My thoughts on life, the universe and beer

Howdy,

Yet another Offspring album is out!

I have been listening to the punk rock/skate punk genre since 1995 or so. Offspring has always been one of the better onces, i would say the top 5 with Blink 182, NoFX, Greenday and well, they do not call them self punk rockers but i really think P.U.S.A made some songs sound punk .

But the new Offspring album did not disappoint me, of course they have made some developments in the “Offspring sound” and i hear few “less-punky” songs there which i liked. But overall those guys keep it real!….bling on the sound!

Bleh, Just wanted to say all hail Offspring

Laters,
Finnzi

YE!!

Finally the Satellite server has gone open source! (link)

YE!!

We will be able to manage our CentOS/Fedora installations through the awesome Satellite product shortly!. Sadly it is still dependant on the bloody Oracle backend, but the rumor is that there is work starting on porting it to PostgreSQL!!

This is one of the great things about RedHat…..And i find it AWESOME to see they are saying CentOS is going to be supported! I feel like RedHat is admitting the CentOS is, and will be, a good project for servers that do not need support, and RedHat is admitting that RHEL users are going to be mixing RHEL & CentOS in the datacenter.

Great day!

Last night i upgraded a SVC cluster that i am administering with great success. I’ve never had as good experience with the SVC as with any other storage product. Kudos to IBM for making such a great hardware/software combination!

Laters,
Finnzi

This is one of the posts i’m going to be hated for …

Why on earth do people bash Microsoft as much as they do? I keep hearing this: Microsoft sux!…..Why i ask? Because they made product X and it stinks!

Ironically most of those people are employed to administer just that product. So…Microsoft sucks? Did you check out some of the alternatives? Did they not suck? Why do you not just ask your employer to use that instead then?

People often forget that it is because of Microsoft we live our lives as we do today. Linux people might argue, but i am pretty darn sure that if there was no Microsoft, Linux and other operating systems would not have advanced as much as they have today. Do not get me wrong, i am a linux user, administrator, advocate. But without Microsoft we would not be where we are today.

Apple is another company that would not be where it is today if it was not for Microsoft. Sure these companys are competing on some level, and i will surely argue that MacOS X is a very advanced operating system. But Microsoft has a very good directory server, a very good operating system and a very large userbase. That userbase is just about 90% or more of all desktop workstations in the world. Why would we be using Windows, or why would companies be programming for Windows if it sucks so much?

I will argue that Linux is a very good operating system, and my job is really all about linux services, but i would never want to support as many linux workstations as my company is support Windows workstations. Never ever.

Why? While i can have a nice workstation running linux, running all the programs i would need, Joe User is not capable of that. Try to connect a random device to a linux box and have Joe User configure it…..

While i will keep pushing linux on the server side, i will not push linux on workstation as of now. Hopefully i will someday, but as of now, Microsoft, the root of all evil (or so i am told everyday) is doing a fine job on that side….argue all you want, but 90% of the corporate world will argue against you .

Just my 2 cents …

Best regards,
Finnzi

Howdy,

Long time no posting!

A lot has happened since last post! …..I’ve just installed two new DS4000 boxes at work and have been using the VDisk migration feature of the IBM SVC to migrate LUN’s to them. It is frigging sweet to be able to migrate 30TB’s of data during the daytime …and yet the pricetag is not so horrible .

I also bought a new laptop since the last post, went with a 13.3″ Black Macbook with 4GB of RAM. I wanted a small laptop, yet in the 1000-1500$ range, so the Lenovo Thinkpad X300 was out of the question ….MSI & Acer machines were out of the question due to my stupid believes …*giggle*.

Next week i will hopefully be getting two new SVC nodes i will be adding to our IBM SVC cluster for added performance and reliability (New IOGroup).

I’m a bit biased so do not take my word for it, but ask anyone who has implemented a SVC solution as a storage solution, this product is flipping awesome Every software upgrade, or any upgrade at all that i know of are all online, the multipath software that comes with the solution is one of the best i have ever seen, and if you have IBM Totalstorage Productivity Center to monitor the SVC nodes you can get amazing amount of data to determine the status of your SAN enviroment.

Bleh….enough rambling about the awesomeness of the SVC ….

I’m off to watch some TV…laters!
Finnzi