Me, tech and the world.
Well today (last night really) was the first time I have had to use 3g on my cell phone ‘in anger’ as some would say. I have to say it has been amazingly easy, as you will see below.
Now to start with I am using an Acer Aspire laptop I bought a year or [...]
First of all before I go any further, yes I am a UNIX geek, I have a beard, I wear jeans/combats and a t-shirt to work and I stay late at night trying to figure out why I cannot get the latest cool toy to ./configure ; make ; make install. However the week [...]
So over the past few days I have been at the FoWA expo supporting Flexiscale. I have to say, it is the first time I have been to a tech expo for a company I have been working for and it was an eye opening experience!
On Tuesday we all got down there to get [...]
Now before I go any further I must say that both at one of my previous employers and my current employer I have been a very happy NetApp customer.
I feel that RMS is standing over me as I write this…..
What seems like a long time ago now I went to see RMS (Richard M [...]
Well recently I have been missing playing what we used to call ‘wide games’ with the Scouts. These were called ‘wide games’ because you would be playing them over a wide area just in case you had not already figured that one out.
So I decided to go and buy some flying disks, surprisingly hard [...]
I had noticed that earlier on in that day he had responded to a post on uknot by someone looking for some server capacity as their web site had gotten very popular due to a comment made some where about Victoria Beckham is as interesting to watch as cheese mature! So people decided to [...]
Having spent some time recently on storage products and what some of current storage systems can provide below is my wish list for the future.
Snapshots
Thin Provisioning
API
FC/SAS/SATA Disk support
FC/iSCSI/AoE SAN support
NFS/CIFS support
RAID-6/RAID-DP (I would prefer this to be software based, eg NetApp, ZFS, Linux)
No limitations (beyond performance limits) on the number of LUN/Disk groups/Volumes or any [...]
We have recently at XCalibre been given new company branded clothing. While in previous jobs I have totally resisted any attempt to change any way of how I dress, as I figure if I am having to go to the effort of not being naked in front of my work colleges then I should [...]
I have been (ab)using SiteBar for a while now and for me it really has become the answer to the question of how to track all of the useful sites you visit, ever.
They have a hosted version of their software that anyone can sign-up for or you can download the software as I have done [...]
As a sys admin/geek one of the issues I have always had with working in an office compaired to just ‘tinkering’ at home is time management. The first major issue is the number of daily interruptions that Iface, to name but a few
Co-workers asking for work (eg other sys admins)
PHB’s asking for work
Customer queries
The [...]