I built PC’s back in the 80’s, then stopped for some reason. Here’s what happens when I got back into it…
Category Archive: General
Feb 09
Losing the cloud… (Part 1)
There’s a Dilbert comic strip that I found hilarious a while back… The hilarious part is there is that the chance of this happening in real life is non-zero. Not that it is likely to happen, but it’s impossible, statistically speaking, to completely rule out the idea. Now there are “big” cloud providers like AWS …
Aug 12
Slowly Draining Away…
Plumbers define a slow drain as one in which your teenage-kid has tried to wash clump of hair vaguely resembling a tribble down. Ed Mazurek from Cisco TAC defines it quite differently: …When there are slow devices attached to the fabric, the end devices do not accept the frames at the configured or negotiated rate. …
Jul 14
Recovering from a windows AD failure…
A couple of years ago my PDC died. The only physical box in my environment and the one physical server died. I was 2,700 miles away. I wasn’t going to be back any time soon, and stuff was broken. (Thankfully, customer data was on the Linux Webhosting environment, so nothing lost there, except their backups) …
Feb 18
The quest for 100% uptime…
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 …
Aug 20
My geekliness knows no bounds…
Do I really have to say anything to go along with this picture, or does that pretty much cover it?
May 10
VMWare Host Isolation Response…
I learned what “Host Isolation Response” was today. Well I already knew what it was, but I learned that in a VMWare cluster, if you leave it at the default, then if the network goes away between the clustered hosts, the HOST then RESPONDS to this ISOLATION by shutting your entire environment down. Oops. Not …
Jan 30
Quick note…
It’s cold in this data center. I went to stand behind the IBM XIV to stay warm. I actually had to stand 5′ from the box to keep from being uncomfortably HOT. Just an observation…
Jan 07
Security Quick Note
I think that every network security department operates under the following motto: “If you can do you’re job, we’re not doing ours.” The customer I’m with has instituted a massively long password scheme. Now I’m not going into details, because that would be telling and would give even the greenest of hackers enough to walk …
Dec 09
Dear QLogic…
Here’s a note. If youre hardware has a driver that requires you compile it before use, and that can’t be easily upgraded. Your hardware isn’t ready for prime-time. It’s why I like Emulex. You plug it in and it works. You upgrade the driver with rpm and it works. You used to have great stuff. …
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