30 Apr 07 The 20 Jobs With the Fastest Growing Salaries
On digg.com:
Business 2.0 Magazine identifies popular job categories in which wages are growing the fastest.
Interesting, I have no idea where they got $49,100 for Technical Support Specialist (nice word for TSR, just like if you are unemployed you are an independent consultant). When I was going through the TSR circuit about a year ago since I graduated high school I didn’t even come close to that number (more like 30 – 40% below). We either have too many TSR positions in the area or there is a general practice of paying the manager 2-3x the wage of a TSR (not that they deserve it). You’d wonder if the turn around on that position would lower if they actually got paid $49,100.
20 Apr 07 Zabbix – MySQL server settings
Using Zabbix now since beginning of October 2006 . I get quite a few hits from Google off of it including from places that raise my curiosity. In any case, I added 20 new machines and suddenly the machine got boggled down due to the amount of IO writes being made to the MySQL database. After the jump (Click on Continue Reading) are the settings that I came up with and now my loads are back to the 1.00 – 1.10 range and the queue is always empty.
Hopefully sometime in the future I’ll post some other tweaks I made, especially regarding the monitoring of processes. I don’t appreciate getting false positives thus I’ve tweaked a number of default settings in order to bring this number down to maybe a handful a month.
16 Apr 07 The car I’ll be renting…
in Holland while I am there in June – July will be an Opel Astra. Kind of reminds me of the Honda Fit & Nissan Versa:
Just replace the german white plates with dutch yellow plates (plus different color) and thats the car I’ll be driving.
13 Apr 07 I’m going to miss Spring Break
I’m not the only that noticed, others at my work have noticed as well… traffic this week has been very decent. Ok so its not light like when you travel at 2am in the morning, however it feels like Sunday afternoon traffic. The roads are full but its moving at 50 – 60 mph. No need for shortcuts this week along Lake Washington Blvd nor the need to lose more hair over frustration. I think its because A. Half the schools are out at Spring Break and B. Because of A, soccer moms are sipping their tropical drinks along beaches in Mexico or Hawaii instead of driving like unaware fools in their giant cars.
Too bad it’ll all go back to normal on Monday April 16th. I know of at least 3 “soccer” moms coming back from Hawaii and I am sure others know some as well.
Yvo
12 Apr 07 Surprise! Surprise! Apple officially delays Leopard until October
Ok I am being sarcastic. Is it really that much of a surprise. People that have been loading Leopard development releases have said that there is no way Apple was going to get this out of the door in Spring 07. All that was missing was the official word, which is no longer missing. Apple, at one point, released a new OS X almost 12-18 months apart. We are now heading into month 23 and if it is coming out in October, it will be 29 months after Tiger (May 10th, 2005… oh how time flies).
Ref: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
