Category: Technology
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ZFS out, BTRFS in
I run a fairly large repository server which my children have nicknamed FatDrive. It is a 19 drive unit, with a total capacity of 35TB. Not in the extremely large size, but good enough. The box, like most of my Linux runs Gentoo. It is just faster. At first I was just running LVM with…
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Gentoo OpenRC by surprise and other lessons of the day.
Well, this shows you should keep on top of open source, especially with Gentoo. I did the standard emerge –sync since it has been > 48 days since I last updated my terabyte server. After this, I ran an emerge -av –update system. Yes there were 14 files which needed to be recompiled. Turns out…
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WordPress, Gentoo and a blank update screen
Getting back into the swing of things, I decided to update my WordPress software on the server. Having moved the web hosting from an old virtual server to a new Gentoo installation, I had not updated this software this year yet. When I went to install the software, and clicked on update, the system prompted…
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Replacing software, do I have to?
Many companies question existing software. “This software was written on and old XXXXX system and still works today, but we are not sure if we couldn’t get more out of a new system?” some say. Or more likely, “We have this system and it is just not doing what we need.” The interesting thing about…
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Understanding your people and processes before your system
If I were to pick out the one concept that most companies fail to understand, it is the three cornerstones of a business. Sure the foundation is built on the customers, and sales are built on good customers, but like all good structures, the foundation is only as good as the cornerstones. People, Process and…
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Defining your needs before you buy
So what do taxes and computer systems have in common? Well it is not that they are inevitable, because I have seen profitable companies that have very little in the way of corporate software and no, QuickBooks and Excel do not make a software solution. Well we will discuss that answer in just a bit,…
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Evaluation of Software
In the purchase of new software one of the key issues that companies face ensuring the money they are going to spend will work for them. Many companies find a software package they would like, purchase the software, and wonder why installation/adoption of the software does not go well. Taking the time up front to…
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Magic Pill
First, let me say that I find “news marketing” kind of cheesy. A company makes a sale to a customer, and publishes it as “news” by providing small quotes, and then giving details of the company sold and themselves. Usually there are some key phrases and buzz words in the article to get the attention…
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SAP is having problems
IBD put out a very interesting article about SAP today relating to problems the software giant is having. As they state, customers are unhappy, Oracle (SAP’s predominate DB platform) is unhappy, I2 is now unhappy with them, investors are unhappy and the company is now doing something which has never occurred. It is promoting a Salesman…
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RFID, is there real growth?
RFID Journal Reported: ABI Research, headquartered in Oyster Bay, N.Y., has announced that it expects the worldwide RFID market—sales of RFID hardware, software and services—will have a compound annual growth rate of about 15 percent from now until 2013, with annual revenue reaching $9.7 billion by that year. ABI’s research director, Michael Liard, believes the…