It makes me think of clean, but not clean as in save the earth with clean energy.  More like scrubbing shower tile clean…

Now that’s complete virtualization — from the desktop to the locker room.

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I learned quite a few things by reading this article:

• Running 64-bit Vista prolongs the life of desktops — evidently restricting instructions and memory access down to 32-bits is known to prematurely wear out silicon.
• A good Hyper-V consolidation ratio is to go from 18 servers down to 8 — does that mean 2.25 VMs per host?

But here is the best part:

If you take a one-year break from teaching, what happened in 1014 hasn’t changed when you come back. If I decided to go on a year’s holiday, I would come back to find a 15-year-old doing my job twice as well and I’d never catch up.

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A Fish Named Ghoti

At a previous company, a very clever person decided to name a very important server ghoti.  You might be wondering where this came from, and you’re probably thinking “go-tee.”   Actually, this special concoction of irregular English spellings is pronounced “fish.”  Some thought it fun to tell the new guys to connect to ghoti, knowing they’d be looking in vain for a host named “fish.”  Wikipedia explains it well.

No, Por Favor!

Spanish speaking or not, most people are familiar with one word — basura.  After unboxing a bunch of new equipment, the simple application of a basura tag makes the leftover shipping materials go away, overnight.  Whether you like this situation or not is another topic — it is what it is.

One of my good friends told me how a system administrator at his company thought that he would be really clever and name a new PC “basura” — complete with the proper hostname label on the front of the case.  Image their surprise the next day to find an empty spot where the computer once stood.  It was seemingly stolen, but an an oddly targeted way; nothing else was missing.  It didn’t take long for someone to find the system out back in the dumpster — the night crew had dutifully executed according to procedures.

Sometimes things are not what they seem — other times, exactly as directed!

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