As previously discussed, we recently purchased an MD3000i iSCSI SAN from Dell. We are running the “free” VSphere ESXi 4 on 3 hosts. That’s right, no VCenter, no VCB, no VMotion, no SVM. So, how does one best approach moving these VM guests from local storage to our new lovely SAN? Well, we looked into the following possibilities: Read the rest of this entry »
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Well, the time finally came. We bit the bullet and purchased a new Dell PowerEdge R710 and an MD3000i SAN for the office. The R710 will be a new VSphere ESXi 4 host that will take on a bulk of the production VM’s while one of the remaining 2950’s will remain a smaller production host and the third 2950 will be a test and development box.
So you can see the MD3000i with the faceplate off directly below the new R710. I’m tempted to leave the faceplate off so that the executives and visitors see more lights when they look in. For some reason, non-technical people tend to have a first reaction to hardware such that more lights is mo’ better. 
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Today was spent working on creating a Drupal 6 version of a custom Drupal 5 module as part of a Drupal upgrade project. This module is similar to the image_attach module that is a contrib module package with the Image module. The difference is that the module allows you to designate categories for images by content_type and allows for the upload, selection, removal and ordering of images in each “image category”. Read the rest of this entry »
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On February 8th, 2010 Linode.com announced the availability of StackScripts. The StackScripts are described as:
StackScripts™ provide a flexible way to customize our distribution templates. They’re very easy to use — find a StackScript, answer its questions, and click deploy. When the deployment is first booted, the script is executed and does its thing. You can even watch its progress by viewing the console.
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This video is from Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) member Kent Lester, and his presentation on Open Publish – the Drupal distribution created by Phase2 Technology.
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Here’s a great little article from the great folks over at Lullabot with a fix for why Internet Explorer insists on an ugly frame for black IFrames.
http://www.lullabot.com/blog/ie-iframe-insanity
To fix it you have to do this:
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Here’s a quick fix. We have a site that has been through a number of migrations, moves and upgrades. We use the Admin module that provide a nice UI for site administration. Somewhere along the way, the admin menu items got completely hosed.
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Today’s SSWUG.org newsletter contained a great few paragraphs regarding what you look for in a new hire. As a hiring manager at various levels over my career, I have often asked myself, in self-reflection, such questions.
I believe that beyond the specific technical skill sets you are looking, there are some other specific characteristics you want to find. In particular I look for a candidate that shows the following characteristics:
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