Month: August 2011

assessment and capacity analysis and planning for virtualization initiatives

25 August 201125 August 2011 antipaucity No Comments

Q: What would need to go into an assessment tool for a virtualization initiative? A: Typical factors may include: current CPU load per server what’s running on each server current hardware of each server expected percentage increase in usage OS usage – homogenous or heterogeneous new hardware or re-use current hardware storage needs vendor for…

continue “assessment and capacity analysis and planning for virtualization initiatives” »

engineering, ideas, technical

new connexions collection available

19 August 201113 September 2011 antipaucity 1 Comment

I have been working on my Connexions submissions again recently, and have a collection ready for use (it will be growing as time goes on): “Debugging and Supporting Software Systems” I realize there are some small typos in the current text, but I will be addressing that in a upcoming revision 🙂 I’d love to…

continue “new connexions collection available” »

education, news, personal, technical, update

lightsquared attacking gps manufacturers

13 August 201113 August 2011 antipaucity No Comments

The LightSquared situation keeps getting more interesting. InfoWorld has another story on them attacking GPS manufacturers for not beingÂ moreÂ careful about filtering adjacent frequency bands (per a DoD recommendation from 2008). LightSquared is at loggerheads with makers and users of GPS (Global Positioning System) over interference between the navigation system and its planned cellular LTE (Long-Term…

continue “lightsquared attacking gps manufacturers” »

news, technical, update

light shows

12 August 20119 August 2011 antipaucity No Comments

I’ve recently had some travel for work that had put me up in Indianapolis. Tuesday evening I watched the best light show ever: a miles-high, miles-wide thunderhead flashing nearly constantly for over 30 minutes. It was a little east of where I was staying in Fishers, but man was it pretty! For the record, God’s…

continue “light shows” »

fun, personal

connexions

11 August 2011 antipaucity 1 Comment

A few years ago I was working for Sigma Xi as an intern, and was introduced to the then-young Connexions project from Rice University. This week I was reminded of the service, and have started looking into ways I can contribute to their open repository of educational materials. I’d written two articles published there when…

continue “connexions” »

education, fun

the fcc decides to intervene on lightsquared

10 August 2011 antipaucity 2 Comments

I’ve taken an interest inÂ LightSquared recently. Today InfoWorldÂ reports that the FCC “won’t allow LightSquared’s proposed mobile broadband service to interfere with GPS signals, even though the potential interference would be caused by GPS receivers picking up signals outside of their designated spectrum”. So, the devicesÂ are in error, but the FCC is going to prevent LightSquaredÂ from…

continue “the fcc decides to intervene on lightsquared” »

news, technical, update

why technical intricacies matter

8 August 201128 October 2022 antipaucity 18 Comments

I have been working on a upgrade for one of our customers for nearly a month. Last week we spent about two hours focused on one specific problem that had been rearing its ugly head on an exceedingly-frequent basis: one of the components of the application was routinely pitching OutOfMemory errors from the Java Virtual…

continue “why technical intricacies matter” »

insights, technical, warning, work