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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Work Stuff and such

Today I spend sometime mulling over deployment for vm's to a team of about 30 people. VMware madness is everywhere these days it would seem.

The requirement is to provide XP, Vista, Red Hat and Suse (all 32 and 64bit editions) on demand the team for test purposes.

Fair enough.

Right now, there is a project going on else where, examining the potential of vmware ace. I believe to be a very strong runner. I'm not totally up on how deployment would work with ACE. But from what I've seen, I most say it looks like a very strong candidate.

Right now, I'm looking at an initial test group of 4 people. Going to hit them tomorrow with XP 32bit and Red Hat EL 5 32 bit. I'm not worried at all about the Linux deployment, no need to concern myself with worrying about SIDS, root access was a problem, but we've come to a decent comprise with sudo. I'm pretty happy with that situation.

XP provides a different problem, initially I plan on using a stock syspreped image, which I'll kick off on all the hosts, give unique names, join domain, etc. But for larger deployment, I'm really hoping ACE will provide a better solution.

There are some other issues, that are outstanding, such as the quality of hosts. That's not a fight for this week though, I have another plan to tackle that one. I'm pretty sure the weakest of the hosts are going to be pretty much unusable for Vista 64bit.

Other stuff

One other thing on my mind at the moment is configuring rsync on solaris 8. My solaris skills are untested at best. If anyone reading this can outline a quick and easy setup, please do comment.

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The Filthy Habit

Right here is the plan, I smoke there or there abouts 20 a day. Instead of foolishly going cold turkey, which I should do, I plan on reducing to 15 a day. To achieve this lofty goal I am going cut out the following

  • First thing in the morning smoke, oh I how I'll miss this guy. Get the thoughts all aligned for a day of troubleshooting - 7am
  • Pre breakfast smoke, more of a tradition. This guy I think I'll miss the least - 9.30am
  • Pre lunch smoke another tradition. This time of the day typically comes after meetings about some issue about something that someone has deemed important. 12.30pm
  • Heading some smoke - Its 5pm, the day is officially over. Miss this guy, what usually follows this little ritual is half an hour to 40 minutes of sitting in traffic. Miss you.

That's the plan and if I've achieved this by the end of the month I should have saved about €30. Which I'll probably spend on alcohol. Hmmm, something of a self fulfilling prophecy about this plan.

I really need to start journeying towards quitting so, lets see what happens.

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Monday, September 01, 2008

Give it another lash

Sure why not, its been two years or so since I actually posted here, but you know times have changed and things are different. Personally I feel it is time to give blogging another go.

Lets see, scanning over the older posts things have changed a lot, I'm working in Dublin in a pretty good job, a good job for my ages especially. Living in a nice place, with a few sound lads, but things are generally quiet most of the time. Play a bit of rugby, that's starting again, didn't go training tonight because I was completely wrecked. But mainly my life revolves around work and thinking about work, I'm fairly focused on getting ahead on my career, but know yourself there are the side roads you venture down.

I plan on talking a good bit here, about how I plan on saving cash, its my biggest folly at the moment, make a handy enough wage (could always be better!) but you know I'm not wanting for anything, but I manage with crazy efficiency to plough through what I make. Lets see here

  • Credit Card debt
  • Smoking
  • Drinking
  • Food (I can't cook, lobbing a pizza in the oven for 20 mins doesn't count, so I'm told)
  • Fuel
I figure, if I could get a hold on my credit card, cut the smokes down, eventually quit and manage to sort out my shopping I could save a nice bit of money every month, which I want to put away to apply for a mortgage when this current recession business is over.

Also I'm going to keep a log of couple things that are coming up, I'm going for the VCP in a month and the month after that I'm going for RHCE. These are things I've found scant info, I mean proper useful info, so I'm going to keep my study notes here. If anyone else benefits from them, then great.

Mainly and most honestly of all, I just want to keep a record. It has been an interesting space of time since I last posted here and you know it would have been nice to look back on what was flowing through my head. Ah well.

On we go..

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