Some of the worst infrastructural issues OpenRain has had since inception has been border hardware. We’ve been through all typical COTS models you’d find at Best Buy, but all have had issues with at least one of.. Dropping inbound traffic due to some stupid “DDoS Protection” feature we couldn’t disable. Not passing VPN traffic though [...]
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Leopard Server: Bonjour-Based DNS A Performance No-No
May 29th, 2008
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Prior to moving into the new OpenRain office (announcement coming in June), we used OS X’s magical .local addressing to find all our servers. This allowed us to keep almost everything on DHCP, which is trivial to set up and administer. Little did we know, however, that this was being the root cause of many [...]
Welcomed To The RRoD Club
January 7th, 2008
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I powered on the ol’ Xbox 360 this weekend to finish Mass Effect, a feat which I was especially pumped about since I’ve been told I’m extremely close. Much to my surprise, Microsoft had left a super special, albeit slightly belated Christmas surprise up in my tubes.Awesome!! Thanks, Redmond!!
What's Better Than Windows Balloon Help?…
December 7th, 2007
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Twice as much balloon help! My current testing environment for JumpBox development uses two Windows XP virtual machines on OS X under Parallels coherence mode: one with IE6 (gold taskbar on the bottom), the other IE7 (blue taskbar on the right). While they perform sufficiently with 4GB physical RAM, the constant nurturing required to keep [...]
