Last month’s top story

I thought that I might from now on try to do a brief comment at the start of each month…

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Aside – The decline of Microsoft

Being a Mac user, a lot of people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. Also, having come from a Unix…

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SysAdmin appreciation day

July 31 is System Administrator Appreciation day. Since most backup administrators are either system administrators or come from system administration…

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Aside – Is NetWorker fast enough for my needs?

Most days my blog stats shows at least one search coming into the blog along the lines of “how fast…

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Aside – Evolution of Logos

Over at undrln, there’s currently a link to a comparison of the evolution of the Pepsi and Coca Cola logos.…

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NetWorker Single Server Edition

Truth be told, I don’t have any real involvement in EBS (Enterprise Backup Software) these days. If you’re unaware of…

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Aside – How much is a Petabyte?

OK, so this has been linked to a … bazillion … times by various storage-type bloggers over the last week.…

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Aside – That old spindle problem

When I used to be a system administrator, back when 2GB hard drives were the norm, I remember an Oracle…

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Aside – Consulting tips

I regularly check on undrln, a site mainly focused on graphic design – or more broadly, the professional graphic arts.…

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Aside – On second thoughts, escalate that please

I use Parallels quite a lot within my Mac environment, and recently tried to get Solaris/AMD 64-bit installed. Even on…

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