I am now the proud owner of a shiny new Apple iPhone 3GS. My impressions so far are overwhelmingly positive, but it does have some significant flaws. Long Journey I’ve looked longingly at other people’s iPhone’s for some time. When they first came out 2 years ago (remember the lines?),… Read More
NetApp provide a Linux version of their DFM/Operations Manager product, but they only support certain versions of Suse and RedHat distros. I run Ubuntu, but I figured could port the installation across. How hard could it be? Not too hard, as it turns out. Here’s how to do it. Getting… Read More
I’m a bit of a documentation nerd. Writing technical documentation is a boring, but often necessary, job that other people hate doing. I’m good at it. I also care about it, for some unfathomable reason. This combination means that I’m usually the guy who ends up doing it. Now I… Read More
Using multiple redo log areas is something that many Oracle DBAs are used to doing. This post explains why you should stop doing it if you use NetApp storage for your Oracle database. What Would I Know? Once upon a time I was an Oracle DBA. I’d never done it… Read More
I had this idea a little while ago: an SNMP to Twitter gateway. It seemed like an obvious fit: Twitter is all about status updates, and that’s basically all an SNMP Trap is. So this afternoon I hacked up a little Python script to do it: #!/usr/bin/python # $Id: traptweet.py… Read More
“Well let’s see… the Model 7 is on special for $199, but we’re out of stock at the moment. We could order it in, but it won’t get here for 5 weeks. The Model 9 is $799, and yes, it has some extra features that you said you didn’t need,… Read More
If you’ve ever dabbled in learning about theoretical physics, as I have, you will enjoy an excellent book by Brian Greene called The Fabric of the Cosmos. It’s the first book that has explained how time and space are related by Einstein’s theory of general relativity in such a way… Read More
Just a quick note to let you know about something I worked on a bit this past weekend. I’ve been adding a bunch of test cases to ModiPy to make the code quality better, and to chase down some corner cases that were really annoying me. I’m pleased to say… Read More
I love Python. I find it really easy to use to write programs with. I’m also pretty into NetApp Filers lately. I spend a bunch of time helping enterprise customers with using them well. So, of course, I want to be able to administer them using Python. Second Class Citizens… Read More
I’ve been thinking a lot about music lately. Playing music. How I used to, and haven’t lately. I’ve been particularly obsessed with Chopin’s Prelude in E minor (Op. 28 No. 4) which is a heartbreakingly beautiful piece of music. And playing music is apparently good for your memory. So after… Read More
