I’m working on getting the Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional: Enterprise Administrator certification (the highest level professional certification for Windows Server 2008 – sort of like MCSE was for 2003 or 2000. Note that there is “no such thing” as… Continue Reading
I use the common Linux command who all the time, have for years. When I’m logged in as various users on various systems, sometimes I forget who I logged in as. I typically use ‘who am i’ to remind me.… Continue Reading
I have an older HP Compaq tc4200 Tablet PC. I like it. If you’ve never used a tablet before, where you can opt to use a pen for input, you should try one. It’s great for applications that are primarily… Continue Reading
I’m glad to have passed 070-640 the first time. I spent two months on this one. I read the book. I actually did all the labs in the book using virtual machines. I did additional practice on real machines at… Continue Reading
Recently a faculty member got a grant to buy a small GPU based computing cluster. He wound up buying a ServMax PSC-2n from AMAX. It came loaded with Debian. It has four NVIDIA Tesla 2050 GPU cards in it. That’s… Continue Reading
Cal Poly, SLO, where I work is a teaching university. We don’t do a lot of research and historically, there hasn’t been a lot of high performance computing on campus. A number of years ago, Information Technology Services (ITS, the… Continue Reading
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and benchmarks statistics.” I often get asked about disk performance. I often use iometer — a well known disk benchmark. I usually use it on Windows. It’s pretty easy to set… Continue Reading
This was my second try at 070-643, and I passed! Yay! I was beginning to doubt my super-powers. What was different? I went slower. Read the book again. Took the practice tests over and over again until I was blue… Continue Reading
The Nexenta folks have spent a lot of energy making Nexenta “idiot-proof”. You really can do almost everything you need from the web based GUI. There’s a few more things you can do from the character based Nexenta Management Console… Continue Reading
There’s a lot of buzz about the Zettabyte File System from Sun Oracle, which has been included for a while in both Solaris and OpenSolaris. (Distributions based on Opensolaris like Nexenta have it. Also some BSD distributions have it). In… Continue Reading