by ezs | May 16, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
The wireless network is re-configured and running.
Finally I got the wireless network, IPsec and wi-fi security configured to let authorised laptops be part of the private backbone. No more uploading photos to the NAS server only when docked!
I had to swap out the old wireless router – an old Netgear – it would randomly drop DHCP offer packets from the backbone to the bridged wireless network. Even the online docs from Netgear say it’s problematic.
I upgraded to a new 802.11n router – works perfectly and gives great throughput.
The old Netgear is now the guest, non-backbone access network. Wireless access for guests and family without letting them loose on the backbone.
by ezs | May 13, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
It’s ITIL reading time again.
Following on from the ITIL v2 Managers Certificate I am now working on the next step for the ITIL v3 equivalent.
It’s been difficult finding the details – but what is now clear is that the route to the ITIL v3 Diploma is via the v3 Manager Bridge training.
To that end I’m off to sunny Brisbane in July (in the middle of the Queensland winter) to sit a 4.5 day Manager Bridge course and then a multiple-choice exam. The pass score for the exam is something like 80% – so I’m reading the ITIL v3 books – yes all five of them.
by ezs | May 13, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
It’s nice to have google eat the spam instead of me.
Before the move I switched the MX to use hosted google mail – I saw an immediate drop in spam handled by spamassassin.
The flip side is that my hosted google mail shows about 2000 spam being caught for my emails every day.
by ezs | May 13, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Finally I got to re-rack and power up the servers after the move (that’s another post!)
Obviously being offline for a few weeks meant that there were updates to be applied.
One nice update that was available is the new version of WPG2 – the integration of WordPress and Gallery 2. The project is here http://www.wpg2.org/
WPG2 was updated to version 3.0.6 – which integrates with the new security model (password hashing) of WordPress 2.5. The update has been a few months in the works – kudos to ozgreg and the rest of the hackers on getting this out of the door.
I did the double upgrade to WordPress 2.5.1 and WPG2 3.0.6 – and so far everything is looking great on the main family blog site.
I’ll let this sit for a few days – and then update the other sites.
by ezs | May 13, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
At last – back online. Posts from the technology side of the move coming soon.
by ezs | Apr 21, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
One thing that was new to me was the number of ‘internal’ promo videos made by each Microsoft BU. There seems to be a real drive to fill headcount by recruiting and poaching enocuraging people to move across.
During my New Employee Orientation (NEO) this was one of the better videos – for Entertainment and Devices (E&D). It’s pretty good; made better by the use of a cover of Girl from Mars by Ash. (Takes me back to the early 90s!)
by ezs | Apr 21, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Not long now…
Beta 1 installed on my non-work laptop now.
by ezs | Apr 20, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’ll keep updating this.
Tracks of the weekend so far:
The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name (Tom Neville Remix)
Goldfrapp – Ooh La La
Happy Mondays – 24 Hour Party People (Jon Carter Remix)
Colin Meloy – lead vocalist of The Decemberists – live
Durutti Column – Sketch for Summer
Ah – Colin Meloy is playing in Seattle on our first weekend up there. What are the chances of a late pass with no babysitter?
The Durutti Column track is from their first album “The Return of the Durutti Column” – I first got a copy of this over twenty years ago on cassette. My only CD copy is on disc 1 of the FAC400 Palatine 4 CD compilation.
by ezs | Apr 20, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
We joke about Utah beer – but the hand-crafted local brews are big on taste if not on alcohol.
Good to see that several of our favourites won at the 2008 World Beer Cup:
Category 11: Other Low Strength Ale or Lager (15 Entries)
Silver Medal
Polygamy Porter
Utah Brewers Cooperative
Salt Lake City, Utah
Bronze Medal
Provo Girl Pilsner
Utah Brewers Cooperative
Salt Lake City, Utah
Category 54: Ordinary Bitter (10 Entries)
Gold
Cutthroat
Uinta Brewing Co.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Category 70: German-Style Brown Ale/Düsseldorf-Style Altbier (22 Entries)
Silver
Bobsled Brown
Utah Brewers Cooperative
Salt Lake City, Utah
and one that we haven’t tried:
Category 70: German-Style Brown Ale/Düsseldorf-Style Altbier (22 Entries)
Gold
Alt and in the Way
Squatters Pub Brewery
Salt Lake City, Utah
by ezs | Apr 19, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
This weekends move plan:
- park the DNS for the domains
- finish the email hosting moves (move mail, redirect MX)
- start decommissioning servers for move
- reconfigure wireless for interim access
Totally shot because covads customer systems are offline between Friday night and Sunday night. No notification at all.
I’ve now got to reschedule during Monday when everything comes back online.
I called the 24x7x365 support and spent 30 minutes trying to talk to somone who could help. Turns out it’s an outsourced service in the Phillipines; the outsourcer has zero idea of current issues and can only log tickets.
I’ve escalated this within Covad; two issues:
- where was the notification of outage
- why don’t the 24x7x265 support have the ability to answer within 30 seconds that there is planned outage (it took 30 minutes to find this out)
The notification is the important part – I chose Covad because they had (at the time) stunning support; when I’ve called from Chicago, London and Sydney before about issues the person answering was intelligent and technically able to talk about DNS, ICMP quench issues or the like.
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