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.

"Unable To Store Job At Printer"

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Have an HP Color LaserJet 4650 and Microsoft Windows Vista? When you try printing more than one copy of a document do you get one copy plus a page with the errors below? Searched Google and found very little to help you with the problem? Error: Unable to store job at printer Reason: Insufficient disk space for this job   Solution: Delete some files from the disk before resending this job. Two solutions worked for me: 1. Switch from the PCL5 to PostScript driver. The PostScript driver’s defaults appear to be more compatible with the printer. 2. Edit the properties of the printer in Control Panel->Printers. What worked for me is setting Printer Memory to “128 MB,” Printer Hard Disk …

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Storage VMotion GUI, Stepping Backwards

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Scott Lowe’s post about the Storage VMotion GUI beat mine by a couple of hours. I don’t even have to post, because he said exactly what I was going to say. Including his comment at the end. What bothers me most about Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 is that overall it is a step backwards. Sure, there are new features, but each new feature has some Achilles heel that makes it hard to use. The RCLI is a major problem, and any feature that relies on it suffers. ESX 3i? Not with the RCLI, and not until it is feature-identical to normal ESX 3.5. Storage VMotion? Neat, but there are two people in my organization that can do a storage migration now, …

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links for 2008-02-07

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Button mushrooms contain as much anti-oxidants as expensive ones | Science Blog Proving once again that expensive != good for you. Mmm fungus. MyFox Washington DC | Police: Crack Found in Man’s Buttocks Nice headline. 🙂 Schneier on Security: Fourth Undersea Cable Failure in Middle East I’ve been following this, I agree with Schneier that it’s a big coincidence. It probably isn’t terribly hard to disrupt these cables despite them being underwater. Just drop something on them (anchor) or use welding supplies to melt a hole in them. B&H Photo Video Pro Audio – The Mother of all Telephotos “From midtown Manhattan we were able to read the street signs on the corner of JFK Boulevard East and 43rd St. …

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Don't Repeat Yourself

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One of my favorite books as a system administrator is Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas’ “The Pragmatic Programmer.” It is a book built around 70 tips, ostensibly for programmers, but I find that most of them apply just as well to system administration. My favorite tip, by far, is “DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself.” In an interview Dave Thomas explained DRY: “DRY says that every piece of system knowledge should have one authoritative, unambiguous representation. Every piece of knowledge in the development of something should have a single representation. A system’s knowledge is far broader than just its code. It refers to database schemas, test plans, the build system, even documentation.” Every day I fight repetition and duplication. Some days …

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links for 2008-02-06

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Dell suit reveals lucrative trade in domain names – Network World A million bucks a month in ad revenue on those domains? I’m in the wrong business… (well, given the suit maybe I’m not, but still). Floating Rubbish Dump ‘Bigger Than US’ :: DivePhotoGuide.com – The Underwater Photo & Video Portal “It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents.” Why aren’t we banning more plastic? Royal Pingdom » Old Mac server survives Digg and just keeps on ticking “Maybe all hosting companies should host on Mac servers?” I’d like to ask this guy how often he patches. No downtime? Oh, that’s easy — he never …

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links for 2008-02-05

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Flickr: The MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR Pool LOL, was just talking about this with a friend. I am thinking about switching to Flickr (tired of Gallery being a pile), but I think I’ll just wait until this MS thing shakes out.

United Airlines Charging For Bag 2

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This just in: United Airlines is charging for the second checked bag. You know why that sucks? It guarantees a rise in the amount of crap people carry on. Which in turn guarantees a rise in boarding times. Which also guarantees that I will continue to be shut out of my allotted foot of space overhead by jerkfaces with their three foot long wheeled monstrosities. Then I have to keep my backpack under my feet for the whole flight. I’m more than six feet tall and I don’t like that. Why do they get to use three feet of space and I can’t even get the 10 inches my backpack needs? You know what I’d rather see them do? Figure …

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Shortcuts Aren't

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“It’s hard to overemphasize how out-of-balance the economics are here. You saved maybe thirty person-seconds by skipping the review and checkpatch steps. But the cost (if this bug had gone into mainline) would be many many thousands times higher than this.” – Andrew Morton, admonishing someone on the LKML for not checking their work. How many times a week do you work around shortcuts, where the original person saved a few minutes but cost weeks of time later?

links for 2008-02-04

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Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere “Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station.” Heh, this is art I like to see. ChipLog » Blog Archive » INPUT: REASON • OUTPUT: PLEASURE A FORTRAN game? Heh, good find. Puppy Bowl IV : Animal Planet OMFG, my girlfriend turned this on during half time and it was funny. I liked the camera in the water dish. YMNTD vs. Gary Larson “I’d like to point out that a whole new generation of people…are trying to experience Larson’s cartoons. Sending out blanket legal threats and attempting to control every scrap of his work may doom his work …

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