Comments for Karl Katzke http://www.karlkatzke.com Geek of the Week Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Subcontracting: What Not To Try At Home (Reno Tales: Part 6) by Ildefonso http://www.karlkatzke.com/subcontracting-what-not-to-try-at-home-reno-tales-part-6/comment-page-1/#comment-2661 Ildefonso Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:39:59 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=678#comment-2661 Greetings, Just one piece of advice here: while "the professionals do it", always keep an eye on them. I have seen "professionals" do a much worse work than the one I could do myself, and after they do a bad work, waste material, they still want me to pay them! for which I just say: ok, I'll pay you, but the material you wasted gets discounted, at which point they could even owe me money! This actually happen once (that they ended owing me money), after that experience, I never, ever, leave a "professional" do the work without my supervision, if he/she doesn't like it: they can go find work somewhere else. Greetings,

Just one piece of advice here: while “the professionals do it”, always keep an eye on them.

I have seen “professionals” do a much worse work than the one I could do myself, and after they do a bad work, waste material, they still want me to pay them! for which I just say: ok, I’ll pay you, but the material you wasted gets discounted, at which point they could even owe me money! This actually happen once (that they ended owing me money), after that experience, I never, ever, leave a “professional” do the work without my supervision, if he/she doesn’t like it: they can go find work somewhere else.

]]> Comment on IPMI / STONITH howto with Pacemaker by Chach http://www.karlkatzke.com/ipmi-stonith-howto-with-pacemaker/comment-page-1/#comment-2649 Chach Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:42:51 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=446#comment-2649 Hi, I'm trying to test out a drbd/pacemaker/stonith solution and am struggling with the stonith part. I see your solution above and that sounds great but then i saw this article: http://theclusterguy.clusterlabs.org/post/113230399/highly-available-data-corruption What do you think of that? You would be using an onboard IPMI controller right? Like you, I'm a developer turned sys admin so there are some things on the hardware side that i don't know yet so any opinion would be appreciated! Saw your "1 1/2 years as a homeown" article and checked it out by curiosity. Home ownership is definitely not for everybody. As a former house owner, it's nice right now to be living in an apartment :) Cheers, Chach Hi,

I’m trying to test out a drbd/pacemaker/stonith solution and am struggling with the stonith part. I see your solution above and that sounds great but then i saw this article:

http://theclusterguy.clusterlabs.org/post/113230399/highly-available-data-corruption

What do you think of that? You would be using an onboard IPMI controller right?

Like you, I’m a developer turned sys admin so there are some things on the hardware side that i don’t know yet so any opinion would be appreciated!

Saw your “1 1/2 years as a homeown” article and checked it out by curiosity. Home ownership is definitely not for everybody. As a former house owner, it’s nice right now to be living in an apartment :)

Cheers,
Chach

]]> Comment on XenD fails to start due to xml error by Chirag Gandhi http://www.karlkatzke.com/xend-fails-to-start-due-to-xml-error/comment-page-1/#comment-2625 Chirag Gandhi Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:11:33 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=458#comment-2625 Just gr8! Man.... you are the best Virtual Guy !!! :) it worked ... finally my xend is UP. thanks aton. Just gr8! Man…. you are the best Virtual Guy !!! :) it worked …

finally my xend is UP.

thanks aton.

]]> Comment on MySQL Cache Optimization by Alejandro Rivero http://www.karlkatzke.com/mysql-cache-optimization/comment-page-1/#comment-2600 Alejandro Rivero Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:53:49 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=230#comment-2600 Fascinating bottleneck. I was rotating table names and I choke with it, or a very similar one. Fascinating bottleneck. I was rotating table names and I choke with it, or a very similar one.

]]> Comment on LSI Logic SAS Driver for VMWare vSphere 4 by bill http://www.karlkatzke.com/lsi-logic-sas-driver-for-vmware-vsphere-4/comment-page-1/#comment-2561 bill Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:34:53 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=542#comment-2561 Thanks that helped Nice Ridgeback Thanks that helped

Nice Ridgeback

]]> Comment on Resume by Chris http://www.karlkatzke.com/about/resume/comment-page-1/#comment-2292 Chris Fri, 20 May 2011 19:33:11 +0000 http://karlkatzke.com/new/?page_id=104#comment-2292 I am real inspired with your resume, your degree is not related to computers but you have more skills than many IT professionals have. Congratulations!!! I am real inspired with your resume, your degree is not related to computers but you have more skills than many IT professionals have.
Congratulations!!!

]]> Comment on Organization on the Mac / OneNote Replacement by Wayne http://www.karlkatzke.com/organization-on-the-mac-onenote-replacement/comment-page-1/#comment-2208 Wayne Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:03:35 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=564#comment-2208 Journler is back. He restarted in February 2011. http://www.journler.com/blog/2011/02/09/restarting-sprouted-open-sourcing-journler-and-per-se-new-journaling-software-for-your-mac/ Journler is back. He restarted in February 2011.

http://www.journler.com/blog/2011/02/09/restarting-sprouted-open-sourcing-journler-and-per-se-new-journaling-software-for-your-mac/

]]> Comment on Dear Packagecon Dev Team, by Marcin Rzeźnicki http://www.karlkatzke.com/dear-packagecon-dev-team/comment-page-1/#comment-2203 Marcin Rzeźnicki Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:33:50 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=168#comment-2203 Just typed 'PackageKit sucks' in Google and came here. In 2011 it still sucks :-) Every few minutes it informs me via big notification that I can upgrade to Fedora 14 (thanks for that, really helpful - i feel like back in the Windows XP days where every program flashed endless stream of notifications to distract me). Every hour or so it grinds my VM to halt because it feels like browsing all the repositories is the most important thing to do right now (and it never discovers any new updates at all, even if they already are in the repository it is supposed to check) etc. My recommendation: instead of whining about 'hard work' you've put into it do just one thing. Make it stop right after user logs on and the first check for updates has been made. Just stop it. Maybe add an option in tray - 'check for updates now' or 'enable needless messing with your work'. Let it sleep and never do anything unless explicitly asked. If you're into hard work then you can prepare different profiles: "I don't want to be bugged by PackageKit - profile', 'I'm not in the mood for any work today, grind my machine and give me excuse that I'm updating - profile' etc. Just put your hard work into getting this soft out of users way. Certainly your work will be much more appreciated. Thanks Just typed ‘PackageKit sucks’ in Google and came here. In 2011 it still sucks :-) Every few minutes it informs me via big notification that I can upgrade to Fedora 14 (thanks for that, really helpful – i feel like back in the Windows XP days where every program flashed endless stream of notifications to distract me). Every hour or so it grinds my VM to halt because it feels like browsing all the repositories is the most important thing to do right now (and it never discovers any new updates at all, even if they already are in the repository it is supposed to check) etc. My recommendation: instead of whining about ‘hard work’ you’ve put into it do just one thing. Make it stop right after user logs on and the first check for updates has been made. Just stop it. Maybe add an option in tray – ‘check for updates now’ or ‘enable needless messing with your work’. Let it sleep and never do anything unless explicitly asked. If you’re into hard work then you can prepare different profiles: “I don’t want to be bugged by PackageKit – profile’, ‘I’m not in the mood for any work today, grind my machine and give me excuse that I’m updating – profile’ etc. Just put your hard work into getting this soft out of users way. Certainly your work will be much more appreciated. Thanks

]]> Comment on Insulation, Code, and “Close In” Permits (Reno Tales: Part 5) by Juan tavera http://www.karlkatzke.com/insulation-code-and-close-in-permits-reno-tales-part-5/comment-page-1/#comment-2159 Juan tavera Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:12:15 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/?p=668#comment-2159 Hey your post really help me a lot. Got a question? Im doing the insulation part to call and have it inspected How can i do that When i finish all the frame i call All frame and the 3 digit code I live on dallaa tx Will it be. Green? Or ..... Thanks Hey your post really help me a lot.
Got a question?
Im doing the insulation part to call and have it inspected
How can i do that
When i finish all the frame i call
All frame and the 3 digit code
I live on dallaa tx
Will it be. Green? Or …..
Thanks

]]> Comment on Best Practices for Managing Releases with Subversion by Rob http://www.karlkatzke.com/best-practices-for-managing-releases-with-subversion/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 Rob Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:22:14 +0000 http://www.karlkatzke.com/2007/03/30/best-practices-for-managing-releases-with-subversion/#comment-2013 I think some of the biggest issues companies have is with managing the structure of their repositories and deciding when to branch and when to tag. A pretty good simple explanation of svn best practices for structure here: http://www.duchnik.com/tutorials/vc/svn-best-practices I think some of the biggest issues companies have is with managing the structure of their repositories and deciding when to branch and when to tag. A pretty good simple explanation of svn best practices for structure here:

http://www.duchnik.com/tutorials/vc/svn-best-practices

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