You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it…
I remember mentioning earlier this year that there are few events I remember in stunning detail. Tiananmen Square, the Challenger…
When IT people discuss Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), the most common focus is on disk drives. We all know…
…that the folks over at OpenOffice have concentrated so much on mimicking interfaces rather than trying to come up with…
Recently we’re seeing a lot of people upgrading to Windows 2008 SP2, without first checking to see that release notes…
Recently when I made an exasperated posting about lengthy ext3 check times and looking forward to btrfs, SiobhĆ”n Ellis pointed…
This is no time to talk about time. We don’t have the time! (Star Trek: First Contact) Are you one…
On both Windows and Unix platforms, NetWorker maintains a “tmp” directory within nsr. This directory contains a variety of information,…
Over at The Register, there’s a story, “Gmail users howl over Halloween Outage“. As readers may remember, I discussed in…
Great article over at Newsweek about the Lost Decade of Microsoft. I’m fully aware that Dan Lyons is Fake Steve,…