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11 Years, 11 Months Later: Dusting Off the Server & The Great Reboot
My last blog post went live on October 2, 2014. I was writing about Dell EqualLogic enterprise storage arrays, phone system debugging, and IT service quirks. Th...
The Ultimate Spec Change: Becoming a Father
On November 21, 2025, my entire world shifted on its axis. We welcomed our baby into the world. No amount of systems engineering, server disaster recovery plann...
Never assume no one reads the comments in your code
So, a few years back a client of mine was very excited about their recent uptick in web traffic, though it wasn’t very clear why. The client had just finished a...
The Day We Fight Back
Regardless what you think of Edward Snowden, his actions illustrate one thing clearly: The data collected by the NSA is rife with potential for abuse. No matter...
The Bieber Algorithm
So I had to reverse engineer some software we use at the office the other day. It uses a hash to store its current users in a table, and we needed a way to moni...
Equallogic Command Line
Well, we had another failure late last month. The rebuild went fine… and quickly since I had another disk on hand. That disk was supposed to be replace the othe...
EqualLogic with a questionable drive
Well… last month we had one drive completely fail, which is what these arrays are supposed to protect against. However, when this happened, there were enough ba...
Phone System Error
I honestly dont know what this error message is trying to tell me. Maybe it makes sense if you translate it to chinese.
Lambo tires…
Whats wrong with this picture? For some reason, Walmart is out of stock on 335/30R18 tires. Isn’t that where all Lamborghini owners get their tires?
GCM Computers
MeetNWA interviews my old boss, Gary McLendon. I think GCM Computers is the best computer service center in Northwest Arkansas, but I may be biased since I work...
iOS 4.0 is here… well almost.
I managed to get the iOS 4 update going right after noon today. However, I had to go to lunch an hour later, and it hadn’t shown any progress whatsoever… ...
Antivirus “False Positive” Problems
My biggest gripe for all Anti-Virus solutions is the amount of false positives. One recent incident I posted about prompted me to completely change AV products....
I dont want to jailbreak my iPhone
I’m catching a lot of flack from my iPhone enabled coworkers for not jailbreaking my phone. I’ve had my 3G for almost a year now, and I’ve been tempted many tim...
vb FormatBytes
Quick function to format bytes in Excel / VBA into human-readable strings. Function FormatBytes(bytes As Double, Optional places As Integer = 0) As String If by...
What’s wrong with this ad?
I just saw this ad on LinkedIn… notice anything odd about it? (Screenshot: A Microsoft ad campaign featuring an unmistakable unibody MacBook Pro with the Apple ...
Alltel and SPAM
I had a customer come in last week to setup his Alltel HTC Diamond (looks like an iPhone wannabe). We host his POP, but not SMTP (we don’t do SMTP unless we hav...
The Ballmer Peak
http://xkcd.com/323/ Between 0.129% and 0.138% So true… Maybe thats why my current programming project is taking so long… I havent had a drink in a while.
Bellagio Fountains
Jennifer just posted some Flip Video clips from our Vegas vacation… The Bellagio fountains were definitely one of the most impressive sights on the strip. Bella...