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Here’s a summary of what I believe are the most common problems in the software development process:

• Miscommunication:  If developers don’t know what’s needed or customer’s have false expectations, problems are guaranteed.
• Poor requirements:  If requirements are unclear, incomplete, too general, and not testable, there will be problems.
• Unrealistic schedule:  If too much work is crammed in too little time, problems are inevitable.
• Featuritis (Feature creep):  Requests to pile on new features after development is underway; extremely common.
• Inadequate testing:  Applications may or may not work correctly until the customer complains or systems crash.

Has your laptop or notebook computer been a target for thieves? My sister-in-law recently had her Powerbook G4 stolen right from her apartment. No forced entry, just a laptop gone forever (perhaps being pawned off on eBay). What can you do?

The first step is to report it to the police and for Pete’s sake you should have the serial number ready to give them. Without it, the Police have no way of tracking it. The second thing is to report the theft to your home owners or home renters insurance company. If you don’t have insurance, then you’re out of luck and will have to resort to other means of tracking where the laptop may have ended up.  More.

I can’t believe it’s September already. Anyway, I’ve had a couple days to look over the new G5 iMac that Apple announced and I must admit that it looks awesome. I currently have the G4 iMac and I am already thinking about selling it and getting the new one.  The fact that they were able to put the G5 processor in such a compact housing makes you wonder how close they are to making a Powerbook G5.  ;-)  This is the model that I predict will be the most popular.

* 17-inch : 1.8 GHz – $1,399.00 (Discounted from $1,499 retail price)
– 17-inch widescreen LCD
– 1.8GHz PowerPC G5
– 512K L2 cache
– 600MHz frontside bus
– 256MB DDR400 SDRAM
– NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
– 64MB DDR video memory
– 80GB Serial ATA hard drive
– Slot-load SuperDrive

The $1399 price is from their education store, if you’re lucky enough to be a student.  Now, if only I can get someone to buy my old iMac.