http://joe.stauttener.com this is a tagline Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:00:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Elizabeth May - "not in a million years" Jack Layton - "We can't support a budget that gets the priorities so wrong." This budget hurts the unemployed, the environment, and the economy. Shame. http://joe.stauttener.com/2010/03/05/reactions-to-2010-canadian-budget/ I just got home from the LISA conference this year. I took a full day course on ZFS while I was there. Aside from being very inclined to replace my Ubuntu home media server to BSD for the sole purpose of being able to use ZFS I also learned a ... http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/11/08/sun-7410-and-zfs/ I am looking for an ISP that directly supports IPv6. I have done the tunnel broker thing, and it's a pain to keep updating my IPv4 endpoint and all that fun. I have emailed my current provider (Sentex Communications) and another ISP I hear good things about (TekSavvy). Neither offer IPv6 ... http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/11/08/ipv6-isp/ It's a sad day that 53% of voters get to rip the rights away from a minority group. This is what happened in Maine yesterday when the voters ripped the right to marry from same-sex couples. I think the picture says it all... http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/11/04/all-because-of-a-slight-majority/ So we recently upgraded to ak-2009.09.01.1.0 to take advantage of the improved iSCSI software. The upgrade went smoothly. The iSCSI management is a lot nicer with this release. You get a lot more fine-grained control over the luns. We haven't seen any issues yet. We also recently had a failed drive. ... http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/10/19/sun-7410-update-2/ I just came across this website that was in the news. So far 20,000 Canadians have wrote their MPPs. I urge you to do the same. Voice your opinion and keep broadband internet from becoming more expensive and slower. http://www.competitivebroadband.com/consumer/ http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/09/25/voice-your-opinion/ We get to meet and hear from the IT consultant this Thursday about all the changes he wants to make to PI. I sit here pondering what drastic measure he will try to impose on us that's going to push me past the brink instead of enjoying a nice labour ... http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/09/07/thursday/ Perimeter recently had Jim Cranston come in to review the IT department and how we do things. One of the things he asked is why we don't allow administrative access on our desktops. All of the users he talked to want administrative access over their desktop and have complained that ... http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/07/30/the-god-user/ I've been watching some Ted Talks lately and came across a gem. With the right plants, you can grow enough oxygen to replenish what you use with very little plantlife. http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/07/29/grow-fresh-air/ On June 30 we had another crash of the storage system. At the time we were running the 2009.Q2.1.1 release. I was on holidays at the time it happened. My co-worker ended up rebooting the storage system and everything came back up. We didn't call Sun for support on this; ... http://joe.stauttener.com/2009/07/20/sun-7410-update/