Maximum Number of Insertions for a GBICs | My Etherealmind I was not aware that GBICs are not designed for a large number of insertions/removals, aka "mating cycles." Though it makes sense, the average GBIC in my environment sees 1 mating cycle in its life. Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Protestor on Bicycle With Riot Cops in Distance as Sun Begins to Set, Oakland Riots, 2010 I love this photo.
Griffin Technology: PowerMate – USB Multimedia Controller Matt Simmons' tweet reminded me that these all-purpose knobs exist. I gave mine away a few years ago and miss it. They're all stainless steel, and if you press down on them it clicks. The driver lets you make the LED on the bottom pulsate. ProPublica Photographer: I Was Followed by BP Security and Then Detained by Police – ProPublica Lawsuits, people. This photographer should be retaining a lawyer right now. In fact, he should have lawyers falling over themselves to help him, and just split the proceeds from the settlement. 10 Ways Curated App Stores Undermine Developers I'm starting to really dislike the hipster word of the year: curated. That aside, these …
I absolutely hate no-reply email. I understand why it exists (autoresponders and bounces), but to send an email with no way to respond at all using the same communications medium is ridiculous. A good example of this is the customer satisfaction survey Red Hat just sent me. It is from a no-reply email address and there is no other email address listed. There is just some text and a URL, and clicking on the URL gets me: $ dig rhapps.redhat.com ns1.redhat.com […snip…] ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;rhapps.redhat.com. IN A A records are overrated. I generally am a nice guy and let vendors know something is messed up, but there are limits, especially when I’m already on the fence about a negative …
I’ve had occasion, over the last 24 hours, to change the logging level of my vCenter server. It’s been a little more crashy than usual, and I’ve discovered that a number of KB articles are not updated for vSphere 4.0 Update 2 or Windows Server 2008. If you want to change the log retention policies, you can follow most of the instructions in KB 1004795 but there are two things I think you should know if you’re running on Windows 2008: 1. Your vpxd.cfg file and your logs are actually in: C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware VirtualCenter 2. The XML stanza for the logging is commented out in 4.0 Update 2, so remove the <!– and –> lines to make it work. For example, …
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If you’ve added a volume to a VMware Data Recovery appliance you’ve probably read the part of the Administration Guide entitled “Add a Hard Disk to the Backup Appliance,” especially page 18 where it says: If creating a SCSI virtual disk, it is recommended that you set the SCSI value to SCSI 1:0. When you specify a SCSI Virtual Device Node the numbering scheme is Bus:ID, so what they’re really recommending by suggesting 1:0 is to let vSphere create another virtual SCSI controller. By default, that new SCSI controller will be set to “LSI Logic Parallel.” What I’ve noticed, though, is that the VMware Data Recovery appliance has the pvscsi modules installed, so you can change the type of SCSI …
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein Over the last couple years my organization has been building out an alternate site, for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes. I’ve noticed a disturbing trend, both among my own coworkers and others who are starting to think about DR & BC: that by having multiple data centers, multiple servers, or using multiple cloud vendors they’ll reduce the number of problems they’ll have. From a system administrator’s point of view that idea is absolutely false. Every piece of equipment you have can fail, and the more equipment you possess the more likely a failure will be. The more servers, switches, chillers, PDUs, and power grids you …
“All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection… Except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.” – David Wheeler, though often attributed to Butler Lampson, who has some great quotes, too: “When in doubt, use brute force.” “In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.” Lots of good stuff if you read his “Hints for Computer System Design.”
