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The case of the 500-mile email
"We could send email. Just not more than--" "--500 miles, yes," I finished for him, "I got that. But why didn't you call earlier?" "Well, we hadn't collected enough data to be sure of what was going on
until just now." Right. This is the chairman of *statistics*. "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--"
email  sysadmin  networking  physics  geek  history  humour 
24 days ago by milkmiruku
“When you get right down to it, most security is based on the honor system.”
“No valiant showdown between a small number of larger-than-life geniuses. The battle was lost six months ago, against human fallibility."
blog  it  security  humour  story  narrative  tv  hacking  crack  sysadmin  business  management 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Everything Sysadmin: Avoid using the term "Cloud Computing" except when being ironic
"SaaS: It's a web site!
PaaS: It's a framework!
IaaS: It's a VM!"
blog  computing  technology  sysadmin  cloudcomputing  iaas  paas  saas  vm  platform  web  web2.0 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Everything Sysadmin: The Limoncelli Test: 32 Questions for Your Sysadmin Team
"Joel Spolsky brilliantly created "The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code, a 12-question "highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team". I've come up with my own test for system administrators. It is 32 yes/no questions. It is equally sloppy and irresponsible."
sysadmin  blog  business  software  organisation  productivity  computing  quiz  management 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Doom
Doom as a tool for system administration.
linux  gaming  sysadmin  software  fun  visualization  geek 
june 2006 by milkmiruku

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