Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Managing lots of RSS feeds
Posted by on October 31, 2007
I’ve been into reading people’s blogs and tracking websites like theregister for a good couple of years. I never really found an RSS reader app that worked for me; I wanted to build custom views of feeds, flag and prioritize them and mark things to read later – and I could find standalong apps to [...]
Tiny Laptop for £229 with solid state HDD
Posted by on October 31, 2007
I generally wouldn’t touch anything other than a Dell/HP/IBM laptop with a bargepole for reasons of spares availability/cost… but at £229 inc VAT this is almost disposable if something dies. It’s tiny and has a (small) solid state HDD but SD card reader slot to allow you to add more storage space. Review here.. [...]
HP Builds "Smart-cooled" Datacentre in Bangalore
Posted by on October 31, 2007
the following article details how HP are consolidating 14 datacentres into 1 and taking a smart approach to cooling. Rather than uniformly cool the datacentre thousands of temperature sensors installed in racks feed back readings to the cooling control system so hot spots can be automatically cooled. Be cool (ha ha) if HP made [...]
Microsoft DHCP Team Blog
Posted by on October 26, 2007
Might be useful to someone, some handy hacks and scripts for doing useful DHCP things, I always found MS DHCP servers lacking these sorts of interfaces to do have DHCP help with "clever" things on Windows infrastructures – particularly in migrations. http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/default.aspx These kinds of sites are an example of the good ways blogs can [...]
Dick vs Microsoft
Posted by on October 24, 2007
I’ve subscribed to Dick Morrell’s RSS feed for donkeys now, partly cos I find his rants entertaining and mainly because they contain some useful information about interesting OSS projects, heck I even used and donated to Smoothwall in the days before cheap ADSL routers and still use smoothwall/IPCop as a quick way to get [...]
Building a Better Test Lab
Posted by on October 22, 2007
This is the outline of a number of posts on building a {relatively} low-cost accurate test lab of your production systems using P2V, VMWare, ESX, custom scripted HP voodoo, HP MSA1500 SAN, Virtual Switch Tagging (VST), Checkpoint on Sun Firewalls and Cisco switches. in order to clone a complicated multi-tier Windows based production platform with [...]
Windows Live Writer
Posted by on October 22, 2007
I have downloaded Windows Live Writer as it seems pretty well recommended for people wanting to compose posts off-line.. so here it is 1st blog using it! Sorry, will try to come up with something more compelling to write about! I have a couple of posts in the pipeline about building a Virtualised test lab [...]
Blogging from the beach…
Posted by on October 14, 2007
… to further my earlier post about how useful 3G datacards are; I’ve spent the whole of today (yes, it’s a Sundy – but had some stuff to do) working on the beach in Brighton. Niiiice, I’ve also got two extended batteries in my laptop.. runs for about 6-8hrs! must do this more often!
Schipol Airport Police
Posted by on October 10, 2007
These guys zip about the airport on Segways – very cool, especially when you consider how far apart everthing is! Glad to see they managed to sell them to someone
Vodafone 3G Data in a laptop
Posted by on October 10, 2007
My laptop is a Dell D620, I opted for the built in 3G data modem when I ordered it as my PCMCIA vodafone 3G card didn’t have Vista drivers available and I liked the idea of not having to have a great big card hanging out the side waiting to be snapped off. I have [...]
