Woke up and felt a bit sick……Went on a short trip last night to Hvalfjörður, a fjord here on the southern part of Iceland. However it was pretty darn cold last night…must buy some warm clothes to wear on cold nights when cruising on a cold autumn night

Haven’t been blogging a lot….those last few months have been something else. Went on a 5 week summer vacation, managed to do pretty much nothing except for riding my bike, going to a small festival at Borgarfjörður etc etc, but I’ve never felt so rested after a vacation before! Live is getting back to normal after the summer however, my son is starting school once again and work seems to be getting back to normal after vacation. So I guess, life is good !

Been reading up on Oracle Dataguard for a project at work, seems like they actually did something right. I’ll put up some notes on that when I’ve configured it in a lab.

Well….Back to being sick….

Bgrds,
Finnzi

Bought my first bike last Thursday. It’s a Yamaha Fazer FZ6N 2006. Wee!

Only been riding it since Thursday but so far it has been great. I first wanted to buy a type R bike but a good friend of mine (which has been on a bike for a long long time) got me to first consider getting a good street bike and ride that for a year or two before considering anything else. After riding for a few days on this bike I’m pretty sure that was the right thing to do since this bike has plenty of power (600cc, 98 HP) and surely it’s safer to learn to handle something that’s less powerful then ~127-130 HP at first

Summer vacation starts on the 12th of July. Not sure how I will spend it but I’m pretty sure I’ll be on the road a lot….Biking is awesome !

Well…Off to ride for few hours.

Bgrds,
Finnzi

I just looked at my calendar earlier today and remembered…..9 years ago i started working for Skyggnir

It’s been a ride, 2 mergers, 5+ bosses (not talking about CEO’s and such).

Has it been fun? Hell yeah…No one would have stayed in this deep for so long if it wouldn’t have been fun. Over the last 9 years I am pretty darn sure I have gained more experience with all kinds of hardware/software combination’s then most of you would like. But then again I have probably spent more time at work then one would have liked

However, life is pretty good right now. The summer is finally here, and I have signed up for the motorcycle driving license. Hopefully I’ll find a good bike shortly If you have a KTM/Husaberg/Husqvarna ~2006-2007 250-450cc and want to sell it, drop me a note!

Maaaan, Let’s make this summer awesome!

Bgrds,
Finnzi

I have been using GNU Screen for loads of stuff to save me from a unreliable connection, however recently I began to use it for IRCing.

The biggest reason here is that I don’t always have a IRC client available or I would have some issues connecting to my bnc due to firewalls etc, but there is always a SSH client somewhere in reach .

What everyone who are going to IRC from a screen session will learn very quickly is that screen does not allow you to scroll up and down normally. However, you can do it quite easily.

1. Add this to your $HOME/.screenrc:
defscrollback 5000
This gives you 5000 lines in your scrollback buffer.

2. Jump into a new screen session, cat some long config file and try this:
Press: CTRL+A+ESC
This will send you to Copy Mode.
Now you can try these key combinations:
CTRL+u – Scrolls a half page up.
CTRL+b – Scrolls a full page up.
CTRL+d – Scrolls a half page down.
CTRL+f – Scrolls the full page down.

To leave copy mode you can just press ESC.

Now, you can scroll away and read what people have been saying about you while you were away!

Hope this helps you!
Bgrds,
Finnzi

While doing my daily dosage of browsing tech sites i stumbled up on a article about Who is developing KVM.
As always, when reading the comments, one of the first comment said something like this: The article does not mention VirtualBox! This is biased towards Red Hat!.

WHY PEOPLE!?!?!? WHY SHOULD A ARTICLE ON KVM MENTION VIRTUALBOX!!!!!
VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization technology. It will probably never be a technology that one would run on a production server! With technologies like Xen, KVM and VMWare around, no one with some brains is going to use VirtualBox as a server virtualization technology! However VirtualBox is a excellent product for using for your basic virtualization on your workstation as a replacement for example, VMWare Workstation.

Another thing in technology that just makes me go wah wah…..Articles mentioning FCoE (or Data Center Ethernet) as being the savior of networking, and the easiest technology ever to connect your servers to storage! You can now fire your storage administrators because now you have unified fabric for storage, networking and probably more in your new fancy “Data Center Ethernet”!

No people….You will not start firing your fancy storage administrators….I would rather bet on that you are going to be hiring a new administrator, or at least spend a fortune on training. And not one of your storage/network persons are going anywhere

This is one of the hypes that your sales rep from any IT related company is going to be telling you any day now. FCoE/Data Center Ethernet brings us bunch of new problems that we have to deal with…and trust me, we’re looking at some new technology here!

Well, For now!

Bgrds,
Finnzi

A very neat link on Linux/VirtIO: here

Bgrds,
Finnzi

So far the first weeks of 2010 have been the busiest ever for me in a long time. The good thing is that all those hours spent went into some very cool stuff

And 2010 is bringing major changes….where the hell was I when that meeting went down with the changes!

Skyggnir (My employer) is moving to another building in downtown 105 Reykjavik. Downside is that we don’t really have enough parking spaces there!:)

Due to some personal stuff going on with my self I am rethinking my future. Early in 2009 I had a clear vision where I wanted to be in ten years, now I don’t. However I guess change isn’t all that bad, changes can lead to great things!

More on those changes later.

We were trying out RHEV at work today, it rocks! At least our initial testing has proven OK, but we’ll do some more extensive testing later this week. Hopefully we’ll see some deployments shortly.

Well, it’s late!

Bgrds,
Finnzi

Was doing assembly of two EMC Clariion CX4 arrays at work today for a customer. I must say the hardware seems to be high quality. The only thing that bothers me (the product is not any worse, it just bothers me to see this on a piece of storage hardware:) was the Windows license stickers on the controller shelf. The controllers run a Windows kernel. However EMC is no newcomer to the game and I am pretty darn sure that those boxes are going to be more stable then some other storage I have had to work with for the last ~6 years or so:)….

Also doing some data migration with the IBM San Volume Controller today, although not in any connection with the EMC boxes i spoke of earlier. Planning to do some firmware upgrades on a array shortly.

Just felt like yelling out my love for the SVC!

Bgrds,
Finnzi

I’ve been using TVersity to view my DVD divx/xvid encoded backups on my Xbox 360. However this means that i have a Windows PC around. Don’t get me wrong, i have a Windows Vista partition on my home workstation, however i like to spend most of my time running Fedora since i don’t even have a VPN client installed on the Windows install.

Then i found uShare. This package is in the RPMForge repository which i have already configured on my home fileserver. This program will run on your Linux/*NIX install and share your media folders.

I was getting afraid that i had to find a Windows machine to have idling around just to share my media

Well, off for the day.

Bgrds,
Finnzi

Found this while browsing: http://www.bomgar.com/

Those guys offer the same thing as Citrix’s GoTo Assist but they offer you a appliance which you can install in your own network. It seems to support pretty much every version of Windows, MacOS X and few Linux distributions. This could probably save you a buck or two if you are buying GoTo Assist licenses

Just wanted to post this before i loose the link:)

Bgrds,
Finnzi