Month: January 2004
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Best drinking story ever told
Recently, a routine police patrol was parked outside a local neighborhood bar in Minnesota. Late in the evening, the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes with the officer quietly watching.After what seemed an eternity and trying…
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Never trust a Republican
Senate Security Hole Enables Partisan Spying According to the Boston Globe, Republican staff members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee exploited a security hole in the committee’s servers for at least a year to access and share secret Democratic memos.eWeek eNews & Views email news item, 23 January 2004
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This happens to people too
Some Dell PowerEdge servers die after smokingDefective motherboards used in Dell’s PowerEdge 1650 servers can cause the systems to overheat, emit smoke and then die, according to the company.Dell said the problem occurs because certain motherboards have a faulty inductor—a component designed to regulate the voltage—that overheats, causing the component to emit smoke and then…
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Code Monkeys!
Well, its finally happened. Someone has decided that even the cost of offshore development is too expensive. Check Primate Programming(tm) Inc. for additional information. You’ll be glad you did.What a great way to get people interested in your consulting firm; as long as the potential client has a sense of humor.
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Because it’s my Job; so get used to it
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?Rene Descartes
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Design Fragility
Complexity breeds fragiligy Fragility breeds suprises Surprises are bad Bob Colwell, IEEE Spectrum January 2004
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Crackpot Friends
A water bearer in India had two large pots; each hung on the ends of a pole, which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the…