Hello World

I'm sitting here..waiting patiently for a drive to finishing defragging. How ridiculous. 100% it says..for the last hour.

Things have been busy. Baby on the way, another one that doesn't feel like sleeping, and one that thinks she's the smartest thing since Einstein.

I watched Obama last night and he certainly can inspire. Bush would have never been able to give a speech like that. I'm excited about the next four years, hardships included..things will get better. Asked the other day how my job is going, any effect due to the economy.."not directly", I said. Stories on the news, informative NPR interviews make the world sound like it's collapsing. My 401k has taken a dump, home has probably lost a little value...things are on sale.

The dog has been sick with Uveitis, a bad thyroid, and rocky mountain spotted fever. Several different medicines, eyedrops, 2x a day for this, 3x a day for that. But he's getting better, medications have decreased and he's not so mopey any longer.

Watch out she tells me..Wifey is spooning ice cream and I'm trying not to get busted in the mouth. Don't mess with a prego woman and her ice cream.

The VMware project at work has been going very well. Longer than expected due to timing and maintenance windows but great. Worth every penny. If your an IT shop, do yourself a favor - spend money and buy VMware.

Who knew the guy from Lost is on American Idol?

EqualLogic Firmware 4.0.5

Here is whats new in EqualLogic firmware release 4.0.5 released in Jan 09.

Supported platforms -
PS5000E, PS5000X, PS5000XV, PS5500E, PS3000, and PS50E-PS400E

* Support for PS5500E systems, a new 4U 48 drive SATA system
* New Software Features and enhancements
o Replication enhancements including failback scenarios, and performance improvement in multi-network configurations
o IPV6 Network Support for iSCSI traffic
o Ability to designate an array network port as management-only network interface
o Support for 512 iSCSI connections per pool, up to 2048 iSCSI connections per PS Series group
o Manual transfer utility supports manual replication transfers for any replication operation, not just the first replication on a volume
o Thin provisioning is used for all replicas in replication operations
o Newly created volumes and snapshots default to allow a single iSCSI IQN to connect at a time
* Improvements in controller restart
* Improvement to firmware update procedure

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Where's Tyler Durden?

Whoops.

"Comcast, the cable company whose viewers saw the material,
said it was investigating."