Bieber Labs Servers circa 2001

BieberLabs Servers

Photo by rbieber

circa 2001-2002

‘Elmo’ and ‘Bert’. My machine is on my desk to the right of these (named ‘Grover’). I went through a phase where all machines were named after Sesame Street characters. I stopped just before having to use Snuffleupagus.

Going through old pictures I found this one of the old ‘labs’ back when we lived in a house that had no space for a lab.

Ahhh the good ol’ pre-DSL days. These are two linux boxes, one of which was on a 56K modem that autodialed my mindspring account if someone on the network requested something outside the network.

Creating Passionate Users: When clients (and bosses) go bad…

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Creating Passionate Users: When clients (and bosses) go bad… – Excellent article on overtime and how companies should put employees first. Primary point in this one, “If we want to make happy users, we have to be happy. Our employers/managers/clients need to accept that, and act accordingly.” – Must read for Managers.