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Ten Questions To Ask When Selecting Open Source Products

Friday, 22 October 2010 15:50

During the current economic downturn, enterprises are increasingly adopting open source systems due to their significant cost advantages and their liberal license policies. All open source projects, by definition, provide the end user with certain perpetual rights and freedoms in using, studying, modifying, and redistributing the product. However, there is a lot of inconsistency in terms of the product quality, the governance model, and the availability of support. Thus, when selecting open source components for your enterprise, it is important to do some background checks to ensure the open source product you have selected is compatible with your enterprise business model and IT standards. Below are 10 questions you can ask to evaluate open source maturity.

Cyberstalking and Cyberbullying in the Philippines

Tuesday, 21 September 2010 12:13

by Bernadette A. Mapue
2006-0248

Introduction

The dawn of the new millennium has brought tremendous changes in global perspectives. The concept of unknown horizons and unexplored world terrains vanished. In a sense the huge world, which we thought was so vast that one cannot travel from one end to the other without spending one’s generation, shrank. Societies grew from interactional to isolated populace where each spends most of his time sitting in front of a computer. With the advent of such revolution the concept of Cyberspace was born and with it, the lives of the people and how they interact with one another correspondingly and dramatically changed.

William Gibson in his 1984 book Neuromancer first defined the word cyberspace as “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation by children being taught mathematical concepts. A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data” (Gibson, 1989). Gibson envisioned that the development of high end computers and the birth of the Internet will create a holographic data bank wherein people will begin to metaphysically interact with people and environment. In a sense what he theorized as a non-space place in the minds of every citizen somehow came into reality.

MISS 5S Evolution

Friday, 23 July 2010 16:53 |

by: Antoinette Ongkiko

5S is the name of a workplace organization methodology that uses a list of five Japanese words which are seiri, seiton, seiso, seiketsu and shitsuke. Translated into English, they all start with the letter S. The list describes how items are stored and how the new order is maintained. The decision making process usually comes from a dialogue about standardization which builds a clear understanding among employees of how work should be done. It also instills ownership of the process in each employee.

Following the 5S Phases described by www.wikipedia.com as listed below, see how MISS has struggled, persevered and sustained the gains of having such a workplace organization program.

Phase 1 - Sorting (seiri): Eliminate all unnecessary tools, parts, instructions. Go through all tools, materials, etc., in the plant and work area. Keep only essential items. Everything else is stored or discarded.

Phase 2 - Straightening or Setting in Order (seiton): There should be a place for everything and everything should be in its place. The place for each item should be clearly labeled or demarcated. Items should be arranged in a manner that promotes efficient work flow. Workers should not have to repetitively bend to access materials. Each tool, part, supply, piece of equipment, etc. should be kept close to where it will be used (i.e. straighten the flow path). Seiton is one of the features that distinguish 5S from "standardized cleanup". This phase can also be referred to as Simplifying.