The Winter Olympics are in full swing! Team USA is officially on the board as snowboarder, Julia Marino, freestyle skier, Jaelin Kauf, and the figure skating team all earned silver medals! Which event are you most excited to watch?
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The CK Daily – Problem Solving
Happy Monday! Over the weekend I had to deal with a kitchen sink faucet that had started leaking (imagine a whale spouting). It was quite an old faucet and not a very durable one. I went about getting a new one and installed it, but I was missing an adapter for one of the hoses. It turned out I needed a male-to-male half-inch to quarter-inch adapter to connect the hose to the faucet, and only had a female half-inch to male quarter-inch adapter. Well, I went up and down the plumbing aisle of the hardware store and could not find the exact part I was looking for. I checked everywhere, even the outdoor plumbing section and it seemed like the part didn’t exist. It occurred to me, maybe I needed to rethink the problem. I already had a female-to-male adapter… so I just needed a half-inch male-to-male fitting to connect my hoses. Luckily, I found a brass nipple fitting that would do the job. I went home and installed it and the new sink works perfectly now.
This experience made me think about all the other problems I hadn’t solved, just because I couldn’t find the right part, or just because I couldn’t find the exact solution that I thought I had needed. Moving forward I think I’ll take a little bit of time thinking about whether or not a problem could be solved another way. Anyways other than pretending to be a Mario brother, I enjoyed watching some of the Olympic games with my family over the weekend. I absolutely love the snowboarding; my wife and kids loved the figure skating. Go team USA! I hope you have a great week and maybe you will even find it helpful to look at solving a problem in a different way!
Cris
Product Spotlights & Updates
HP DL560 Generation 9 servers come with everything you need for increased performance, scalability, and reliability in your data-intensive network! These 2U rackmount servers come with four Intel® Xeon® E5-4600 v3 and v4 processors and also feature 48 DIMMS of DDR4 RAM. These servers give you the processing power and memory you need to optimize your network.
Learning Center Article – Best Practices for Cable Management in Data Centers
Every network administrator in the world has a horror story about cable management. In data centers, those horror stories grow into genuine nightmares. If enough people work on a system for a long enough period of time, the cables will eventually turn into some type of Ethernet vine monster.
Only strict adherence to cable management practices can prevent this disaster. The best practices in this article assume you already know some of the basics. They’re aimed to help you avoid subtler missteps that occur frequently in modern data centers.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Frontier and Spirit Airlines have announced they have agreed to merge, creating the fifth-largest airline in the U.S.
- Google is refreshing Chrome’s brand icons for the first time in 8 years!
- A slot machine in Las Vegas malfunctioned not alerting the player they had won the jackpot. Luckily the gaming board was able to track him down.
- Are you ready for the football hyped and million-dollar advertising as we approach the February 13th kickoff? Despite some rocky years in the automotive industry, automakers are some of the biggest players in ad spending for this year’s Superbowl. Check out the commercials we know about so far.