I came across an interesting situation at work this week. We needed to bridge a device at a remote site (a phone actually) to a VLAN at our office, but both sites are behind NAT without the ability to … [Read more...]
The endless projects of the IT guy
I have far too many projects on the go, all the time. They pretty much fall into 4 categories. Ongoing/Never-ending, stuff I'm working on, stuff I've vaguely started and stuff I want to do. I figured … [Read more...]
Day 25 – Something you’re proud of in the past few days
I FINALLY GOT BACKUP EXEC 2012 TO BEND TO MY WILL. After 3 months of fighting it with thorough RAM issues, breaking a VMWare host because I used up all the disk, tape library failure, broken fibre … [Read more...]
Day 13 – How did you become such a geek? Career? Personal interest?
I've always had quite an interesting geeky things, I have distinct memories from when I was quite young about playing with various electronics "stuff". My first computer was a Commodore Plus 4, and … [Read more...]
Day 09 – What OS/distribution do you run?
Depends if you're talking desktop or server. On my desktop (well laptop) I run Windows 8, because it's just easier than Linux for every day computing. On my servers however, Linux apart from … [Read more...]