Author: awa
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Filler
I’m exhausted. I’ve been pulling fiber for the last two days. All part of an infrastructure upgrade. Normally, pulling cable in a modern datacenter is pretty easy. This is not a modern datacenter. The original cable runs were CAT6 with RJ45 connectors. When the cables were installed, the installation had to be nondestructive. No holes…
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Friday Feedback
Nerd Babble “Switch in the wrong direction…” oh my, that does sound bad. We use VLANs for isolating network traffic. Our switches will happily forward all VLANs as on all ports. So a tagged VLAN on port 1 will be transmitted to port 2, if port two responds with an answer on the VLAN. It…
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Issues update
Three steps forward, 2 steps back, we should be stable. Nerd stuff: We upgraded our infrastructure, again. We moved from a copper to a fiber backbone. Server links are now up to 25Gbit/second. Everything went smoothly until we started our final tests. It appears that the new switch defaulted ports in the wrong direction. This…
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Friday Feedback
Personal It has been difficult for me since my Father passed. It isn’t that I interacted with him that much, it is that the safety net is gone. In addition, it turns out that my brother is pretty darn evil. This is as close as I’ve come to talking about his actions in public. In…
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Friday Feedback
Another week. What is your favorite childhood food? That dish that takes you back to a happy childhood memory. Politics The New York Times, a “newspaper” and “trusted media source” was out there downplaying the second assignation attempt on Trump. They do such a good job of lying. Kamala should take lessons from them. They…
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Friday Feedback
Wednesday was a good day, sort of. I was able to shut down my K8S cluster. The amount of grief this new fangled thing has given me cannot be overstated. Bluntly, most of the issues could have been resolved by throwing more money at the problem. K8S does work for large infrastructure solutions. The sort…
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Friday Feedback
This week has given me closure on several small projects, all working together to get the right results. In the old days, each device on the Internet had its individual IP address, today, most devices share their IP address with thousands of other devices. Instead, entire locations hide behind a single IP address. This is…
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Friday Feedback
The blog has now been moved to a temporary server. I hope that it will be more stable. I have to move the citation server. Once that is moved, GFZ and Vine Of Liberty will be free of K8S. I have a few other websites to move, but I am making great progress. In the…
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Friday Feedback
The DNC held their convention this week. The level of hypocrisy exceeds even my expectation. The left attacked Trump’s kids, Bush’s kids, Palin’s kids. It was always “OK”. Some idiots on the right pointed at Walz’s kid, and the left is having a meltdown over how evil Republicans are. I don’t remember walls around the…
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Friday Feedback
Welcome to the weekend! We’ve made it through another week. I think the biggest thing I’ve heard to-date is simply this: We need to focus on the candidates for president, not their VPs. JD Vance is a better candidate than Walz, by far. No matter how much of a scumbag Walz might be, we need…