20041105 Friday November 05, 2004

Nice Jobs Report

The United States Labor Department reported today that 337,000 jobs were added to payrolls in October. The Labor Department also revised the number of jobs created in September up from 96,000 to 139,000 and revised the number of jobs created in August up from 128,000 to 198,000.
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BlueArc Sets NAS IOPS Record

BlueArc, a vendor of network storage solutions, has announced record-setting NAS server performance. A single Titan SiliconServer with a single filesystem achieved 50,858 NFSv3 IOPS measured by the SPECsfs benchmark.
( Nov 05 2004, 05:19:37 PM PST ) Permalink

Word of the Day

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adjective : of or related to dancing ( Nov 05 2004, 02:25:34 PM PST ) Permalink

Trivial Tidbits

The first motion picture to be assigned an NC-17 rating by the Classification and Rating Administration's Rating Board was Henry & June (1990).

The first motion picture to be released with a PG-13 rating was Red Dawn (1984).

The first R-rated movie produced by Walt Disney Studios was 1986's Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
( Nov 05 2004, 02:22:26 PM PST ) Permalink