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The IT number of the Beast - doubled!
Experimental jet-powered locomotive test bed Last year I blogged about 497 being the IT number of the beast . Why 497? Because if a product uses a 32 bit counter to record uptime, and that counter records a tick every 10 msec, then that 32-bit counter will overflow after approximately 497.1 days. This is because a 32 bit counter equates to 2^32, which equals 4,294,967,296 ticks. If a tick is... [More]
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Are you a member of a cult?
Steve Duplessie from the Enterprise Strategy Group sent out an amusing tweet the other day. He said: "XIV customers are cult like. They really do seem to love (almost unnaturally) the stuff. Very invested." I am unsure about unnatural love , but perhaps the level of enthusiasm he is seeing comes from: ease of use, awesome GUI, consistent performance, freedom from planning RAID... [More]
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What is Google trying to tell me?
One of Melbourne's main newspapers is The Age and like many newspapers it can be accessed via a Web Browser, including a mobile website . Most articles that appear on the mobile site have advertisements by Google, as well as featured advertising. Now I cannot blame The Age for using advertising to subsidize their website; after all if I visit their website I may not purchase an actual paper.... [More]
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