March 2010
15 posts
Geek Paradise
At work, I’m getting to play with…
1. Two SAN arrays, each fully loaded with 24 2 TB drives (96 TB of raw storage!). Bonded quad Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to the network as a whole, with two additional on-board Gigabit Ethernet ports (bonded again) used for replication via crossover cables (no switch = no single point-of-failure).
2. Multiple 8-core Dell servers...
“Whoa, you’re telling us this book is filthy, inappropriate, and made a guy...”
– Eric Cartman. The show is still amazing after all these years…
New Cell Phone, Need Numbers
See the title? It’s bullshit. With so many people today having iPhones, BlackBerries, Android phones, and any other kind of smartphone on the market, what excuse do people have for not backing up their numbers to their computers? Hell, even with dumb phones, I believe it’s possible to read the numbers off one phone and put them in a new one (I know I’ve done it two or three times...
Bikes & Cars = Oil & Water →
I think the kind of response seen to Kornheiser’s comments is pretty funny. Personally, I’ve run into (figuratively speaking) asshole cyclists from time to time, and I’d have very little sympathy for them should an unfortunate motorist have an accident with them. At the same time, a coworker of mine usually rides his bike into work (in what is very much a city), and he seems to...
“The last person to even notice Texas had school books was Lee Harvey Oswald.”
– Real Time with Bill Maher
Citrix > VMware
I’ve been doing a lot of testing at work lately in comparing various virtualization software, and it’s gotten to be a pretty interesting market. You’ve got VirtualBox, Xen, and KVM on the open source side, and at least two companies (Citrix and Red Hat) have built commercial products on top of them. And then there’s the product that may have started it all in VMware, and on...
Best Flyers' Game of the Year →
Game-winning goal with 2.1 seconds left on the clock? Yes. Crowd in Philly goes nuts? Absolutely. Goalie breaking his stick over the crossbar? Oh hell yes.
A real shame they couldn’t beat the lowly Rangers today. If nothing else, Sean Avery got his one good game of the season out of the way…
Toyota: Moving Forward, But Not Fast Enough
I commute 80 miles a day to and from work, and I can tell you for a fact that most Toyota drivers (and most drivers of any vehicle, for that matter) struggle to find the gas pedal. And unfortunately, I’ve yet to be behind a Toyota exhibiting any of this unintended acceleration crap that’s constantly being talked about (“New at 11, your Toyota may kill you!”).
Kidding...
WatchI feel far worse for the car than I do the driver. I love the E36 M3 (and the stock wheels) almost as much as I love the E30 M3.
Bah, and Break throws in a 30 second ad beforehand. You can just go here instead.