September 30, 2009I wasn't certain that I would be able to attend until today when I got my registration sorted out. I'm going to be attending LISA '09 in Baltimore, MD. I'll be there from Saturday, November 1st through Friday, November 6th. This is going to be my first LISA, and it's going to be quite an [...]
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September 29, 2009I'm sorry. I know you probably paid a lot for that license, but if your infrastructure is relying on a machine's ability to transition between VM hosts without rebooting as the crux of your high availability plan, you might want to reconsider. Yesterday, Rational Survivability (a great all-over-the-place IT blog) had a post titled The [...]
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September 29, 2009Sometimes the most painful exercises are the most valuable. I spent an hour or so yesterday in a meeting, going over every line of expense in my new phone upgrade plan. It was grueling. It was also enlightening. Know what I found out? I need to pay more attention to the "small stuff". If you're [...]
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September 27, 2009I'm a firm believer that people are stronger when they're united than when they're divided. It's one of the reasons that I started this blog...those of us who have no teammates with which to collaborate lose out on a valuable part of the educational experience. The internet helps immeasurably, not just for finding the solution [...]
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September 26, 2009My new column is online at Simple Talk. The topic of the column is Hiring System Administrators. It talks about my experiences when hiring my junior admin. Please go take a look at it, and remember to rate it using the stars!
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September 24, 2009There's a lot of discussion going on in the blogosphere today about storage technologies. Today, the subject is Fibre Channel vs Fibre Channel over Ethernet. Technologically, they use the same protocol to transfer information , but FCoE utilizes (comparatively) cheaper ethernet technologies to transmit the data. Of course, cheaper is very much relative. The current [...]
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