Are you the type of IT shop that won’t take downtime? I mean won’t take downtime to the point that there are EOSL applications running on EOSL hardware, redundancy gone because an HBA has failed and a replacement simply isn’t available, (or is and you won’t take the outage to replace it) It got me to …
Category: Downtime
Feb 25
We interupt this experiment to bring you this special bulletin…
The government’s “Continuing Resolution” will be expiring a week from today. As a government contractor, this directly affects me. They have two choices. They can pass ANOTHER C.R. or they can actually pass a budget. I don’t post political statements here too often. However I don’t know about you, but from where I stand this …
Mar 17
I remember the good old days….
When the triage guys @ EMC actually listened to the person calling in the problem and directed the call appropriately. (Just had one I specifically asked for PSE and they routed me to software for some unknown reason, now, three hours later, it’s been re-routed to PSE) When the support specialist working a call would …
Aug 25
Jumping the shark
This may be a more well-known reference than I earlier thought. I grew up watching Happy-Days. The show was great until the episode where Fonzi jumped the shark-tank. After that it pretty much went down-hill quickly. Hence the term “Jumped the shark” or “Jumping the shark” has come to mean any single event that marks …
Jun 22
Enterprise vs….not
I have a cousin. Very well-to-do man, owns a company that does something with storing and providing stock data to other users. I don’t pretent do know the details of the business, but what I do know is that it’s storage and bandwidth intensive. He’s building his infrastructure on a home-grown storage solution – Tyan …
Apr 11
So much fun, so little time.
A few have noticed the site was down for an extended period this week. I learned a few things this week. I set up my FC system and was so excited to get it moving that I neglected to adequately test my equipment. I bought used equipment, with used drives, and put real data on …
Jul 01
Comcast is *SO* fired
May 04
Another six hours of down-time….
Ok, this one was my fault. I messed with the cable companies careful organizational system. I paid my bill. I went in there today to pay my bill. While I was in there I asked them for an adjustment, because when they set up the business service, they neglected to stop charging me for the …
Mar 30
Another bout of down-time – Sorry.
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 …
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 …
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