As you can see from the image (below), I have the stats for my blog on Thursday, 1st January 1970! I also have stats for ‘yesterday’ presumably meaning Wednesday, 31st December 1969!
Obviously those of you that are more observant, anyone can claim this: simply put an invalid date into the address bar! Though interestingly, 2009-04-31 give you the date: 1st May 2009.
Just something to blog about before bed! Read the rest of this entry »
It happened a couple of weeks ago now. I plugged in my external hard drive “POCKET” and OpenSolaris mounted it under /media/POCKET. I was going to copy my films and TV series over to POCKET as I was travelling up to see Faye in Aber. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday I was back in the office, Steve was out coming home from a weekend in Aber and James had started a week of touring the UK.
I picked up a few tickets and knuckled down to get them done. I had one which was to simply check if some connections between a storage array and a host was OK and to provide feedback on how they were configured.
Another was to do some testing on our lab tool “js_config”, the developer has updated the current version and logged about 25 tickets to test the new and old features out. I picked one which had me installing a SPARC machine with the latest Nevada build, everything seemed to go OK.
I spent the afternoon moving a cryto card from a stable system and putting it in to a T1000, and back again, and then back again, finally placing it back in the stable system…I still have the original crypto card from the T1000 on my desk actually… Read the rest of this entry »
This week was brilliant! I was on a training course: Solaris Internals.
It was great for two reasons, firstly because I missed the French lab moving over to our lab (although now I wish I had been there), and secondly, I was the only person on the course! I had an instructor all to myself, again great, but I had to make sure I paid attention as I was the only person to answer questions 
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Monday started rather differently to usual. we had our lab staff meeting at 10am so we could include the APAC lab manager on the call, he had some interesting things to tell us about collecting statistics about how the lab was used, and how we are going to implant some more measures in to get more accurate results.
We still had the meeting in the afternoon to talk about our own lab, after this meeting we went down and did a lab tidy in preparation for the AMER lab managers visit on Wednesday. I also helped Paul rack some new machines which will be used for bookable LDOM’s, as well as a virtual lab host. The virtual lab host has a combination of zones and VirtualBox I think, these can be provisioned as and when needed. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, this week really wasn’t very special.
I assigned some new IP’s to a couple of machines.
Evaluated quite a few bugs which were all accepted to be fixed.
The most exciting things I did included talking to a very polite American engineer about booking a couple of systems and getting Suse Linux installed on them.
I also looked at the UPS system on one of our production servers. It was complaining about the battery which had failed a test. I’ve changed the battery and I need to make sure it’s still OK.
That’s it really, a very uninteresting week!
The Intel Manager game is on it’s third incarnation and brings a very different form of game play.
I didn’t play the IMG2, but in the first version you bought more servers and upgraded network cards etc (choices from ‘no-name’ brands up to Intel’s finest). This new version you do no buying. You first train in various areas by completing challenges (answering an Intel related question) or taking the training course (your skill is increased over a short period of time). Once you have learnt a skill (such as multi-core) you can apply it to the employees desktop/laptop.
I think I prefer the first version, I wish they had built apon that…
It happened a couple of weeks ago now, I’ve upgraded the storage in beleg-iâ. It now has 4x 500GB disks!
I have them in two mirrors, one for the boot disk and one for data. Read the rest of this entry »
I meant to blog this ages ago, and have only just remembered about it!
I wanted a way for me to access my server when I wasn’t on the local network. A friend pointed me to DynDNS, this will give you a domain name (e.g. myname.something.com) which you can update to point to your IP. However, you need a method for updating the DNS entry, this is needed because everytime I switch off my modem and turn it back on, Tiscali give me a new IP. Read the rest of this entry »
