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Rule 1: Sleep well at night There are many studies indicating that if you turn off your screens (all of them – phones included) an hour or 2 before you go to sleep, you will sleep better… not necessarily longer but the quality will be better. (NB: Turning off your monitors when not in useRead more

You think the Internet is a jungle? You haven`t seen anything yet! A while ago, we were working on`standardizing Internet domain names in an attempt to classify email traffic. Example: by forcing adult content to add SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT in emails, the creation of .xxx domains, and many other ideas that never came to light. But when money enters the picture,Read more

MSiCS has begun to cover your hardware (desks, chairs) & software (food, exercise). Today we’ll look at your interface (environment). #1 Golden rule for a healthy environment: Keep it to yourself Disturbing or being disturbed by your coworkers with any of the following is not conducive to a healthy environment. If you’re regularly on theRead more

Have you ever found your SQL server drops packets or experiences network latency when network traffic is at a minimum? Or perhaps searching through log files only to find the following error logs listed below. All schedulers on Node 0 appear deadlocked due to a large number of worker threads waiting on ASYNC_NETWORK_IO. Process UtilizationRead more

MSiCS has, so far, been dealing with your hardware (dust & workstation mechanics). Let’s take a look at programming (food). Running too many commands Too many people eat lunch (& even breakfast & supper) at their desks. Multi-tasking may be wonderful for some things but not for your body: http://www.ajcn.org/content/93/2/308.short.  If you’re feeding it whenRead more