technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
Over the holidays I decided it was time to upgrade the home theater equipment in my basement. At the center of my old setup was a Hitachi 51SWX20B 51" rear projection TV that I purchased back in 2003. Unfortunately it only has 2 DVI ports and one of … [Continue reading]
I recently upgraded my in home WiFi from Extreme/Zebra/Motorola RFS4010 with two AP650s with two Aruba IAP-205s. Here's the configuration I used in setting up those Aruba IAPs.We need to set the country, enable SSH (terminal-access), set the NTP … [Continue reading]
Over the past Christmas holiday I received an Airconsole XL 2.o from a good friend and industry colleague. I'm a big proponent of having a serial out-of-band network for all my data centers. It's a relatively cheap insurance policy designed to … [Continue reading]
I recently read Tom Hollingsworth's post titled "Is It Really Always The Network?" and immediately thought, I need to find time to post a reply. I've been in this industry for more than 20 years now and it has been a constant struggle to educate and … [Continue reading]
Over the holidays I spent sometime perusing the log files on my server and found several interesting problems. One of those interesting issues dealt with the traditional cron job I had setup running wp-cron.php every 15 minutes on this blog. It seems … [Continue reading]