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The Bag Of Tricks

To add to the challenge(s) of IT department in managing enterprise systems, the WSJ has come out with a well thought out list of useful hints for employees on getting around the corporate network.
These are the top the top 10 secrets our IT departments don't want us to know. How to surf to blocked sites without leaving any traces, for instance, or carry on instant-message chats without having to download software. Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You is full of advice for the office worker who wants to outwit thecontrols that enterprise managers impose on fellow workers.
Among the tips:
• How to send giant files (Answer: Through any number of free online services)
• How to visit the web sites your company blocks (Answer: Use a proxy site or Google's translation service)
• How to store work files online (Answer: an online storage service!)
How to look like you are working( Answer : Hit Alt-Tab to quickly minimize one window (say, the one where you're browsing ESPN.com) and maximize another (like that presentation that's due today).
It may well be time now for reiterating corporate network usage policies. I did not expect WSJ of all in the media to come out with an article like this – may be a precursor of what’s bound to come with change in ownership?

Note : A lot of friends have written to me asking if am not going to blog, as there are no updates for the past several days. The answer is you will see regular updates moving forward. A combination of circumstances created so much pressure on time coming in the way of blogging last couple of weeks.

Labels: Corporate Security, Interesting Things

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Overshooting?

I admire Marc Andressen - a pioneer of sorts in many things of the internet revolution. I liked his earlier post on venture capitalists. I was a little taken aback when I read his advise on turnaround strategies for big companies(>5000 employees). I read it, re-read it - liked the style and respect the time and effort that has gone behing in coming with the post, but found the contents misaligned. In my view, turnaround strategies are far more involved and calls for more deep thinking and the best turnaround strategy may not prescriptive at all - if anything it has got to be lot more context specific involving industry trends, vision, execution skills, resource base etc. In this age of private equity, turnaround and transforamtion strategies tend to take very many different paths. Read the views of Zoli and Larry Dignan on this. But do read the response that Marc provides for the comments posted therein.

Labels: Interesting Things

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Technology Twist (Just For Fun)

Vinnie has an interesting post on tech twists & holy cows. Someone sent me the following as a spam mail but is fun to read. (Reproduced below - Just for fun, but some of it looks close to being true!!) - No offence meant to any entity listed herein.
INFOSYSism
You have a 1000 poor cows. You put them on a nice campus, & send them one at a time to the US for milking.
PATNIism
You have 10 cows. You make them work so that they give milk of 100 cows.
WIPROism
GE has a cow. You take 49% of the milk.
DELLism
Intel has a Goat. Samsung has a Camel. Buy milk from both & sell it as Cow's milk.
IBMism
You have old stubborn cows. You sell them as pet dogs to innocent small businessmen.
MICROSOFTism
You have a cow. Force the world to buy milk from you. Spend a million dollars to feed poorer cows.
SUNism
You have a bull. It doesn't give milk. You hate Microsoft.
ORACLEism
You have a cow. You don't know which side to milk, so you sell tools to help milk cows.
SAPism
You don't have a cow You sell milking solutions for cows implemented by milking consultants.
APPLEism
You have a cow. You sell iMilk.
SONYism
You have a cow. You spend $50 mn to develop the world's thinnest milk.

Labels: Fun, Interesting Things

Friday, February 16, 2007

Left Hand Drive & Right Hand Defense

The traditionally held view is that right handed people used to drive on the left side so that their stronger hand can be used for any needed defence!! I always used to wonder how come various countries decide on which handed drive they would like to embrace for them.

The reasons that countries around the world drive on either the left side of the road or the right side of the road are outlined chronologically. A table of countries lists every country and whether they drive on the left side of the road or the right side of the road. Some links have also been added to the references on the subject of the history of traffic lights. Interesting read.