Is it just me? Whenever I have to restart something or do some actual maintenance on a server - that my heart starts pumping and I get really really nervous. I've heard many times people say things like: "pain is temporary, glory is forever" (quote from a movie) when it comes …

You can download the Beta here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html The release notes are here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/ Some cool stuff, but should you upgrade already? I ran the Firefox 4 beta for what feels like forever and didn't have …

How to find the latest firmware for an HP Brocade SAN switch How to find out which Brocade Firmware is the latest and which is the last supported one? On HP SPOCK: http://h20272.www2.hp.com/ (this required an HP Passport, they are free to create). Go to Switches …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day In honor of Douglas Adams - author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (five books...). Don't forget your towel and more importantly: don't panic!

Saw this note today in the MOTD - that I can upgrade with do-release-upgrade. Official instructions/details from Ubuntu and here is another quality post on unixtutorial. My Ubuntu 10.10 is running inside a VMWare Workstation Virtual Machine on my Windows 7 x64. I did it over ssh with 'sudo …

Dying is Fine - Ra Ra Riot - Sounds a lot like Morrissey occasionally, but not often enough for me to start hurling, so I liek. Beware of their main web site http://www.rarariot.com/ - you can get epilepsia for free there. Wild bass in the song Boy - check it out …

Just a good howto - tip - solution. It's a little hard to find good threads. Hard to find something.. should probably write it in here when I think of it. Also the ITRC are moving to another platform in June 2011 so maybe these won't be available after this. ** Update 2011-06-27 …

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Storage-Area-Networks-SAN/XCS-10-000-00/m-p/4789795 2011-07-12: Updated with new link to new HP ITRC forum. Also it looks like VAAI is not implemented in this firmware. Some more news! With Google Translate: "Under the new EVA was also the XCS software updated and is now …

Baeutiful! Goran Bregovic - Black Cat White Cat Gypsy music for the win! Other good stuff to check out: Katzenjammer and Gogol Bordello

From the front page of thesixtyone.com Just Pretend - Hayley Sales is soft and nice. I like the part when the bass is more pronounced with about 50s left. Train Song - Felix Fables - Folk Frenzy? Doesn't sound very folky to me. Maybe the background tunes and vocals are. Quite down …