Month: September 2012
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Leading the Horses
Recovered from October 13, 2006 — thanks, Wayback Machine! (DVD? Is that like some medieval YouTube?) Computer Education is one of the most useless endeavors known to man, up there with 17th century tulip speculation. I’m not referring to directed training courses on specific products; some people learn better in…
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Race to the Bottom
Recovered from 9/7/2008… thanks, Wayback Machine! I’m preparing to give an important presentation to a major financial institution from my home office. I start the demonstration VMWare images, bring up the Powerpoint, sign into WebEx, and call into the conference bridge. I’m using a 1 year old 2.4GHz Uniden cordless…
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Data Replication Time Calculator
I was recently reminded of the Data Replication Time Calculator I wrote with PK… and thankfully, the guy who reminded me of it found a copy on the Internet Archive. When DroppedPackets.org was converted from Zope to WordPress, the copy I’d posted there was lost. So, thanks to David D…