http://www.notgoodenough.net The things that just aren't quite good enough... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:45:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have some spare slots in an IBM EXP810 disk tray attached to our DS4000 series storage system and thought of filling them with 1TB SATA disks. MCG Technology have 1TB Seagate drives (ST31000340AS) for $179 including tax (or 16c per GB). Note that these drives come with a 5 ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/56 OpenLDAP is open source LDAP software. It's used on a lot of Unix and Linux distributions. ldapsearch is a utility that comes with OpenLDAP. It allows you to search an LDAP directory from the command line. This is potentially very useful when you need to access LDAP from a shell ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/49 I went to shut my computer down last night and received the following error (it turns out that "No" was the option I wanted - "Yes" didn't seem to do anything): It's just not good enough! http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/46 Ah, criticising Microsoft is a bit like picking on the disabled kid. Anyway, one of the issues we have with Windows is when a user accidentally moves a directory.  How do you accidentally move a directory you ask. By moving your mouse across the screen. Sometimes, for one reason or another, ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/37 I'm big on virtualisation. I think it's the way of the future, especially from a DR perspective. The combination of VMware ESX and SAN replication means that the downtime due to the loss of a data centre can be minimised. Virtualisation potentially makes DR a lot easier. As a matter ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/34 We have an IBM Blade Center with two Management Modules, two Nortel Ethernet switches and two Brocade Fibre Channel switches. The Management modules are used to provide the I/O Modules (the Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches) with basic network configuration (IP address, etc.). The rest of the configuration of the I/O ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/29 Ah IBM. Their Remote Supervisor Adapter II allows for the creation of up to 12 login ids. The problem is, when you create a password it doesn't tell you if the password is too long. From trial and error, it seems that the maximum password length is 15 characters. I've ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/23 In virtually every application I use, including Lotus Notes, Control-F brings up the Find dialogue. This seems to be the default behaviour for Windows applications. There is an exception though - Microsoft Outlook. In Outlook 2007, Control-F is the keyboard shortcut to forward a message. So, Microsoft has broken their ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/22 You just gone out and spent all your money on a fleet of Packeteer iShapers (or PacketShapers and iShared) and want to use them to optimise your network. So, you plan to run cram as much TCP traffic down your WDC tunnel as possible to make the most of your ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/21 You could dedicate a whole site to the problems with this product. However, lets start with just one. The iShaper is basically a melding of the Packeteer PacketShaper and the Packeteer iShared (a product Packteer acquired through their takeover of Tacit Networks). It consists of two planes - the Inline plane ... http://www.notgoodenough.net/archives/20