Spaceballs – The Flamethrower!
The best dog I’ve ever owned also had an interesting name, Peeve. She was my mom’s pet Peeve. Anyway, I’d like to share a pet peeve I have in regards to report names. I cannot tell you how many people I’ve met that actually put the word [...]
Recently we had an M2M outage at work, which caused annoyance and downtime for many of my users. It took the better part of a day to investigate and solve. As you can imagine it was a stressful time, executives were angry, etc; which was particularly difficult for me because I am a perfectionist when [...]
”As a comedian, I always get into situations where I’m auditioning for movies and sitcoms, you know? As a comedian, they want you to do other things besides comedy. They say “alright you’re a comedian, can you write? Write us a script. Act in this sitcom.” They want me to do shit that’s related to [...]
The ethics of business intelligence is a touchy subject that many people don’t want to talk about. However, more attention in the past several years has been given to this subject mostly due to ethics scandals at huge companies such as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act came about because of such [...]
Recently I was tasked with automating a reporting process which collects repair metrics. The current method of tracking repairs in my company was tedious and time consuming. As is typical, the method used to track this was Excel Hell. Every week someone would run the Received Goods (RPREGO), Inventory On-Hand by Location [...]
This is the point where we all lie and list a strength and tell the interviewer that our biggest weakness is that we just work too darn hard or some other such tripe. To be honest, I don’t know why they ask this question and what they really expect for an answer. [...]
I owe a lot to Mr. Frank Girard. This blog is a product of his work as well as mine. Mr. Girard taught me how to write in high school, but I wasn’t a big fan of his at the time.
I remember getting detention for “cross pollination.” Mr. [...]
I’ve been working with M2M for nearly 12 years, and they’ve made very little progress with permissions. I’ve placed several change requests regarding permissions, which have gone unheeded. Smaller companies with only a few M2M users will probably not relate to some of these issues, but they become major problems when you administer 40+ users [...]
I performed a test migration to M2M Version 6.0 the other day on a test server. After your test server is set up, one of the first steps is to run DBSCAN on your Util database. My scan found a few records with data corruption. One sample record is below:
11/21/09 03:17:39 PM:dbScan: Data Corruption Detected!
11/21/09 [...]
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