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Robin Goodchild

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Owner, Antarctic Technologies

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I'm an IT consultant of over 10 years experience.

Not only can I provide advice and expertise on a wide range of IT and IT security related problems, but I also offer software development and systems administration experience on ...

I'm an IT consultant of over 10 years experience.

Not only can I provide advice and expertise on a wide range of IT and IT security related problems, but I also offer software development and systems administration experience on the Windows platform (Windows 2000 to 2008, x86 and x86-64 assembler, C++, .NET technologies, web technologies and databases).

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If your absolute best candidate had a 'questionable' Facebook wall, would you hire him anyway?

Hehehe Thanx, Robin.
This speaks to the perspective thing I was talking about, and just whose judgement we are relying on. You have heard I am sure the notion that if a person begins "looking for" signs of spousal infidelity, they will most certainly find ... more

Human Resources

Background Checks

Robin Goodchild and 2 other people answered this question

Feb. 10, 2012

Google has offered to pay users to track their web activity by the minute. What are your thoughts on this?

Good luck to them!
I'll tell them now for $1,000,000. No tracking required.
Why every minute, anyway? Do they really think I have time to read a bazillion pages? Do they think my attention span is so short that they need to look every minute ... more

Information Technology

Data Collection

Robin Goodchild and 3 other people answered this question

Feb. 7, 2012

What would a world without outsourcing look like?

Outsourcing damages the economy. It may be cheaper to an individual business to outsource, but in the home country it means loss of jobs, income, tax revenue, and ultimately consumer spending that keeps it all going. It also means that money leaves the economy completely, ... more

Information Technology

Robin Goodchild and 3 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Feb. 4, 2012

The Big BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Debate [2/2 @ 11 am]

Productivity/cost issues wrt employees with limited data plans? Companies have moved away from paying for mobile device costs. Reversal of this trend?

...so if I understand you correctly, employees are funding their companies data plans at their own expense? more

Robin Goodchild and 3 other people answered this question

Jan. 27, 2012

Symantec admits to being hacked directly -- any fallout coming?

http://www.symantec.com/cmp/theme/?cmp_id=enterprise_security&theme_id=one_br...
Anyone who trusts their data security to any single product/manufacturer is just asking for problems. There could be an inherent flaw in the way they produce products that makes them all vulnerable in some way (just hypothesizing). As is widely known, but I suspect ... more

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Incident Handling

Robin Goodchild and 8 other people answered this question

Jan. 20, 2012

How often should I be backing up my servers?

How often you should backup depends entirely on what the data is. If you are Amazon, maybe once per hour, but if you use it as an archive of other systems, then maybe once per week is sufficient. If you can tell us what data ... more

Managed Hosting

Robin Goodchild and 3 other people answered this question

Jan. 17, 2012

How do you feel about Wikipedia's plan to go dark in protest of SOPA on Wednesday (1/18)?

A token gesture that has hit the news, but will likely have little impact on Capitol Hill. It may succeed in making people aware of the bill that were previously unaware of it, but how many are actually going to go to the trouble of ... more

Robin Goodchild answered this question

Jan. 9, 2012

Inputs on ModSecurity and JavaScript?

====== As an example, some said that Javascript code can easily be stolen even with obfuscation.
Sure it can! JS, even obfuscated, is not secure in the slightest!! As everyone should know, it is a parsed language, and run locally, so everything it requires must ... more

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Jan. 9, 2012

Are there security risks to BYOD?

Yes, there are significant security risks associated with BYOD. Managing a number of disparate devices -- which the organization does not officially own -- is always going to present more challenges than standardizing on a limited set of equipment, where you have more options for ... more

Information Technology

Robin Goodchild and 1 other person answered this question

Jan. 9, 2012

What are some legal ramifications for cloud-hosted data?

Depends on the data itself, the home country of the company in question, and the country the data center is located in relatively. more

Information Technology

Cloud Comptuing

Robin Goodchild recommends this answer by Andrew Baker

Jan. 9, 2012

Will VOIP survive beyond 2012?

I didn't realize that voice over IP was in any particular danger.
There is a lot of growth in VoIP right now on all fronts, including corporate, residential, and mobile. We're starting to see more robust tools for managing VoIP at a personal level, and ... more

Information Technology

Robin Goodchild and 2 other people answered this question

Dec. 8, 2011

Outsourcing, Cloud Computing and Freelancing: Do you think these three are correlated?

I think they are only related insofar as companies outsource work (i.e. use external contractors) who in turn base their offerings on data center technologies. It is quite possible that the external contractor develops a system that is installed internally to the business, rather than ... more

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Cloud Computing

Robin Goodchild and 4 other people answered this question

Dec. 3, 2011

Are the technical terms LPAR and Virtual Machine interchangeable?

QUOTE: A *logical partition* provides an *application environment* which is isolated (to varying degrees) from other environments on the *same operating system*.
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Isn't this known as a sandbox? ;)
I think people (read: marketing departments) are playing with language to the point of insanity, just to try ... more

Information Technology

Virtual Machine

Robin Goodchild and 3 other people answered this question

Nov. 18, 2011

Will HTML5 ever be a tool for the masses?

My issue with web dev is the fact that the browser vendors can't agree to follow the standards! Until users kick the backsides of these people to at least adhere to some form of basic standard, it will always be a headache developing complex sites ... more

Information Technology

Robin Goodchild and 3 other people answered this question

Nov. 2, 2011

How should one approach cloud computing initially?

Ask yourself why you think the cloud is any better than any other form of hosting. What do you want to do with it? Why do you think it will be better than anything else? Cost is but only part of the equation. It is ... more

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Cloud Computing

Robin Goodchild and 6 other people answered this question

Oct. 25, 2011

How do you get rid of cloud data?

Yes it would. There are a few criteria that need to be looked at.
1) How sensitive is the data? If it contains the nuclear codes, then you obviously don't want these where they can be read. You equally don't want sensitive corporate data being left ... more

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Cloud Computing

Robin Goodchild and 14 other people answered this question

Oct. 25, 2011

Is it possible to run a 100% virtual office?

Yes it is! I work from home, and collaborate with people around the world on projects. :)
To spin things a bit: it isn't very easy to *not* have somewhere to work; even if it is the dining room table, it is still somewhere. more

Robin Goodchild and 17 other people answered this question

Oct. 24, 2011

What is the key to teamwork?

Trust, ability and STRONG COMMUNICATION.
I work with distributed teams around the world - we never physically meet but we work on large complex problems together very well. The key to this success is trusting that they will do the work they say they will (it ... more

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Information Technology

Robin Goodchild and 2 other people answered this question

Oct. 21, 2011

Do you think the emergence of infected QR codes will hinder QR code adoption?

It would be useful to know HOW it is a threat. Seems to me the usual problem of rushed software has led to serious yet fundamental design/coding mistakes, leading to e.g. buffer overflow exploits.
Time companies stopped rushing out software solutions. The army don't give rifles ... more

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