Chasing Nuts

Once again I am dead to Jorge :-)

PGCon has been a great event so far and is only half over!  Two days of tutorials wrapped up yesterday and I learned a lot about GUCs, Materialized Views that Really Work,  and Database Anti-Patterns. 

Last night the fun really kicked up with Yahoo! hosting a night of drinks, food and a Wii give away.  I learned that Yahoo is not only a PostgreSQL shop but has a two petabyte PosgresSQL database, I think PostgreSQL may be ready for the enterprise

Today the hour long sessions start and there are many great presentations I am looking forward to attending.  Today is also the day I will be speaking  and look forward to talking about the EMOL project, another PostgreSQL success story. 

Jer and Jes Have put gogether an amazing Penguicon PodCast or SMOScast.  For those that do not know SMOScast is a monthly Penguicon podcast that will update everyone on community info, behind the scenes info, etc.  and every other week it will be a call-in show.  Thank you both for getting this project off the grount!

Episode 1 - A Babe in the Woods (55:27) (MP3 (50.7MB) / ogg (37.4MB))

• 00:00 Intro Music (Throne of Blood http://www.throneofblood.com)
• 00:25 Show Start
• 01:14 Host Introductions
• 04:00 Show Introduction
• 07:25 How to get involved with the show (smoscast at penguicon dot org)
• 09:00 Penguicon 6.0
• 09:19 A note with love and understanding by Jer
• 09:55 Our favorites of 6.0
• 10:53 We aren’t at all conceited
• 13:27 Steve GUTTERMAN, not Steve GUTTENBERG
• 13:50 Official Soundbyte!(tm)
• 15:47 Dreamland Theater (http://www.dreamlandtheater.com)
• 16:40 Shoggoth on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgvogA7r5b0)
• 19:07 Guest of Honor lovin’
• 19:43 Woobies: A woman causing a motorboat situation with her breasts!
• 20:40 Tim Leib is teh awesome / Penguicon != Scientology
• 25:42 Jer’s phone makes an annoying appearance (35 seconds of pain, oops)
• 28:35 Jess has mathematical difficulty
• 20:28 Matt’s missing ConChair Report
• 29:40 Jobs at Penguicon
• 32:17 penguicon.info (Coming soon)
• 33:39 Job Opening: Operations & Ops Staff!
• 34:39 Obscenity Alert - Only 34 minutes late!
• 36:15 consuite at penguicon dot org
• 36:45 Introducing Penguicon *BING*
• 37:06 Job Opening: Sponsorship/Marketing and Staff!
• 39:39 Help Wanted (http://sites.google.com/a/penguicon.org/penguicon-7-planning/help-wanted)
• 42:02 The truth comes out
• 42:13 Meeting List (http://sites.google.com/a/penguicon.org/penguicon-7-planning/milestonesandmeetings)
• 43:17 SMOS explained
• 44:30 Wrap-Up/Kick-Off Meeting recap (Jess’s drunken escapades)
• 49:38 Hosting your own SMOS Dinner
• 50:56 We’re about done here / Planning for live broadcast
• 51:45 http://www.penguicon.org and http://www.ibloviate.org
• 53:02 Ending matter and license
• 53:15 Closing music (Throne of Blood)

I am working on deploying a shiny new iSCSI SAN (Storage Area Network) for EMOL and I have run into a bit of an annoyance. First why does Intel make so many different versions of the Intel PRO/1000 card? We purchased a server with two on-board Intel PRO/1000 cards and added a PCI-X Intel PRO/1000 card with the plan to Ethernet Bond the two on-board cards and use the add-on card for server management.

This is a plan that definitely did not come together. First the main board manufacturer thought it would be a good idea to use two different Intel chips for the two Ethernet controllers. One is an Intel PRO/1000 PL the other is an Intel PRO/1000 PM. The add-on card we purchased is an Intel PRO/1000 PT. So it turns out the Intel cards are far from the same and I am not happy about that. It took me much Internet digging to find this out.

Intel PRO/1000 PM - does not support jumbo frames
Intel PRO/1000 PT - supports jumbo frames in Microsoft Windows operating systems only when Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager is installed and only up to 9238 bytes.
Intel PRO/1000 PL - support jumbo frames larger than 9238 bytes.

So what are my options? Well I do not run Windows, and I would like to run at a minimum two network ports teamed. Which means now I need to order an additional Ethernet card or a two port Ethernet card. What I do know is it will likely not be a Intel Pro 1000.