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	<title>Mike@ipHouse Blog &#187; Opinion</title>
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		<title>Oh sandbox, you need to grow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/oh-sandbox-you-need-to-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/oh-sandbox-you-need-to-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources. Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That&#8217;s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight. Digging through dead server <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/11/oh-sandbox-you-need-to-grow/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring and measurement software, the search</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/10/monitoring-and-measurement-software-the-search/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/10/monitoring-and-measurement-software-the-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While at VMworld 2011, I spent a lot of time at the expo (where companies were peddling their wares) looking for 2 items. Storage vendors who do things via NFS. Monitoring and measurement companies to help me consolidate the multiple pieces of software we run today. This post is about #2. I looked at a <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/10/monitoring-and-measurement-software-the-search/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VMworld 2011 &#8211; what a busy week</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vmworld-2011-what-a-busy-week/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vmworld-2011-what-a-busy-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=495</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 this past week and what a busy week it was! 20,000+ people in attendance! I met many amazing people, saw quite a few new products, I enjoyed it 100%. I went to quite a few sessions on VMware troubleshooting, installation, and best practices, and a session on <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/09/vmworld-2011-what-a-busy-week/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Slimy marketing tactics are insulting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/08/slimy-marketing-tactics-are-insulting/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/08/slimy-marketing-tactics-are-insulting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Isilon &#8211; makers of what look to be a very cool scale-out NAS solution just sent me an email. Now, I was expecting their email, so this isn&#8217;t an issue of spam at all (in fact, when they scanned my badge at VMware Forum I commented that I would be watching for their email, and <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/08/slimy-marketing-tactics-are-insulting/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle, why do I need X to install?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/oracle-why-do-i-need-x-to-install/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/oracle-why-do-i-need-x-to-install/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a rant and should never be read. Need to install Orcale database services for some VMware updates dealing with their vCloud initiative. So, need an RPM based system (CentOS, RHEL, SLES) to do so, okay, I can deal with that I guess. But it also requires X11 to be installed to do <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2011/04/oracle-why-do-i-need-x-to-install/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Newegg continues to spam</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/12/newegg-continues-to-spam/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/12/newegg-continues-to-spam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 8th, 2010, the employee spammed in the last post and a new employee were sent unsolicited email (spam) by Newegg. So now that&#8217;s 3 email addresses, and while I was a customer of Newegg in the past, I have never used my work email address with them, and the other 2 people recently <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/12/newegg-continues-to-spam/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Newegg sends spam, can not learn from previous mistakes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/newegg-sends-spam-can-not-learn-from-previous-mistakes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/newegg-sends-spam-can-not-learn-from-previous-mistakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that for many, Newegg is a great place to buy things. I can no longer in good conscience recommend or advocate using NewEgg as a provider of your computing and electronic needs. Let me step back a bit, back to August 18th, 2010 and August 30th, 2010 when I received unsolicited email (in <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/newegg-sends-spam-can-not-learn-from-previous-mistakes/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>DNS MX vs IPv4 &amp; IPv6</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/dns-mx-vs-ipv4-ipv6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/dns-mx-vs-ipv4-ipv6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday &#8211; a very interesting issue cropped up&#8230; Another local provider had email warnings being generated that they could not connect to our frontend MX servers. The error itself was: IPv6 is not supported Which is not very clear for a reason email can not be delivered. I mean, my systems are working fine with <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/dns-mx-vs-ipv4-ipv6/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Xfinity vs Hulu direct &#8211; what&#8217;s up?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/xfinity-vs-hulu-direct-whats-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/xfinity-vs-hulu-direct-whats-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Xfinity, the new name for the Comcast triple play, is using Hulu as the backend content provider. What could go wrong? Oh, maybe the video quality will be 1/2 of what Hulu provides directly! Could be that Comcast is re-compressing the data and I have included the screen captures to prove it. If Comcast isn&#8217;t re-compressing (and I <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/11/xfinity-vs-hulu-direct-whats-up/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Re-carpeting the data center &#8211; in review</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/04/re-carpeting-the-data-center-in-review/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/04/re-carpeting-the-data-center-in-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just random sets of links to different sites that were linking back or referencing our April Fools tie in. We had a great day and some very silly feedback &#8211; and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. http://www.thewhir.com/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/ http://topicfire.com/ http://www.webhostersnews.com/ http://seclists.org/nanog/ &#8211; my personal favorite http://robot-roomba.cellcasesandmore.com/ http://www.vrytek.com/ http://betterhostingplans.com/ http://friendfeed.com/ http://twitter.com/ <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/04/re-carpeting-the-data-center-in-review/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Distributions vs PHP</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The splintering of Linux distributions seems to be continuing! This week, I have had requests for PHP versions 5.3 and 5.2 on both Red Hat EL 5 and CentOS 5 &#8211; though never distribution supports higher than 5.1.6 in the official repositories. PHP 5.2 has been out quite a while. Ubuntu Hardy LTS has it <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye VISI, it had been good</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/goodbye-visi-it-had-been-good/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/goodbye-visi-it-had-been-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[VISI sells to TDS for $17.8M]]></description>
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		<title>The new iPad hype</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/the-new-ipad-hype/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/the-new-ipad-hype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the issue really? Oh noes, no camera? That&#8217;ll change I bet. No flash? Win in my book! No multitasking? Really, you wanna run more things, buy a computer. Now, the speculation about version 2 makes me laugh, but really, aren&#8217;t we at version 3? In my office common area, I have version 1, and <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/the-new-ipad-hype/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>UNIX Shell services, what&#8217;s the fuss?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what&#8217;s the big deal? I think I know&#8230; Not everyone uses the Internet for viewing web pages and downloading pr0nself-help videos and television shows. The Internet itself has become much easier for the layman to use, and with that, these historical services are <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Over Subscription vs Over Capacity &#8211; huh?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a whole slew of tweets showed up across my feed dealing with the perceived and measured issues across multiple public cloud providers infrastructure. One of the posts comes from Chris Hoff (this post in particular) that describes quite clearly what the differences are. Service providers (anyone doing cloud services, virtualization, colocation, bandwidth, whatever) live upon the <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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