Lori MacVittie
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As you all know, I try to keep my marketing spiel for F5 to a minimum here. I don’t hesitate to mention when F5 has a product that will solve your problem, but try to focus on the problem and technical solutions. But sometimes I want to crow about how good our product lines really are. Thankfully, Lori provides a venue for us to do just that called F5 Fridays. This week I guest wrote an F5 Friday article about our new ARX Cloud Extender product and it’s cool enough I thought I’d let those of you who...
Thursday was quite the day for us. I mentioned earlier in the week that I was setting up the storage for Lori to digitize all of the DVDs, well we came to the conclusion that we needed 12 terabytes of raw disk to hold movies + music. Our current NAS total was just over four Terabytes, clearly not enough. While I take it in stride that I would consider purchasing an additional 12 TB of disk space, you have to stop in awe for a moment, don’t you? It was just a decade ago that many pundits were saying...
This week has been a banner week in the world of Cloud computing. The experts have been out there saving us from ourselves in droves. Good to know that there is no shortage of people who either don’t get what cloud is and think they do, or don’t get what cloud isn’t and think they do. Meanwhile, they will offer us a bit of entertainment. The second more than the first, admittedly, but both are amusing. I CAN HAS FUD? First for your studied consideration is Phil Wainright, writing over on Ziff-Davis’ website....
Lori and I were discussing accomplishments with our 23 year old a week or so ago, and he is keeping score of the things we’ve done and he’s done. We’ve written books, he’s written books. We’ve written for a magazine, he’s written for a magazine. Then he hit the things he has to do if he is to “win”, including both ANSI and ISO standards, masters degree, etc etc. (there’s actually one I can’t mention yet). While trying to impress upon him that it is not a competition and we just want him to have a long and...
Fair warning, my Friday posts are lighter, and will continue to be as long as I think I’m funny. If you’re here for work, move along, nothing to see here. When you’re a child of a geek family, if you show signs of interest in technology the jokes start going around about job offers. Lori and I’s mothers both programmed – mine with punch cards, hers in COBOL – we are both programmer/network/gaming geeks, so of course our kids get “job offers”. At 12, Korey was mastering Visual Basic, and we were meeting with Novell. Someone from Novell...
Today, Lori was arrested for the March of Dimes Jail-and-Bail, and I, acting as your friendly local Paparazzi, followed along to get some surprise pictures. The first problem was that they came in a white unmarked car. This confused me, couldn't they at least find a Black Maria (common KGB vehicle) to pick her up? This is the point at which I realized that this was big news, our Lori going to Jail! So I packed up the baby and followed them in. And can you believe it, she even used the child as an excuse...
There's a lot of talk about Cloud Computing, how The Cloud is different than The Grid, and what the risk assessment for The Cloud is. What people aren't talking about is something that all AppDev folks need to know... How does it impact them. Frankly, if my app must be developed differently to take advantage of The Cloud, then frankly, Cloud Computing has already failed. That's why there's not a Grid in every enterprise. But Teh Cloud is new and kewl, Teh Grid is full of fail, right? The other thing that architects have to care about is "who has...
