TechGrabage

I must admit I am proud of the media during this terrible time. Even FOX is pissed off. Our leaders deserve to have their cages rattled over this. There are hard questions to be answered by all, from the top down.

To hear senators on TV slapping each other on the back, thanking each other for help. This pisses me off! It’s not time for ‘good ol boys’ to thank and stroke each other! It’s time to get the bodies off the streets. It’s time to make these people feel like they mean something to us! I dont give a shit that congress had an unprecidented session at 10:00 at night after returning from vacation early to get money to FEMA! What a pile of crap! All it speaks to is how utterly ill prepared we are!

What if Atlanta, New Orleans and Boston we hit by terrorist either all the day or in succession? I can’t even begin to imagine the chaos and stupidity that would prevail. This is completely unacceptable, completely.

-mwm

IS this America? What makes America America? What defines us?

The situation in the south is appauling. We are now a week into this and the situation is STILL going the wrong way. As far as I can see there is absolutely no excuse for the lack of leadership, the lack of organization, the raw lack of plain old help. I am disgusted by the fact that a week later we cant manage to get these people out of there. We are the wealthiest most technologically advanced country on earth but we just cant manage to get people out of a flooded city. It’s beyond belief.

I am sure I have no concept of what is happeing and the extent of the situation. I realize it is hard to get resources to a flooded city. But you cant simply cant tell me that we can send a ship from the North Pole to the South Pole, through very thick ice but we cant get a ship up the river to get people out? I just dont buy it.

This is a terrible display America. We should all be questioning our safety and preparedness. We should all be questioning our leadership.

This is a very, very sad week. My heart, thoughts and prayers are with those people.

-mwm

Beta testing that is. I have been doing quite a bit of beta testing of late. Some pretty high profile stuff to. Tested a new inkjet printer from Dell and some cool stuff right now for Verizon. The best part are the incentives. For one of the most recent tests I received a DVD Recorder. Pretty cool. Hook it right up to the TV and record shows and movies directly to DVD. Only problem so far is my DirecTv receiver. The DVD Recorder can’t change the channel on the DTV receiver. I think I’ll hook up to the DirecTv TiVO receiver. This way I can transfer my hard drives recordings form the TiVO to DVD…

Kinda fun. I’d tell ya who I test for but that would decrease my chances for cool stuff!

-mwm

Looks like XBOX 360 Pricing has been set… Not bad. $400 bucks in a usable state.

I must obtain one!

Technology News: Gaming : Microsoft Unveils Xbox 360 Packages, Pricing

How cool is this? TiVO to offer program download service. You’ll be able to download programming rather than record when it is on. Thanks Engadget!

-

Exclusive pics of TiVo Download - Engadget - www.engadget.com

As always, a very interesting perspective from Engadget…

Microsoft’s closing and locking Xbox 360 peripherals - Engadget - www.engadget.com

Professionaly that is…

I am a very experienced Systems Administrator from New Hampshire. I manage Windows, Solaris and Linux operating systems, all of various versions and flavors. My favorite but probably not my strongest is Linux. Windows servers are my strongest but n ot by choise. It just happens to be the most prevalent of the Network Operating Systems.

* I build Windows, Solaris and Linux servers
* I have migrated serveral organizations to AD environments
* I have implemented DNS, DHCP and WINS
* I have moved DNS from BIND to AD and also from AD to BIND
* I have done several MS Mail to MS Exchange (5.5 & 2000) migrations
* I have done several Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 migrations
* I have a lot of experience installing and configuring LAMP (Linux - Apache - MySQL - PHP) servers.
* I have worked with RedHat 7 through Fedora Core 3
* I have installed and played with many other Linux distros
* I have vast experience with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT WS, NT Server, 2000 server, 2000 Advanced Server. My experience dates back to Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups
* I have built Windows Clusters (2 Node).
* I have installed, managed and maintained EMC Clariion FC4700 and CX200 SANS. I have presented luns to Solaris and Windows hosts.

What is my ideal job? It is the same as any true geek. I want to have a lab of my own with various servers and operating systems available to me. I want to build the servers and rip them down to be rebuilt with a new config or operating system. I want this work to benefit a progressive organization. I wouldn’t mind being locked away for hours at a time with out any interuptions at all. It’s a dream job.

I enjoy Systems Administration during crunch time.