Guard Your Email Address
How To Protect Your Email Address
Junk email is fast becoming the scourge of the Internet. I understand that if there was no junk email the Internet would run as much as 50% faster ! So, when browsing the Internet and your email address is requested for any reason, be wary – particularly if there is nothing stating how the information will be used. A web site should at least state that your address will not be provided to any third party.
DFM Can Help Startups and VC’s Make Money Sooner
Venture capitalists invest in new and rapidly growing companies that have very significant growth potential. Part of their role includes assisting companies in the development and commercialization of new products. To make a startup firm profitable, it is critical that the VC help the firm develop products that have significant profit margins. While business plans always show significant profit margins, the product cost estimates in the business plans can rarely be met using the first designs. In these cases Design for Manufacturability (DFM) can help close the gap between the actual cost and the target cost found in the business plan.
Instant Sales Letter Profit Boosters!
1) Greet Your Perfect Prospect Directly
Instead of starting your letter out with a “Dear Friend” salutation, address your perfect prospect directly…
Three Critical Elements of a Successful Job Search
Any marketing guru will tell you, the success of a product launch depends on the quality of its advertising message, its exposure to a targeted audience and the skill of its sales presenters. If any one of those critical elements is missing, revenues fall short of corporate goals. Likewise, a successful job search requires:
How to Monitor Windows NT from Unix
Many system administrators are running Unix / Linux based monitoring and alerting for a long term. The basic idea behind a successful monitoring and alerting system is to centralize all system events at a single monitoring station. Once the information is centralized, it can be used to build an alerting system or even carry out corrective actions.
PHP AutoGallery Tutorial
Discover how to create a dynamic image gallery using PHP. Step-by-step instructions for a responsive PHP AutoGallery.
Response to SCO’s Open Letter
Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens respond to the SCO Group: Mr. McBride, in your “Open Letter to the Open Source Community” your offer to negotiate with us comes at the end of a farrago of falsehoods, half-truths, evasions, slanders, and misrepresentations. You must do better than this. We will not attempt to erect a compromise with you on a foundation of dishonesty.
Invite Self-Managed Staff
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
– Goethe
How Do You Spend Your 168?
Let’s pretend that at the beginning of every single week, your bank account balance is always refreshed. It tops off at $168, every single week, and you have to budget that money to ensure that it effectively covers every single obligation, wish, and dream you have.
Real Life DBA: Dealing with a SQL Server Cluster Failover
Monday 9:30AM
I had just gotten out of a short meeting and went to my desk to see what important e-mail messages I might had missed. In my inbox was a series of messages sent from ELM Enterprise Manager 3.0, the software we use to monitor our SQL Server event logs. The message had arrived about 30 minutes earlier, when I was away from my desk.