Bob Plankers

Bob Plankers is a man who wears many hats. In his professional career he has spent three decades leading teams that design, build, operate, and talk about reliable, secure, and compliant IT infrastructures, both in the public sector and in the high tech industry. He currently focuses on applied security, compliance, and operational resilience for virtualization and cloud platforms.

Mozilla Minefield

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Being a fellow that leaves his browsers open with about 50+ tabs I’ve decided that I’m tired of some of the problems with Firefox 2.0, most notably the memory leaks. I refuse to go back to IE, so I’ve been trying the nightly Firefox builds, dubbed “Minefield.” Sure, some things don’t work quite right sometimes (I am without a Flash plugin, oh no![0]), but then again some of the things I hate about 2.0 have gone away. The coolest thing about Minefield is that the auto-updater works for new nightly builds, too. Every couple of days I get a window asking me to install the latest Minefield 3.0a5pre. Sweet! Check it out for yourself if you’re feeling adventurous.[1] [0] I …

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links for 2007-05-23

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indexed: Fitting in. SmugBlog: Don MacAskill » Blog Archive » Sun Honeymoon Update: Storage A Flexible WordPress Theme that You Can Customize — Copyblogger Theme passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers Mail Filtering – Sendmail Config

IBM Competes With VMware's VMotion in POWER6 Hosts

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IBM announced a bunch of stuff yesterday: 1) IBM announced their POWER6 CPUs, with clock speeds up to 4.2 GHz. Sweet. These machines will run AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The mainframe folks at IBM have been working on getting the open systems outfitted with a lot of the technology that makes mainframes so reliable, and all that work is paying off. 2) They announced AIX 6, which will feature Solaris Zone-like functionality, called “Workload Partitions,” among a number of incremental updates to support the new hardware. They are also going to do an open beta. Looks like they are learning from Sun. 3) IBM announced their “Live Partition Mobility” where you can …

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links for 2007-05-22

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Google vs. Meetup Heh, I especially like the part about the laundry. tecosystems » sog’s (Unconventional) Highway Etiquette Not unconventional etiquette at all. I find myself driving at oddball times just to avoid all these behaviours. jwz – FINISH HER! Follow-on to the “FINISH HER” one…

im in ur svn upgradin ur blogz

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Holy freaking crap, Batman, upgrading to WordPress 2.2 was ultra simple using Subversion, and the instructions in the Codex. In fact, being not an SVN n00b I cheated and ran: svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.2/ . on my production blog. Afterwards a quick “svn status” showed me I needed to nuke a few things in wp-includes and run “svn update”. In fact, I cheated there, too, removing the whole wp-includes directory and letting svn restore it. Freakin’ sweet. I was fully expecting to have to resort to my backup copy at some point here. I also noted that this will be my 512th blog post, a milestone only a dork could love. Go 2^9! Right up there with the photo of my …

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Ack, Down

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Hi everybody, Sorry if you found this site down, we had a few problems this afternoon that I couldn’t get to right away. Basically, the storage this site sits on went away for a while, which made the server quite unhappy. Several fscks later, we seem to be in business again. 🙂 Lessons learned: 1) don’t go have fun in places where there is no connectivity, for server hardware detects that and acts accordingly. 2) thank god for KVM over IP. …Bob

Use Descriptive Labels in VirtualCenter

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(Update on January 25, 2011 – I’ve actually decided that using the subnet information in my setup is confusing, as we’ve grown to have VLANs with the same subnets on them, and VLANs with multiple subnets on them. I talk about this a little in my post “Labels Should Only List Properties of That Particular Object.” I don’t believe in revisionist blog history, and I admit that my techniques grow over time as I learn and my environment gets more complex, so I won’t delete/revise this post. Just keep it in mind.) ————- “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names” – Chinese Proverb Suggestion: Use descriptive labels wherever possible in your VMware VirtualCenter setup. You …

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links for 2007-05-17

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cocktail builder: what cocktails can you make from ingredients in your bar? Hot damn, awesome site. I like the feature where it’ll tell you what you still need to make certain cocktails.

Software Patents

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“Granting patent protection to advances that would occur in the ordinary course without real innovation retards progress and may … deprive prior inventions of their value or utility.” – Justice Anthony Kennedy.

links for 2007-05-15

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ongoing · Four Words for Microsoft Amen, brother. Either do something or shut up. MS should also realize that when they start this war there will be a big search for ideas implemented in MS products that started in OSS and are GPLed…

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