Author Archives: paulschreiber
I saved six cents
Thanks, Bonktown.
Indexed explains the music industry
how to delete .svn directories
find . -name .svn -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -fr
Finding Forrester (he’s not at JCCSF)
One of my favourite scenes from Finding Forrester is when Jamal corrects Professor Crawford: Prof. Robert Crawford: [to Jamal] Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball. Jamal: “Further” Prof. Robert Crawford: What? Claire Spence: [whispered to Jamal] Don’t… Jamal: [to Crawford] You said that my skills reached “farther” than basketball. “Farther” relates to distance, …
Spammer fail
Dogs don’t buy dog food
A customer is someone who buys software. A user is someone who uses software. When it comes to enterprise software, these stop being the same person. This is why enterprise software is so bad.
Data. It’s not sexy. It works.
Engineers Without Borders is running a terrific ad in Engineering Dimensions. I can’t make this any better.
Pac-Man ate my RAID
[>………………..] recovery = 2.5% (3836544/152247936) finish=35.1min speed=70370K/sec [>………………..] recovery = 3.0% (4642752/152247936) finish=37.5min speed=65481K/sec [===>……………..] recovery = 15.2% (23276800/152247936) finish=32.2min speed=66725K/sec [===>……………..] recovery = 18.4% (28154624/152247936) finish=28.9min speed=71392K/sec [====>…………….] recovery = 21.5% (32802560/152247936) finish=28.6min speed=69451K/sec [=====>……………] recovery = 28.3% (43166336/152247936) finish=33.4min speed=54268K/sec [======>…………..] recovery = 33.6% (51163008/152247936) finish=25.9min speed=64964K/sec [================>….] recovery = 84.7% (129098432/152247936) finish=7.9min …
Excel is not a database
The New Organizing Institute Education Fund, in conjunction with the Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation released the 2nd Annual Survey of Civic Engagement Technology. The report is full of interesting information on how nonprofits (mis)(ab)use technology to manage their organizations. APIs Page 9 of the report discusses data integration: Data Integration Many of the data …