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According to a recent survey carried out by Fluke Networks, 29% of IT managers say they have been alerted to business critical problems by [...]

…things ain’t too pretty.
My favourite quote:
“Clearly, their VC people have no picture of the situation other than their own return of investment.”
Well, yeah duh! Why anybody would be surprised that VCs are money focused is a mystery. VCs are managing other people’s money so their focus is bound to be primarily money focused. Your retirement [...]

Digital Equipment answers a user’s bug report that the year 2000 is not a leap year.
Various system services, such as SYS$ASCTIM assume that the year 2000
will be a leap year. Although one can never be sure of what will
happen at some future time, there is strong historical [...]

I’ve had a XBox 360 for around a year now and I have to say it has been a fine console. I can’t get enough of Command & Conquor.
Unfortunately, my dear XBox 360 has decided to die a horrible death. There was no warning it just wouldn’t work one day.
Whilst it is pretty bad that [...]

Al over at The Open Sourcerer mentioned in the comments of the ultimate low power server post another low power server running Ubuntu but for the bargain price of £99! There’s no Microsoft Windows option or WiFi but who cares for that price.

Want a home server but don’t want the electric bills that come from leaving a high powered machine on all of the time? Help is at hand.
The fit-PC is a miniature, noiseless, extremely power efficient PC capable of running either Windows XP or Linux. And there’s built in WiFi too.
Make a great small, inexpensive network [...]

A very interesting interview with The IT Skeptic over on the IT’s About Uptime blog. The interview covers ITIL and CMDB primarily with some background on The IT Skeptic himself.
For those who haven’t come accross The IT Skeptic, he tends to take a rather skeptical view of current IT service management practice.

Our internet presence has been slow of late. Customers were complaining that the website was slow, we couldn’t log into the server reliably, sending emails was slow. All told not very good.
I remembered a while ago getting a call from my hosting rep saying that our bandwidth was maxed out. Many hosting providers provide unlimited [...]

Denis has created a very good Guide to Fibre Cabling. If you want a simple nuts ‘n bolts introduction to fibre cabling you will find the guide well worth reading. I learned a lot from reading it during proof reading which is usually a good sign.
It is behind a form, so you have been warned [...]

I ran a survey a couple of weeks ago asking for feedback on The Tech Teapot. A number of you were kind enough to take the time to fill it in.
All of the survey participants are somewhat satisfied & read the blog either frequently or always. The number of readers is currently hovering around the [...]