Yostivanich

It took an exor­bi­tant amount of time to con­fig­ure, and it still didn’t work. The appli­ca­tion ran awfully slow, and disk I/O was through the roof. Worse, as a result of the smaller dri­ves and 25% usage require­ment, the avail­able disk space was quickly fill­ing up.

via The Cer­ti­fied DBA — The Daily WTF. An extremely amus­ing arti­cle that details sev­eral things about being an “expert”; it doesn’t make you right on details mar­gin­ally con­nected to your field of study, doesn’t imply that you will prac­tice good judg­ment, doesn’t mean you should throw com­mon sense out the win­dow, and finally that you shouldn’t re-think your basic assump­tions of “how it works” when ques­tioned, espe­cially when pre­sented with evi­dence to the con­trary of your logic.