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Take Away from Google I/O 2013 One of the problems with being too close to something is that you tend to be early on adoption. I would like to think with maturity and wisdom comes patience to wait before jumping in. After watching last year’s google i/o keynote, I immediately pre-ordered a 16GB nexus 7 Miele might have a quality issue with their bearing plates used on their brush roller found in the SEB 217 and SEB 213 Power head. I hope this isn’t the case for others but in case you have found this site as a result of a failed brush roller. I am sharing what I learned The furnace was not putting out any hot air this morning. As is now becoming the custom in our house when it is about cold temperatures my wife and daughter noticed it first and I of course thought nothing was wrong and the temperature was rather nice. A quick inspection showed that the house was 15C There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Verifying your Hosting Companies Connectivity Recently I purchased a value VPS (virtual private server) from a company on the east coast. I won’t identify them because it doesn’t matter but I was interested in them because they were using vmware products and a value VPS in this configuration is rare. Before signing up, I called and Failing Disks on a Dell Laptop A friend was telling me the story of how her laptop (Dell Studio Laptop 1737) had failed and that she had taken it to a local computer store in Medicine Hat. I quizzed her and it began to sound like a hard disk failure. She said they Challenges with Super Micro H8SSL-R10 This week I found a little time to do some preventive maintenance on one of my servers. It was configured as a software raid 5 with 4 disks running Centos 5. It has worked flawlessly with the exception of a failed 250GB drive last month which was my warning When Bad Things Happen to a Good Garage Door I hate to admit this but I drove into my garage door last month and this article is about the repair of said door. The worst thing about doing this is that you struggle to figure out how in the world this could happen and how Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) I hadn’t given this much thought recently but a post on the NANOG mailing list had a question from someone attempting to deploy a GSLB as a solution. I had played with doing this briefly in 1999 and wasn’t very impressed with the concept at the time. My reasons were |
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