Archive for the ‘what?’ Category

Be nice to your servers

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 [...]

Hello Kitty Motor Oil

The End of an Error

Sent to me by a friend, and definitely made me chuckle.

ERAU Nukes My E-Mail Account, Says “Too Bad”

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 [...]

SERO 500 + Palm Pre

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 [...]

Government to Recoup 90% of Bailout Money

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 [...]