OpenSolaris on Mac: Goodbye Parallels, Hello VMWare Fusion
Let me state that my feelings regarding EMC are unchanged. Worst storage product line ever, someone needs to tell the CLARiiON product team that this is the 21st century and get it into gear. What a horrible storage company. Anyway, now that thats out of the way.... The laptop debate has for the last couple years gone like this for me: "If you want a portable workstation, buy an Acer Ferrari. If you want to walk into a room and get on ...
s/SUNW/JAVA/
Most people have no doubt heard by now that Sun's stock ticker, SUNW (Stanford University Network Workstation), will be changed to JAVA, on the NASDAQ market. Will such a simple change help change the market opinion of the stock? I dunno, it might. I admit that it seems a bit desprate... but then, I'll admit that I have enough confidence in the move that I bought 200 more shares just in case. (Funny enough, I bought 200 shares of SUNW last ...
Considering ADD and Systems Administration
I'm a weird fellow, always have been. I chop this up to personality. But, I've got some strange issues that I've spent a long time trying to figure out, such as: I spend way to much time thinking about things I need to do and not enough time doing them. I'm not talking a couple minutes, I'm talking weeks. I've put off tasks for months because of FUD, when the task itself would only take a handful of hours to complete... worst of all, ...
Big Quick Update
I was planning several blog entries about individual topics with pictures and such but just haven't found the time, so I'll do a bulk update on recent happenings and such.... So I'm back.. The family and I went off on our annual week long camping trip. Being nomadic car campers we spent 2 nights at Campsite 4 in Yosemite, 3 nights at Hume Lake, and a final night in Kings Canyon. It was fun to get away. The kids make it a lot of work, ...
Happy SA Day!
It snuck up on me this year... I guess thats a good sign that we're all working hard. Happy SA Day! May your coffee cups stay full, donuts fresh, and systems stable.
OSCON Sun/Joyent Party Tonight!
Sun and Joyent are hosting a party tonight in the Portland DoubleTree Garage... yes, garage, because ballrooms are for debutantes and wimps. We'll have a DJ, free b33r, and a good time. Such Sun 3l173 as David Comey, Sara Dornsiff, Brenden Gregg, Simon Phipps, Adam Leventhal, and others will be present in addition to Jason Hoffman, Luke Crawford, and of course myself. If your at OSCON be there! Rock the g4r4ge h4rdc0r3 with Sun and ...
Eighth Wedding Anniversary
Its hard to believe, but Tamarah and I have been married for 8 years. Add our 5 years of dating and we've been side-by-side every day for more than 13 years. We celebrated by having dinner at CIA in Napa and spending the evening at a nearby bed and breakfast, The Chanric Inn, in Calistoga. This was the first time we've spent a night away from our children together, from time to time we get a baby sitter and go out (very rarely, ...
Getting out of the office
I was thinking that I really just needed some fresh air, so... More pictures on my Zannel.
SysAdmin Mentoring, Organizations, and Growing Our Craft
This is a very important year for me. I'm going through an incredible amount of personal growth, personally and professionally. I've hit that point in my life where I'm out of culturally imposed goals... the midlife lull I'll call it. When your a kid you have clear cut goals... namely, move the hell out. When you do, you have more clear cultural goals: get an education, good job, nice car, nice home (whatever "home" means to you), wife, ...
Giving Solaris Systems iSCSI IQNs That Make Sense
When working with iSCSI nothing can be more confusing and frustrating than dealing with WWN-like cryptic IQN's (unique strings that identify an initiator or target). I mean, how meaningful is this?: iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:a182b87b-41f0-661f-c161-8de3fe28c5ef Not very. SysAdmin Rule #102: Take cryptic non-sensical string, add some sleep deprivation, insert into production environment, result? Disaster. Thankfully changing that ...