We are going through a major migration at work, upgrading our four and a half year old IBM blades to brand spanking new HP BL460 G6’s. We run a web infrastructure, and the current plan is to put our F5’s, application servers, and databases in place, test them all out, and then take a [...]
As a general rule, I really don’t like consultants. Not that I have anything against any of them personally, it’s just that as a whole, most consultants I’ve worked with are no better than our own engineers and administrators. The exception that proves this rule is our recent VMWare consultant, who was both [...]
Today I found myself in the unfortunate situation of defending Linux to a man I think I can honestly describe as a Windows zealot. I hate doing this, as it leads to religious wars that are ultimately of no use, but it’s really my own fault for letting myself be sucked into it. [...]
I’ve changed the theme of my site here, and it’s possible that the design might look familiar to you. Its intentional, it should remind you of Daring Fireball. I’m using the “Plane Jane” theme from Jim Mitchell Design, and it’s described as “A nice grey theme with a very small amount of inspiration [...]