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I work at a large Internet Services company in Silicon Valley.

After a lengthy stint primarily dealing with Windows, it's great to be back in Linux Land! :)


May
1
answered Listening for both IPv6 and IPv4 in apache 2.2
Dec
20
comment Failed to connect from slave to master with error “error connecting to master (1045)”
I just discovered a case yesterday where a 42 char password failed, but a 32 char password worked. Maybe this is version dependent?
Nov
20
comment Failed to connect from slave to master with error “error connecting to master (1045)”
would be great to know what the limits are. What is short? what is long?
Oct
25
awarded  Yearling
Jun
6
comment Supermicro BIOS recovery - SUPER.ROM
The reason why there is no display is because you need a working bios to initialize the display hardware; the special recovery routine probably has just enough code to do its job. I haven't done this procedure in a long time (when I did, it read the recovery BIOS from a floppy!). I'm pretty sure any BIOS can be used but check with support if you're unsure. I always found the Supermicro email support to be helpful.
Jun
6
answered Only one domain is not resolving via Windows DNS server at multiple locations, but is at others
Jun
5
comment How to find out what's automatically processing a file when placed in a folder
Process Monitor for sure
Jun
5
awarded  Citizen Patrol
Jun
5
comment iSCSI MPIO load balancing with HP P2000 SAN
You may want to consider using this for your benchmarking sqlserverpedia.com/wiki/SAN_Performance_Tuning_with_SQLIO
Jun
5
comment Error while installing VMware 5 - cant detect the last level cache
Report back to Intel so they can provide development resources to VMWare. Is the server on the VMWare compatibility list?
Jun
5
comment UDP load balancing for Windows
I think only a shared-storage cluster or application-aware load balancer could solve this
Jun
5
answered How to test and actually perform a transfer of an internet domain to a new server regarding mail?
Jun
5
comment Enterprise IPv6 Migration - End of proxypac ? Start of Point-to-Point ? +10K users
It is OK to disable ICMP ECHO and ECHO REPLY packets (ping uses these). The other ICMP types should not be blocked inside the LAN.
Jun
1
answered Windows 2008 DHCP service fails - “…failed to see a directory server for authorization.”
Jun
1
answered Enterprise IPv6 Migration - End of proxypac ? Start of Point-to-Point ? +10K users
Jun
1
comment Enterprise IPv6 Migration - End of proxypac ? Start of Point-to-Point ? +10K users
Be careful with disabling ICMP completely (very bad advice). ICMP ECHO (and response) is not the only ICMP traffic and is actually little used for a long time as an attack vector. ICMP Destination Unreachable, Fragmentation Needed, and some other messages are very necessary for the proper function of a network (path mtu discovery, etc...).
Jun
1
awarded  Scholar
Jun
1
accepted Possible to install Windows 7 32-bit on an HP ML350 G6 server
Apr
11
answered vsphere 5 - what is the best way to partition local disks?
Apr
11
comment What are the different widely used RAID levels and when should I consider them?
Great summary! I have one addition regarding RAID5 vs. RAID6: Often people considering the overall reliability (chance of catastrophic array failure) of arrays populated with a large number of spindles or disks of very high capacity will choose RIAD6. They do this based upon the likelihood of a second failure occurring while the first disk is being rebuilt. My personal rule of thumb is RAID6 when number of spindles is greater than 8 or when individual drives are greater than 1TB. I have been unable to find a canonical calculator but Google & known time-to-rebuild will help one calculate well.