It feels like June has been going on altogether too long though, given the number of things I’m working on, it should have flown by. June is a month that has defied expectations. I’m taking Network Performance Testing this quarter, against my better judgement, and so far it seems to be a pretty enjoyable class: identifying the relationship that exists between business and technical objectives, trade-offs associated with different priorities, etc. The distance model, which I expected to take to quickly, is unfortunately awkward and, although it is no fault of theirs, my group struggles to maintain reliable and consistent communication. Such is the way of things.
I built my HTPC on Windows 7 (64bit) using an Asus P5G43T-M, a Core 2 Quad, 4GB of DDR3, a simple SAS/SATA RAID controller, a pair of 500GB SATAII drives, and a Hauppage dual-input media center kit. Still futzing with the config though – I considered a SageTV build on Debian or another Linux kernel, but scrapped it.
‘Mo, who abandoned me (see what I did there?), also left me with a few parting gifts in the form of wireless routers so my neighborhood now resonates with the strength of my wireless network. I’m going the DD-WRT route and will engineer a RADIUS server for authentication. You know. When there’s time.
I started distilling much of my older hardware into 2 primary groups: keep and jettison. I’ll eventually get this packrat mentality under control.
I received some really great LPGA tickets, too, with unlimited access to the corporate/hospitality areas for this weekend so expect zero productivity.
I’ve been working on a new virtualization setup at the office – several ESXi hosts in parallel, vCenter in a VM, vMotion, vStorage, Fault Tolerance, and a VM library accessible for loading shelved VMs.
VoIP, Network redesign, and Solaris licensing is really dragging, though.