Failures happen; given the 24×7 support requirement (per 4.5), there will be times when something breaks badly enough that senior wizards will have to connect remotely.
- RFC2870, “Root Name Server Operational Requirements”
Some humorous things I’ve seen around the web lately.
Random statistic:
But what about the other 6% of young people? Spawns of the hellbeast, must be.
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You mean software vendors distribute patches to existing installs?
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This is from the website of a new condo building being built in my neighborhood.
“Where SoHo meets Tribeca” ? You must mean Canal St, but don’t want to make people think of Chinatown or hellish traffic.
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Wow. Who ever would have thought?
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For whatever reason, when I visited this website, my mind made an unconscious decision as to what kind of robot I was interested in…
I’m sitting in a hallway in an engineering building and no one walking by gives even a passing glance to the little dog-like robot that is just looking around.
I love that when you become a geek, special meaning is attached to seeing numbers that are a power of two (and one less).
More CEOs should be this candid. From an interview with hard drive manufacturer Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins, entitled “Seagate CEO: I help people “watch porn”:
The secret to managing a board of directors: “You never ask board members what they think. You tell them what you’re going to do.”
“In Defense of Rosé Champagne” highlights why men should not be afraid of buying pink alcohol.
