Mike Neir's Comments

Comment on 'Blinky Lights' by AG

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:24:03 -0400

That is awesome.

Comment on 'Ten Times' by Phil

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:50:40 -0400

I have fought with cable problems for many years. Cables and connection points are the weakest link in every electronic system. The higher the frequency, the more effect there is. Use good stuff, don't kink it, don't yank it, and keep the connections clean.

Comment on 'Xen + AoE + drbd = New Redundant Hotness' by Mike

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:41:17 -0400

Most certainly. The primary 'end' of each one of my drbd setups both home and at work consists of either a RAID5 or RAID6 array. The secondary 'end' consists of a single disk. Using RAID at both ends could increase reliability and performance if the right RAID levels were used along with high-performance networking equipment.

Comment on 'Xen + AoE + drbd = New Redundant Hotness' by Phil

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:24:21 -0400

I may have missed something, but could either or both of the storage systems be configured in some level of RAID for another layer of disaster recovery?

Comment on 'Xen + AoE + drbd = New Redundant Hotness' by justin

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:28:44 -0400

genius i tells ya! now i need to get something like this going with iSCSI :)

Comment on 'Oh Yeah, This Thing.' by AG

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:47:15 -0400

That rots about your "vacation." :( I hope you can find some time away from machines with issues, and even beefy ones.

Comment on 'Oh Yeah, This Thing.' by MikeN

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:18:03 -0400

Antec P180.

Comment on 'Oh Yeah, This Thing.' by Shelby

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:56:52 -0400

What case did you get?

Comment on 'Nice One, Stupid' by manoj

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:17:47 -0400

you've got 46 hours to figure out who this is and email admin.mse@gmail.com before all your webservers (atlas, ariel, timone and pumba) go down in flames... you could also use my other email address mse.admin@gmail.com as well.

- mguru

Comment on 'Nice One, Stupid' by sneezer

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:16:16 -0400

I had the same problem once. The VLAN was choked by the firewall (old XL 024) that was interfaced with the wrong modem protocol (left; not right...STUPID!). The broadcast was just not coming through - I was getting nothing. Then I remembered to plug it in and turn on the computer. It's been working fine ever since!

Comment on 'Nice One, Stupid' by AG

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:54:49 -0400

"By having my cable modem plugged directly into the switch, it was receiving the switch's broadcast messages before my firewall instance had a chance to make itself heard. Because of this, my firewall's attempts to connect to the internet fell on deaf electronic ears."

You're like the Dr. Phil of technology, fixing broken relationships.

Comment on 'Dream Theater, Opeth, Between The Buried and Me, 3 - 5/14/2008' by MikeW

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:07:07 -0400

Definitely, my favorite song of theirs is Black Rose Immortal and that's 20 minutes long.

Comment on 'Dream Theater, Opeth, Between The Buried and Me, 3 - 5/14/2008' by Mike

Sun, 18 May 2008 19:51:31 -0400

It's the trade-off you have to accept when writing long songs though. With any joe-schmoe pop band, they probably could have played at least ten songs in that time. Oh well. I'll take quality over quantity for sure.

Comment on 'Dream Theater, Opeth, Between The Buried and Me, 3 - 5/14/2008' by MikeW

Sun, 18 May 2008 18:27:22 -0400

Awesome show, I agree it would have been nice for Opeth to play something from Orchid or Morningrise, of course that would use up half their time.

Comment on 'Now I See Where I've Gone Wrong' by Jonny K

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:15:33 -0400

The larger the company you work for, the more true that mentality is. I do work for a large company, but at least I work in the R&D area, where we don't seem to have an excessive amount of meetings.

Comment on 'Crisis Averted' by Jonny K

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:11:52 -0400

I too am a big fan of owning a house. Sure, it's a bit more work, but then you have your own space and a yard for your dogs to run around in. Good stuff.

Comment on 'Hot Damn.' by Jonny K

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:10:10 -0400

You've mentioned these guys before (like you said). 8 string guitars definitely sounds interesting.

Comment on 'Crisis Averted' by Phil

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:20:05 -0400

Time for a house. Of course, then you have to deal with the mortgage company when they foul up your account. All in all, I'd rather be in a house. That way you can possibly gain value.

Comment on 'So. Pissed. Off.' by Mike

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:26:42 -0400

I just found them actually. They were in a nice non-descript envelope that's been on my table for a week or two. Organization FTW.

Comment on 'So. Pissed. Off.' by MikeW

Tue, 06 May 2008 22:19:23 -0400

You didn't get your tickets yet? I got mine like two weeks ago.

Comment on 'Quick Update' by Mike

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:07:41 -0400

Eight plus a laptop. Two are workstations, and two are MythTV frontends. The others are servers of various types.

And yes... the power bills can get pretty ridiculous in the warm months.

Comment on 'Quick Update' by Mike

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:05:58 -0400

Yah, they're also nowhere to be found on eBay. Buying them new is too expensive. Seeing as how HP was offering these cards with medium to high-end servers, I would expect a stable product. Maybe I do just have a bum card. It hasn't KP'ed since it finished rebuilding the array, so maybe the firmware update did help.

Comment on 'Quick Update' by Alex

Tue, 06 May 2008 04:59:08 -0400

Bitch'n.

cardboard ductwork really gets my motor running.

Comment on 'Quick Update' by MikeW

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:11:24 -0400

And I agree with Phil, get a different RAID card. At least if you get a 3ware or LSI card you know they've been well tested in production.

Comment on 'Quick Update' by MikeW

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:10:16 -0400

How many computers do you have any way? Those power bills have to be a bitch.

Comment on 'Bad Form HP... Bad Form Indeed' by MikeW

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:07:16 -0400

I've had issues sleeping lately too, keep waking up during the night. I think any time you change your sleeping arrangements it messes you up, should get better with time.

Comment on 'Quick Update' by Phil

Sat, 03 May 2008 18:12:19 -0400

Get a different card. This one obviously has major issues that may not be fixable. You should get another AC unit to cool the DC.

Comment on 'Quick Update' by sneezer

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:48:16 -0400

you're freakin' weird.

Comment on 'Bad Form HP... Bad Form Indeed' by Mike

Thu, 01 May 2008 15:00:09 -0400

Eating better is something I need to do regardless of how I'm sleeping... :( I do feel more rested after the past few nights though, which is good.

Comment on 'Bad Form HP... Bad Form Indeed' by AG

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:17:47 -0400

You may not be eating the right foods- eat veggies and fruit every day. Take a multivitamin even though they are from China. Stuff like that helps me feel great at 29, and I only sleep 5 hours a night.

Comment on 'Longest Post About Xen Ever.' by AG

Thu, 01 May 2008 14:15:40 -0400

Sexy.

Comment on 'Longest Post About Xen Ever.' by Mike

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:51:49 -0400

I've updated my Centos-5 Xen wiki page with the quick and dirty instructions. I'll try to make things a bit nicer at a later time (patches instead of raw code, etc), but it should work for you at this point.

Comment on 'Longest Post About Xen Ever.' by Mike

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:35:10 -0400

Saul - It is my intent to do so... I just haven't done it yet. Check back in a day or two, and I'll try to get everything posted on my wiki.

Comment on 'Longest Post About Xen Ever.' by Saul Pladen

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:14:06 -0400

Could you post a minimal set of ifconfig/brctl necessary to duplicate the setup... there's nothing easier than a "show me the code" example!

Many Thanks,

Comment on 'Longest Post About Xen Ever.' by AG

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:58:38 -0400

He said I turned him on. :( ha

Comment on 'Longest Post About Xen Ever.' by Mike

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:44:23 -0400

Let me know how that works... I've got all sorts of jargon I could use!

Comment on 'Longest Post About Xen Ever.' by AG

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:35:21 -0400

"I decided to see if my missing packets were entering the bridge instead of the VLAN interface, and sure enough, they were. I had found another linchpin."

I want to start saying this to telemarketers.

Comment on 'Busy Busy Busy' by AG

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:09:19 -0500

Congratulations! And I am so pleased to know my little abode on the Internets continues to be in good hands. I have no advice on how to be bossy since I work for myself.

Please take pics of the debauchery!!!!

Comment on 'A Month' by Phil

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:12:45 -0500

did your python wear perls

Comment on 'A Month' by benny.

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:24:38 -0500

...

twelve days.

Comment on 'A Month' by AG

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:27:17 -0500

Totally.

Comment on 'A Month' by Michael

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:16:03 -0500

Sounds similar to how I organized the code on my site, I made a python module to handle SQL queries.

Comment on 'A Month' by sneezer

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:18:40 -0500

you're welcome

Comment on 'A Month' by sneezer

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:18:13 -0500

you're welcome

Comment on 'A Month' by Alex

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:21:02 -0500

boy thats been giving me troubles too. Thanks!

Comment on 'A Month' by Alex

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:20:55 -0500

boy thats been giving me troubles too. Thanks!

Comment on 'A Month' by sneezer

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:04:07 -0500

I had the same problem - but was able to successfully instanate the groups by isolating the classes AND the rows. It sounds simple and it is... IF you redefine the database in the SQL.

you can thank me later.

Comment on 'A Month' by AG

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:41:23 -0500

I want to hear what your Uncle has to say about the last paragraph.

Comment on 'A Month' by MikeN

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:42:34 -0500

Its not an exact match, but think of a database. You can define a class around each table. Each instantiation of the class (the object) is analogous to a row, and the data stored within the object belongs to that object only. Classes are obviously not limited to that, but they match up very well with the concepts present in a database.

Comment on 'A Month' by Phil

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:25:35 -0500

OOP has always given me troubles. I vaguely understand the concept, but it just doesn't want to click. Probably because I have never HAD to use it.