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Blockbuster's Bankruptcy Could Be the Beginning of the End for DVDs Um, ever heard of the long tail? I know a person who just got their first DVD player… This is NOT the beginning of the end of DVDs. UW campus buildings evacuated due to bomb scare; item proved safe Across the street from my building… Thought it was a pipe bomb… Bomb dog smelled an odor… It probably was a section of pipe, seeing as the building immediately adjacent is a coal power plant staffed by people who have the titles like pipefitter, steamfitter, electrician, etc. And I wouldn't be surprised if it had solvent on it, and that's what the dog smelled. The real question is how it …

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StorageRap: There's something about 3PAR I like Marc Farley's list of what 3PAR does well. I've known Marc for a few years now, and I hope Dell ends up with 3PAR, partly because that'll make it easy for me to buy their gear, partly because that'll be the third time Marc's employer gets bought out by them. 🙂 Hehehe. Daring Fireball: Creep Executive Officer I officially propose we take away Microsoft's Borg status and give it to Google. They're evil, plain and simple. Harvard scientist found guilty of misconduct "Sometimes data is wrong out of ignorance. Other times it's wrong because people make stuff up. I can understand the former, but why you would ever do the latter is beyond …

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Micron intros SSD speed king • The Register Most notably: "It is a single-level cell (SLC) product with 34nm process geometry and Micron says its endurance is terrific: 3.5 petabytes can be written to the drive in total before it wears out, equivalent to writing 1.9TB/day continuously for five years." It was just a matter of time before the write cycle problem was dealt with. Google: Bidding process for California's e-mail contract was designed for Microsoft win | ZDNet Perhaps California has needs that are met better by Microsoft products. But I think this sums it up: "In the end, Google did not submit a final bid because it felt that it could not win in a contest where the …

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High Scalability – High Scalability – Strategy: Terminate SSL Connections in Hardware and Reduce Server Count by 40% A) The Packet Pushers guys are great, and I quadrupled my knowledge of Cisco 10 Gbps gear during a short trip across Seattle with Ethan. B) They’re dead on about terminating SSL somewhere else and saving 40% of your load. It’s something that I’ve already added to my VMworld TA8102 presentation about performance tuning. FTP uploads validation with Intel® SOA Expressway – Intel Software Network Blogs “However, sometimes you should support legacy systems that use other protocols for information exchange, for example, FTP.” Um, no, you should never support legacy systems using FTP. FTP needs to die. The 1980s called and wants their …

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Motoring enthusiast builds 367mph bus – Telegraph Holy crap.

Illumos Aims to Free Oracle's Open Source Software — ServerWatch.com Good luck to them — personally I think it would be wiser to start implementing anything you want to save from OpenSolaris in Linux instead of forking the project (I know, it's not a fork, whatever). Solaris is on its way to being dead, people, killed by Oracle. Start making plans to move on.

Blades Made Simple » Blog Archive » A Plea to VMWorld Attendees Kevin is always full of good ideas: "This year, IF you receive a bag or backpack that you just don’t want, please don’t throw it away, but instead take it home, go to the dollar store and fill the backpack with pencils, crayons, paper and erasers and donate it to your local school system."

Chris's Wiki :: Why sysadmins almost never replace distribution packages Chris Siebenmann continues to have cogent blog entries about system administration. I have to agree with him — replacing a distribution package with your own is a very complex operation. I usually encourage app admins to just build from source if they can't use a distribution's software, because "./configure –prefix=/app/dir" is a heck of a lot easier than building a package. NSTX (IP-over-DNS) HOWTO Jeremy Zawodny (jeremy.zawodny.com) linked to this — I am definitely going to try this. Freakin' airport "$14.95 for one hour of service" portals suck. On the other hand, I'm making sure my own wireless networks aren't susceptible to this… How to get rid of the plus …

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Gestalt IT Newsletter Contest! – Gestalt IT "On August 6, we will give away your choice of one of the following Microsoft software packages… To enter, just subscribe to our newsletter! We will send the entry URL and contest password in the next newsletter, to be mailed on July 29th!" Gestalt IT is the parent of the Tech Field Day series, and Stephen and crew are worthy of your attention, in my opinion. Sign up, and maybe win a prize! Workplace Safety Advisory System: (N)SFW Defined | WildAmmo.com Ah yes, the NSFW4 "Goatse" class trauma. Marco.org – Emails "But occasionally I get the best kind of email, and it makes it all worth it:"

Fibre Channel Over Token Ring FCoTR FTW again #TechFieldDay Fibre Channel over Token Ring: In-Depth Analysis – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat FCoTR FTW! #techfieldday