Category: Technical Support

Linux as a Primary Desktop…

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 …

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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 …

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Quantum Rave

Well, I finally have something NICE to say about someone. I approached the Quantum Corp. buyout of ADIC with a little trepidation.  Our main library at work is an ADIC Scalar i500 with four FC attached LTO-3 drives and 36 tape slots, that’s about to be expanded to 6 drives and 96 slots. Our small …

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