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Our rack (well, half rack) of the new Sun T2000 servers has arrived. There is something rather cool about seeing prtdiag reporting 32 processors in a 2u machine
Location CPU Freq Implementation Mask
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MB/CMP0/P0 [...]

A while ago I got a letter from my doctor saying I was due a visit to the asthma clinic for my routine check up (basically, I blow in a machine and assuming I don’t die I pass for another year). No probs, I rang up and got an appointment.
A couple of weeks after making [...]

Considering I wasn’t even going to bother putting in for promotion this year I was pleasantly surprised to find a letter from personnel congratulating me on my promotion \o/
Wooo
Of course, it’s still not clear what the move to a single pay spine will do to it in august….knowing my luck my new grade and my [...]

Well, I got into work yesterday and just before I rang savastore.com I attempted to login to my account. Wierd - my new password now works and I can see my new order (and the old ones have disappeared). Assuming they had fixed the problem somehow I didn’t worry too much.
Last night I try to [...]

For a while now, I’ve been on the lookout for a simple network attached storage solution that would allow me to a) backup our laptops and b) share stuff around the house. Of course, I don’t just want a NAS box - I want a NAS box that can do raid 1 and give me [...]

So, after 4 years of hard work it’s all over in a few minutes of what was (lets be honest here) a walk in the park

Disappointing? Slightly.

Annoying? Very.