Geoff Arnold

Cross-reference

geoff — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:13:01 +0000

I’ve been at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, OR this week. I’ve posted a couple of blog pieces on the topic of interoperability and governance over at my other blog. {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}Cross-reference

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Cross-reference

Laptop chosen – thanks for all the advice

geoff — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:03:44 +0000

I wound up getting an Apple MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch, 2.6GHz Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD. Half a dozen of my colleagues had chosen the 13″ rMBP with various sizes of SSD, and it feels like the perfect compromise between power and weight. Normally I’d have bought an extra power supply, but since I [...]

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Laptop chosen – thanks for all the advice

My next laptop: a tough choice

geoff — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:57:03 +0000

I few weeks ago I started work at Vyatta, which had been recently acquired by Brocade. On my first day, I was handed a Brocade corporate laptop. It’s a Dell: 13″ screen, 4GB, 128GB SSD, Windows 7. As corporate laptops go, it’s perfectly nice, but I’ve been a Mac user for many years now, and [...]

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My next laptop: a tough choice

Too many little plastic boxes connected to my TV

geoff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:17:46 +0000

I’m pretty much out of ports on my TV. I’ve got a Motorola set-top box/DVR from ComcastXfinity (a crappy early model with hardly any disk space), a PlayStation 3, an Apple TV, and a Roku 2XS. I need the ATV for AirPlay from my iPad or MacBook Air, plus YouTube; I need the Roku because [...]

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Too many little plastic boxes connected to my TV

Thought for the day

geoff — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:20:30 +0000

The tl;dr version: Arguably all interesting advances in computer science and software engineering occur when a resource that was previously scarce or expensive becomes cheap and plentiful. The longer version: This particular thought was provoked by a series of exchanges on blogs and in Twitter yesterday. It started with a piece at Information Week in [...]

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Thought for the day

A new home (for the box)

geoff — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:22:55 +0000

I’m composing this while surrounded by Ethernet cables, sitting on the (raised) floor of the Layer 42 colo in Mountain View. This is the new home of the box (grommit) that hosts email, blogs, and various stuff for me, friends and family. Steve Lau and I (but mostly Steve) are working to sort out the [...]

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A new home (for the box)

Cleaning up after a hack

geoff — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:12:38 +0000

I spent several hours today disinfecting my other website (Speaking of Clouds, also reachable as GeoffArnoldConsulting.com) after a WordPress hack attack. As is often the case, I was saved by the incompetence of the hackers, who had modified my .htaccess files in such a way that it created an infinite redirection loop. (Hint: you’re not [...]

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Cleaning up after a hack

Live, learn, fix, repeat – my thoughts on the recent AWS outage.

geoff — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:03:44 +0000

On Monday, I had a conversation with Derrick Harriss of GigaOM, which he published here. I’ve followed up with a piece on my tech blog, adding a few thoughts and ripping the naivety of certain analysts… {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at geoffarnold.com.}}Live, learn, fix, repeat – my [...]

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Live, learn, fix, repeat – my thoughts on the recent AWS outage.

Just published: “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold

geoff — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:38:56 +0000

After years of work by many people, we’ve finally published my mother’s memoirs. “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold is now available from Lulu. A Kindle version is on the way, and both of them should show up on Amazon quite soon. {{This is just an excerpt, retrieved via RSS/ATOM; read the whole piece at [...]

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Just published: “My Short Century” by Lorna Arnold

Quick tip: if your Mac disk goes south…

geoff — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:47:09 +0000

Yesterday I had an unrecoverable file system error on my MacBook Air running 10.8 Preview 2. Disk Utility instructed me to back up what files I could and then reformat. Since I had an up-to-date Time Machine backup, I wasn’t worried. I reformatted, and reinstalled the OS. However, I discovered that the OS installation had [...]

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Quick tip: if your Mac disk goes south…