Computerworld Daily Shark
September 16, 2008
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TODAY'S SHARK TANK
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Maybe he wanted nuggets of knowledge
The in-house database admin is away, so a programmer asks this database pilot fish to explain the concept of a bill of materials.
"I drew two rectangles with two arrows coming from one box and both ending on the second box -- one labeled 'is composed of' and the other 'where used,'" says fish. "Using a software vendor's hamburger example, I drew circles and connected them with lines."
In his example, fish shows the programmer how a simple burger can be assembled with a plain bun, a meat patty and toppings ...
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SHARK BAIT OF THE DAY
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Dr. Who?
I work in a very large software engineering center building with five wings. I escorted some visitors into the building from a door at the far end on the corner of the building. We went inside and went down an average-size corridor. When we got to the end of that corridor, we turned into the very, very long corridor that runs the length of the building ...
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TODAY'S TOP STORY
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4 new mini-laptops -- which is smallest, lightest, best?
These four mini-notebooks from Sylvania, HP, Acer and Asus offer portability, low prices and a Linux operating system. How do they compare?
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THIS WEEK'S FRANKLY SPEAKING COLUMN
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Um, What Noise?
Frank Hayes knows we all have work-arounds and kludgy procedures we don't even see anymore. But he can tell you who does see them.
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THIS WEEK'S COMPUTERWORLD EDITORIAL
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An itSMF Chronicle
Editorial: One's mind tends to wander when one is attending a conference on IT service management and IT service management isn't one's raison d'etre, writes Don Tennant.
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