http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com Do it faster. Do it better. Do it in private -- blog style. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:24:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Welcome to Starbucks!" "Uh yea I’ll have a half decaf grande half-soy, half-low fat, iced white chocolate mocha ,double-shot, gingerbread latte, extra dry, light ice, with 3 Splenda’s, one Sweet-n'-Low, and one NutraSweet please!" "…Coming right up, Next!" "Umm, I want a hot tall skinny upside down ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/welcome-to-starbucks/ Well, I have been here working for Softlayer for a week and it has been GREAT. Not great... UNBELIEVEABLE! I just graduated from ITT just down the street in Chantilly, Va with a degree unrelated to what I am doing right now. To be honest, I was ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/new-kid-in-town/ Somewhat picking up on the theme of the blog, “Here’s to you, that nerdy Sysadmin”, this is a sort of, “Here’s to you, our family tree of customers.” I find it very interesting how everyone in the world has customers. Our customer’s, customer’s, customer’s, customer’s…and so on…depend on us here ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/a-little-philosophical-thought-the-softlayer-family-tree/ A Blog is a strong commitment. I mean, if you just set up a web page, it's obvious that you're going to update occasionally, maybe once or twice a month, add a new page or two. I've seen viable websites that haven't been updated since before Y2K. ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/writing-a-blog-is-hard/ It was the day of the big secret meeting. All my vice presidents were there except for the unix system administrator. He was a strange man, always wearing that robe, with the long beard and long hair. He considered himself some sort of wizard, and after the ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/i-always-have-a-backup-plan/ One of the hot topics over the past couple of weeks in our growing industry has been how to minimize downtime should your (or your host’s) data center experience catastrophic failure leading to outages that could span multiple days. Some will think that it is the host’s responsibility to essentially maintain ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/planning-for-data-center-disasters-doesn%e2%80%99t-have-to-cost-a-lot-of/ More RAM. DDR2 must be going out of style, because Microcenter is selling a gig for $12.99. This time I don't make it in time before they run out, and I settle for sour grapes: my home pc can't use all the addressable memory, anyway. 4 Gigabytes. ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/more-ram/ In Memory of Dawn Dawn was the best friend I’ve ever had, except for my little sister. Just yesterday I got home only to find out that Dawn had died silently in the night. No amount of resuscitation could bring her back. Needless to say, I was quite ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/in-memory-of-dawn/ After separating from the military about a year ago, I was sure I was in for a bit of a culture shock. As you may very well know, the military is very different from life in what we liked to call the “real world”. 24 hour duties, life ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/culture-shock/ I know what you're thinking; here I go again talking about why you HAVE to outsource your datacenter and infrastructure. Not this time. In previous blogs I have talked about doctors and baseball players, etc and the ways they outsource. It hit me that everyone most likely ... http://theinnerlayer.softlayer.com/2008/have-to-be-technical-to-outsource-nah/