Ok – a bit off the storage side. I recently undertook the daunting task of installing Fedora Core 7 on my Dell Latitude D620 laptop. The hardware summary is as follows: Intel Core2 Duo – T7200 (2x 2.8GHZ) 2GB Ram Intel 3945 802.11 Wireless Broadcom 10/100/1000 Network Sprint EVDO Express (Novatell internal) Dell 350 Bluetooth …
October 2007 archive
Oct 23
The beatings will continue…
…Until morale improves. Trying to run 4, FCIP trunks over a half a DS3 is a lot like raising a teenager. Sometimes it looks like it’s working, but in reality it’s just screwing around playing video games. Actually, my favorite is that “Raising a teenager is like trying to nail JELL-O to a tree” I’m …
Oct 21
Cheaper isn’t necessarily better.
This is a large part of what drives me nuts about customers.  (If they didn’t pay the bills, I’d be for letting them all drown in the sea of bad decisions they make) The unwillingness to spend a little extra to do it right. Let me give you an example. I’m working now on a …
Oct 19
Cisco FCIP and SRDF
Been a while since I’ve written anything – I’m not even sure if I still have a readership. I’ve been working an average of 60 hours a week on a single project these days. Doing a datacenter migration and consolidation. Basically moving 4 Symm-5 generation systems into a single DMX-3. The funniest part of this …
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