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.

PBR = America

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I had to laugh when it was recently pointed out to me that: 1. South African Breweries buys/merges with Miller. 2. InBev buys Anheuser-Busch. 3. Pabst, with no brewing capacity of their own, is left as the largest American brewer. Go PBR! What strange times we live in. The silver lining when Miller succumbed was that ballparks serving Miller products started carrying other beers, too, providing relief for those who aren’t Miller Lite fans. I suspect that’ll be the case with Anheuser-Busch parks, too. I wonder who is the largest, wholly-American brewer WITH brewing capacity…

links for 2008-07-20

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How Did I Miss This Tripe? Great rant about the freetard attack on the iPhone. Since when did getting paid for things become bad? xkcd – Impostor This cartoon reminds me of a few similar conversations I’ve had, inadvertently. The best is when they’ve asked me what my Ph.D. thesis is on. Untitled Metric #1202345227 NSFW language in the graphic, but dead on nonetheless.

Standard Server Hardware

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Joe Brancatelli’s recent article entitled “Southwest Airlines’ Seven Secrets for Success” points out one of Southwest’s biggest cost saving practices: flying one type of plane. Unlike the network carriers and their commuter surrogates, which operate all manner of regional jets, turboprops, and narrow-body and wide-body aircraft, Southwest flies just one plane type, the Boeing 737 series. That saves Southwest millions in maintenance costs—spare-parts inventories, mechanic training and other nuts-and-bolts airline issues. It also gives the airline unique flexibility to move its 527 aircraft throughout the route network without costly disruptions and reconfigurations. Standardization of server hardware pays off for organizations, too. In the somewhat distant past each member of my team was responsible for specifying and ordering servers for their …

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links for 2008-07-17

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Get A New iPhone? You’re Going To Need New Accessories, Too Now, this is lame that I need all new chargers, too. This whole iPhone 3G/2.0 thing is really annoying me now.

links for 2008-07-16

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A Joining of the Tribes « fate = will && choice || circumstance “in this world of highly available, scaled and performant web applications, developers have to think about operations and admins have to think about the applications.” Been saying this for a while, that all good apps teams need a good sysadmin, too. jwz – Did you know that cable cars poop sand? Two things here. A) I’ve had to get out and push a cable car before, when the operator got it stuck going around a corner, so it jumping the track isn’t so far fetched to me. B) Most all rail systems rely on sand, it isn’t well-known though. The end of Mac clones: Apple sues Psystar …

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links for 2008-07-15

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furbo.org · Bugging “As a user, please be extra patient when developers tell you that they are working on a problem—it’s hard work at the moment and the time it takes to resolve an issue will be longer than with a desktop application.” Good points on debugging the iPhone Coding Horror: Smart Enough Not To Build This Website “I may not be smart enough to join Mensa, but I am smart enough not to build websites like the American Mensa website.” LOL, nice. A Joining of the Tribes « fate = will && choice || circumstance “in this world of highly available, scaled and performant web applications, developers have to think about operations and admins have to think about the …

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links for 2008-07-14

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After the Yellowstone Fires | Stuck In Customs Trey Ratcliff takes some amazing HDR photos, but this is the best one I’ve seen yet. As a kid I was with my family in Yellowstone two weeks before the big fires. The destruction was/is amazing, but part of nature, of course. Our Towns – Build a Wiffle Ball Field and Lawyers Will Come – NYTimes.com Short take: kids see overgrown city park. Kids clean it up, make it into a whiffle ball field. Neighbors get pissed off, want it shut down. My take: good for the kids, the neighbors should stop being prudes and work out a compromise. Developer blog – otto@: New Otto malloc helps spot ancient bugs A 33 …

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links for 2008-07-12

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LiveBlog » Blog Archive » New iPhone App From Wybron Oh, heck yeah, a gel swatchbook on my iPhone would be great. I already have the Rosco catalog bookmarked. Day 1049: Crackdown : Maitri’s VatulBlog “Louisiana State Senator Derrick Shepherd shepherded a bill through state legislature that would criminalize saggy pants.” Yes, and when I forget my belt I look like the first example sometimes.

iPhone 2.0, Yay!

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I have been waiting for this day ever since I signed the NDA for the beta program. Yay for the final 2.0 software! Now I get to see if the activation process works. Wish me luck. Update: No brick, it activated like a champ.

links for 2008-07-10

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Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All Most of my troubleshooting is like this — hours and pages of data that ultimately gets fixed with a one word change. Reader Poll: Should Voicemail Die? Yes, voice mail should die. I hate it.

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