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Hi. I'm jon.404, a Unix/Linux/Database/Openstack/Kubernetes Administrator, AWS/GCP/Azure Engineer, mathematics enthusiast, and amateur philosopher. This is where I rant about that which upsets me, laugh about that which amuses me, and jabber about that which holds my interest most: *nix.
Posted 10-05-2011 at 12:43 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 01-14-2012 at 12:21 PM byrocket357(spellcheck fail)
This seems to pop up a lot lately in Linux and Mac circles...
The presence of viruses for a particular platform does indeed point to security issues. However, supposing the reverse to be true in all manners is a logical fallacy (Denying the antecedent, for those interested in philosophy). It goes like this: "If a platform has viruses, it is insecure. Linux does not have viruses, so it is not insecure."
The problem with this logic is that viruses, while...
Posted 09-15-2011 at 11:28 AM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 09-15-2011 at 11:56 AM byrocket357
I have a few ETL boxen that handle insane amounts of data every night. Hundreds of billions of rows of data get extracted from our OLTP databases, transformed, and then loaded into our datawarehousing machines. Needless to say, we're running into serious networking bottlenecks that are causing some ETL operations on larger databases to take 10+ hours, and each night we can watch the gigabit links on each of our ETL servers peg out at 100%. It's getting so bad that we have connections that get...
Posted 09-13-2011 at 12:41 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 09-13-2011 at 01:01 PM byrocket357
I'm working on a project to make a pretty graphical display of customers who are having speed issues so we can quickly isolate potential internet issues. I'd admin'd a (very minor) open source project called "GeoXPlanet", which was based on a project I was assigned in college, both of which used GeoIP technology heavily, so I have a bit of experience with geolocation and graphing networks. It's fun stuff, really, it is.
Posted 09-03-2011 at 11:03 AM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 09-03-2011 at 11:11 AM byrocket357
There are times in life when it becomes necessary to say unpleasant things. Things you know people will disagree with, not because of a logical flaw in your argument, but rather because of an emotional attachment they have to the subject. Today is such a day.
Linux is failing on the desktop. I've heard it for years now (*years*...not months, not weeks, not days...*years*) about how Linux is going to take over on the desktop and we'll all live in GPL-enforced software "freedom"....
Posted 08-26-2011 at 12:59 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 08-26-2011 at 01:16 PM byrocket357
Today I get an alarm that a customer's website isn't responding. This particular customer isn't an American customer, and due to international law their server has to be hosted in their own country. So they picked a hosting company over there and we shipped their servers to the hosting company.
Traceroute showed that we could get to the city where they were hosted, but not the server itself. I called the hosting company's support line. After explaining to them that my boss had...
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