U.S. Soldiers Suicides vs. KIA

Not what you expected was it?

Reposted for archive from http://lmaoatlife.tumblr.com/post/967772095/us-soldiers-suicides-vs-kia

Changing Timezone on CentOS via NTP

If your server is showing the wrong date/time due to using the incorrect timezone, you can modify it quite easily.

For example, the time on my east coast servers were running on Central Time.

[root@app-1]# date
[root@app-1]# Wed Aug 18 11:05:13 CST 2010

First browse to the folder of timezones and locate yours

[root@app-1]# cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Now you will copy the correct timezone over the currently used incorrect zone at /etc/localtime.
For example mine is /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern

[root@app-1]# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
[root@app-1]# cp: overwrite '/etc/localtime'? y

[root@app-1]# date
[root@app-1]# Wed Aug 18 12:05:13 EDT 2010

Offering FREE and the conversion to PAYING

There is a great post up on SoftwareByRob right now about his experiments with offering a free plan for his SaaS tool for designers. The research by him, 37Signals and CrazyEgg all show that removing or shrinking the link to a free plan greatly increases conversion.

I experienced this subconsciously last week when i signed up for a CrazyEgg account. I had an account a couple years back and recalled them having a free plan. When i arrived at the pricing page there was no free plan, so I just paid for the $10/month plan.

The high cost of free parking

I just finished reading an article in the NY Times about the real costs of free parking – the emissions, traffic congestion and reduction in exercise to name a few. There certainly are places which lack a strong public transit system, but at least in cities (such as Boston where I reside) there are few times you couldn’t use the train or walk anywhere you need to go.

I thought about this a little more. If the cost of parking around where I live wasn’t $300/month I would likely have kept my car, and subsequently driven to many places I now walk to.

I’m happy about the lack of free parking.

Interesting Info-graphic about raising VC