sysadmin madness, in relative perspective
No, I am not overloaded, though I’m not far from it sometimes, but my trusted mailserver is almost there. All day long there’s been a close to inifine flow of spam, bounces and other junk storming into my mailbox. As some of you may know, I’ve got a powerful IBM server running FreeBSD here at … Read More “overloaded” »
Vmware released it’s answer to Microsoft’s Hyper-V product today: a free to download and using 32MB diskspace of footprint Hypervisor. This can only mean that the virtualisation market is gearing up for one heck of a competition run, maybe even a full-out war. Frankly, Vmware has the lead right now, they are market leader in … Read More “vmware ESXi” »
Microsoft has released a ‘final’ version of Hyper-V, it’s virtualisation product, it seems however, only a shadow of what Xen and VmWare can offer customers when it comes to Enterprise level virtualisation. This article will explain Hyper-V, and why it’s a very poor choice for virtualisation indeed. About Hyper-V Hyper-V is Microsoft’s implementation of a … Read More “Hyper-V: why you do not want it” »
I ordered something from the Iron Maiden official store today, the tour shirt for the Somewhere back in time tour, that is currently running. They are coming to Assen, The Netherlands in August, and I have a ticket. (with special thanks to my ex-wife, who gave it to me for my birthday, thanks sweetie!!!) Here’s … Read More “new goodie, inbound” »
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A letter from our lawyer, who handles our joint request for divorce, arrived The judge has declared to agree with what Petra and I decided, and has confirmed that with a signature I immediately send the lawyer a confirmation (that we agree with the verdict/decree, which is a sort of final check) and that he … Read More “And suddenly….” »
I expect today to be pretty weird in the chaotic sense. Petra (my ex wife) will be subjected to surgery on her armpit. Last time she went in for surgery, she came out of the anesthetic pretty darn well and quickly too, and she was out of the hospital within an hour after surgery. Let’s … Read More “weird day, ditto week” »
For most of you it’s been known for a little while now, for some of you this will come as a nasty bit of a shock: Petra and I are getting a divorce. Before anyone gets wild ideas about lengthy court battles and endless custody hearings: we will have none of that. We are ending … Read More “signed, sealed and almost delivered” »