vCloud Director Cluster got you down?
Apr 27th
vCloud Director – the VMware solution to building on-demand infrastructure for the enterprise and cloud computing…works.
But there are some trials you must encounter and complete before things work smoothly.
TL;DR: I failed at first but found the problem with the issue being firewall services blocking inter-cell communications. This post is about the log entry and how it isn’t very clear that there is an error to resolve.
MySQL, data partitioning, and me
Jan 26th
So I have this database of bytes transferred from many of the devices on our network.
It queries these devices every 5 minutes storing many pieces of data, from the number of packets in and out to the number of bytes (or octets in network speak) in and out on an interface. (it also gathers statistics on errors, Cisco environment items, discards, etc). I am mostly concerned with the bytes transferred, so while the other data is collected – I am not using it at this point.
But what happens when you have 16 months worth of data?
Before you say ‘i dunno’, I’ll tell you: it is slow to query it back out, even with minimal indexes.
I have ~54 GB of data (including indexes), and 250 tables (each device has multiple tables, each table stores one type of data only).
So, how to get some speed back? Read on!
Newegg continues to spam
Dec 14th
On December 8th, 2010, the employee spammed in the last post and a new employee were sent unsolicited email (spam) by Newegg. So now that’s 3 email addresses, and while I was a customer of Newegg in the past, I have never used my work email address with them, and the other 2 people recently spammed have never been a customer of Newegg ever.
Both users received the exact same message (minus the user-identifiable link modifications).
The user who had been spammed before had been assured after calling them that he had been removed from their mailing list, but obviously that was a lie.
I can not see any reason to do business with Newegg.
Sure, prices seem to be good and there are many good reviews of their shipping and response to RMA issues, but at what cost?
Personally, I will never shop with Newegg again and I encourage anyone reading this to stop purchasing from such an abusive company. They aren’t Internet friendly and seem to feel that they have some kind of right to invade your mailbox, whether you have dealt with them in the past ornot.
Bad company is bad. Just saying.
Horse: dead, too bad Newegg spam isn’t yet :(
Newegg sends spam, can not learn from previous mistakes
Nov 18th
I know that for many, Newegg is a great place to buy things.
I can no longer in good conscience recommend or advocate using NewEgg as a provider of your computing and electronic needs.
Let me step back a bit, back to August 18th, 2010 and August 30th, 2010 when I received unsolicited email (in this case, pure and outright spam) from Newegg. I had posted this on my personal blog (which doesn’t get much traffic/eyes overall) as I felt it was just a personal issue to deal with.
But today, out of nowhere, one of my employees received unsolicited email from Newegg and the best part? It is pedaling the same small 120GB disk drive that the messages I received in August, 2010!
I have an idea as to the avenue that Newegg is using to gather/borrow/steal/purchase new email addresses and I am not willing to post it publicly at this time, but I can say that salesforce.com is the owner of this breach of trust. I do hope I am wrong as salesforce.com has a decent reputation. But then again, so did Newegg…
And without further adieu – the PDF of the headers…
My personal view: I do not do business with companies that spam and will never do business with Newegg again after the initial round of spam. I’ll now be working internally to make sure that we, as a company, do not use Newegg ever again in the future and advocating to the employees that they boycott Newegg for future purchases as well.
