Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Apr 28th, 2008
So my brilliant company signed another big debian customer. Lucky me gets to create images for this crap across 2 data centers, 3 hardware platforms, and 2 different versions of debian. Such BS. Of course the first server I try to build is complaining about the CDROM, cuz it’s virtual.
I H A T [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Mar 24th, 2008
I’ve been doing a lot of work on my hosting company over the past week. This weekend I decided that my shared hosting plans weren’t competitive enough anymore, so I jacked up all of the plans quite a bit. I also decided it’s time to start selling Virtual Private Server packages now, since the technology [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Linux, Technology, Travel on Jan 31st, 2008
It’s been a crazy past couple of weeks. I’ve been working ~12 hours a day trying to both get the UK shit straight, and make sure my group doesn’t completely self destruct. I am officially leaving tomorrow for my 2nd tour of duty in the UK. Once again, it almost didn’t happen. and quite honestly, [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Technology, Travel on Dec 16th, 2007
I realize that I haven’t updated recently so I thought it was about time. My apologies for the blast of worthless posts today. Stephanie finally convinced me to start using twitter, so I started using it when I arrived in London Friday, and just pushed all my updates to my blog.
So London! I got here [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Home, Muzik, Technology on Oct 4th, 2007
I was reading some tech crap last week, and I came across this article about turning your old xbox into a media center. It reminded me that I had wanted to do this for some time, but never got around to it. I decided it would be a fun project, and it would be cool [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Home, Linux, Sports, Technology on Sep 12th, 2007
I seriously can’t believe it’s already mid September. I have been working a lot of crazy long days (more than usual) lately. It’s not that I’m required to do so, I just find myself still working at 6 or 7 PM most days. It’s a bug I have. I know that me working late doesn’t [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Linux, Technology on Sep 7th, 2007
Yesterday afternoon I found out we signed yet another customer wanting a non-standard OS. These guys want Fedora. While it pissed me off that they once again dropped this on my plate, without consulting me first, I wasn’t too worried, as I knew I could make Fedora work with my current kickstart server easily. How [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Sep 5th, 2007
So apparently I Debian sucks so much that it can’t recognize a SAS controller. I tried 3 different installers based on “etch”, none of which could properly “see” a hardware raid. Keeps giving me a drive error. So I run a Red Hat install, and of course it detects and installs perfectly. Do I really [...]
Posted in Hardware, Linux, Technology on Aug 30th, 2007
So we landed a fairly big customer. Said customer is all about Debian. It went down kind of like this
Sales: “Will you guys support 40 Debian servers?”
Us: “No!”
Sales: “Okay, we’ll need those by the end of September”
So of course not only am I the guy responsible for creating all Linux deployments, I’m one of the [...]
Posted in General, Hardware, Technology on Aug 28th, 2007
I started my day as I always do around 8:00am. Sometimes it’s a little earlier, sometimes a bit later. Today, I went to the coffee shop to take care of some stuff remotely for about an hour, then I headed to one of my Data Centers to take care of some stuff before my team [...]
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