This is the story of my afternoon yesterday, Friday 12/5/08. It’s a case where the simple act of “keeping an eye on things” caught an anomaly that would’ve attracted a lot of negative attention from the business and scaled it down to a slight inconvenience.
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===Background=== In my daily work, I’ve noticed that not a lot of attention is given to benchmarking various subsystems. When a new disk array comes in, there may be a run or two of bonnie++, but that’s generally it. Network benchmarks? Generally I don’t see people run them. Maybe you don’t care; maybe there’s an…
Peter Saint-Andre (a.k.a. stpeter), Executive Director of the XMPP Standards Foundation, patron saint of Jabber, will be interviewed on the FLOSS Weekly podcast today at 4 PM. Watch it live at 4: http://live.twit.tv/ If you don’t catch the live stream, listen to the podcast: http://twit.tv/FLOSS
If you are in the L.A. area, please come and support LOPSA Los Angeles – join us for our monthly meeting at Chipotle Mexican Grill in El Segundo. When: Thursday, Dec. 4th, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM (after UUASC-LA gets out) Where: Chipotle Mexican Grill, 307 N Sepulveda Blvd, El Segundo, CA 90245, (310) 426-1437…
A colleague here at LISA told me yesterday that he had observed approximately a 50% drop in traffic on his E-mail servers. Naturally, this was first a cause for concern, but then he learned about the disconnection of McColo – a major botnet command and control hosting site in Northern California, USA. Their two up-stream ISPs pulled their plugs on Tuesday afternoon. See the story in the Washington Post.
Naturally, I experienced an immediate urge to check $employer’s anti-spam system for its observation on the situation.
As a sole sysadmin for a site whose primary unix-experienced backup is also out of the office this week, I am being fairly easy-going about dealing with user requests through VPN while I am at LISA. Actually, in general I am easygoing about requests that include things users could do themselves, though if they are…
I am heading to LISA ’08 tomorrow afternoon and will be attending the follow tech sessions. Wed: Morning: Keynote Morning: Programming the Virtual Infrastructure Afternoon: MySQL: Guru Talk Afternoon: Spine: Automating Systems Configuration and Management (maybe Hallway track 🙂 Thurs: Morning: Plenary Session Morning: VMware: Guru Talk Afternoon: Time Management: Guru Talk w/ Tom A….
Roger Kelley from Xiotech presented to UUASC last week on Xiotech’s next-gen storage technology. The basic ideas are: – Xiotech is a spin-off from Seagate and still maintains an R&D relationship with Seagate – The basic disk storage unit from Xiotech is a unit that holds two sealed-in datapacs, each of which holds 10 drives….
My old MacBook Pro (a two-year-old refurbished 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2 GB of RAM and 120 GB hard drive) had developed problems with its left fan some weeks ago. It was noisy (like, outboard-motor noisy) and the internal temps were alarmingly hot (often exceeding 200° F). I knew I needed to get it repaired, but I use my laptop as my primary development machine, carting it from home to work, and just couldn’t be without.
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