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April 05, 2004
Utah's New Project Planning Methodology
Dave Fletcher, acting Director of ITS at the State, talks about the new ITS project planning methodology. I like that the methodology includes a "roles and responsibilities" matrix. Dave reports that they're using DotProject, an open source project management tool to do the planning.
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Overcoming Asymmetric Routing on Multi-Homed Servers
Having two network interfaces in a server seems like a good idea, but it doesn't always just work by itself. This LinuxJournal article discusses configuring a multi-homed Linux server to take full advantage of the extra card.
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Document Management
My call last week for ideas on document management solutions for small business yielded two suggestions, both from people I know and both saying, in essence, "Zope." I'm not surprised that Zope was suggested since it was one of my first thoughts when my friend asked me for advice, but I'm a little surprised that nothing else was suggested.
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Does Sharing Music Hurt Sales?
A study released last week by Harvard and UNC researcher states that "downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero." This has, of course, been met with some disbelief by the RIAA. A New York Times article discusses the study and the music industry's reaction. The most recent findings are in keeping with what most people learned in Economics:
"Say I offer you a free flight to Florida," he asks. "How likely is it that you will go to Florida? It is very likely, because the price is free." If there were no free ticket, that trip to Florida would be much less likely, he said. Similarly, free music might draw all kinds of people, but "it doesn't mean that these people would buy CD's at $18," he said.From A Heretical View of File Sharing
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The study hasn't been peer reviewed yet, but several other scientists have commented that the technique looks to be sound. I'm sure that facts will just confuse the public policy debate.
BTW, you'll notice that I've taken pains to avoid the use of the term "file sharing" in discussing this since I think that using that term unnecessarily confuses the issue and hurts legitimate uses of P2P technology.