I just got a new corporate laptop, a nice, shiny T60 (OK, it’s IBM black and therefore thoroughly incapable of reflecting on any part of the spectrum).
Continue reading “Just how much is your antivirus harming your I/O?”
Ate at Murphy’s Style Grill, in Red Bank, NJ
Will be demonstrating Cisco’s WAAS tomorrow in NYC, so today we spent some time going through a testing protocol so we can show people different things.
Continue reading “Ate at Murphy’s Style Grill, in Red Bank, NJ”
This has been one of the worst trips ever – because of one of the silliest DR exercises ever
Well, aside from visiting Flames and helping fix a severe customer problem. Those were rewarding. I still haven’t pooped that steak, BTW.
I was supposed to only stay for 1 day in Manhattan, fix the issue, ba da bing. I ended up staying an extra day – had no extra clothes and no time to get anything. Washed my undies on my own and used the hair dryer over a period of hours to dry them. I learned my lesson now and will always have extra stuff with me.
ZFS in OSX
Not amazing news but an official announcement nonetheless: Saw this (www.macnn.com/articles/07/06/06/zfs.in.leopard/) and I couldn’t resist posting. This means a few things:
Ate at Flames in Manhattan
I was helping a client in the Wall Street District today with some rather obscure CIFS performance issues (Opportunistic Locks anyone? Berzerk BDCs causing issues? Multi-user Access DBs over WAN?)