Phasor Burn

Canada Post Unexpected Failure, originally uploaded by splorp.

Yes, it’s true. tsk tsk tsk.

That’s what you get when you farm it out to the lowest bidder . . . either that or it’s government snivel servants that weren’t adequately trained etc.

“Switch. Enjoy. Gloat. Exalt. Recommend.” That is evolution under a Mac banner. Compare it with “Settle. Puzzle. Tweak. Complain. Bitch. Upgrade. Patch. Replace.” That seems to better describe the Windows universe.

Yep, that pretty much sums up my experience with Mac vs Windows. Actually the Windows part of the quote above could almost exactly match my decade plus experience with Linux as a desktop/notebook operating system as well.

Get a Mac. Don’t Look Back.

Can’t quite figure out why my work place is still buying sub $1000 hp crapola notebooks for everyone, including the engineer types, when I’ve been adequately integrating and working on my now-old PowerBook 12″.

Foot, originally uploaded by Historic Orange.

Lori’s been bugging me off and on about my abnormally large big toes. I don’t know, they look pretty normal to me, being that I’ve always had the same toes and never really compared them otherwise before recently.

Now the picture above is not of my foot. It’s of someone else who appears to have the extra-large big toe gene.

I say it’s for improved balance and walking thrust, you gain a few extra foot-pounds from the muscles in those large big toes

Note that the toe pictured here appears to belong to a woman . . .

Maybe I should post a picture of my foot and really scare you.

msdos5-upgrade-rap-videoflv.zip

A virtual SAN appliance is designed to run alongside virtual server applications without requiring dedicated SAN hardware. The VSA clusters the internal storage in multiple x86 servers running ESX servers to create an otherwise full-featured SAN that can be used by both virtual and non-virtual applications. This gives users the high-availability benefits of VMware Infrastructure 3 (such as thin provisioning, snapshots and remote copy) that are unavailable to local storage, but without the cost of physical shared storage.

More here

In other words . . . Set up a Linux VM on each of your ESX3 servers, and allocate all the unused disk to that VM. Use drb/netblock or something else to mirror or raid all that disk between several servers. Serve it out via iSCSI and let the regular server VM’s point at that now replicated disk; start using the extra features of VMWare ESX3 without needing dedicated SAN storage.

Performance would be shitty but it is an interesting idea. Something somebody could no doubt throw together and offer on sourceforge with little effort. Maybe start with FreeNAS or something like that. Perhaps ZFS on Solaris X86 instead…