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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Sunday, 09 September 2007 |
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Networking is arguably the most important aspect of our jobs. The one common thing between all interconnected computers, is the network. It is vital to all operations that Datacenter Operations have a firm grasp on basic networking principals. At the most basic level, we can compare a computer network to our own neighborhood. We have our house, our roads, our towns, states, and highways.
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 |
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This weekend a veritas disaster was dumped on me. This is how I deleted, and recreated entries for the library robot, and it's drives.
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Wednesday, 25 July 2007 |
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I'm a reader of Ben Rockwood's Blog.. And his recent entries about the life of the sysadmin have really got me thinking. He hits the nail on the head every time and I've decided to write a little about my own experience in the IT industry.
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Sunday, 22 July 2007 |
I have an LCD for my primary display that runs compiz.
I have a CRT too, that I use for mythtv.
And I have the TV OUT clone the CRT to my TV.
Here's my xorg.conf.
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
The following is a transcript from a conversation I had with Sampo, one of the Ardour developers in which he explained to me exactly how audio buffering works. People like this are what make linux so awesome.
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Sunday, 08 July 2007 |
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MythTV is amazing. Really. Amazing. I don't have a single bad thing to say about MythTV. Comcast on the other hand....
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Sunday, 08 July 2007 |
I wrote this script a while back to automate watching our logs.
I don't even know if it still works, but I figured I'd post it here. It may be helpful to someone.
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Sunday, 08 July 2007 |
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Veritas products have always been confusing. I'm writing here to archive an experience that we had with netbackup and ACSLS (Automated Cartridge System Library Software) in our data center. Essentially, all of the drives in our media library were up as AVR (Automatic Volume Recognition) as opposed to ACS (Automated Cartridge System). This means that the netbackup server was not communicating correctly with the ACSLS server, and unable to control the tape library robot.
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Written by Luke MacNeil
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
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Some people who don't know me, don't know that I'm a computer geek. Others are well aware. But when I say computer geek, that does not mean I will come to your house and clean the spyware of your windows PC. Really. Don't ask. When I say I "work with computers"... that does not mean that I will come over and help you transfer the pictures off your new digital camera. I'm a [[linux]] geek... and if you need, I'll help you with linux all day long.
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