The ins and outs of Yvo’s life.
April 30th, 2007 Yvo
On digg.com:
Business 2.0 Magazine identifies popular job categories in which wages are growing the fastest.
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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.
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April 20th, 2007 Yvo
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.
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April 16th, 2007 Yvo
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.
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April 13th, 2007 Yvo
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
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April 12th, 2007 Yvo
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/
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April 3rd, 2007 Yvo
Well what came as a shock to me yesterday, EMI (one of the big record labels) yesterday announced, with Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs, that Apple’s iTunes Store will be the first store in May of this year to sell songs and albums without DRM (thus allowing playback on MP3 player that can play an unsecured AAC file) and at double the quality (256kbps instead of 128kbps). All for 30 cents more. $0.99 for DRM, 128kbit music or $1.29 for DRM-less, 256kbps music. Oh and albums ($9.99) by EMI will remain the same price but will get these features as well. That is far cheaper then a CD purchased in the store. Lets not forget that a future upgrade to iTunes will allow those that have purchased EMI music in the past to upgrade their music for 30 cents a song.
I applaud EMI for taking this step. It definitely is a step in the right direction. Hopefully the consumer market will see this as well and soon another big player will take this step.
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March 31st, 2007 Yvo
“Today we announce that we’re moving some of our servers to the North-Korean Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden.” Wait. What? Those crazy Swedes!
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All I have to say is… wow.
Wow as in… you gotta love April Fools 
It’d be scary if this were true, thats for sure.
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March 27th, 2007 Yvo
Found on digg.com:
One of the largest and certainly most popular DSL providers in the United States has been acquired by Best Buy, according to the two companies. The plan is to run the company as a subsidiary, and promote its business services.
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Wow, what a scary thought. BB buys Speakeasy. I’m not terribly surprised. When I worked there about 2 years ago the business was suffering. They had just moved (consolidate properties), their wimax experiment was failing and their prices were stagnant. Sometimes premium isn’t better. I give it another 2 years before the tech supported will be outsourced to either Canada or India. Well there goes the neighborhood….
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March 27th, 2007 Yvo
Considering I once worked for a web host… they suck. Sure $6.95 per month is great but their servers are slow and then it has this buggy CPU usage meter. The idea is great but the implementation sucks.
If you are reading this that means you are reading it on the new host. Which, when I access my blog at least, is a helluava lot faster then Bluehost.
Bluehost made me Blue…. hopefully my new host, Dreamhost, won’t.
EDIT: Netfirms was even worse. Their environment is anything but pleasant. I can’t believe a web host can screw up FreeBSD so badly.
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March 17th, 2007 Yvo
So I was on Sun’s website reading up on ZFS (see post below) and it seems they are now demonstrating a data center in a box. That is actually pretty intriguing. They’ll be in Seattle on April 1st and 2nd.
This is what their marketing department has to say:
“Code-named Project Blackbox, this Sun innovation is the first virtualized datacenter, optimized for extreme energy, space, and performance efficiency. Project Blackbox enables instant-on expansion and rapid deployment while maximizing savings and providing operational flexibility to address two of today’s most critical IT issues — soaring energy prices and space constraints.”
Off topic and random… but i’ll end up going to one of their sessions.
More info:
Project Blackbox
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