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Re: Elevating Life’s Experiences at Lightspeed

plankers — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:35:26 -0000

Holy crap, it's been 16 years? Time flies when you're having fun. Nice work, Chuck. I love the Impossible List. Having criteria & rationale for saying no to bad matches is powerful, but all too often overlooked.

Moving forward, I hope the team has enough interesting challenges to sustain it. You're definitely a competitive advantage for ServiceNow. I'll consider it a win if you'd just change the fonts on their web site to something more attractive. :)

Good luck!

Re: Annoying pfSense Issue with 2.15 -> 2.2 Upgrade

plankers — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:24:13 -0000

I've been pondering using pfSense, I think I'll give it a shot. Also, I'm totally stealing "Because #YOLO." Perfect for change requests.

Re: Hands-On Review: Automatic, a Nanny For Your Car

plankers — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:21:30 -0000

Do you know if the dongle works with any other OBDII apps? I want to read and clear diagnostic events and am pretty sure I'd be annoyed with the Automatic software.

Re: Mrs. Y’s Rules for Security Bloggers

plankers — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:35:59 -0000

Yes, would it kill people to spell check? Best thing to happen to WordPress is the JetPack grammar & spelling feature.

Re: Response: OpenStack Isn’t Our Savior from Lock-In or Support Costs — The Lone Sysadmin

plankers — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:23:19 -0000

I think you're confusing the companies that deliver IT services as a product to their customers with the organizations I'm talking about, which are mostly IT consumers. Companies whose products aren't IT services have a way different take on things than Google, Facebook, etc. And BTW, I've heard real interesting stories about the way Amazon treats their meat puppets.

Totally agree about outsourcing. Been saying that cloud IS outsourcing for a while now, and this whole 787 thing is a great example of what companies might be losing in the process. Your HBR link is a bunch of pro-outsourcing MBA lovers trying to CYA. Personally, I liked the Forbes article that John Obeto sent a link to: http://www.forbes.com/sites...

Last, I don't think you or I can speak to VMware or Citrix license pricing at the cloud provider level. But, given that VMware is basically a competitor to many cloud providers, does Rackspace want to run their competitor's software? I totally get why they built their own and have an army of people to maintain it.

Anyhow, some of this will make it into a larger post of mine covering various people's arguments against my point of view. Thanks for the commentary! A bunch of +1s is boring, talking about it with people who have opinions is nice.

Re: Ethernet Jumbo Frames, Full Duplex and Why Jumbo Frames are 9000 bytes)

plankers — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:48:49 -0000

With regard to Jason's testing, in a lot of cases a server's TCP offload engine makes up for what jumbo frames would have achieved. If your goal is jumbo frames that's one thing, but if the goal is reduced server load you get it without having to redesign your infrastructure.

Re: V-INDEX.COM

plankers — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:57:48 -0000

Dude, 5:1 consolidation ratio? If that's right that's ridiculous. I wish they had some metric for how big the average VM is.

Re: My aging Mac Pro

plankers — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:33:58 -0000

The Intel Nehalem CPUs do represent a big jump in architecture, with the 5500 series CPUs getting multi-CPU cache visibility, Quick Path Interconnects (the direct analog to AMD's Direct Connect), a whole new way of using RAM, etc. And the 5500 series is old news now, with the 5600s that are out now that further refine all those advancements with more cores (6 & 8), better power management, turbo boost (the average speed of a 56xx is slower than the 55xx series, but it can bump the speed up on a core selectively as long as it doesn't exceed the max power draw for the CPU), etc. It's also likely that your options on the new motherboards for multiple GPUs, SLI, etc. are better due to more x16 PCI Express slots, and with Photoshop taking advantage of GPUs now that might be attractive, too.

The 5600s just came out a couple weeks ago, and is pin-compatible with the 5500s, so if Apple doesn't have them already it'll be soon.

A good article on the Nehalem/5500 changes:

http://arstechnica.com/hard...

And on the 5600s, in a nutshell:

http://arstechnica.com/busi...

Re: Mike D’s 2009 Predictions

plankers — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:37:37 -0000

"Customers will finally stand up to their ISVs"

You rebel, you. ;-) Good prediction, though.