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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Laptop Battery Refill update

Thursday, July 31, 2008

I refilled the Li-ion cells in my laptop battery about 18 months ago.The battery has worked as expected since then. The only "special" treatment this battery gets is that it travels in my laptop (as opposed to being the extra battery in my backpack) when traveling through TSA security checkpoints. (I figure it's better [...]

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Who watches the watchmen?

Monday, July 7, 2008

A system downtime announcement I received today (slightly anatomized to protect the guilty):
Summary:
 
On Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at approximately 6:30 PM, the XXXX XXXXXXX server instance, which monitors the availability of XXXX servers and network devices, went offline.  This outage was not noticed until Monday, July 7, 2008.  After discovering the outage, the server was [...]

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