Points of Interest
By jeffreycentex on Sep 9, 2007 in General Networking
Post Tags: General Networking
Wow… My last post was a holiday ago. 
A few items of interest:
- The wireless WAN problem I mentioned a few months ago has been solved using about $8 of supplies from my local Lowes store. The problem was due to the extreme heat that we have down here in Central Texas (and to tell you the truth, this has been a pretty cool year). My solution? Build a mesh shelter out of storage cubes and patio screen fabric. My problems are now gone. Of course, the point would have been made moot in another month or so, but it felt good to get it solved.
- Cisco’s TelePresence room is cool.. If you haven’t seen the TelePresence rooms in one of the local Cisco office, try to make it a point to see it in the future. This room is like a virtual conference room (which isn’t that special), but there implementation is excellent (with surround sound, similar furniture, etc).
- Sysprep and Mass Storage Drivers suck. Actually, that is being too kind. I spent over a week fighting with Sysprep and getting the 5 different type of Mass Storage devices working on a Windows XP image. Why Windows XP? Our LOB applications still do not work reliably under Windows Vista (ESRI, Bentley/Haestad Methods, and Oce Archiving).
More soon.. 
Site Note:
I have started locking some of the older posts due to spam problems. These spam postings never make the public side of the site, but are VERY annoying on the administrative side of the blog.
1 Comment(s)
By Artie on Sep 19, 2007 | Reply
I don’t care how many great database tools you’ve got running or implemented if you don’t have a good run book automation in place and you’re not making the most out of database automation, then you’re probably going to find yourself left out in the cold in the coming months and years and so it is of utmost importance that we all look towards automation solutions.
These days businesses who employ IT professionals not only want their knowledge but they also want cost effective ways to make their networks service them and their client base better. It pros who are serious about automation already know that it always helps to improve application availability for all the software applications that run on the said network. Stay sharp and look to the future because it’s automation!