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Shredz64 and PSX64 Updates {08-13-2010}

Due to quite a bit of interest and positive support, I’ve tried to kick my butt back in gear and start producing more PSX64 boards, as well as update Shredz64 a bit. We’ve been popping up in a few expos and meetups, including TNMOC’s Vintage Computer Festival 2010 at Bletchley Park, VCF East, SC3 Arcade [...]

Best Modern Practices – Cisco MDS 9000 (Fibre Channel) – Part 2 {07-12-2010}

Back to Part 1… Use Your MDS to Its Full Potential! If you’ve taken some time looking through all the thousands of things NX-OS and Fabric Manager can do, you’ll know that the MDS line is amazingly powerful. I’m totally a CLI guy, and I do most of the basic switch configuration in NX-OS, but [...]

Best Modern Practices – Cisco MDS 9000 (Fibre Channel) – Part 1 {07-12-2010}

We recently got a pair of shiny new Compellent SANs at work – both a primary and DR setup which replicate to each other. Seriously awesome stuff (Sales pitch mode – I don’t work for Compellent, but they make an amazing product, and Data Progression in the bomb. Check them out if your organization is [...]

Website News – WordPress Update {07-12-2010}

I took an hour out last night and upgraded the site to WordPress 3.0. While outward appearance wise, nothing much should change, the admin interface is drastically different (and improved). If you’re running your own WordPress site and haven’t made the jump to 3.0 yet, don’t hesitate – it’s worth it.

Where No Game Has Gone Before: Star Trek Online {03-23-2010}

Amazingly enough, I am a Star Trek fan (hard to believe, I know). When I was little, I would watch the original movies and cartoon series (I don’t think the original series was really airing anywhere where I was), and then once Star Trek: The Next Generation came out, I was completely hooked. TNG was [...]

Ping Failover Daemon for Linux {02-24-2010}

Overview I wanted to make available a GPL daemon I developed for Linux called the “ping failover daemon”, or pfailover. It is designed for hosts with two or more network interfaces, with the goal of rerouting traffic over the secondary interface when the primary fails. It achieves this by monitoring a host over the primary [...]

Blackberry Programming: Alter Bitmap Color on the Fly {02-21-2010}

While working on my current Blackberry game, I ran into a situation where I needed to change the color of of a bitmap. Specifically, I wanted to signify an object was “hit” by temporarily tinting it red – i.e. I wanted to keep the original bitmap color pattern, but wanted to increase the red portion [...]

How to Move the COS (esxconsole.vmdk) in VMware ESX 4 (vSphere) {02-21-2010}

We recently upgraded from ESX 3.5 to vSphere at work, and man – is it awesome. The infrastructure manager (vSphere Client) supports a whole boatload of new options for better monitoring and managing your VMs and clusters – including a patch management system for keeping your VMs and hosts up to date. If you’d like [...]

Apology! News, and a New Code Viewer {02-21-2010}

First off, I want to apologize about the long hiatus away from the blog (looks like since August). The job took over a bit, plus I’ve been in the thick of developing a new commercial Blackberry game, doing some other projects, developing a raging Friday-night Oblivion addiction (such a good game), etc. I’ve been mentally [...]

IAS Shared Secrets Aren’t So Secret {08-16-2009}

Though by night I practice in the dark arts of computer science and engineering, during the day I play the part of a mild mannered network administrator. Recently I was taking stock of our backups, and as I was looking through some items that needed to be included in the nightly routine, I checked out [...]

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