What comes once every 4 years, is eagerly anticipated country - even world - wide, and gives us a glimmer of hope for a better tomorrow?
The US presidential election, of course! Oh, wait. Sorry. That was for an entirely separate blog post…
Leap Year Day, February 29th, of course! February, normally the shortest month of the year, on leap years remains still the shortest month of the year only one day less short. If only all planetary orbital time adjusting could be this fun!
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Systems Administrators tend to worry a lot. Computers break all the time, and we try to have a plan for when the inevitable occurs.
On Friday the 8th, a hard drive failed on one of our physical servers. The server had four production virtual servers on it. Supposedly, the hard drives we use in our servers are less likely to fail. They come with 5 year warranties, and graduated at the top of their class. [snip...]
Most, if not all, of the Thayer-based readers of this blog will have used one of the print release stations spread through our building. Each release station requires a computer to run the release software on. The computers at the release stations are not new, but still quite beefy (and power hungry at ~70 watts) for the job they have to do.
Enter the DecTOP. The DecTOP is relatively old technology, designed by AMD years ago, with a 366 MHz AMD [snip...]
I made a tweak to this week’s Jones Seminar videos. They should now play on any iPod that supports video playback… in theory anyway. I’ve tested it on an iPhone and the latest generation iPod Nano and it works great. All future videos will be iPod/iPhone compatible.
If you subscribe to the Jones Seminar video podcast, it can automatically be synced to your mobile player. Haven’t you always wanted to get your Jones Seminar [snip...]
