http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com The ins and outs of Yvo's life. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:49:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So 18 months ago I deployed Zabbix at McGraw-Hill. Now I am doing exactly the same, only with a bit more hardware at Classmates.com The setup. Run Zabbix 1.5.3 in all 3 environments. Don't customize so we can upgrade to 1.6 when that's released in Q4 08. Web / zabbix_serverd process server 1 ... http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2008/work-related/deploying-zabbix-once-again/ So with a certain fruit company announcing Exchange support for their one button phone 5-6 weeks ago, I signed up my department and we got approved even though I sponsored myself on everything (corporate didn't and they did all the proper sponserships, heheheh. I guess the fruit company still likes ... http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2008/work-related/w00t-exchange-support-on-my-nda-phone/ It wasn't too long ago (2 years) where somehow it was required to be in front of a machine if it were to go down (as in it was no longer accessible via the OS) or needed an OS installed. Thankfully the most of the servers I work with now ... http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2008/work-related/simply-put-ilo-rules/ So it took a week longer then anticipated but last night we booked our vacation to Aruba at the end of this month. Mmmmmm 7 days of glorious Caribbean sun. http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2008/life/aruba/ I am glad some of my faith was restored in the voters of some US states; today Barack Obama won all Democratic party caucuses and primaries being held in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington State. Afterwards he gave a very electrifying speech quoting former great presidents (not necessarily Democrat either) such ... http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2008/life/obama-sweeps-saturdays-democratic-contests/ It occurred to me that I should write more on this blog. Alas a lot of times I don't have something interesting to say or I have to rant about something. Then there are those moments where I truly do want to post something up but another event pops up. ... http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2008/work-related/what-im-up-to/ Going back to good ol' Virginia for 3 days this time instead of 3 weeks. Hopefully HP will get their sh... I mean act together so all the parts I need are there when I get there. One thing is for sure, navigating the HP support tree is helluva lot ... http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/back-to-virginia/ The last 3 weeks I've spent my time in Virginia, specifically in one of the Equinix datacenters in Ashburn. I was there to help build out a datacenter. When we arrived it was a box galore everywhere (165 HP DL365s, 50 Cisco 3750s, 30 Cisco 2960s, 2 Cisco 6500s) and ... http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/the-virginia-transformation/ All in a day's work. A cart full of 24 port Cisco 3750s... the 48 port variety is in another area. http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/cart-of-ciscos/ I'll be in VA / DC from November 1st through November 20th building out a new data center. Fun fun. http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/2007/life/in-vadc-for-awhile/