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• Data and Technology

  Posted on February 26th, 2008

  Written by cliff

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  air conditioning, blackbox, cooling, datacenter, earthquake, IT, it department, network, power, redundant, shipping container, sun

  Sun Project Blackbox – Datacenter in a Can

  

  Lots of small companies want to hire an IT department in a can… You know, the ones who hire only one person to run their Linux servers, code their websites, architect their networks, support their users and order more printer toner. It’s a hard job, but it’s pretty common to see them advertised. What I [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on January 11th, 2008

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  data, disk, ext3, filesystem, gnu, IT, linux, mkfs, parted, partition, red hat, rhel, servers, storage, technology

  How to Make Gnarly Big Linux Filesystems

  At least in RHEL 4, the fdisk command does not support the creation of filesystems larger than 2TB. In order to get around it, you have to use the parted command. I found the basic info here, but this is the long and short of how to cut off a big ol’ slice of disk [...]

• Et cetera

  Posted on July 19th, 2006

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  anger, anger managment, angry clients, angry computer users, blood pressure, computer down, down services, downtime, IT, nice person, services, sysadmin, system administration, system down

  Nice Clients > Nasty Clients

  It occurs to me that when you work in IT, you can easily tell how how nice the person you are working with is by the extent to which he is pleasant to you when things are not going well.
  All too often people act as nice as can be when they want something, but as [...]

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