Apparently the move to Comcast Business Services hasn’t done me all that much good. The SMC gateway they gave me hangs on a regular basis, the 6meg I’m paying for is closer to 1.5. If you have the chance to make use of their services….pass. I can’t wait until Verizon comes out with Fios in …
March 2007 archive
Mar 30
Storage for dummies…
I still can’t get over the way people perceive storage administrators as having nothing to do all day. Between managing the NAS, trying to keep some sembelance of order to the chaos that users like to impose on their environment, managing the backup infrastructure (multiple configuration changes for every server that’s added or removed from …
Mar 23
Cloning for fun and profit.
You know, everytime I start thinking of “Cloning” I am afraid the far-right is going to burn me in effigy, just on the principle of it. But in this case, I’m talking about cloning disks within an array for a data migration. The decision was made to move our Microsoft Exchange (Corporate Email)Â from the Tier-1 …
Mar 21
DWDM Limitations – how far is too far?
I saw this post on http://lordegg.wordpress.com and felt that the comment I posted to him there would make pretty good topic here. Most people don’t understand that the speed of light has become a serious limitation in computing. Even the original Cray, which was installed in Los Alamos in 1976, had some million individual wires …
Mar 20
Woah – Bigtime Duck
I think I’m going to send this guy the biggest duck ever. Oops! Techie wipes out $38 billion fundWe’ve all done it, accidentally deleted a file, maybe some of us have even formatted the wrong drive. But I think it’s safe to say that most of us have not wiped out $38 billion dollars. According …
Mar 14
Downtime
Some may have noticed the downtime last night – well it was planned…sort of. Last night I started working on moving the site over to the new internet connection. (I’m curious as to whether or not anyone outside notices the speed difference) When I realized (as I should have before) that moving the default gateway …
Mar 09
Powerlink and partners…..again.
I’m into this discussion on storagezilla’s new site ( storagezilla.typepad.com ) and it kind of brought out an issue I had today. I’m onsite in North Carolina (still – unforutnately) and I’m working with the customer to get ahold of the DST patches (part of the reason for my last post….) for ControlCenter. So I do …
Mar 08
Daylight Savings…
I have yet for someone to give me a reasonable explanation as to why we observe daylight savings time?
Mar 07
Be the Packet….
I was whiteboarding a switch migration today with one of the DCR people, and it occurred to me: If you can visualize the data’s path through the system, your life gets a lot easier. If you can see the path the data is going to take through the San, I.E. from Switch1, Blade1, Port4 through …
Mar 02
Random thought –
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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