Recently we purchased a Sun Fire v210 server with a pair of 73GB drives. The Sun Fire doesn’t come with a RAID controller on board and I wasn’t interested in paying Sun another $1000 to install one, since the machine is primarily for development, so I decided to set up Sun Volume Manager (a/k/a Logical Volume Manager, or LVM) to mirror the drives. Continue reading…
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Today I’m going to write about why project managers are almost universally loathed by technical staff. Let me begin with a Dilbert cartoon which illustrates the sentiment:
Sadly, my experience in the technology sector has only reinforced my negative perception of project management. In this essay, I’m going to describe those negative experiences, explain what I think are the pre-requisites for project management to not suck, and then conclude on a bit of a downer by explaining why I don’t think those pre-requisites are likely to be fulfilled any time soon.
… since I have to grudgingly administer some Windows boxes, I’m finding this site pretty valuable. For example, someone asked me this morning if we have inbound and outbound message size limits in Exchange. This article explains how to find that information!
This is the funniest spam I’ve seen in a while:
I noticed your Internet resume and would like to send you an email .
Please let me know if that is OK ?
3dnet@drost.us withYES as subject
It’s a little late to be asking me if it’s ok to be spamming me, huh?
First off, I have to be honest about my biases: I am not a big fan of MySQL. It has a long list of gotchas; in many cases, it violates what I term “the principle of least surprise”. One quick example: what is the difference between this:
$ mysql -h localhost -u root mysql
and
$ mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u root mysql
?
Answer: The first command will use the local domain socket (mysql.sock) to connect to the database, and the latter will actually open a TCP/IP connection to localhost.
Why this is relevant will become clear in a moment.
