Uptime Is Not Something To Be Revered

by Bob Plankers March 14, 2013 Security

Slashdot has a link to a tribute video to a Sun that was up continuously for 3737 days. That’s 10.23 years. It’s like a sequoia tree seeing the passage of civilization around it: My thoughts on this: The data center and infrastructure powering this machine was built in such a way as to keep this [...]

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What Content Creators and Consumers Should Do Now That Google Reader Is Dead

by Bob Plankers March 14, 2013 General Rambling

So the tech world is freaking out about the announcement that Google Reader will go offline on July 1, 2013. There’s been talk about this for a while now, along with talk that RSS is dead. This feels like the biggest blow to 141+ character social media in history. And why did it happen? I [...]

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My Kind of March Madness

by Bob Plankers March 12, 2013 General Rambling

I’m not much for basketball but I laughed when my friends at Solarwinds emailed me about their version of March Madness. They’ve got a Sci-Fi Bracket going on which is totally my style.

For the people that have voted already, I do believe you’re smoking crack in at least five instances:

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Last Chance: 2013 Top VMware & Virtualization Blog Voting

by Bob Plankers March 1, 2013 System Administration

It’s getting to be the end of the week, and voting closes on the 2013 Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs tonight at midnight. Why don’t you take a moment to go over there and vote? I’d be honored if you’d vote for me, but happy if you just went and showed appreciation for all the [...]

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VMware vSphere Web Client & Internet Explorer 10

by Bob Plankers March 1, 2013 Virtualization

Being adventuresome and/or an idiot, I upgraded Internet Explorer to version 10. I can report two things: 1. I like it as a speedy web browser, and the vSphere Web Client performance feels vastly improved over IE 9. That’s actually been one of my complaints about the web client, that it’s pokey. 2. The remote [...]

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Make Your Blog Easy To Subscribe To

by Bob Plankers February 28, 2013 Best Practices

A quick hint: if you want people to read your writings on a regular basis make the link to your RSS or Atom feed dead simple to find. Somewhere that doesn’t require the user to scroll to see, uses the well known, industry-standard RSS icon that is freely available, and has the word “feed” in the [...]

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System Administration/DevOps/Cloud and Developer Positions Open @ UW – Madison

by Bob Plankers February 26, 2013 People Stuff

If you’ve ever thought about working with the people & organization who basically eliminated rickets by discovering how to boost and synthesize vitamin D, who took a bunch of spoiled sweet clover hay and turned it into the most popular blood thinner ever (and the most popular rat poison ever, ha!), or who isolated human [...]

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Hey Readers, Please Vote For Me

by Bob Plankers February 23, 2013 System Administration

The inimitable Eric Siebert has the voting open for the 2013 Top VMware/Virtualization Blogs. Last year I was pleasantly surprised to find myself voted into the top 50 virtualization bloggers, at #31. Voting closes soon so you should go over there right now and vote, for me and all the other people who put so [...]

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