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This has been quite a week so far.  Not only is it the week of the BBQ cookoff I’m in but work has been a real butt kicker.  Between two Exchange outages and an apparent over-saturation of a storage area network causing multiple cluster problems there has been plenty to do.  The XenApp session reliability […]

From another SSAATY post commenting about a GNUCITZEN post about fear and the security industry.  Fear drives the security industry?  Not bloody likely!  I can’t speak for the rest of humanity but I know it doesn’t drive me.  Do I lock the front door of my house when I’m gone because I’m afraid of my […]

Not quite a “Crying Game” moment but close.  Just before actually delving into doing some real work today I stumbled across SSAATY podcast #55.  I saw that JJ was the guest and listening to Alan and Mitchell was the perfect background noise for me to whip out some SAN scripts.  So I listened to it […]

I saw this “A Guide on Douchebags”  the other day and wondered what the guide would say about Geek/Nerd D-bags.  Think the list on how to avoid Geek D-bags would include “guys with blogs?”  That’s just how my mind works.
Yesterday an interesting issue popped up involving large FTPs from the outside.  An inbound file transfer over […]

To the beat of “Without Me” by Eminem
“Obie Trice, real name no gimmicks” - Obie Trice
 Two trailer park girls go round the outside;
round the outside, round the outside
Two trailer park girls go round the outside;
round the outside, round the outside
Guess who’s back
Back again
Bump is back
Tell a friend
Guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess […]

Just a quick note about the passing of Tim Russert. He was one of the few political analyst that I enjoyed listening to. I hope he’s in a better place.

I don’t know what it is but Alan’s post of “Loving customers frustrate security firms too” just doesn’t sit well with me.  Talk about biting the hand that feeds you?  Wow.  Its this exact reason that I have a real problem with 90% of all “sales” people.
1. The guys who picked the product leave and […]

I’ve been a real slacker when it comes to BITW lately.  I guess when I finally get an hour or two at the end of the day to sit down I don’t have much fuel left in the tank to type something up.  I can barely remember what I did today.  We did get the […]

Todays activities in as few as words as possible:
Move three node cluster from one data center to another
Exchange server puked on itself
Developer tried to bypass new change control rules
Put our LANenforcer 2024 behind two frame relay links, a T1 and a broadband connection
That’s a partial list.  I’m tired of thinking about all of that stuff.  […]

…but work is speeding up. Finally my travels are behind me for the next six weeks. This past weekend I was in a wedding for a buddy from college. I’ll have to get a picture of me in a tux posted. I look pretty damn good all cleaned up!
While life is […]