How Stuff Works: Internet Infrastructure
I am glad that we no longer us IP addresses to go to various web pages. Remembering all of those addresses would be impossible. The invention of Domain Names was a great thing. It is easier to remember lots of DN’s than it to remember lots of IP addresses. Either way people still bookmark their favorite sites so they do not have to remember the addresses.
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems
The end of this article rings true, “In the end, it may be necessary for librarians and vendors to dismantle the ILS in order to rebuild it.” The current systems only go so far and can only be modified so much. To fully make everyone happy and enable them to modify their systems to their needs, a new system will have to be built from scratch, erasing the old one. Hopefully these new systems will be easier to use from the end-user end as well as from the programmers end.
Inside the Google machine
It was interesting to learn how Google operates and how they keep their employees happy. It seems like they learn from their mistakes and how they plan for the future. If something does not work, then they take it off. The try to make their employees happy by letting them work on their own things during 20% of their time and by taking them on vacation once a year. By keeping people happy and by allowing them to make outside work friendships, work relationships and work will be done quicker and better.
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