time, as the product just isn't ready yet. Also, the decision was made to only migrate some of the widgets from the legacy system, based on date of last sale activity.
Later on a new requirement came down: certain people in the company, most of them outside of the widget development context, want to search all widgets. The search results screen has 3 pieces of data: a GUID, a human readable id that is searchable, and a brief description (may need to be searchable in the future). In the widget details, there will be multiple screens. These screens align very well along SOA / bounded context lines - a screen for marketing data, a screen for sales history, etc.
UML ahead! I am probably using the wrong kind of arrows here so please forgive me. The current solution - which is not in production yet - is something like the following:
Both systems will be queried and the controller will merge the results.
The new system has its own proprietary query language (we've alleviated this a bit with a LINQ provider). It also puts a lot of data on the wire. 15 search results typically run about 60k of unintelligible SOAP-wrapped xml. So I would prefer to avoid querying this system directly.
These two systems publish events to help us integrate with other systems, mainly an ERP system. One of these events contains all the data necessary for the search screen. I proposed the following alternative:
However I am being told that 'adding another database' will create more maintenance down the road. However, I believe this to be false, as I had to add a relatively simple feature that took several hours longer than anticipated because of this merging code.
I want to get a feel for which system is more maintainable in the long run. I personally have not had the burden of maintaining any large system. I want something more than my gut. Specifically I'd like to know if having more, specialized physical databases is more or less maintainable than having less larger physical databases.
I need to create a Windows installation USB drive from an ISO file.
I used unetbootin which seems to be the only tool that can write non-linux images.
The USB disk boots (sort-of), but it gets stuck at the very first stage. A UNetbootin spash screen that keeps counting-down from ten to 0, and then restarts.
The screen looks like this:
Is there a way to make Windows boot from a USB image created on Linux?
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There was a short discussion on the SQL Down Under mailing list this morning about screen resolutions for working with the SQL Server tools. In particular, the issue was about how unusable the tools are on the 1366x768 resolution notebooks that now seem to be the most common. While finding a notebook with an appropriate resolution is obviously the answer at this time, I started thinking that the product itself needs to address this. SQL Server tools currently target a portrait 4:3 shape for minimum...(read more)
i am preparing a report related to physics which is full of greek, stat and calculus things, i know there is this question how to insert a greek symbol, but my problem is i cant fiddle with a drop down/ scroll list for for every symbol(my paper in FULL of those), is there a way to do something with my keyboard layout, and turn it into something like the one Tony Stark uses in Ironman(i am not kidding please). i am literally tired for this fiddle-work for half of the day and have completed just 2 sheets, hmmm.
I do not want NetworkManager to list or manipulate my wireless card. Can I hide its interface from NetworkManager somehow?
I have tried adding this in /etc/network/interfaces,
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-essid Synaptotagmin
pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
and this in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf,
[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_19_e0_57_86_af
but NetworkManager Applet still lists and allows me to connect to wireless networks.
I noticed that a lot of my folders had suddenly switched to higher view sizes than I had specificied. I was assuming that somehow nautilus had suddenly decided to create per-folder entries for said folders with incorrect view sizes.
So I found this question: How to reset all per-folder view settings in nautilus? I found the folder specified in the answer (~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata) and found that it was actually important to delete the files INSIDE the folder, because for some reason deleting the folder itself didn't work for some reason.
After doing that, I discovered that the odd setting was for the default view settings, not for a handful of files. Nautilus actually handles the per-folder settings like it should, but it ignores the global folder settings. I want Nautilus to, by default, display all non-specified folders as compact view, 50%. My folders are using the compact setting like I want, but they are not down to 50%. At a guess, they are at 100%. Altering the view size of the icon view can set the compact view to 33%, but I'm not sure by what mechanism this functions. I haven't extensively tested the other view sizes because I don't plan on using them much at all.
Next I looked up questions like How do I reset nautilus to the default configuration? I'm expecting the problem to be a corrupted config file or something of the sort, so I hunted down directories like ~/.nautilus, ~/.gconf/apps/nautilus, and ~/.gnome2/nautilus. (I don't have a ~/.nautilus directory, so I'm assuming that's only for older versions.) I attempted to remove the contents of each, but I can't seem to force Nautilus back to default configuration settings. Actually viewing Nautilus's preferences in GConf made the settings look like they were what I wanted them to be, which is odd.
I'd like to force Nautilus to default settings, basically. Though if something else will fix it, I'll take it too. I'm not interested in doing a full uninstall, reinstall of Nautilus if I don't have to.
==EDIT1==
Turns out that Nautilus just writes the settings in GConf for the heck of it. Nautilus only really uses the settings that it stores in DConf. I did gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.nautilus, which actually did reset Nautilus to default, but it still doesn't like my view size settings.
Response Headers
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pragma no-cache
cache-control no-cache
location /
location /NKiXN/
I don't know how it became so but i used w3 total cache plugin but at this time i have deactivated it please help me to solve it, site is coming down in search engine ranking and google bot is unable to follow it.
Urgent help required, if this is configuration problem with server please let me know the solution.
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Monitoring Tools
Name
Action
Teradata Manager (PMON)
Check for down resources
UNIX
Check the /var/adm/streams log
DBC.Software_Event_Log
Check for hardware errors.
Tunable ParametersFollowing parameters could be tuned for better performance
Maximum Response Buffer Size (MAXRESPSIZE)
Session Data Unit (SDU)
Transport Date Unit (TDU)
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I installed lampp / xampp on my Ubuntu 12.04. After installing, Apache and MySQL were running properly. Now, they're not. Here's what I get when I try to run apache:
Command:
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
Result:
* Starting web server apache2
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
While you’re focused on the year-end sales numbers, don’t let your guard down when it comes to security, because a bad computer or network virus is a not-so-nice gift that keeps on giving long past the holidays. These 10 tips will help you keep your festive cheer.
Recently I noticed that my music doesn't get copied to my music folder when I open files in Banshee and drag them to the library. I opened preferences and the music library folder drop down was empty.
I set it back to my music library and tried again: still didn't work.
My preferences shows no music folder and I tried setting it to several other folders, neither would stay selected after closing the preferences. What's going on here? Thanks.
I need to create a Windows installation USB drive from an ISO file. I used UNetbootin which seems to be the only tool that can write non-Linux images.
The USB disk boots (sort of), but it gets stuck at the very first stage. A UNetbootin splash screen appears that keeps counting down from 10 to 0, and then restarts.
The screen looks like this:
Is there a way to make Windows boot from a USB image created on Linux?
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I'm developing a 2D HTML5 Canvas Game, and I am trying to think of the most efficient way to implement a Physics Loop on the server-end of things, running NodeJS and Socket.IO.
The only method I've thought of is using setTimeout/Interval, is there any better way? Any examples would be appreciated.
EDIT: The Game is a top-down Game, like Zelda and older Pokemon Games. Most of the physics done in the loop will be simple intersects.
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Face it. When it comes to SEOing your niche sites, the competition gets fiercer all the time. If you don't "Keep up with the Joneses", as we say in Oklahoma, you'll find your site being pushed deeper and deeper down in the Google search results.
I have been a web master or a website administrator for around a year or so, initially I built two sites which were entirely made using a free domain registrar and a free web host. The free things are always got at the cost of quality. It applied here as well, the main problem I faced with free web host was that their server up time was very low, most of the times the server was down and another problem was server overload, since lots of websites were built on a single server, the load on the server was very...
In this article, I am going to show you a Country Application. User will select country from drop down and details of selected country will be displayed.
How to use keywords for a better search engine position? First, analyze carefully the keywords related to your website. Choose 2 or 3 keywords and write them down.
The CommonFilter and CommonData solutions on Codeplex have been updated post VS2010 SP1.
The respective URLs are:
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http://commonfilter.codeplex.com/releases/view/62499
CommonFilter is a cut-down version of CommonData containing just the filter functions. Common Data contains a vast number of useful functions for building ASP.NET web sites including:
Lightweight reporting to a custome event log
Filter functions for common types of data input
I do not want NetworkManager to list or manipulate my wireless card. Can I hide its interface from NetworkManager somehow?
I have tried adding this in /etc/network/interfaces,
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.101
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wireless-essid Synaptotagmin
pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
and this in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf,
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=false
[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_19_e0_57_86_af
but NetworkManager Applet still lists and allows me to connect to wireless networks.
Hi forum,
i have this file myfirst.txt located on a cluster of computers down the hall, i.e.:
myname@login1:~> ls
myfirst.txt
which i want to download to the home directory:
scp [email protected]:myfirst.txt .
to which i get:
myfirst.txt 100% 1828 1.8KB/s 00:00
now where (on my home computer) is this myfirst.txt file ? i can't find it. It's not visible when i click 'show hidden files' either.
Tia,