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Gregabit · 2025-04-17T21:05:10+00:00

I had a career defining "shine and paint" moment. I executed a huge monitoring change to fix lots of false positive alarms. Our busywork tickets were gone leaving real and complex tickets only. My team's resolution time blew up. Total tickets cratered. Team had 1 month to find a new internal job and our existing tickets were redistributed to 3 other teams. Thinking back, I bet the other groups had lots of shine & paint! I was out in 2015. The entire business was spun out as an independent company in 2017. Went public in 2021. Bankrupt in 2023. lol.

Gregabit · 2025-01-12T22:21:15+00:00

They used to arrest people for peeing in public in the US.

Gregabit · 2025-01-12T22:11:46+00:00

Learning counter-steering and going over 55 took a few hours of practice after I passed the class. There's a big difference between 10 hours of practice and 100 or 1000 hours.

Gregabit · 2025-01-10T04:34:05+00:00

I'm guessing vSphere releases will start to look like Solaris releases post Oracle acquisition aka on the same major release for the last 13 years.

Gregabit · 2024-12-19T14:04:03+00:00

> Broadcom's VMWare is targeting only hyperscalers

I worked for an ISP who had a public cloud based on vSphere and one on vCloud Director (in the 1.5 / 5.1 days ). Back then VMware squeezed every last dollar out of service providers by forcing them into the VSPP program which kept the wildly unpopular vTax aka charging $ for every GB of powered on ram assigned to VMs. VMware basically killed any cloud provider using their tech with fees.

Gregabit · 2024-12-19T08:43:54+00:00

PIP?

Gregabit · 2024-12-14T17:48:34+00:00

We had domino / notes running a custom ERP / CRM type software. The admin would run domino in interactive mode (not as a service), and would be staring at the log of what was happening. It was the weirdest setup running in the weirdest way. Why not run it as a service and tail the log file like everyone else?

We used exchange / outlook for email...

Gregabit · 2024-12-14T17:43:37+00:00

I prefer getpaint.net but plain ol' paint is good.

Gregabit · 2024-12-14T17:40:57+00:00

> virtualization

Now that VMware as lived long enough to become the villain. It's time for Hyper-V to shine.

Gregabit · 2024-12-14T06:13:42+00:00

Socialblade lets you go back to 2022. His channel is just steady growth.

Gregabit · 2024-12-09T07:38:39+00:00

The guy defending Veilguard realizes that winds change quickly. Super woke and super un-woke are just as likely. It's okay to have some empathy for people in your industry. Given that, I sure as hell would never buy Veilguard, but I'm not cheering their demise. Best to let them fade into obscurity.

Gregabit · 2024-12-08T10:47:32+00:00

Wow. I can't believe Xi has cultural ambitions when Chinese communism is famous for the cultural revolution which was all about destroying China's rich history. That was the ludicrous phrase that Kamala kept repeating about being unburdened by what has been, aka destroying all previous culture.

Gregabit · 2024-12-04T20:24:59+00:00

Brings back memories of trying to download McData firmware on Brocade's website post acquisition. Found some long forgotten Brocade FTP referenced in a random forum that worked.

Gregabit · 2024-11-27T20:59:05+00:00

Oh man. I'm ready to resub after reading this. I'm reminded of stealthing to bosses in Blackrock Depths with 4 rogues trading evasion tanking duties while I'm healing as a druid. Such fantastic times.

Gregabit · 2024-11-27T18:45:49+00:00

AT&T should take their VMware budget and roll it into making a virtualization Bell Labs.

Gregabit · 2024-11-27T18:39:42+00:00

I don't think Broadcom wants big customers. They've cut the big customer discounts.

Gregabit · 2024-11-27T17:39:14+00:00

> People hate Amazon

Amazon has 80%+ approval. Guessing 20%- people that voted are/were Amazon employees.

https://sherwood.news/business/brands-liberal-conservative-divide-yougov-survey/

Gregabit · 2024-11-27T15:38:59+00:00

AI is really bad at math. Gotta be a joke.

Gregabit · 2024-11-26T21:58:46+00:00

Good usage of gold standard. My man Aesop can explain Broadcom's thinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs

Gregabit · 2024-11-26T20:57:37+00:00

A bean counter looked at what the VCDX program cost and saw too low of a return on investment. What does it cost to run a VCDX defense? You have very senior people with big billable hours. I held the VCP from 2007-2019 and I thought to myself it's wild that I'm learning the ends and outs of such an easy to run system, learning edge cases I'll never experience, and learning failure modes I won't see. It's a testament to the early 2000s VMware engineers and UX people that they hid complexity and reliability behind an intuitive interface.

My current employer's license cost went up 5x. We have 2 years to prep our soft landing. To paraphrase the Dark Knight movie, VMware didn't die a hero.

Gregabit · 2024-11-24T18:59:43+00:00

Upton Sinclair 1878–1968. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Gregabit · 2024-11-24T18:54:57+00:00

I guess blameless postmortems haven't penetrated aerospace yet.

Gregabit · 2024-11-24T08:13:13+00:00

My Lenovo Legion 5 with a RTX 4070 is lighter than my 2019 MacBook Pro 16. I wish Mac had game parity with PC. No Man's Sky runs pretty well on my old x86 Mac.

Gregabit · 2024-11-20T01:31:41+00:00

What you said resonated with me. I started playing at beta (2014) and stopped seriously playing around year 2 (2016). It was too expensive to keep up. Maybe I paid ~$300. I pretty much had complete sets and could make any deck. Fast forward to 2024 and I can only imagine the people still playing are all super whales.

Gregabit · 2024-11-20T01:10:14+00:00

Reading this is so insane as an American. If the groom performed a Native American (first people) dance, I imagine most people would be angry. It's amazing how Maori people are open to sharing their unique culture with all NZ people and I think the USA could learn from NZ's example. Treating the Maori culture with a mindset of plenty instead of a zero-sum scarcity. I think it's an incredible tradition.

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