Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22
by Nick on Aug.22, 2010, under Twitter
- "Bruce has a butler, Clark has a boss" #
- EMC, NetApp, and Dell??? http://bit.ly/aBr9J4 #
- My Twifficiency score is 36%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/ #
- Trying to make a load balancer in FreeBSD so I can put together a virtual hosting cluster. Only to tear it down and start over again. #
- buildworld, buildkernel. Oh the price I pay for binary perfection. #
- ♪Where oh where did my OWA go? Oh where oh where could it be? I've tried the standard port and now SSL… The problem page is all I see…♪ #
- *facepalm* New World Order! Governments EVIL!!! ALEX JONES!!!! #
- The one who wants to control you, is the one who wants you angry and afraid. #
- Watching the kernel compile is to see the genius of FreeBSD's layout. #
- @MelanalTheGreat Just tired of installing operating systems… #
- @MelanalTheGreat The TV's lovely dark and deep but I have project outline goals to keep and code to type before I sleep. #
- BabiesRUs was intense, I feel like I should be singing "Goodbye Saigon" with the other dads-to-be registering stuff with their spouses. #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15
by Nick on Aug.15, 2010, under Twitter
- is all VMware ALL THE TIME! Koyaanisqatsi… *cue subtly dramatic Phillip Glass score* #
- It's a Grue! No wait, wrong terminal… It's a GIRL! #
- sudo make me a website: http://tcrn.ch/dr9fL1 #
- Yatta! #
- @stovn We are the world! We did it! #
- Editor dicks around with juvenile fluff piece http://bit.ly/c8FJeG #
- I think The Red Paintings cover of "Mad World" is the most emo song ever. #emosad com (yes, I own that domain, no, there's nothing there…) #
- Ha! @MelenalTheGreat: "What are those tumbling weeds called?"
Me: "Tumble Weeds…" #babybrain # - Anyone want a portable dishwasher? Free if you come get it. #
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08
by Nick on Aug.08, 2010, under Twitter
- nick is breaking in his new mac at work. Sweet ride. #
- Nick is playing with VMWare Fusion. Also refers to himself in the third person. #
- QFT: http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-07-15.html #
- Excederin is Mana from the Gods. #
- VMWare Fusion is good stuff. Now to get my CISCO on via DyanMips. #
- VMWare Fusion is good stuff, now to get my Cisco on with DynaMips. #
- Jeepers creepers, I've got new peepers. #
- I'm playing with Windows Server 2008 AND Dynamips. Will blog later. #
- I'm trying to figure out how syslogd works. Just when you think you have things figured out… #
- Getting PubSub working. Gotta love the lack of documentation… #
- Using PSI to "debug" XMPP #
- Why does the Linux kernel have support for the PlayStation2 "Trance Vibrator?" #
- More Jabber testing. Maybe I am a bit OCD… #
- The wife on the Social Security Office: "everything they say is contradictory…" #
- Just got lectured for 15 mins on effective marketing. Thanks buddy, hope retirement is treating you well. #
- Apparently AT&T Wirless phones are not able to call Google Voice #
- Getting excited for PAX! #
- I'm cooking homemade Chicken Nuggets with MacNCheese. #
- Is getting over a nasty cold, and trying to get SASL and SVN working. #
- My wife just taught me, a twit, how to tweet via twitter.com. Who's more the fool? The twit? Or the Twitterer who teaches the twit to tweet? #
- Futzing with my Calendar and mastering FreeBSD installations. #
- Back to work after a wonderful weekend. The North Shore is beautiful! #
- RadioLab is grossing my out. Hookworm. #
- I'm at the Pizza Hut, I'm at the Taco Bell, I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. #
- On a Qwest. #
- Work is hard without caffine. #
- Ug, convluted setups are a blast to troubleshoot. #
- Reading "Essential System Administration" Again #
- Just redid his mail configs… Forgot to account for the 'active' field in its database. #
- Just added the Google AJAX Translator plugin. Now people can not read my blog in several languages. #
- wishes he could the nice house his wife wants. #
- is caught in the dark nether that binds worlds, adrift in that great abyssal plane that conveys that primal melody of creation. #
- Scratch that, I'm at work. #
- @melanalTheGreat Me are to the work that make the twitter bad.
# - I've got blog in my Twitter! I've got Twitter in my blog! Sorry about all the tweets. #
- Please RT & sign: Join @alfranken – add your name for #hcr with a #publicoption here: http://bit.ly/T9cLS #
- Was playing with LISTSERV today. It, plus 20 Aliases, plus Postfix Flood Protection, plus Greylisting, plus ClueBringer equaled Hilarity! #
- @MelanalTheGreat That's dangerously close to what my friends decided was the sound of a mentally challenged cat: Mee-Row! in reply to MelanalTheGreat #
- I'm watching TED talks. My pretentiousness is growing as I supplement my community college education. #
- I want to be Pranav Mistry when I grow up. #
- Hmm… Twitter tools failed. New Blog Post http://bit.ly/4PzGSZ #
- Antsy for my long weekend. #
- @elVollbrechto did the vet finish that postulate with "it's elementary my dear…" in reply to elVollbrechto #
- More "Professional" Blogging @ blogs.iphouse.net. #
- just got his mind shredded by the plot to Xenogears. http://bit.ly/8gCK3w #
- NaGIOS v3 and NRPE. A hard act to beat. #
- just used the term "Thoughtpuke" in a mailinglist. #
- Why can email programs STARTSSL from the get go? #
- Why can't, why can't. I blame my keyboard… #
- Hmm… Twitter thinks I'm dead. Check out my location: 45.026505,-93.304357 #
- “No,” Ned said with sadness in his voice. “Now it ends.” #
- Yes, I have two blogs. I am a nerd. I think there's a toothpaste for dinner making fun of guys like me. #
- Yes, I have two blogs. I am a nerd. I think there's a toothpaste for dinner making fun of guys like me. #
- Ready for the weekend and I need a nap, badly. #
- Oh, upgrading Calypso's Ports. Now up: MySQL #
- MySQL Upgraded, phew… #
- Oldwomen + OutlookExpress = Madness #
- Meme on the ground, meme on the ground, feelin' like a fool 'caus this meme is all around. Wondering what's next? A self-actualizing clown? #
- http://fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com/2010/01/exclusive-excerpt-from-george-r-r.html #
- "Purple Rain" or "Purple and Gold"? #
- Kahn! http://twitpic.com/zb0e9 #
- "We had joy, we had fun,
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed
Were just seasons out of time" Bye Coco… # - Thanks for posting that @MelanalTheGreat. :\ #
- Lying in wait for my prey. End of the Day, come a little bit more my way… #
- @MelanalTheGreat 1961 #
- I married a "Hater" #
- @MelanalTheGreat the hate… It flows through you… #
- tcpdump -> unknown.ord.scnet.net.http | Time to audit my system. #
- "Shaka, when the walls fell." #
- I described something as "tinhorn" and my wife said I was an old man. #
- Oh, new blog post up. http://bit.ly/bcfdC7 #
- Just read two articles anchored with creative images of a brain. One was a eucalyptus forrest in porceline, the other was rendered in pills. #
- @elVollbrechto Well, it depends on your definition of "design." You obviously need to be aware of a few things, in the end, it's design. #
- @elVollbrechto @MelanalTheGreat says to click the link. It's written in nerdese though. #
- Favicons are fun. #
- @MelanalTheGreat Signs and Portents. Although the hawk dropping a wolf cub into my arms was more dramatic. #
- "[X]OS is more secure than open source operating systems because the general public cannot inspect the source code for vulnerabilities." No, #
- Wired: "If someone wrote an article called “Obama to blame for sex that made Sarah Palin stupid,” it would probably break the internet. #
- Making kerberos work. #
- Why does Dovecot take so long to compile? #
- FINISH HIM! ADMINTALITY! DOVECOT WINS!!! Flawless Victory! #
- Postmortem: Managesieve via ports, MUCH better. RoundCube authentication, meh…Managesieve RoundCube Plugin defaulting to md5? FAIL. #
- @brianljohnson that'd be cool. #
- 1 #
- kerberize it – don't criticize it
kerberize it and i will advise it # - @MelanalTheGreat "You mood went from Chipper, to <dramatic pause> through a Wood Chipper…" ::Pinky-to-Lips:: #
- Jonny Mosely is everbody's favorite frat-boy. #
- Ukraine shows us the future. The future is blue spandex. #
- The Chinese skaters won just on music selection. Queen FTW! Oh, I guess they skated well too. #
- To quote @MelanalTheGreat: "This is some creepy-ass music." #
- I'm weirded out by NBC's use of the Brisco County Jr theme as bumper music… And that I still remember it after so many years. #
- Just found my old Deitel & Deitel "Java how to program" book. That was most schizophrenic programing class ever. #
- (2/3) "Here's what a method is… Now solve the Knights Tour!" #
- (3/3) "Here's an example of a class template… Now solve any random generated maze using the Right-Hand Rule!"
I could go on… # - Some people doubt me and my trivia? Don't doubt me in when I'm inane, doubt me with the significant. http://bit.ly/33m4Ju #
- Re-tweet if you believe in independent artists. http://www.canvasthrowdown.com #
- The ice is a cold mistress tonight. #
- I wish there was an Olympics for server administration. I'd be in the top 2 million, easy. #
- Three words: Moldovian Hand Birds. #
- (1/2)Caught a poodle today. I ran into the owner before I caught her, but after walking for an hour with the poodle, no owner. #
- (2/2)So I dropped her off at the AHA in Golden Valley. She was adorable, cried for me when I left her with @MelanalTheGreat. Tag your dogs! #
- A friend of mine sent me this link http://bit.ly/d9xioE today. Perhaps it would be a good idea of some fellow Northsiders looked into this. #
- "Once more into the VTSP training breach dear fellows…" #
- I loved Aptitude… By love, I mean loathe… Also, VMWare, your training is painful. Your product is cool. #
- Just finished VTSP training, and boy, are my arms tired! #
- Writing SpamAssassin Rules is fun! Stupid Bayes, not catching on to WoW Phishing scams. Regex-foo time. #
- Short & technical blog post. http://bit.ly/alx5Np #
- Is it me, or does Chris Cornell get more and more ridiculous every time he makes a career nice? #
- "a career move" effing iPhone. #
- "So you want my Social Security Number, an annotated floor plan of my house, a voided check, and a list of my worst fears? #
- Well, you're the administrator… It says so right here on CallerID: <EDMINISTRATOR> 555-709-6331." #
- DRUPAL, Drupal, burning right
through cpu cycles of the 'site ,
What incompetent web designer
Could defy thy dreadful performance? # - 84c MoPic MPR. 84, not 86… #
- Why do flashlights need tripods? #weirdwoots #
- @MelanalTheGreat I hates that picture. Hates it! #
- @geekandi says fsck stands for "F•ck Suck" I'm babysitting one for a customer and man, it F•cking Sucks… #
- Server, heal thyself! #
- @geekandi curiosity is only abated by the voice screaming in my head, warning me "TMI Ahead!"
# - Is consumed by Technolust. Iomega's new RAID mini-nas is hawt. #
- bzgrep = CPUPwnage! I should use bzcat and pipe to a grep, but that's too much to type. #
- "You outsourced all of our data to a cloud computing provider that hosts in Leningrad?!" http://bit.ly/azq4gE #
- notsafeforsanity.com is worth: $0 #
- My anger at my kitchen floor grows, tempered only by my acquisition of Pergo flooring cheap off of Craigslist. #
- Thanks @Hexii for lighting, shooting, and editing @MelanalTheGreat's paintings. #
- Spam incoming. #
- the free @digg app comes to your iphone! to celebrate they're giving out a custom colorware ipad each day for 2 weeks! http://bit.ly/diggapp #
- @MelanalTheGreat The Profanity was glorious. #
- Finally, ipHouse's Data Center renovation is complete! http://www.iphouse.com/ #
- @geekandi Sounds like fun, I'd like to be around. #
- @geekandi for the roll-your-own disk array. If you get to that point. #
- @geekandi in the words of St. Ash, Slayer of Deadites, "Groovy," #
- Hacker sends in a trouble ticket for being locked out of a piece of remote-access software, gets a built-in password back. Ha ha ha oops! #
- @MelanalTheGreat and that we both knew who Klaus Nomi was. We are nerds you and I. #
- The floor is done thanks to the help of a friend, a friend of a friend and sweat labor credits. #
- Took an RHCE Pre-Asses test for fun, it came back with good results! "Study or take the Rapid class." My Sendmail, LDAP and NFS need work. #
- Compiling GCC is like dragging a dead Gnu around… #
- is learning VMware via Scott Lowe's "Mastering VMware vSphere 4" It's adding a lot of good context to VMware's PDFs. #
- @geekandi 'F' is for Fork… #
- Hilaraggrivationality! #
- Is learning about Remote direct memory access via stalking @geekandi #
- back to studying VMware vSphere. #
- "Dogs live off of what they're given, not men." Inspirational. #
- @geekandi I just realized that I give 133%… #
- Sync your files online and across computers with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free! http://db.tt/F99YjZ #
- @geekandi Oh yeah, thanks for the update today. #
- Just got back from the #AppleStore to have @MelanalTheGreat's mac looked at. No complaints, the #Geniuses are the best. #
- @MelanalTheGreat it's like they named thier city after a combination of bland and plain. #
- Need a Typeface? http://bit.ly/c8pPtj #
- @geekandi Hmmm… Looks familiar #
- Tech Support: You get what you pay for. http://bit.ly/bRcLMG #
- @nevinlyne but are you really sure? #
- Ok, "Why are we vaccinating for Rotavirus/Polio? That only happens in the third world." Is a retarded argument. #
- Hmm… Apple sues HTC, HTC reaches deal with Microsoft, who was also suing them. The enemy of my enemy is my less evil enemy I guess… #
- @elVollbrechto it's French for "I am truly pretentious." #
- @MelanalTheGreat you mean I for Effort. #
- 'tis my birthday. #
- The wife took me to a birthday dinner. Thanks @MelanalTheGreat. I love you. N'Stuff… #
- Qwest fiber broke in Minneapolis/St Paul. MOE, Internal and VDSL (Fiber to the Node DSL) Massive Layer-2 Networks FTL #
- 133t h4x0r! http://bit.ly/4wu7uq #
- I just admitted to my wife that I've been taking A LOT of drugs and writing SVU. Basically I cross out "Baretta" and write in "Sharon Stone" #
- Why is UUNET broadcasting 192.168.0.0/24?!? #
- Strategically, VMware and Red Hat seem be butting heads of late. Both are moving hard into Enterprise Middleware and messenging… #
- Ok, Community this week is one of the most brilliant things that I've seen on TV in a long, time. John Woo, Rambo, Terminator Parodies FTW! #
- @MelanalTheGreate And who was the poor schlub who had to get those Dorritos for you? #
- @MelanalTheGreat stop being so "Literal." #
- Thank you everyone for coming out at reading the artist blurb I wrote. Oh, and @MelanalTheGreat had some paintings up too I guess. #
- Louie Anderson was originally cast as Larry in "Perfect Strangers." I think that would've been history's most unwatchable show. #
- Did the guy on the news just say "Hmongs?" #
- Baby++ #
- Does this seem…odd to you? http://bit.ly/a7WpOX #unRAID #
- @dotSource the description of #unraid seems vague as to how it is different from RAID. Clustered file system? I'm missing something obvious. #
- Greylisting? "host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[209.85.221.80] refused to talk to me: 421 4.4.5 Server busy, try again later." #
- is waiting patiently for @geekandi to blog about our sweet new NAS… #
- Once again Virtualization proves out as a key component to reducing power consumption and data center costs. http://bit.ly/bYIdP7 #
- My father was a chemist, he had 12 patents, they were physical methodologies, not "ideas." Software Patents need to go. http://bit.ly/aJ4iqS #
- Ok, this is the most obvious thing I've read in a long time. http://bit.ly/cQiS2F Big ol' DERP to this. (FreeBSD is better anyways ) #
- Ok, this is the most obvious thing I've read in a long time. http://bit.ly/cQiS2F Big ol' DERP to this. (FreeBSD > Debian anyways ) #
- Hooray! Spam from a poorly configured 1and1.com 'site! Welcome to my filters. #
- (1/3) Remember kids, control panels give people the power of root without knowledge or accountability. #
- (2/3) If you know what you're doing, you don't need a control panel, and if you don't, you shouldn't have one. #
- (3/3) Hire an administrator. Or get hosting with a company that can do real management for you. You'll be happier in the long run. #
- Woo-hoo! Wish fulfilled! Thanks @geekandi. New NAS in place, details here: http://bit.ly/bY8hrp #Nexenta #Storage #
- #unRAID looks like clustered file system with a parity drive. Looks cool for small deployments http://bit.ly/9avzS6 (OCForums tee-hee!
) # - @MelenalTheGreat, I'll give you three words that'll explain what's wrong with him. Ken-tu-cky. #
- My next phone? http://bit.ly/adDIFL #Sprint I spurned you for CDMA but I may come back to you for #WiMAX #ATT you're on notice, Go #HTC #
- I went to google.com and though, "Oh cute, the logo is Pac-Man style." And then Pac-Man died, and shit got real! #pacman #google. #
- Missed #Minnebar but got the kitchen floor done, also spackled some unseemly seams in the wall. So, wash. #
- Me to @MelanalTheGreat "…and the baby just punched through her head…" •eyeroll• #
- Sad fact one: I recognized the Rocky IV training montage instantly. Sad fact two: I'm pretty sure I have an MP3 of it somewhere… #
- After not watching LOST for so long, I'm a bit sad, not watching the finale, that I don't get to not care about what happened anymore. #
- @brianljohnson It's a scant offering compared to what TWC had in ClearQAM. You need a CableCard, and AFIAK, that means WMC instead of Myth. #
- So basically, if I understand it correctly, the plot to #LOST turned out to be a 6 year Scooby-Doo episode? #
- @brianljohnson I believe that they are Cable formatted ATSC/Clear QAM hybrids. I know that Comcast broadcast ATSC when I had cable. #
- Advert Incoming (I can't afford one, so I'll try to win one ) #
- Why do you love Apple? RT & Follow @theFNDTN To Win An iPad, iTunes Giftcard, & More! http://su.pr/16rL3u #Minneapolis #
- @VMware_Partners you're missing a "T" in twitter in your link. #
- Watch Treme, or I'll metaphorically burn your house down. #
- ISDN blows… #
- "Who'd ever think that Todd Bridges would outlive everyone else?" #
- Episode #1 of The Pacific did everything The Thin Red Line was trying to do. Sorry Terry, your movies are pretty. But get to the damn point! #
- @MelanalTheGreat Chrysler isn't GM dear. Although I had high hopes when they went all French and surrender to the Germans. #
- "A man will always garner attention when he walks always in congenial society accompanied by strippers." #
- @miquelon Ha! Well, call me called out. My apologies for purpetuating a historically inaccurate and culturally insensitive meme. #
- Car #
- "Where to I begin, to tell a story about lov…" Oh… Nevermind. Story over. (Al v. Tipper) #
- @elVollbrechto at least they ain't chicken… #
- @MelanalTheGreat the Internet is in Hopkins, I thought everyone knew that. #
- So I said "Delusion is the first step in self-self destruction, self-loathing is the last. I'm somewhere inbetween." #idleamericant shirt #
- Seriously people, don't get rid of your IT guy/gal and wonder why things are breaking. #
- Why do I see this as the basis of a distopian nightmare? http://bit.ly/b6CCDR #
- Why do I only get anxiety attacks when I'm hungry, and in public? And why do I feel so hollow and sad afterwards? #laconic #
- I'm ever where I've ever been, and ever shall I be. For even though I'm ever here, I'm never there, you see… #
- @MelanalTheGreat I was JOKING! I'm not insensitive, I'm just callous. #
- Saw my cousin on Treme last night. Yeah, I wasn't the one who lucked out in the genetic lottery… http://imdb.to/co3kmI #
- @MelenaTheGreat: "According to everything I've read, I'm insanely fertile," Sure, now you tell me… #
- Too bad this ruling came too late to save Linux.;) http://bit.ly/bLyG5Q #SC0WN3D #
- Ha! To quote @MelanalTheGreat "According to everything I've read, I'm insanely fertile," Sure, now you tell me… #
- Baby's Quad-screen was good. So no Quad-Damage, 'Cause a glowing purple baby is just weird. I'll avoid the spawn camper joke. (Hint: Quake!) #
- Funny, I think theres' a rehab clinic with the same mascots. http://www.peteyandpokey.com/ #
- Grrr @MelanalTheGreat What's weird is that he hasn't been spooked by thunder in the past. Maybe it just got to him last night. #
- Disgusting RT @MelanalTheGreat: ugh. RT @MnIndy Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic receives state funds http://bit.ly/ #
- On out of eight games, not bad @MelanalTheGreat #
- The "Other" Minneapolis. http://bit.ly/9GHOoN #
- Cute! @MelanalTheGreat "Rich Sommers is a real nerd, like, D&D nerd!" Ooooh D&D… How Ubernerd! #
- Everything I learned about 1337 h4x0ring I learned from movies. WarGames: The Dead Code looks very educational. Bonus: Member's Only Jacket. #
- WarGames: The Dead Code seems to feature a lot of 25ish year old "teenagers"… Oh yes. and a Facebook stalker montage! #straighttodvd #hulu #
- R.I.P.L.E.Y!?!? Believe it or not, that's the name of the evil A.I. Lemme guess, it'll be defeated by Chess instead of tic-tac-toe. #
- Oh, and now they think he's a turrrist. And if the ham handedly mention Chess again, all future tweets will paraphrase Murray Head's "opus" #
- I don't see you guys rating the kind of film I'm ascertaining
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the B-film plot would not excite you # - R.I.P.L.E.Y first pulls a HAL, by reading lips, and GLADOS by releasing nerve toxin. One more rampant cliche and she'll win crazy AI bingo! #
- FYI, people in Montreal speak English. Even if they don't want to admit it. #
- "Greetings Professor Falkan" oh wow 25 years, and he's aged well. Oh, and you lost your English accent. #
- Falkan looks supiciously like Gene Hackman ala The Conversation/Enemy of The State. #
- "Cameras, cameras everywhere, and the plot plausability shrinks, cameras cameras everywhere, wow the macguffin factor here stinks." #
- Alas, I must leave you, crap movie, The Sandman testifies, and this restless man relents… N'junk… #
- BSD vs Linux, design, implementation and administration summed up elegantly and accessably. Why I prefer FreeBSD http://bit.ly/fokiB #
- Millionaire Team defeated Millionaire Team owned by Billionaires in an arena full of Millionaires, Hundred Thousandaires and their kids. #
- HTTPS everywhere! Well, not quite, but defaulting to the https:// version of a webpage is a good start. Install it! http://bit.ly/dA9CWl #
- We live in the "Other Minneapolis" @MelanalTheGreat. Bikes, community resources, grocery stores are too good for us. http://bit.ly/cgrCLP #
- Add "Consistent power" to things "Other Minneapolitans" don't seem to deserve. #
- Mom says she want me and @MelanalTheGreat to have a "brown baby." Mom, you only managed two out of three. And @MelanalTheGreat is very pale. #
- Like, Children of the Corn pale. @MelanalTheGreat #
- Ok @MelanalTheGreat is "fair skinned." Happy now, dear? #
- Ha! @MelanalTheGreat aside from the jew-fro, no. We're gonna have a grayby. Off-white with freckles, a button nose, and chubby. A comedian. #
- Alors @MelanalTheGreat la mort est une partie importante de la vie. #
- Congrats to enStratus on another writeup! http://bit.ly/db4TyI #
- Ha! http://bit.ly/cdo1tR “Question: How many cloud experts does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: Define 'lightbulb'." #
- "Clearly Steele is a student of history. And by history I mean 'The Princess Bride.' " #
- Note to self: http://ftacademy.org/ #
- "Maybe he's a plant?"
"No, Plants are more intelligent." # - My iPhone dropped 10 calls in 13 days! Get your stats at http://WorstPhoneEver.com/ #ATTfail #worstphoneever #
- RT @waitwait What's a word for when you're doing an innocent search and get something NSFW on your screen? Like, "I just got BLANKed"
Fired? # - I'm not witty, especially in the morning. #
- Apologies to those with mental disabilities, but this exploit is retarded http://bit.ly/aSCEqc #UbuntuFAIL #
- Channel 4 does a feature on "The Other Minneapolis" and the only person of color is Reporter Reg, to wrap up the story. Typical. #
- Today I feel stupid and small. #
- @MelanalTheGreat Hottie #
- @geekandi Known Technophobe hates new technology. Film at 11. #
- Shaka, when the walls fell. #
- Friends don't use friends' old, delicate servers as consoles to older, more delicate servers. #
- Charlene Neville. Is having essay too much fun #
- @rehmus and she's been playing the same character ever since. #
- I think I need to do a grab a server off the pile, run ESXi and do a P2V conversion on my sad sad little server. I'll ask da boss tomorrow. #
- Waiting for Breitbart to something like "some of my best friends are black…" Wait, that'd •never• happen… #
- @MelanalTheGreat Great, I'll have to deal with two DMB fans… #
- @MelanalTheGreat Not funny. I don't want to have to eventually "The Jazz Singer" the child. "I have no Son/Daughter!" #
- @rehmus "The Most Dangerous Game" is tenth grade English. Knowing how to build a "Malay Mantrap" served me well in my inner-city school. #
- Was thanked for cooking dinner with "you gonna clean up the mess you made?" @MelanalTheGreat wants to eat Mickey Dees everynight I guess. :/ #
- @MelanalTheGreat grumpy grumpy. #
- Is wondering why Brett Michaels isn't doing an Apple FaceTime commercial. Too obvious? #
- MadMen went all Godfather II cinematographically. Darkness rules! #
- "Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Don Draper is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners" — Mashup. #
- @MelanalTheGreat We only speak 'Merican in 'Merica. #
- @elVollbrechto Corinthians 14:34 n'stuff… Yes, I've read The Bible. Don't tell anyone… #
- @elVollbrechto Um, not that I endorse anything it said book #
- Postifix + MySQL + Dovecot + NFS = EZ email that's reasonably scaleable and very flexible. Add a decent antispam solution and you're gold! #
- Ha! Red Hat vs Canonical. One contributes code to Linux projects, the other contributes users http://bit.ly/ddEppX #
- @MelanalTheGreat "Brain Candy" IIRC. #
- Be sure to thank your System Administrator today. #
- @stovn Pluto was a species of Dinosaur? I thought he was a cartoon dog! So confused… #
- I think I've been working on this lab too much. Everytime I log into my FreeNAS VM, I think "Freebird" ♪"I'm the IOPS you cannot taaaame"♪ #
- Setting up ESX Lab 2.0 on a AMD Dual Socket Dual-Core system with 16GB of RAM. ESX, NexentaStor, and Windows 2k8R2. #
- Yo Dawg, I herd you like Hypervisors… (Lab 2.0) – http://blog.chronophage.net/2010/08/05/yo-dawg-i-herd-you-like-hypervisors/ #
- Ha! "…Their laptops are light and durable, their desktops range from iMac cool to Mac Pro stupid-power…"http://bit.ly/bQSlL5 #
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Yo Dawg, I herd you like Hypervisors… (Lab 2.0)
by Nick on Aug.05, 2010, under Administration, Hardware, Sofware, virtualization
So I put a hypervisor in your hypervisor, so you can virtualize while you virtualize.
Ubuntu Running VirtualBox, running Windows 7, running vSphere Client connected to vSphere hosted on ESXi running two ESX hosts and Nexenta, together running an Ubuntu Netbook VM on shared storage.
This shows the storage, both hosted in the lab enviroment (nexenta, sexy) and external (datastore(1) CALLY – an NFS server)
Elastic Sky X (VMware vSphere Lab, pt. 2)
by Nick on Aug.03, 2010, under Administration, Sofware, virtualization
Elastic Sky X. That’s what ESX stands for. Crazy, right?
Well, more playing means more caveats
First, something I forgot to mention yesterday. To get ESX working in Ubuntu, Workstation needs to be able to put the vmnet interfaces into promiscuous mode. That requires allowing the user or group that you use to start Workstation to have read/write permissions over the vmnet devices in /dev. A simple chmod will do the trick.
Now, back to our story…
I decided to try to add some additional network paths to hopefully improve I/O. In the last post, I mentioned the VM within a VM was *painfully* slow. Well, change *painfully* to *detrimentally*. The whole environment was prone to timeouts, something that vSphere doesn’t always seem recover from gracefully.
This is understandable. Enterprise software expects an enterprise environment. Something that day hackers should appreciate. (see the perpetual “Linux Vs BSD debate” ) Dinking around is going to generate problems that one would not see in a production environment. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people review software, give it inadequate resources, and complain about the end results.
That being said, I had problems.
Adding a second nic to the ESX VMs required 2 restarts per host. Arbitrarily. The first host’s second NIC did not work via DHCP (again, not something I would rely on in production) and had to be manually configured. The second host dropped all of its routing information, and again, needed to be set up manually. I attempted a restart on both, just to see what would happen. The first host again had to be set up manually. The second came back fine or so I thought…
After playing the restart shuffle, I had both NICs in place. I decided to try creating a distributed switch. Creating a distributed switch is a three part process, that requires two views. First you create the switch in the Networking view, assigning an uplink NIC to it. Then you configure the ports. Then, back in “Hosts and Clusters” you have to add the port type (VMkernel, Service Console or VM Network) After setting it up, the distributed switch propagates to all of the hosts that you’ve assigned to it. It’s more or less a way to have a consistently configured network across multiple hosts. Very slick, but very expensive. I have a feeling that this methodology will be come more standard amongst VMware’s competitors, and will be rolled into the product at large, or at least lesser license levels. Still, networking, as my boss is prone to say, is like plumbing. If it is done correctly, there’s no need to redo it.
Unfortunately, my second ESX host failed to take the Distributed Switch configuration due to it timing out. This caused the host’s network information to become broken. How broken? Well, I poked around for a bit, and decided it was faster, and easier to install a new ESX VM. If I have time, I’ll look at the host and figure out what’s wrong, as learning to troubleshoot vSphere is a secondary goal of mine for this project. However, for now, this new ESX VM gave me an opportunity to play with the second big “Enterprise Plus” feature. Host Profiles.
Host Profiles allow you to create templates based off of existing hosts. You can then store the Profile, update it, and apply it to other hosts. After bringing the new ESX server online, I created a profile from my original ESX host. I then put the new one into Maintenance mode, attached the profile, and applied it.
After a quick summary of what changes it was going to make, It started the application process. I don’t know how it ended, as it was midnight this morning, and It was well past time to hit the hay. I assume things went well
It was interesting to see in a few lines, all that I’ve done to configure my lab machines, and it will be nice not having to do it again. Although configuring ESX is hardly an arduous chore, (well, it’s slightly painful with my lab’s limited resources) I can see how configuring more than a handful at a time would be obnoxious. Host Profiles aren’t exactly necessary as, like networking, you’re not going to constantly provision new servers. If you’re in an environment that does, you’re probably a large company that can afford the licensing fees, and the cost/benefit factor is in your favor. Still, it would be nice if you could simply copy the config from one server to another in lesser editions of vSphere, without storing the profiles or being able to update them. That would be a good compromise, and I think will become standard with VM infrastructures across the board. Red Hat does something similar with it’s OS centric Satellite/Spacewalk servers, which handle both initial configuration and update management. It’s not nearly as slick, as you do need to “script” installations.
Well, that’s day two of the “fully functioning” lab. We’ll see if the Host Profile worked on the new ESX VM
VMware vSphere Lab.
by Nick on Aug.02, 2010, under Administration, Hardware, Sofware, virtualization
Requirements:
VMware vSphere, lots of RAM, a decent amount of disk space, a fairly recent copy of 64bit Windows (I used Server 2008 R2) ESX and vSphere Server iso and exe files. Iron will. Patience. Some sort of NAS distribution (I used FreeNAS.)
So I wanted to set up vSphere. We use it quite a bit at work, but I wanted to try it in a full, yet simulated environment. I have a desktop that I bought in ’07 for gaming. Although it’s a bit long in the tooth, it had enough CPU (e6600) to get the job done. Also, it was before Intel released core2duo chips that lacked VT extensions. I added 4GB of RAM for a total of 6GB. I had installed Ubuntu on it, as I lacked an extra Windows license, and frankly, it’s good enough.
I installing a demo copy of VMware Workstation, as I like Fusion at work. Workstation is a seamless interface that allows juggling multiple VMs with an intuitive network set up and centralized management. I may buy it.
I first set up two ESX hosts. A very painless and quick install. Then I installed Windows 2008R2. Installing vSphere on it took a bit of time, but was relatively straight forward. I didn’t feel like futzing with SQL server, so I installed SQL Express via the default setup. Again, very straightforward. If this were more of an active lab, or production environment, I would’ve installed SQL server, as SQL Express can’t hold more than a few hosts’ worth of data. vSphere generates a TON of statistical and historical information.
After adding the hosts, and putzing around a bit, I installed VMware Update Manager, and VMware Converter. I’ll play with VUM, but probably not Converter.
To get vMotion to work, I had to install a VMKernel port. iSCSI and NAS required a Service console port. vMotion had to be enabled on the port, and an iSCSI software hba need to be enabled.
After getting the front end systems up, I installed FreeNAS in another VM in Workstation. I assigned it in 2 80GB, thinly provisioned disks for NAS exports, and 10 8GB disks for various other applications. In FreeNAS, one can add disks on the fly. After figuring out that FreeNAS did *everything* in a hierarchical manner, setting up NFS exports was trivial.
Back in vSphere, exposing the ESX hosts to the NFS mounts was trivial, and I utilized all the space as two 80GB datastores. The I/O hit wasn’t trivial. The lack of network segmentation, even virtually, takes its toll.
iSCSI was a bit more difficult. FreeNAS had a few more levels of configuration than I expected, so I missed some steps. Basically, you set up an Extant, and then set up a target to it, and then hit apply. The last step bit me a few times
I exposed 2 disks as unformatted block devices, and created two files on the UFS formatted file system to the other two. Setting up a software RAID is pretty easy in FreeNAS, but I was just poking around, so I didn’t care about redundancy. Either option seemed the same. Curiously, each extent showed as a separate “disk” each with LUN 0. I’m sure there’s a way to change it to one “disk” with several LUNs, but I’m playing with vSphere, not FreeNAS.
Back in vSphere, I had to enable iSCSI, point the hosts’ iSCSI HBAs to the NAS/SAN VM. I had four LUNs available: two using the “write to file” method, and two as block devices. I set up the first Datastore with the “file” LUN first, and extended it with the last block device LUN. I did the inverse with the remaining two. That gave me two 16GB Datastores. Again, very easy.
FreeNAS gave me trouble with iSCSI and ZFS. I was able to set up a ZFS/RAID 5 pool, but the native method to attach it to iSCSI didn’t seem to work. I’m sure I’m just missing something, the the volume wasn’t available to attach to an iSCSI extent. Maybe I’ll figure it out, maybe I won’t. Again, I’m more interested in vSphere, and not FreeNAS.
Seeing as I was running my virtualization environment in an virtualized environment, I didn’t have VT extensions available to my ESX hosts. That means that they could only run 32bit VMs on them. Fine for testing, but I only had 64bit ISOs. So a quick download of Ubuntu Desktop Edition, 32Bit, and I had an Ubuntu VM running in an ESX VM running on Ubuntu A surreal experience. I don’t think VUM updates Ubuntu, so I’ll have to dig around for an old XP iso. I’m looking forward to playing with VUM, and Distributed Switches.
Things I would do differently:
OpenFiler, which I tried first, did not work intuitively. None of the HOW TOs I found online matched the interface I was looking at, and the instructions cost 40 quid (is that how you say that, I am very not British) . No thanks.
If I had more resources, and time, I would set up things more like what I would expect to see in an enterprise environment. More switches, better segmentation, more redundancy in the storage, etc. My lab would get an F in Infrastructure Design. As it is though, the VM within a VM is *painfully* slow.
vSphere is fun, and I’d love to learn more. Soon, due to Workstation’s demo license expiring, I will have to dismantle my lab. Perhaps I can recreate it with KVM and virt-manager (ouch!)
Updates may follow.
Be sure to thank your System A…
by Nick on Jul.30, 2010, under Twitter
Be sure to thank your System Administrator today.
Ha! Red Hat vs Canonical. One …
by Nick on Jul.29, 2010, under Twitter
Ha! Red Hat vs Canonical. One contributes code to Linux projects, the other contributes users http://bit.ly/ddEppX
Postifix + MySQL + Dovecot + N…
by Nick on Jul.28, 2010, under Twitter
Postifix + MySQL + Dovecot + NFS = EZ email that’s reasonably scaleable and very flexible. Add a decent antispam solution and you’re gold!
“Death, natural or not, prison…
by Nick on Jul.26, 2010, under Twitter
“Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Don Draper is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners” — Mashup.
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