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What is it like to be Slashdotted Twice?

As a long time reader of Slashdot.org, I always wondered what being featured on it would be like. Through the years (I registered around 2001, I think) I’ve seen sites crippled by the “Slashdot effect”, when the site was featured on the front page but wasn’t up to the task of so much traffic. What’s …

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Experiences and Realities of a Work From Home IT worker

In news articles around the web and in the Real World, you can read all about the movement companies are making toward having workforces that are primarily home based. Yet, on the other end of the spectrum Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made headlines when she ended all telecommuting and brought everyone in-house. Other companies have …

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A Change of Direction

Ryan’s Tech Tidbits is having a direction change of sorts. Quite a lot has been happening since my last post. For the last 5 years I have been focusing on repairing Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 computers. Prior to that, I worked and lived in the world of Linux, and loved it. Recently I …

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