Yelling at your servers can measurably negatively affect their performance. No joke. Make sure to treat your servers with respect, and keep it quiet in the datacenter! Perhaps there is a “brown note” for disks (“rust note”?) – some harmonic that destroys their performance; although based on what we think is happening (disk heads being [...]
Posted on June 18, 2010, 5:13 pm, by andrew, under
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Sent to me by a friend, and definitely made me chuckle.
4 years, over 100 grand, and endless repetition “you must use your e-mail account”, then after graduating and 6 months later, they delete it. I was too busy in the midst of relocating my life halfway across the country, never mind accepting a new job the education helped to provide, and now my account was [...]
Posted on May 25, 2009, 9:44 am, by andrew, under
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The Palm Pre – supossed real competition for the iPhone with true multitasking and oodles of other cool features – isn’t going to be available for SERO users. For those that don’t know, SERO is an older employee referral plan that has: Unlimited data Unlimited text messaging Unlimited picture and MMS messaging between 500-unlimited voice [...]
Posted on March 19, 2009, 6:49 pm, by andrew, under
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With all the ruckus about the absurd bonuses that employees and executives of recieved, a bill was passed to raise the tax rate of executives that have been paid with bailout money to…90%, ouch! Read more about it here. In the face of public outrage at the fact that AIG paid $165 million in bonuses [...]