Ah, after a week spent out in the real world totally unplugged from the Internet, what nicer welcome could I receive on my return than a Best of 2007 Mashup album? I’m listening to it now, and it rocks! Any album with a combination of John Williams’ Imperial March from… Read More
Kudos out to the folks at MetaFilter for this thread that I wrote about a while back. I purchased several books mentioned in the thread, including: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey A. Moore Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert B.… Read More
In recent days, I’ve noticed that a couple of monitoring products out in the market are still doing something dumb. Cacti is one, and NetApp’s Operations Manager (nee DFM) is another. They both do the same dumb thing: They both poll everything in their database all at once. Cacti polls… Read More
In the last week I’ve managed to prove, and improve, the extensibility of ModiPY to be able to provision anything with a command and control interface. I have extended the base classes to use NetApp’s ZAPI, which is a form of XML-RPC. In so doing, I’ve cleaned up a lot… Read More
I’ve just checked in and tagged ModiPY v1.0. This is the first version that I’m prepared to say is ready for use doing real tasks. Grab it at modipy.seafelt.com. I’m really excited about it. :) I tested it out today running on a linux box, and using a NetApp simulator… Read More
A colleague recently had trouble finding the default server port number for EMC Control Center (ECC). Even his Google-fu failed. For the record, it is 5799. This is for version 6.0. I have no idea if other versions are different. So now you know. Read More
I just played through and finished Portal, a new game from Valve that is bundled in with The Orange Box. It is an awesome game. I was introduced to the game because of a 2D Flash homage to the game, and it was really fun. I then followed the buzz… Read More
Dear Isilon Systems, While you are a relative newcomer to the world of storage vendors, you seem to be doing rather well so far. You have some smart people working for you, and you seem to have some interesting products that at least some people are buying. Please get someone… Read More
Mucking about with art stuff is so much fun. Read More
So I’m looking around the Internet for a plush penguin toy, and what should I happen to find in my travels? An entire livejournal community centred around crafted Dr. Who merch. Dr. Who is not well known for its knitware product placement. Sure, there’s the Doctor Who Scarf, made famous… Read More
