Yearly Archives: 2008

Fast Table Repairs for myisam

Linux
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SQL table corruption can happen from time to time for a number of reasons. As we have scaled ExchangeDefender, I ran into a number of situations in which the data inserts were incomplete, or some maintenance tasks (large delete queries) … Continue reading

Poor Corporate Hiring Strategies in SMB

IT Business, IT Culture
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I knew there would come a day when I would have to categorically disagree with Karl on virtually every piece of advice he has offered. Take a look at this post on Hiring the Best Employee. The basic flaw in … Continue reading

Cultural expectations of toll free numbers

IT Business, Vladville
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One of the fun parts of running a global business is trying to adjust to the different cultural and business expectations of different countries. If you’ve ever worked with the people from the far east you know what I mean, … Continue reading

The Loudmouth Kick In The AdSense

Vladville
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In what is surely to be the most hotly disputed or buried story of 2008, recent study finds that “influencers” happen to have very little actual influence over their audience. Why, I’d never…  You mean to tell me that the … Continue reading

What is different? (24 hours, 3 iPods)

Shockey Monkey
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As I mentioned yesterday, if there was ever an easy way for you to score an iPod, this is it. Below you will find three pictures. What is different about them?     I need to know specifically what difference … Continue reading

If your opinion is worth $10 you should be standing on the corner begging for money

IT Business
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There is pretty much only one thing that Schrag and I agree on, and it’s that IT survey conclusions are worthless because they draw data from unemployed people. Look at the email I just got: Subject: First 100 survey respondents … Continue reading

SWAGtrain has left the station

Vladville
on SWAGtrain has left the station

First of all, apologies to those of you that recently won stuff from Vladville, podcasts, webcasts, comments, etc. It took me a while to get it all in order and things will be better going forward now that I have … Continue reading

How and when will the next "feature push" come?

IT Business
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Selling technology has not been a giant challenge for a really long time. Why? The customers hate their technology and if they rely on it they are willing to spend more money on it to improve it. The trick to … Continue reading

See you on the 2nd…

Gaypile
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Tomorrow is April 1st and I will not be blogging out of protest. You see, April 1st is the excuse for people without the slightest sense of humor to take one day a year and act like awkward imbeciles. I’m … Continue reading

Scheduling Woes & Conferencing

Vladville
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It’s Monday morning and I’m sure the following may make many of you sick to your stomach so feel free to skip to the next paragraph: I love coming to my office with a smile on my face. I couldn’t … Continue reading