Me, tech and the world.
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 [...]
Download festival is almost here!!!
As long as all goes to plan I should be leaving with Soph, Nicola, Claire and Gordon some time on Thursday to go to the festival. Will be the first long drive I have had in the new car (car number 3 ) lets hope nothing goes boom……..
With [...]
Ok, well I have managed to install wordpress and download a theme, well done me.
I previously had a more personal ‘journal’ that lived on LiveJournal, this has now been closed to the world and this is the replacement. I selected wordpress because everyone else did…..well done everyone else, this seems kinda nice.
Take care
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