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Comment on Three Reasons Why I’m Ditching ChunkHost by Zach

Zach — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:33:58 +0000

All of these points is exactly why I use rackspace cloud ( http://rackspacecloud.com )

SLA, Good pricing, good selection of OS, etc

Comment on Three Reasons Why I’m Ditching ChunkHost by Maxwell

Maxwell — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:49:21 +0000

Hi, Charles. Found you on a search for “chunkhost vs linode” and I appreciate your tale. I currently have 2 linodes, and just discovered chunkhost. I like so far (in the 5 minutes since I signed up) that they have a twitter (so does Linode) and they appear to have a SLA now.

I experienced about a half dozen unexpected emergency server maintenances with my first Linode, and they ultimately had to move everyone on that Linode to a new one. Luck is fickle, I guess. So, I actually am considering Linode and Chunkhost to be even on the downtime so far. (Been with Linode for a few months).

I feel like if I won’t be able to support multiple accounts, though, I may wind up preferring Linode, too, but for the following reasons: IPv6, SSH access to the out-of-band console (though its great that Chunkhost has the terminal), and the amount of documentation (though some of it is duplicated/confusing/out of date).

I don’t know if ChunkHost will consider in-network traffic as “free” — something I’ll investigate, but I am happy to hear they offered to send you your data. Hats off to ChunkHost for being a player, since it will mean lower prices for root vps services.

Great review – thanks!
I’ll stick with Linode, now.
ChunkHost, maybe.

Comment on Estimating time for tasks with PERT by Gracye

Gracye — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:37:37 +0000

It’s always a relief when someone with obvious expertise anwrses. Thanks!

Comment on Multiple Vulnerabilities in WP Forum (WordPress Plugin) by Dieseealiacy

Dieseealiacy — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:21:39 +0000

Hi guys,

My name is Daniel and I am from Stirling in the United Kingdom. I have in recent past discovered this forum and I like it alot.
I am a little bit shy so I will not talk much about me but maybe when I will get more confortable, you guys will get to know me better!
My main hobbies are astrology and watching movies. I also like outdoor activites but the temperature has been horrible for the last days or so here in Stirling.

I was wondering if anyone else here is from the UK too?

I am glad to have joined this forum!
Have a nice day!
:)

Daniel

PS: Sorry if this was posted in the wrong section. I could not find the right one!

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/198-guid.html

http://codebutler.com/firesheep

Comment on WordPress Auto Upgrade and “Dumb” Permissions by Doconnor

Doconnor — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:06:53 +0000

This worked for me, but I had to use the group name lighttpd instead of www-data. I guess the name varies by distrabution. I use Gentoo.

Comment on Stop Letting Technical People Get Away With Social Ineptitude by julien

julien — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:39:43 +0000

The opposite should be true also. Socially skilled people should stop getting away with technical ineptitude.

Comment on Stop Letting Technical People Get Away With Social Ineptitude by amd

amd — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:53:12 +0000

100% agreed. That behaviour was totally unacceptable from anyone, and if he was my business partner I’d be having serious words with him.

Comment on Stop Letting Technical People Get Away With Social Ineptitude by Moshe

Moshe — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:28:34 +0000

I can’t agree with you more. I even wrote a blog post of my own about this topic:

http://technomosh.blogspot.com/2011/08/people-skills.html

Thank you

Comment on Stop Letting Technical People Get Away With Social Ineptitude by Mark

Mark — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:58:53 +0000

What can be a psychological inability for a person to effectively learn people skills can *easily* be perceived as rudeness or maliciousness by other people, when the intent of the person is often nothing more than a rigorous adherence to a particular procedure. People who suffer from such a condition generally depend almost vitally on such rigorous adherence to procedure in order to function, and it is only with almost herculean effort that such people are capable of recognizing situations where exceptions should (quite reasonably) be made. it is only a sad misfortune that this behavior tends to alienate other people, or be perceived as rude, when nothing could be further from the truth with regards to the intent of the individual… who can often be shocked and frequently deeply remorseful to discover that they have inadvertently offended somebody.

You ask me what I’d call it? How about Asperger’s Syndrome?

It may have the misfortune of being a bit of a pop-culture label these days, often referring to anybody who is nerdy or a social outcast, but that does not mean it is not real.

It just so happens that people who suffer from Asperger’s Syndrome also frequently tend to excel at pursuits that require extreme mental precision, such as engineering, scientific pursuits, or computer related professions (in no small part because of their tendency to so rigorously follow particular procedures). Such people are naturally drawn to these fields by virtue of their excellence in them, which is why there is often a disproportionately large number of them in those fields (probably not a majority, as you yourself question… but definitely a disproportionately larger number of them).

Comment on Stop Letting Technical People Get Away With Social Ineptitude by Hypersensitivity and Political Correctness - Charles Hooper | Charles Hooper

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:43:57 +0000

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