Archive for January, 2009
Cisco’s now a full service stop
Cisco’s throwing their gloves into the ring for server hardware. Now they can offer Server Hardware, Datacenter Experts (strong in Server Virtualization with their investments into VMware) and Networking Hardware. All they need now is to offer some Storage Virtualization Appliance on their Server Hardware and they can start to offer the whole [...]
In: Server Virtualization · Tagged with: datacenter, hardware, server, VMware
Tax Havens for Bailed-Out companies
Now this is what I expect from quality journalism sources.
For a short while I thought that Congress was going to do something good in the name of Capitialism instead of turning America into a socialist or merchantlist state. They were going to vote down the additional $350 billion of the Fall ‘08 Bail-Out package and [...]
In: Fun and Life · Tagged with: bailout, joke, waste
Since when is weather the news?
Here I am sitting in Wisconsin and see this ad on the standard news channel that they are going to have coverage starting at 4am. The coverage is “Weather”. Normally they start at 5am for road coverage and some overnight news. Nothing exciting.
So what are they going to talk about at 4am when all the [...]
In: Fun and Life · Tagged with: news, silly
Shouting affects performance
Sometimes the strangest things can have an affect on performance of your computer. Using the Fishworks tool which uses Dtrace for monitoring Sun Storage ZFS systems performance of your disk is affected by shouting.
“You can’t control what you can’t measure.”
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: dtrace, fishworks, performance, sun