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Tag Archives: Australia
Safety Switches in the Data Center?
If you are living in a house in Australia built since some point after the year 2000, your home is almost certainly being protected by a safety switch – normally an RCD or Residual Current Device. The job of the … Continue reading
The first law of the Time Lords
Let me share a war story with you (one that I swear is true). In the year 2000 an Ansett passenger jet, loaded with passengers, was preparing to push back from the terminal in Sydney. But there was a timing … Continue reading
Boarding soon: Experimental test subjects
The next time you go flying in Australia (and quite possibly elsewhere), think about this: You will be a test subject in a giant unauthorised science experiment into flight safety, being conducted by many of the people sitting all around … Continue reading
Hard drive retention
It’s a story that has been repeated many times: You buy a shiny new storage system….. and it is beautiful. Then… a disk fails, which takes just the tiniest bit of shine off. No problem you declare! You place … Continue reading
Posted in advice, IBM, IBM Storage, SAN
Tagged Australia, Disk storage, Hard disk drive, Hardware, IBM, RAID, Storage, Vendors
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Taxing times
For those of you living in Australia, we are slowly grinding towards the end of the Australian financial year (June 30). Which means its time to start thinking about your tax… Oh joy! One (possibly very small) source of … Continue reading
Who on earth is Gold Major and why is he sending me emails?
I got a great question recently: We just updated our Cisco MDS9509s to NX-OS 4.2.7b (from Cisco SAN-OS 3.3.1c) and now we are getting emails from this source: GOLD-major. The actual message looks like this: Time of Event:2012-03-05 15:07:21 … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, IBM Storage, SAN
Tagged Australia, Cisco, Cisco NX-OS, Cisco Systems, FICON, IBM, IBM System z, nxos, Vendors
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