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Don't leave it to chance.

Don't Leave Patch Management to Chance

Patch management is a costly but necessary part of server management. Should more time be spent on patch evaluation and analysis or testing and implementation? This paper attempts to introduce conditional probability into the patch management process giving the reader a tool to evaluate where best to spend their time, analysis or testing. Bayes’ theorem will be used to help predict the outcome ...

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Can we Leave it to Chance? New Learning Technologies and the Problem of Professional Competence

This paper describes two different university and school collaborations featuring teachers’ and students’ use of online environments. The first example involves a classroom application of a Learning Management System (LMS) to deliver a Year 8 Studies of Society Unit on ‘Rainforests’. This example serves to capture, bracket and examine the ways in which teachers have begun to redefine teaching p...

Take It or Leave It ?

This research examines the consumer’s decision whether to make a purchase. I propose one psychological process underlying this decision, namely, a metacognitive process I call preference testing. Specifically, when deciding whether to purchase a particular option, people observe whether they have tested the option against alternative options for purchase. Seeing they have considered a competing...