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Archive for May, 2008
My early birthday present
Thursday, May 29th, 2008PGCon is going great!
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008PGCon 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.
Penguicon SMOScast Episode 1
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Jer 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)
Jumbo Frames and Intel
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008I 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.