links for 2009-05-16
Thierry Legault – Transit of Atlantis and Hubble in front of the Sun This is darn cool.
links for 2009-04-29
WGBH: Wisconsin's White Deer Herd I'd love to see one of these deer. President Obama calls Air Force One flyover 'mistake' day after low-flying plane terrifies New York A) Props to them for not using Photoshop. B) Quit living in fear, people. Seeing Air Force One should be a really cool moment, and if you'd use your head it would be. It has been for me.
Should I Use Fibre Channel or iSCSI?
Yet another frequently asked question: My company is getting more serious about virtualization. Should we keep using our fibre channel SAN or switch to iSCSI or NFS? My usual answer is a series of questions: What technology do you know best? How big is your SAN? Why are you thinking about switching? What’s your performance like? What will it cost? The thing is, I never have an answer. Whereas some common virtualization questions have easy answers this one depends heavily on what you’re trying to do. iSCSI is a great way for small- and medium-sized organizations to get into cluster filesystems. With 10 Gbps Ethernet you can get SAN-like performance, too, but 10 Gbps NICs are as costly as fibre …
links for 2009-04-21
Atlassian Stimulus Package $5 for a 5-user license of Confluence or Jira — that's a great deal if you were looking at getting into wikis or issue tracking. Even if your company is big, if it's just going to be your IT staff, or just as a proof-of-concept for documentation, this cannot be beat. Norm Stamper: 420: Thoughts on Pot vs. Alcohol from a Former Police Chief Fairly interesting, especially from the point of view of law enforcement.
Why I Like Wikis
Around the places I work (and the non-profits I work with, too) we use Atlassian’s Confluence wiki software. With Atlassian offering $5 licenses for Confluence and Jira through the end of the week I thought it’d be a great time to write about how we use our wiki. We love wikis because: 1. They let us easily add & maintain documentation. Let’s say that someone finds an error in a document I wrote (it happens). With old static documentation, like HTML, someone would need to find me and tell me how to fix it. Then I’d need to actually fix it, and re-publish it. With a wiki the person who finds the problem can click “edit” and fix it themselves …
links for 2009-04-18
Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0 – TIME I've heard about Intellipedia before, it's really interesting how they manage it. I like the idea of "shepherds."
links for 2009-04-16
Virtual Geek: EMCs VMware Storage Strategy – The 3rd Shoe Drops This is cool stuff. The DRS-for-storage part is what I'm craving the most. Jim Leff's Slog: How to Save $5000 on Your Logo "Scrawl an ugly, primitive, childish, highly-unsatisfactory mock-up of what your entirely unartistic brain is picturing. Give it to the artist." This Jim Leff guy is dead on here. It's hard to be creative, and it's hard to know what someone else is thinking. Which means a big bill if someone has to start from scratch for you, creatively. Rumor: Fox May Cancel Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Oh, I'm sure they will. Basically if it's a show I like it'll get nuked. It's too bad the …
What Kind Of Servers Should I Buy for VMware?
Another frequently asked question: What kind of servers should I buy to start my VMware cluster out? My off-the-cuff answer: “the biggest machines you can afford at least three of, from whatever vendor you like the most,” followed by “it depends.” Part of the great thing about virtualization, especially with VMware, is that you can use VMotion to move everything off of a running machine. This means that you need a place to put that workload, though (think of my “buckets of water” analogy). If you buy two machines you have to keep one empty, and 50% of your cluster capacity sits idle. If you buy three machines you can use two of them, and 33% of your cluster capacity …
links for 2009-04-11
Metairie man says stranger chewed, swallowed after taking bite out of his arm – Breaking News from New Orleans – Times-Picayune – NOLA.com I agree with Boing Boing — zombies? But it's probably just drugs. How to Handle Criticism — Copyblogger Nice succinct list. I use the "nobody's right" one a lot. For every person I have tell me a blog post is wrong, I have another saying that I'm right on. You make your own decisions, you invent your own reality, and others might share in that or not. gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the "ignore everybody" cartoon I like this. I might print it out and hang it in the doorway of my office. …
links for 2009-04-10
Hope Town Lighthouse | Visit Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas This is the lighthouse seen on Scrubs this week — I've been there. Hope Town doesn't allow motorized vehicles in the main part of town, which is cool.
