Data Center Move

This should be a riot! Four of us are moving 20 servers, an EMC storage unit, 5 devices 3 miles down the road in the middle of a rainy night. No cover, just plastic camping tarps and only 10 hours to do it. After that I've got firewall and DNS settings to reset. As I said, should be a riot.

Feel the power

A new Dual Xeon Quad-core server arrived at our door last night fresh from Dell. It's a fairly loaded machine with 3 GHz processor speed, 16 GB of memory and 1.3 terabytes of disk spinning at 15,000 RPM.

This is actually a prototype machine for us to see how much virtualization we can squeeze out of it. The only thing we can do in the next round to increase performance is double the memory, but we're anxiously awaiting Dell to release the Dual AMD Quad-core which is supposed to put Intel to shame when it comes to running virtual environments.

This should be a fun (and noisy) day. The non-technical translation of the above is that this computer is very super-duper.

My Bill is Overdue

Thanks to my Mother-in-Law for alerting me to this... My old blog at www.castingmynet.com displays a message (to the world) stating that my hosting bill is overdue. As delinquent as that may appear, I really did intend to let the account lapse and I'm back over here at BlogSpot, where my bill is never overdue, because it's a 100% FREE account.

Converse All-Star Boys

I've always wanted a pair myself... Hint Hint :)

View from the Top

Incidentally, that was the title of my 1984 high school yearbook. 

Christmas Lights

Time to get down and put up the lights.