Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
I was extremely excited today when I discovered that people were being referred to SGL from the Wall Street Journal. I followed back to the referring page and discovered that we are the top listing for “Blog Posts About This Topic” on the article Transparency in Management. The list to SGL was to my article, …
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First thing this morning I finished reading Peopleware. What an excellent book. I am very happy that I read it and it was quite short too even with the extended second edition portions added in at the end. Last night before going to bed I was able to bid on and win an old 1983 …
In the Linux world, using the AutoMounter (autofs) to automatically mount remote NFS filesystems is relatively uncommon. However, in the Solaris universe this is the status quo. One of the most common uses of the automounter is what is known as the /net filesystem. Many Linux users who have not spent time in the UNIX …
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Installing Solaris 10 on the SunFire V100 UltraSPARC server is very easy and straightforward. However, if you install the “Core” version of the distribution there are some surprises out there. So I decided to document my own installation procedure as well as subsequent “setup” steps that I use to get the server into a reasonable …
In business, people love to talk about bonuses. “Bonuses are an incentive for employees to work harder.” you hear people say. But are they? Let’s take a critical look at this “motivational” practice. Thinking that bonuses are a path to employee efficiency shows a great lack of corporate empathy by management for the workers. It …