Monthly Archives: January 2015

You Better Learn to Work at Scale

Posted on January 29, 2015 by way0utwest

Early in my career, I worked on a large Novell Netware installation. We bought a server that was about 1/4 the size of a modern rack, which contained a number of blade slots each holding some type of hardware: CPUs, disk adapters, … Continue reading →

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Out of Space

Posted on January 28, 2015 by way0utwest

I’ve used placeholders to ensure I don’t run out of space on my machines. That’s worked well, and usually I can delete a placeholder when I have an emergency, and then clean up the drive. However I got a low … Continue reading →

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Normal Data

Posted on January 28, 2015 by way0utwest

I thought this was an interesting post: Your data is not normal. It talks about the fact that we often assume some normal distribution when working with data. We seem to think we can extrapolate, often in a linear fashion, based … Continue reading →

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Time for Learning

Posted on January 27, 2015 by way0utwest

I was chatting with a friend recently about our careers and how much we have learned over time. We are both interested in continuing our education in technology and debated how we might proceed. I mentioned that I was thinking … Continue reading →

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