Excessing Production Equipment

From the "if they scream, it was in use" department. At one of my previous jobs we faced the same problems that almost every IT organization faced - we needed hardware, and our executives just wouldn't invest until something broke. Our servers needed help. Our switches needed help. Our racks needed help. After enough whining and doom-saying, we finally got the okay to excess a few of the "older" boxes. Now, when I say "older" I don't mean that they were HP 380 G1s when everything else was a G4.…

VMware Server + SELinux = OMGWTF

From the "ARE YOU FSCKING KIDDING ME???!?!!?" department Good old VMware. There is one bad thing about being the market leader in any area by a vast majority - you get lazy. I recently upgraded VMware Server from 1.0.3 to 1.0.5 on some boxes at work. One of those boxes also happens to be a syslog server. Then, magically, syslog quit writing to any of the log files. What what whaaaat? To make it even better,…

Dhell

Dude, you're getting screwed! Dell... They're the Microsoft of hardware. A PR machine that uses dollar amounts to lure in business. But there's more to budgets than just the cost of the hardware - there's the cost of dealing with that hardware as well. The road the Dhell is paved with good intentions.

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