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| location | Sammamish, WA | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | May 15 at 4:17 | |
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I am a senior support engineer for enterprise storage systems. Day to day duties include network troubleshooting (DNS, routing, etc), system administration, permissions management, custom scripting (Bash/Perl/Python), log file analysis and hardware diagnostics.
I tinker with Bash, VB.net, Python, Perl, Autoit, C and and SQL in my spare time.
I used to be a Telecommunications Specialist (VoIP, Data, Infrastructure).
My degree is in Classical Numismatics and Archaeology.
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Jan 29 |
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Intermittent NFS lockups on Isilon cluster maybe modify the min/max rpc threads? |
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Jan 29 |
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Fastest way to delete millions of files on an Isilon IQ 72NL SAN? disabling the journal on an Isilon is a very, very, very bad idea and will likely cause data loss across the cluster. Please do not ever attempt this. |
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Oct 12 |
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Fastest way to delete millions of files on an Isilon IQ 72NL SAN? A locally run rm is a bad idea on an isilon cluster. It is single threaded and will make use of only one node's power. If you want a faster method, you'd be better off with the TreeDelete job as it is multi-threaded and will use the entire cluster's compute strength to complete. |
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Oct 19 |
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Will a router allow network traffic from a static IP? Are we talking public or private IPs here? Can you take control of the statics in your router and just route the combined traffic to the data center gateway or do you need to just add DHCP functionality aside from what is statically assigned from the data center? |
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Sep 30 |
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solution to store 10TB /Month I want to expand on this. Not only can you lose a node or disk (depending on setup, even multiple nodes), the cluster rebuilds the data on its own so that you don't need to rush a new node or disk in, unlike traditional raid storage, where you require the replacement to rebuild. |
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Sep 5 |
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Trying to connect to Isilon Server Without access to the system can you even be sure that there is nothing wrong with permissions or samba (ie if other users are not using windows). |
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Aug 29 |
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50 workstations, 1 .bat file on a network server, will it work? There shouldn't be any issues with doing this as it is a fairly common practice in windows environments. The only possible issue you might face with 50 workstations running the file at once is bandwidth on the network, though this depends solely on what exactly the batch file does - most likely it will not be a problem. |
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Aug 24 |
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Why can't I access my site with a WWW. prefix? If your A record does not work and your server does indeed allow for the www. prefix, you can then try a CNAME, though only do so at last resort: example.com A 99.99.99.99; www.example.com CNAME example.com. Depending on your DNS implementation, this may not work and it is not the best practice if it does. I highly recommend following Colin's advice first. |
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Aug 24 |
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19" Rackmountable fast storage arrays Definitely fast, also very configurable, secure and robust, but not necessarily cheap. |
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Aug 18 |
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Creating an IT department? The first step should be documenting existing equipment and licenses. You absolutely need a list of every piece of equipment and software license and who is using it and on what machines. I wouldn't move any further until you do this. Once you have this, then work toward a list of what you need and what equipment/software you need in addition to what you have already to make this work. Obviously, open source is your friend in a limited budget environment, but be prepared to spend a lot of time setting it all up. |
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Aug 5 |
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Vi how to search for numbers have you tried vimgrep? |
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Jul 3 |
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How brittle are fiber cables? This wholly depends on the type of fiber being used. Corning, amongst other vendors, have released some bend resistant fibers that are very difficult to damage. AT&T and Verizon both use this now as their standard cabling within their central offices. The TP76300 Section J-10 provides AT&T's quality requirements for fiber bending radius as 1.5 inches. Verizon's quality document IP72202 defines the bending radius for fiber as the manufacturer standards. Corning states that 25mm or more (1+ inches) provides insignificant attenuation on most fibers. |
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Jun 5 |
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Does the router have to always take the first valid host addresses in a subnet? Moving away from this convention is considered unorthodox and can lead to confusion in the future. One example on a wider scale of things is the situation I'm in at the company I work at, where three ISPs merged, two of which use x.x.x.1 as the gateway and the third uses x.x.x.254 as the gateway. This has a caused a great number of sync-no-surf issues where both installation and support reps from either company get confused and use the wrong gateway while working on a router config. |
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May 30 |
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Asterisk for Small Business - Where to Start? For the most part, the data connection that voice is piped over doesn't really matter, but the type of trunks you have on that data connection does. Will you be using PRI or SIP trunks? or something different? |
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May 13 |
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How to route VoIP phone through VPN Routing VoIP phones across the world is not going to solve your call quality issues, it might even make them worse. You'll lose any QoS effect that the circuit you are currently using provides. If that is what your provider is telling you, it is time to get a new provider. |
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May 13 |
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Can't access internal local website by host name Windows machines use WINS for hostname to IP. |
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May 10 |
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How do I label the network ports in our office? I honestly don't know about profit margin, I just know whenever I wired buildings, I tested and labeled everything before leaving, regardless of whether that was specified or not, as it is part of the job of cabling. Out of all the companies I've worked for while wiring, that was the case, and that was across 4 different states. Maybe it is just a US thing. To me though, cabling means running, terminating, testing and labeling, nothing less. |
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May 10 |
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How to wire a patch panel with incomplete labels That isn't really 568B, that is the start of the 25 pair color code: Primary: White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet. Secondary: Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate. |
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May 10 |
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How do I label the network ports in our office? A competent low voltage tech would test and label regardless of what his papers say. |
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May 10 |
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How do I label the network ports in our office? Here is an example of one that does tones and continuity for both cat5e/6 (RJ45) and coax (BNC). Should make testing from port to port easy, even for an inexperienced tester. amazon.com/dp/B00006HO7S/… |
