Mr. Bump on Jul 31st, 2008A Gentle Soul in a Giant’s Body
Sir Vince Von Bronxalot - 02/12/1999 - 07/31/2008
Today was the worst day of my life. Last night we had to make the tough decision that Vince, our 9.5 year old Rottweiler, had had enough and it was time for his struggle to end. Fortunately we had a vaccination appointment for our other dog this morning at 7:30 […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 31st, 2008Orange to the Rescue
Kind of…a couple of months ago we retired a server that was, among other things, the TFTP server for our environment. In the migration to the new server we installed a different TFTP server daemon, TFTPD32, and copied everything from the old server to the new one. All appeared fine and dandy. Switch configs were able to be backed up to […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 29th, 2008A Lot About Nothing
I’m back from a five day trip home and I didn’t come back to a good situation. My 9.5 year old Rottweiler, Vince, is not in good shape. I moved up his appointment for his vaccinations from Friday to today and that was not a pleasant visit. While they did the correct thing by telling me “Let’s wait […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 24th, 2008An Interesting Read
I came across this the other day and bookmarked it so I could write about it. This is a short list of some of Mark Cuban’s rules for startups. I’ve never started a company and to this point of my career have never been involved in a startup. I’m sure somebody reading this has and […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 22nd, 2008Free, Free, Free
VMware announced ESXi will be FREE effective July 28th. Oh snap! When Microsoft announced that Hyper-V would be $28 I remember thinking “28 bucks? Why not just give it away?” VMware must have been monitoring my thoughts that day.
Mr. Bump on Jul 22nd, 2008This is what I got out of the 2008 NAC Survey
The 2008 NAC Survey is out and has been talked about on a couple of my stops on the Internet. Namely Alan’s and JJ’s blogs. I figured what the hell, I’d download it for free and give it a once over. As I gave it a once over, mostly looking at graphs and survey results and I kept noticing […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 21st, 2008What a Weekend
Saturday was a big day. While our DBAs performed a flawless migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 we took advantage of their window to retire one Vmware ESX 3.5 cluster and bring a new one into full production. This involved storage changes and migration of nearly 50 virtual servers along with VMware Tools upgrades. This also […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 21st, 2008Another One Bites the Dust
Life in the technology business is volatile. Tonight I got an email with a subject of “Accelerating the Evolution of Networking.” I get a handful of these emails every day with subjects similar to the this one and rarely read them at the time of receipt. For whatever reason I decided to read this one. Needless to say I was a […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 18th, 2008As Sad as the Nightly News
According to Dark Reading this was the “Best of the Web” tonight. This is as bad as the nightly news in any city. “Two men killed outside gas station,” “Alleged kidnapper faces trial,” “Carjacking downtown leads to police chase.” This is really the best of the web? This section should be renamed the “Most Depressing of […]
Mr. Bump on Jul 17th, 2008I’m gonna throw that damn curse…
into that damn pond. That’s a quote from Dumb and Dumber in reference to the briefcase they were returning to Mary Swanson.
That’s the way I felt today about my laptop. I’ve been living with a sporadic yet horribly annoying network disconnect issue with Vista. I’ll get dropped off the network and the only way to […]