I told you I’m not a geek!

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Posted in open source by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 12, 2005

Yes, I’m stuck in the installation of Java in my Debian Sarge laptop.

I’m installing Hipergate 2.1 (a collaborative web-based application). This needs the following:

1) Apache [Web server] – I managed through “aptitude” (Apache 2.0.54 is now on Sarge).

2) Java [Servlet] – I’m trying to install version 1.4+ SDK, although I’ve been recommended to “debianize” the installation (that’s it, try to create the .deb package by means of the java-package + dpkg + aptitude).

3) Tomcat [Servlet container] – First I need to finish the Java installation, but once I’ve done it, I think it’ll be easy.

4) PostgreSql [SQL Database] – Version 7.4.7 available via “aptitude”.

I tell you when I’m done!

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OR vs MS: Hey!, we’re the same ones. Aren’t we?.

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Posted in operations research by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 8, 2005

Ok, I’m an operations researcher, but my education has been as an economist. What do I mean with this?. Don’t know my dear colleagues; probably I’m trying to carry on with the peace process brought in the previous years on the battlefield of OR vs MS (Operations Research & Management Science).

I’m young for this, but I have read that time ago operations researchers (mainly engineers) and economists (mainly economists!) disliked each other. Probably this is on yet, any ideas?.

FMS.-

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Taylorism

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Posted in books, productivity by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 1, 2005

Have you ever heard of “scientific management”?. Do you know who Frederick W Taylor was?. Well, you have heard of Henry Ford and the Fordism, so I can tell you he was an amateur compared to Mr Taylor, the father of the infinite search for the efficiency.

Robert Kanigel (author of ‘Apprentice to Genius’ and ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, and a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist) has recently published a brilliant biography of Mr Taylor (worth your money).

A freebie: Chapter 1 excerpt.

Keep the productivity up, catch up with the efficiency, rule the world. Mr Taylor would be proud of YOU!.

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