Archive for June, 2008

Deploying SQL Server 2000 onto Windows 2003 clusters with more than 4 nodes

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

So you’re deploying a clustered instance of SQL Server 2000 onto two nodes in a Windows 2003 cluster. The installer runs to completion, but all of the resources in your newly created cluster group are in the offline state, and any attempt to bring the group online results in an unknown failure.
In many cases, […]

Boring Jobs Dull the Mind (and Insight Failures)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Here is an interesting article:
BBC News: Dull jobs really do numb the mind
New research shows that people who are asked to perform repetitive tasks eventually go into “autopilot” mode in order to economize the work required to complete a task. I know this is true for me - ask me to create 20 databases and […]

Unleash Your “cognitive surplus”

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A recent meme - cognitive surplus - has risen that describes the resources that have been brought to bare to accomplish a useful task once people get tired of wasting their time. The discussion started with a talk that shows how people have so much free time to work on improving the Wikipedia (the estimate […]