My DSL was down for about 36 hours, possibly longer. Southwestern Bell evidently was able to fix it during the night.
I’ve got to get in to work to babysit a server and call Compaq and scream bloody murder for not dispatching a technician when they said they would. I’ll be back in a while.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He started his career as a part-time computer technician in 1994, worked his way up to system administrator by 1997, and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He invests in real estate on the side and his hobbies include O gauge trains, baseball cards, and retro computers and video games. A University of Missouri graduate, he holds CISSP and Security+ certifications. He lives in St. Louis with his family.
Speaking of Compaq, I am in Switzerland working for a customer who has provided me with two brand new Compaq DL580 servers to work on. I had to open the servers to install more memory and I noticed that they were only using two out of four processors in the machine. While running task manager I noticed that 4 processors are reported. These machines are using processors with the new Hyper Threading technology from Intel. I knew that the technology means that you “almost” have 4 available processors, I never thought that the OS would actually report them as four physical processors. Pretty interesting. I wonder if Linux would report four separate processors as well….
/Dave T.
That’s pretty crappy. According to 486-era specs, the original Pentium “almost” gave you two processors (I remember an early article describing a Pentium as almost like a 386DX and 486DX on the same die). Marchitecture strikes again. Intel must have hired the guys who measure hard drive capacity.
good to see you back. :o)