March 6th, 2009
We are facing an immediate need to refresh and expand some of our iSCSI storage we are running our PostgreSQL instance on. I am open to just about anything but I wondered if this group would have any suggestions. One item that is a bit unique to our situation is I am not in the need of staggering performance as I am in the need for very cost effective large mounts of storage. For more details on what I am doing: http://www.slideshare.net/AaronThul/this-is-your-postgresql-on-drugs
At the moment I am looking at Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems or a Dell Equallogic. Would anyone like to suggest other options? Has anyone had any problems with those vendors? Anyone like to share a glowing review or success story?
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December 16th, 2008
After a long and exhausting trip out to SanFansco/Bay Area I am back home. The trip was over a week long and I don’t believe I could have packet more into the 9 days. The trip at a glance:
- Help Jorge get ready for FOSSCamp
- Attend FOSSCamp
- Karaoke and serenaded Leslie Hawthorn
- Fun day in the city with Matt
- 5 busy days of work
- One day at UDS
- Google Christmas party
- Volunteered at the dance-along nutcracker
- Bought two amazing new pair of underwear
- Woke up Sunday with a pinch of a headache seeing a shinny Christmas tree, the ocean, and a
rainbow.
- The longest five hour flight home
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December 8th, 2008
My friend Dan updated his picture site and I found some fun squirrel images that are perfect for ChasingNuts.
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December 6th, 2008
I have been at FOSSCamp for the last two days learning about all kinds of great FOSS. One outstanding piece of software that Jorge showed me was Songbird. After five minutes of playing with it I could not contain my excitement. Jorge told me to pause my excitement and pulled me into a room to meet Stephen Lau, a Songbird developer. Apparently I made an impression once my enthusiasm was unpaused and Stephen blogged about the incident that you are able to read below or the full post here.
At the end of that session Jorge brought a few folks over who had just installed Songbird for the first time who had some really great praise and comments for us. It’s super gratifying to have someone come up who has just installed Songbird for the first time and gets it… especially having worked so hard on it for the past year. We got lots of warm praise and supportive words for getting Songbird into Ubuntu’s repositories.
Songbird first impressed me with Itunes library import. It pulled over all my music, playlists, music rating, and more. Then it offered to keep my misic in sync with what ever I put into my Itunes library. Next it knocked my socks off with features like concerts, last.fm album art, song lyrics, & SHOUTcast support. The application just works and offers me more then Itunes ever has. I don’t think I have a reason to launch Itunes ever again so it can just hit the road.
Tags: FOSS, Ubuntu
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December 5th, 2008
I have been talking to more then a few poeple about this and I am no longer going to have my microblog entries post to my web site weekly. If you want to follow my microblogging you are able to do so at http://twitter.com/aaronthul or http://identi.ca/aaronthul.
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