I’ve been very busy doing both normal work and conference-related work here at ISPCON Fall 2006, but that doesn’t mean that Global Nerdy’s been lying fallow. My co-editor George has been picking up my slack with lots of good articles. Check it out!
Nobody writes a marketing slogan like my buddy George. His catchphrase for our tech blog, Global Nerdy, is “You’ll come out of pity, but you’ll return out of mild interest”. Why this guy isn’t the Wizard of Madison Avenue, I’ll never know.
Some of the recent stories on Global Nerdy:
The company for which I work, Tucows, has a job opening for an Integration Engineer. Here’s a very quick description of the job:
The successful
incumbentcandidate will have the challenging opportunity to work on Tucows’ vast and complex high availability system spread across multiple data centers, servers and operating systems. You’ll work with a dynamic team of Integration Engineers to develop, deploy and maintain components of a large scale hosted messaging platform. In addition, you will develop software components for our hosted messaging platform; liaise with third party suppliers in customizing applications for deployment on our high availability production environment; as well as contribute to ongoing process improvement of the SDLC.
For a full description, see this entry in the Tucows Blog.
If you’ve been checking out Global Nerdy, a tech blog I share with my buddy George, I’ve gotten my hands on a copy of Release Candidate 1 of Microsoft’s next version of Windows, Windows Vista. So far, I’ve made two attempts to install it, both without success.
Here’s the short version: yes, I finally got it installed. As with software from Microsoft, the third time’s the charm. My trick was the tried-and-true fix that all IT workers know: turn the damned machine off and on again. This trick is so useful that it’s been immortalized on t-shirts and in at least one television show, The IT Crowd:
For more, go check out the full story.
“If I wanted my computer rendered useless,” I said, “I would’ve saved myself some time by simply continuing to run Windows XP on it.”
Refusing to take “no” for an answer from my computer, I made a second attempt to install Windows Vista. For the full story, check out my article at Global Nerdy.
…and the results have been less than optimal. Read this story (and more) on Global Nerdy.
Techies: you can either read our tech blog, Global Nerdy, or wallow in the filth of your own ignorance and uncoolness.