Danny's Stuff

I once worked as a part-time IT manager at a small company. We did all the "good" things... purchased some reputable SCSI RAID controllers, did tape backups, etc. We actually switched back and forth between IDE and SCSI during my time there due to cost issues, each time being careful to implement a RAID setup.

What are the 3 most important parts of any company? Everyone has a different opinion. What's interesting is their answers and reasoning. Here's mine:

1. Customers
2. Employees/Suppliers
3. Process

An interesting article from the 1995 edition of Harvard Business Review.

They outline why it is that market leaders often lose to disruptive
technologies; how to identify disruptive technologies; and how a company
can effectively embrace disruptive technologies.

Interestingly,

• the reason why market leaders lost to disruptive technologies is
  actually because they're "too close" to their existing customers.
• one method of identifying a disruptive technology is when there's a
  strong disagreement between marketing and engineering

To see if a process is running, you can use the kill command:

kill -0 <pid>

You can then look at the return result to see if it was running. This is a little better than the typical "ps|grep" method.