PowerConnect POE Power Cycle
Posted in BlogWe’ve been having an issue with the network in an adjacent office. This office has 2 stacked Dell PowerConnect 6248P POE switches connected to our main data center stack with 10GbE over...
View Article30 Years of Mac
Posted in BlogToday marks the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh. I got my first Mac and first computer when my uncle handed it down to me in the early ’90s… And I was so disappointed. All my...
View ArticleThe Day We Fight Back
Posted in BlogRegardless what you think of Edward Snowden, his actions illustrate one thing clearly: The data collected by the NSA is rife with potential for abuse. No matter what slim chance of good...
View ArticleEquallogic Preemptive Drive Failure
Posted in BlogWe had another drive fail the other day. And just like last time, upon further examination, we found other drives with bad blocks (my prior post about command line tools). Last year,...
View ArticlePS6100 semi-catastrophic failure
Posted in Tech SupportA drive failed, at 4:00 on a Friday (2 weeks ago)… Then at about 11 that night, the rebuild failed. I thought it was the end of the world; especially since we’re severely...
View ArticleEqualLogic with a questionable drive
Posted in BlogWell… last month we had one drive completely fail, which is what these arrays are supposed to protect against. However, when this happened, there were enough bad blocks on another disk...
View ArticleEquallogic Command Line
Posted in BlogWell, we had another failure late last month. The rebuild went fine… and quickly since I had another disk on hand. That disk was supposed to be replace the other disk with bad blocks....
View ArticleArduino & Woz
Posted in BlogI spent some time this weekend working with a graphic display on my Arduino. I havent written a game since highschool, and it sounded like a good weekend project. On an impulse, I picked...
View ArticleThe Bieber Algorithm
Posted in Tech SupportWTFSo I had to reverse engineer some software we use at the office the other day. It uses a hash to store its current users in a table, and we needed a way to monitor who was...
View ArticleNever assume no one reads the comments in your code
Posted in BlogTech SupportWTFSo, a few years back a client of mine was very excited about their recent uptick in web traffic, though it wasn’t very clear why. The client had just finished a complete...
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