Bisectional Bandwidth
Getting caught up on some of my RSS backlog and really love this section from a post: What the heck is bisectional bandwidth? If you draw a line somewhere in a network bisectional bandwidth is the rate of communication at which servers on one side of the line can communicate with servers on the other […]
Platforms
It’s been a few weeks now since I made it out to EMC World and attended the 2012 Data Scientist Summit. My purpose at EMC World was to get myself schooled on a couple of key technologies that we use, Hadoop and Greenplum. I build out and work to optimize the clusters that we run. […]
Hack the Midwest
Working with a group of coworkers for this weekends Hack the Midwest event. Being sysadmin guy it’s going to be a real change of pace to do a little more on the coding side. There is still going to be a decent amount of DBA and system work to do, that should be low hanging […]
ubuntu 12.04 upgrade
Shot up to the ubuntu 12.04LTS release last week. Things I currently am having issues with DNS when I connect to the VPN has been all kinds of funky. I believe I fixed this today by turning off dnsmasq I really don’t want a local resolver, how can I turn it off? To turn off […]
Unix Underpants
Old one, but still good -Â http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25
It’s all about the Big Data
From what I’m seeing it looks like the big companies out there have snatched up about every person out there that have managed to touch the Hadoop stack and the tech marketing machine is in overdrive. I’m spending a majority of my days (and some nights) dealing with Hadoop and Greenplum so I’ve got some […]
Kansas Gov. Twitter Brouhaha
We had a lively discussion at work yesterday about the Brownback Twitter story that has been across the news. If you don’t know what happened, a student was present at a speech Gov. Brownback was giving and tweeted while he was giving the speech “just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he […]
fstab mounting cifs shares with spaces in the name
One of those evil things I run into is that people like to make shares with a space in the name. Â It’s not quite a banishment to one of the circles of hell offense, but I’m pretty sure you get some time in purgatory for it. So in order to fix it in fstab change […]