Aug 19
So….I finally did it. Made the switch *PERMANENTLY*. And I can say permanently because (this time) I made the switch more than 4 months ago and have not even once considered going back. The straw that broke the camel’s back was re-imaging a laptop for a friend, when I found out that Microsoft will NO …
Mar 18
Or: “Why process automation isn’t always a good thing.” I’m *GOOD* at scripting and automation. This is not to say I’m the best there is, I think I worked with him about 10 years ago in California… I learned most of what I know about BASH from him. There are some WONDERFUL uses for shell …
Mar 26
First impression of the XiV in “action” The GUI is fancy. Looks like a Mac turned on it’s side. The GUI is also NOT web-based. It’s an app-install. I do believe however it’s available for multiple platforms. It really does seem to take all of the guess work out of provisioning since you don’t really …
Feb 23
My definition of “Day” changes…well…daily. I’m having to do some shuffling of data off my old PC Workstation and I found something interesting. MacOS can’t WRITE to an NTFS volume without a third-party driver. It can read from it just fine. I ran into a situation where I had to consolidate data from 2x 2TB …
Aug 31
Ok, I’m curious as to whether anyone has an answer for this. Why don’t more people boot VMWare ESX from the SAN? It occurred to me the other night that I have 2 36G drives in each of my servers that I use possibly 10G of, when I already have a High-Availability storage solution at …
Aug 25
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 …
Jan 02
Hope everyone had a great new-year. I spent mine stripping every last bit of Windows Vista off my desktop at home. I played with it for a while, mostly to see what all the fuss was about. Most of it comes down to yet another example of the dumbing down of America. Vista has managed …
Oct 29
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 …
Jun 14
I started playing with CentOS today, at the suggestion of a few of our network geeks in the office. The great thing about it is that it’s binary compatible with RedHat Enterprise 5. So things like EMC Solutions Enabler and Veritas Netbackup work perfectly with it. It’s handy because as anyone who has every tried …
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