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The state of our education system

Caleb Shay — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:47:45 +0000

Just ran across this on Slashdot.

Short version:

Teacher stops child from giving away Linux CDs to other students. Claims that there is no such thing as “free” software, and the child is obviously doing something illegal.

I’m so dumbfounded, I have nothing to add.

Got my iPhone…

Caleb Shay — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:54:19 +0000

…so what enterprising soul is going to give me an ssh client?

iPhone FTL

Caleb Shay — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:56:00 +0000

Andi and I tried to get iPhones this morning…an exercise in futility.

For some reason, AT&T/Apple decided that 20 phones per AT&T store should be plenty. Jackasses.

Testing TextMate for Blogging

Caleb Shay — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:39:30 +0000

Supposedly I can use TextMate, which I use for most of my coding, for blogging. Let’s see how this goes.

Did it work?

Can I include an image?

Stupid Mac Tricks

Caleb Shay — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:20:16 +0000

Today’s silly-ass trick? This page, that shows you what my laptop sees each time it wakes from sleep.

ZFS in OSX

Caleb Shay — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:37:29 +0000

According to World of Apple, the next release of OSX (Leopard) contains Sun’s ZFS. If you haven’t heard of ZFS, you should really check it out. Sun is calling it “The last word in file systems”, and they may be right. Maximum filesystem sizes in the zettabyte range, maximum file sizes in the exabyte range, built-in checksumming to guarantee filesystem integrity. Simple storage pools for creating filesystems without a separate volume manager. Self-healing. Blazingly fast. Dynamic striping. Automatic block size adjustment. Snapshots. It’s all there and then some. Think of it as being able to treat your local storage like an enterprise SAN. I’m pretty excited about this (if you can’t tell). I wonder if Apple will let me put my root filesystem on ZFS…

Mac+VMware update

Caleb Shay — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:41:39 +0000

Well, apparently VMware has heard the cries of OSX users…sort of. VMware for OSX is in “Friends and Family” beta right now, and hopefully will see public consumption soon. The new product is called VMware Fusion and is apparently a cross between Player and Workstation. This does NOT make me happy. Honestly, I didn’t even care if I actually had virtualization for my mac, I just want a damn ESX client!

Why two servers?

Caleb Shay — Sat, 13 May 2006 15:32:43 +0000

So, I’m reading a blog post this morning by an ex-Apple employee talking about working in AppleCare support, and while most of it is just a rant, one part of it really spoke to me.

I’m going to be without my computer for a week?! It’s a business critical machine! I can’t be without it!…If something is important to you, you spend money to make it reliable. If you cannot make it reliable, then you make it redundant. It’s a life lesson more than a computer lesson.

Not long ago we were talking to a client who was just planning a move to ESX and wanted to know how many host servers he would need for the number of machines that were being virtualized.Â We looked at what they currently had and how hard they were working and said “It will all run on one 4-way, so get two of them.”Â They seemed shocked that we would so blatantly recommend getting more hardware than they “needed”.

Why do people have such a hard time understanding the importance of backups and redundancy?Â It becomes even more important in the virtualization space where a single failure could mean losing 20 servers, not just one.

esXpress

Caleb Shay — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:59:21 +0000

Finally…we launched the official stable release of esXpress today. Go get it!

Qumana?

Caleb Shay — Tue, 02 May 2006 01:16:52 +0000

Hmm, just possibly, Qumana doesn’t suck.

Let’s see if this works right and I actually get a big scary image on the left.

Looks like we have a winner!