It was February 2022. We had just installed and configured our new Dell PowerStore 500T SAN — a big step forward in our modernization journey. I started migrating workloads off our outgoing Dell Compellent array. What used to take minutes suddenly took hours. Migrations crawled. Systems lagged. Something wasn’t right. At first, I assumed it […]
Read more "The Latency That Wouldn’t Die"The author expresses a fondness for static routing despite the advantages of dynamic routing protocols like BGP. Static routing is praised for its predictability and reliability, contrasting with dynamic protocols that can err or misunderstand configurations. The piece highlights the beauty of simplicity in networking amidst complexities in dynamic environments.
Read more "Why I Still Love Static Routing (Don’t Tell [Redacted])"The author reflects on their experience with data backups after a sysadmin’s mistake led to production downtime. They emphasize the importance of understanding storage systems over merely having backups. While snapshots offer quick recovery, true resilience comes from validated backups. Knowledge in system restoration is crucial for effective data management.
Read more "Data Recovery Insights: Learning from Mistakes"“There’s an RFC for that.” That’s something my colleague and resident networking genius, Jefferson Cowart, says right before my brain prepares for impact. We were in the middle of a migration from static routing to dynamic (BGP) when Jefferson casually dropped, “You should probably be aware of the evil bit.” Now, I didn’t say it […]
Read more "Why Firewalls Wish the ‘Evil Bit’ Was Real"All Systems Argo: A Journey Through Technology, Security, and Storytelling There’s something poetic about the phrase All Systems Argo. When I registered this domain years ago, it was a playful mashup:“All Systems Are Go” — the phrase you hear before a rocket launch — and Jason and the Argonauts, my dad’s favorite story. The name […]
Read more "From Sysadmin to Cybersecurity: My IT Transformation"In 2019, I bombed a Linux interview. The recruiter had matched me to a role that wasn’t in my wheelhouse, and I walked into the conversation cold—no prep, no context, and no clue what was coming. The guy on the other end seemed like he was more interested in proving what I didn’t know than […]
Read more "🔥 The Origin Story – From Rejection to Reinvention"SAN zone create for Brocade 6500 series switch using the CLI commands We have two new ESXi hosts that need storage mapping to our Dell Compellent SAN SC8000s. Each ESXi host is dual port 8Gb HBAs. We have two separate fabric zones (FabricA and FabricB). This way in a HA fail-over only one switch needs to be […]
Read more "Adding/Removing ESXi hosts to Brocade Fabric Switch Cli (6500 series)"For about the last 4 or 5 years I would be formatting a desktop to install Windows 7/8/10 in order to give this new PC to an end user. Every once in a while I would run into the error when selecting the partition during the Windows installation that prevents me from installing Windows. The […]
Read more "We Couldn’t Create A New Partition Or Locate An Existing One Windows 10 (Solved)"State and Local Income Tax On February 24, 2016, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) released a study that found that 50% of undocumented workers contributed billions of dollars each year in state and local taxes (ITEP, 2016). My first question is how do undocumented immigrants pay state and local taxes without a […]
Read more "Undocumented Worker’s Loopholes to Avoid Federal Income Tax"Public School Teachers Are Not Religious Experts Recently, in the news in the LA school district, teachers are forcing students to participate in a three-week long journey to discover Islam. Not just about Islam’s history and culture. This course is about being a Muslim. For three weeks, children are asked to dress as Muslims, change […]
Read more "Five Reasons Public School Teachers Should Not Be Teaching Religion To Our Students"
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