Mingle and Jingle in the Holidays. Plan to Attend 2010 Holiday Mixer Hosted by AMA
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Calling all advertising, communications, marketing, public relations, and direct marketing business professionals in the Atlanta area. Read More
G3/Global Gateway Gathering To Take Place Tonight in Sandy Springs
Inaugural G3/Global Gateway Gathering to take place tonight at UPS World Headquarters, co-hosted by Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce and UPS. For tickets, visit www.sspchamber.org or call 678-443-2990 Read More
Touchstone Homes a Winner at 2010 OBIE's
Touchstone Homes awarded two Gold Professionalism Awards at 30th Annual OBIE Gala. Read More
Channel 2 Broadcasts the High School Football Playoffs
Channel 2 WSB-TV announced today that nationally ranked North Gwinnett will take on local rival Grayson, in the second round of the high school football playoffs on RTV Channel 2.2. Read More
Greater Valley Group to Build SIP Homes in Two Communities
Greater Valley Group (GVG), based in West Point, Ga., and EH Systems, LLC based in New Braunfels, Texas, announced a partnership to begin construction on two Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) homes in Lanett, Ala. on Nov. 15. Read More
Macy's Great Tree Lighting An Atlanta Holiday Tradition
Channel 2's Monica Pearson and David Chandley host the live broadcast from Lenox Square Mall on Thanksgiving night. Read More
Dec. 2 Chapter Meeting - Inside Coca-Cola's Social Media Strategy: Expedition 206
Learn the strategy behind "Expedition 206: Happiness Goes Around," Coca-Cola's unique social media experiment. Read More
Unprecedented opportunities for fixed-rate term loans
Private Bank of Buckhead (www.PrivateBankofBuckhead.com) - an SBA Preferred Lender - is able to offer both fixed and floating rate loans on owner-occupied real estate. Read More
Women In Technology Announces Publication of Technology Leadership Book
CLIMB: Leading Women In Technology Share Their Journeys To Success features more than 60 profiles of leaders influencing Atlanta's business, academic and technology landscapes, including Women of the Year in Technology Award recipients, WIT presidents, and key WIT supporters and volunteers. Read More
SCORE's Simple Steps Program is growing Atlanta's small-businesses
Growing one million small businesses to expand is SCORE's strategic plan. Its Simple Steps Program has been implemented in Atlanta to help achieve the goal Read More
Save on Daybook Stories: Year End Sale Through 12/3/10!
Take advantage of the last sale of 2010 to cover your 2011 events and press releases! Read More
Couple to Wed at Brookhaven of East Cobb Clubhouse
Neighbors for seven years in a gated Marietta community, Marv Adams and Cindy Benzine began the courting process after Adams' wife of 51 years passed away in June, 2009. The couple will wed later this month. Read More
Buckhead Senior Community Lenbrook Brings Home Prestigious Food Services Award
Competing in a Field of 350, Lenbrook is One of 10 to be Recognized for Excellence by Morrison Read More
Music enthusiasts encouraged to attend holiday gala
The Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta (www.MozartAtlanta.com) invites anyone interested in classical music to its Holiday Gala, Saturday, December 4, including dinner, a live concert and a silent auction. Read More
Join Us for Our 2010 Holiday Author Party
Join the Atlanta Press Club for our annual Holiday Author Party now in its 18th year on Monday, December 6 at 200 Peachtree Street, in downtown Atlanta. The presenting sponsor is Buick-GMC. Read More
Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods Community offers Affordable In-town Living
Townhomes are now available for pre-sale at Sherwood Park, located in the Smyrna/Vinings area. The neighborhood is ideally located for homebuyers in search of the solitude of the suburbs, but who enjoy intown conveniences. Read More
Number of times Conan hosted the Tonight Show: 146.
Amount NBC paid him to leave: $45 million.
Number of viewers TBS expects for Conan’s show there: 1 million.
Amount advertisers are expected to spend on late-night cable TV shows this year: $3.2 billion.
Amount advertisers are expected to spend on late-night broadcast shows this year: $1.6 billion.
(Broadcasting and Cable)
Average total compensation for the CEO of a public company during the past fiscal year: $7.2 million.
Increase over last year: 3%.
Average high school teacher salary nationwide: $43,000.
Of an elementary school teacher: $40,000.
Of a police officer after four years of service: $57,000.
Average salary of a Governor in 2007: $125,000.
(Marketwatch/payscale.com/Answers.com/ehow.com)
Year Time Magazine chose the computer as “Machine of the Year”: 1982.
Year Time chose Bill Gates among its people (“Good Samaritans”) of the year: 2005.
Rank of Apple’s Steve Jobs among those receiving reader votes for Person of the Year 2010: 1.
(Fortune)
“It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.”
— Roberto Benigni
Cloud 101: Increasing performance with nginx
When you have used web server software like Apache for 14+ years it is hard to change. You know it inside and out and how to do everything possible with it. So why change?
In a word: Performance.
Cloud technologies are changing the way we do everything at What's Up - from email, to project management, to web hosting. In our drive to get the most of our private cloud infrastructure, which is the foundation of our new cloud web hosting offerings, one thing became clear. We need to get more out of valuable server resources like CPU and RAM. Read more...
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Cloud 101: Increasing performance with nginx
Mon, 22 Nov 2010
When you have used web server software like Apache for 14+ years it is hard to change. You know it inside and out and how to do everything possible with it. So why change?
In a word: Performance.
Cloud technologies are changing the way we do everything at What's Up - from email, to project management, to web hosting. In our drive to get the most of our private cloud infrastructure, which is the foundation of our new cloud web hosting offerings, one thing became clear. We need to get more out of valuable server resources like CPU and RAM.
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