http://www.JamesMBurke.com A personal web log Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:28:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I now have a second blog going on blogs.netapp.com.  It will be where all work-related postings go.  So, if you're here looking for my random work related thoughts, please check out my new blog:  WHU Who!? http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2008/01/03/a-second-blog/ If you usually visit jbctech.com, you may have noticed that the site was redirected to an advertisement page for the last two days.  That's because I forgot to renew my domain name.  I've owned jbctech.com for the last 11-12 years and have never let it expire like that.  I believe ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/11/27/jbctechcom-outage/ I was browsing around the web the other day, and stumbled upon a blog entry from Jesse Ruderman.  In this blog entry, he describes one of the reasons he likes the hosting provider DreamHost so much.  You know what that is?  Snapshots.  Sweet! DreamHost uses NetApp!  He mentions in there ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/09/21/web-hosting-and-netapp/ So, as most of you know...even though I work on the Windows platform - I'm an Apple fan.  As such, I subscribe to one of our mac mailing list to listen in on what other Appleheads at NetApp are doing.  The other day, Albert Y., a fellow engineer in RTP ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/09/17/iscsi-on-the-iphone/ I was born in the Texas panhandle and spent a majority of my life in West Texas/Southeastern New Mexico...where it was hot and dry.  I never really experienced much humidity - but I've experienced extreme temperatures living in Arizona.  Since I've lived here in North Carolina, the weather hasn't really ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/07/air-quality/ It's funny -- the other day at work, I was talking to another Apple fan and we were discussing how dumb it is that the AirPort Extreme supported 802.11a, b, g, and even n but lacked gigabit ethernet.  I was really wanting to get one, because I've been looking for ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/07/apple-airport-extreme-with-gige/ This past weekend, Rebecca and I went to one of the malls in Durham, The Streets at Southpoint. While there, we went to BODIES: The Exhibition. What is it? Their website describes it as: BODIES...The Exhibition Celebrate the wonder of the human form in the World Premier of BODIES ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/02/bodies-the-exhibition/ Data ONTAP(R) DSM 3.1 for Windows(R) MPIO has been posted to the NetApp NOW website. Last week, we finalized the product and it is now available for download. This release includes the following new features: New load balance policies that offer multiple active paths to a LUN (also known ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/02/data-ontap-dsm-31-posted-to-now/ Speaking of the blog, you may notice that there are a few oddities...for instance, even though this post is posted under the "Blog" category, it doesn't show up under the title.  I'm working on resolving that issue.  The problem lies in that I always run the "bleeding edge" version of ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/01/oddities/ Yesterday, you may have noticed that the blog was down.  I recently switched hosting providers and had to move the data over.  As it turns out, everything appears to be fully functional again.  The backup from the previous hosting provider was a bit over a gigabyte - that included my ... http://www.JamesMBurke.com/2007/08/01/quick-downtime/