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  Lead like the great conductors

  02.25.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  A brilliant and funny TED talk by conductor Itay Talgam on leadership styles and challenges: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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  To certify or not to certify?

  01.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently I passed my VMware VCP 3 and VPC 4 exams (i.e.: VMware Certified Professional on versions 3 and 4), which to be honest felt kind of odd as I’ve been doing things with VMware way beyond these certifications’ standards for quite a while…which leads me to ponder the normal IT certifications as a whole. [...]

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  Possibly the best comparison of RAID 0+1 vs. RAID 1+0

  10.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yes, very techie, but choosing RAID levels is always a bit of a process to find the right level or combination of levels. Today I had to do another analysis and make the choice, and while checking my data I found this great write-up: Difference between RAID 0+1 vs RAID 1+0 by Decypher Information Systems. [...]

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  Quick VMware tip: tracking snapshot delete progress

  07.25.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve built and actively manage a number of VMware ESX servers and server clusters, and one of the things that bug me is that as soon as I delete a snapshot I have no idea on its progress (especially if it’s a large snapshot, which can take quite a while). Here’s a quick tip to [...]

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  Why I love teaching

  07.22.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Tonight I was explaining the basics and intricacies of IP networking to a friend. He had been online for years and working with computers and networks for even longer, but only today actually understood the how and why of the IP protocol by me explaining the history and workings of IP networks as a collection [...]

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  On work and the necessity of downtime

  07.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Lately I have been repeatedly reminded of this quote by Bertrand Russell: “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” Here’s the current status: – Tired most of the time – Always working or thinking about work – Nearly complete absence of a social life [...]

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