Archive for 2009

This is one of my bosses favorite sayings. I must admit its pretty good and for sure its something you need to do. Its especially something you need to do if you when you walk into a new environment and the previous care taker is no longer available.

Check your backup policies, make sure that you aren’t backing up 15 rotating daily copies of a version controlled repository to tape every day (all 15). Check your storage systems. Make sure that the raid levels are sane, and that redundancy and hot spares are available for all raid sets unless its meant to be some fast scratch disk.

Ha! I caught you. I bet you think this post is about HA or some way to keep your servers running.

Nope, just an observation.

1,2,3) Today is 9/9/9

4) there are 9 letters in September

5) there are 9 letters in Wednesday

6) it is the 252 day of the year, 2+5+2=9,

7) I was born 9/9/81,

9×9=81,

9) 8+1=9.

Wow and to think it was such a problematic day at work! I thought I had everything going for me today.

I love how there is all of this squabbling about what the definition of broadband is.

“The Commission should continue to look at maximum advertised speed rather than some measure of ‘actual’ speed,”

and

consumers have “access to broadband capability” whenever they have the opportunity to
purchase services and equipment that enable them to access the Internet at any time and use the
types of applications that are most commonly used today, such as e-mail and web browsing.11 It
is this basic “always on” functionality that is most relevant for definitional purposes, more so
than the presence or absence of the various detailed characteristics (e.g., latency, jitter,
symmetry, mobility) mentioned in the Commission in the Notice.12

Full Response

I find both quotes pretty interesting. On one hand the Cable commission sounds like they are trying to hide something from the consumer by not wanting to be measured. On the other hand consumers (in my experience) have little knowledge of how the tubes work and I could see litigation being brought about because someone saturated his uplink and was then repeated fragged losing his perfect score.

I also think its funny that most commonly used conveniently leaves out “rich” media like streaming audio and video but these are daily parts of life any more. Personally I would lump it in with web browsing but try telling that to your cable provider and walking away with your bits still attached. (think bandwidth based billing)

It looks like I will need a windows backup solution for a small project soon. As you probably know I don’t typically do Windows so I am reaching out. I typically use rsync for most of my backup needs. To be more specific I like to use rsnapshot which is a wrapper around rsync. Have you ever wanted rsync on windows? What did you use.

I am aware of several options.

There is of course cygwin. Beyond cygwin it seems nasbackup (http://www.nasbackup.com) and deltacopy (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp) were the best options I could find.

Do you have any suggestions? What other solutions for windows backup have you used. I don’t have a specific reason but I just cringe at the thought of using windows internal backup mechanism.

It took me a long time to hunt these down and I think default passwords should be freely available.

Aspire webpro (default ip is 172.16.0.10):

Administrator Username: ASPIRE

Administrator Password: 12345678

Extension Username: extension number

Extension Password: 1111

UltraMail (default ip is 192.168.1.250):

Service Number: 2000

System Password: CTL

I also found a manual for UltraMail, and a UserPro manual for programming the handsets with the web interface.

Hopefully none of you are stuck with one of these systems. Hopefully given the option you choose something like Asterisk. Hopefully if 1 and 2 are not true this information helps you.