Hiring and Retaining Good Employees

Hiring good employees is not only important to business, it's essential. Employees are the heart and soul of a business; they are the mechanism that makes a business run; they are the breath of life that enables a business to be something more than an idea. A business cannot run unless someone (employees, in this case) is doing the work. Any intelligent business owner should…

Promotions That Build Profit

Promotions are everything you do to let your customers know you exist. Good marketing techniques can help eliminate the "I didn't knows" from your clients and would-be clients. Even if you believe you have more than enough business you should always continue to do some sort of marketing. What if there is a sudden downturn in your industry? What if you have to suddently reach…

Marketing

Its become fashionable to bash marketing "gurus" nowadays.

Ask Jeeves Earnings Double In Second Quarter

Today, Ask Jeeves released their second quarter results. The search engine reported revenue of $60.3 million, which indicates a 136 percent increase over revenues of $25.6 million for the comparable year-ago quarter.

How “ps” Works And Why

The simple "ps" command has generated a fair amount of confusion. Almost every Unix variant does it slightly differently; flags have different meanings and column headers or position also differ. This wreaks havoc with cross-platform scripts and has also caused bitter comments now and then. As I explained at I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS , I had the same misunderstandings. Albert Cahalan (author of the Linux procps package, which…