SIGGGRAPH 2010 Trip Report of Cool Things Aleksey Saw in the Exhibition Hall (Coolest stuff at the top.) – FusionIO had the coolest demo!! 1500 DVD-quality videos streaming from a single Fusion IO (RAM-based) 640 GB drive displayed onto a large virtual screen (composed of 16 – that’s 4×4 large displayes). all 1500 videos were…
My results transferring 685 2K frames (11MB per file, 8.1 GB total) using GNU tar to/from LTO4 tape GNU tar Blocking Factor Write LTO4 Read LTO4 1024 2m34s 1m16s 2048 1m24s 1m16s 4096 1m19s 1m34s
Sixth Annual Triangle InfoSeCon Conference – “Call for Papers” Sixth Annual Triangle InfoSeCon Conference – “Call for Papers” > > Members and Fellow ITSec Professionals, > > CALL for PAPERS is now open! See conference webpages > (http://raleigh.issa.org/conference.html). > > Spread the word within your organizations and among your cohort. > > The Raleigh ISSA…
Problem: Sufficiently long regular expressions start to look like line noise and become unmaintainable Solution: Use perl regular expressions with the /x modifier perlre manpage reads: /x Extend your pattern’s legibility by permitting whitespace and comments. These are usually written as “the /x modifier”… The /x modifier itself needs a little more explanation. It tells…
LOPSA-NJ has started a mailing list for the people that run technical user groups (LUGs,sysadmin user groups, SAGE or LOPSA chapters, and so on). The purpose of this mailing list is to encourage information sharing on topics such as: How to promote your group, how to find speakers, how to get started, tips on how…
Recently I was building a ZenPack for Zenoss. The ZenPack included an Event Command which executed a custom script. I wanted to store the custom script in the ZenPack and I didn’t want to do anything other than have proper script dependencies in place for it to work. (Read More)
I need to transfer about 40TB from one zfs box to another box because of a problem of initial setup in box 1 that left it without redundant raid and it now has a failing disk. ZFS points this out quite nicely, but we have to get all that data off before the disk fails…
Monitoring and analyzing performance is an important task for any sysadmin. Disk I/O bottlenecks can bring applications to a crawl. What are IOPS? Should I use SATA, SAS, or FC? How many spindles do I need? What RAID level should I use? Is my system read or write heavy? These are common questions for anyone…
I thought I would write a little about Office 2010. I realize this isn’t about Windows, but Office is important too. I really think that Microsoft messed up the user interface on 2007, and I know a lot of people that feel the same way. Granted, they were looking to improve the user experience, and…
Business, people, and technology: When we put them together, what works? What doesn’t? What explodes? ACM CHIMIT ’10 – Computer-Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology November 12-13, 2010, San Jose, CA (co-located with USENIX LISA, in San Jose) IT management is hard – in the enterprise, in small business, and even in the home….