This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
Your there warm and comfortable in bed, semi awake, at peace with the world. Then. AWOOGA AWOOGA AWOOGA“Mutter, WTF!!! arrghhh… Whys my alarm going off on a Sunday morning!“ Grab phone, silence alarm, and stare at phone in accusation, how dare it...
A Bit of Background… MONDAY: Well the battery warning light on my car came stayed on slightly longer than normal on the morning’s commute to work. And it stayed on every time I was under 2k RPM on the way home. So I thought “Ahhhh! somethings up!...
Now as you are aware, I have not broken Busbys systems since going live with the project. I was thinking it was all flowing well and they had got “used” to me now, so the end of all my problems… Then came the Christmas shutdown period, and I came...
I was reading on t’interweb about the Russian owners of Livejournal laying off most of its staff without any severance packages, and since all of these people are in the technical area, leaving only sales people left its a bit of an interesting...
There should be a form of Caffeine-Breathalyser fitted to all computers that prevent incoming emails unless the operator has a sufficient amount of caffeine in their system to cope with lUsers. For my example I shall use my morning. 9am: Get into...
I thought I would just give you some update's on the fun of Busby's “Obscure Code”. AKA: The bane of the Internet.Update 1. After months of development, and testing we now have data files that meet the hundreds of requirements imposed on us by...
a.k.a Freelance Whoring A customer of where I work, who we will in the trend of this blog call “RedBack“, emailed me last night, unofficially and off the record. So its good I am protecting their identity :0) This customer has a server, but no...
Here is a Question. How much of the Internet’s Backbone is obsolete. Code that no one knows what it does or how it works? Let me give you an example: - I have recently been integrating my companies systems into several of the Major...
One of our customers recently moved half their business away from us to a BIGGER networking company for added security, better service, and to prevent having all their eggs in one basket. They had been looking into disaster recovery for a while,...
So at the weekly “Blame & Shame” meeting, it was mentioned that the SMS notifications of Server problems were possibly a bit excessive. The monitoring system sends out a notification of a problem every hour. If you happen to have your phone...