GSquared (1/12/2011)

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...Keep your data in two places if it matters. Three if it's important. Four or more if it's critical. E.g.: RAID-10 is 2 places, backups to...

kminchau (1/12/2011)

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I just want to point out that Microsoft has indeed posted the cause of the outage. It was not due to SQL Server, or load balancing, but due to...

On the subject of communicating with users:

Instructions for general audiences are often a problem in this tech world. Just look at the instructions that come with even the simplest products.

First...

Americans (the culture I am most familiar with) seems to have a dangerous fascination with the hero who breaks the rules-- the A team, the renegade cop or sheriff who...

Don't forget: any job that can be done from home can be done from a 'low cost country'

Perhaps the model should be less 'A Team' and more 'Mission Impossible': quietly working behind the scenes, most people might not even notice something is happening.

[Though there is a strong...

Much of the drive for light rail (or it's sexy cousin, high speed rail) is driven not by pragmatic thinking but by the desire for political photo ops. There is...

jay holovacs (11/10/2010)

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steven.malone (11/10/2010)

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The routes are fixed, and need to be virtually linear. Compare that with buses, which can go virtually anywhere and can alter routes to suite changing ridership,...

Unfortunately, other things too. I read an allegedly serious survey of HR interviewers a...

OCTom (12/15/2010)

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Get along? Are you kidding me Steve? Did we just take a trip to namby-pamby land? (to quote a recent U.S. commercial) I don't need to be best buds...

Meritocracy is something that sounds great in theory, but as the history of Civil Service exams (US) shows, it can create enormous amounts of inertia, and people quickly develop ways...

Do not underestimate the government factor.

When you have your systems, you are responsible to the territory you operate in. Cloud providers (where you have no idea where information is kept)...

while I like music, when I'm seriously thinking, I require quiet. Absolute quiet.

'Security through obsurity' gets a bad rap, but it is helpful, at least in a world where there are a lot of targets. No car is break-in proof, but if...

There is an established psychological effect (I don't remember the name unfortunately) where people with less skill/knowledge actually tend to self rate higher than people with better skills.