Sep 1 2010

Turnover rates

jbritz

A thought on turnover rates and what they indicate in a given company.

Lets take a look at the life cycle of an employee:

New employee, works hard to impress.
That is, until they figure out the job, start slacking.
Become liability, get canned.

Ergo,
The higher the turnover rate, the better the company! A higher turnover rate indicates your company has the pulse of it’s employees. Shit canning them when they become less productive.

Q.E.D.


Aug 24 2010

Groove Shark is Awesome

jbritz

Here at proof-facts we don’t usually go pimping things.  Especially things that don’t pay us, but, despite this I will give grooveshark.com some love.  You can listen to any song you want there, in it’s entirety, for free.  None of that pandora bullshit where you set a station and hope to hear the song you want.

Now, here is an example of how awesome this site can be. I set this playlist up using their create a widget functionality:


Jul 27 2010

Van Canto – Kings of Metal

easander

I’m not saying this version of Manowar’s – Kings of Metal is better than the original, that would be ridiculous, but it’s damn close. That’s not too bad considering they are using only their mouths and drums.


Jul 21 2010

Installing oci8 driver for MDB2

easander

If you are seeing errors similar to:

Warning: include_once(MDB2/Driver/oci8.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/MDB2.php on line 330 Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'MDB2/Driver/oci8.php' for inclusion

when you are trying to use MDB2 with oci8, then you just need to do the following to fix it.

  1. Open a terminal
  2. Type ‘sudo pear install MDB2_Driver_oci8‘ and you should see:


    Password:
    downloading MDB2_Driver_oci8-1.4.1.tgz ...
    Starting to download MDB2_Driver_oci8-1.4.1.tgz (37,027 bytes)
    ..........done: 37,027 bytes
    install ok: channel://pear.php.net/MDB2_Driver_oci8-1.4.1

  3. Restart Apache

The problem here is that you had MDB2 installed correctly, but you didn’t have the specific driver that tells MDB2 how to handle Oracle (oci8) connections.


Jun 11 2010

Pepsi is Good for you Dan!

jbritz

Pepsi is now a health food because your body has to burn calories to bring the temperature down to your body’s temperature.