Category: Humour
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We’ve got a new puppy – we’ve called him ETL!
Monday … Our house is full of optimism today – we’ve been out and spent an absolute fortune on a pedigree pup. We were really impressed by the salesman at the shop. He offered something to each family member. Mum (our family manager and my wife) was sold on the the cost efficiency. We won’t…
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Beatles Songs for Linux Administrators
Yesterday Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to be, And there’s a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong. What it was I could not say. Now…
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Fly Fishing File System
San Francisco USENIX Conference 1992 – Contest The conference contest, “Name That File System”, was a great success, with several hundred (yes, you read that right) entries. The rules read as follows: In the beginning, there was the file system, and it was good enough for the disk technology of the time. Then disks got…
Data Management & Warehousing 