Colin McNamara - CCIE 18233 , RHCE, GCIH, CCVP, GEEK

One giant pain I have always faced when working with high security environments is dealing with surveillance systems. They are a necessary and required part of your security infrastructure. However they just never seem to integrate as well as your network, storage, or server devices.
When I work with data center infrastructure I expect the following [...]

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In the past couple years, VMware has changed from a product hidden in development and testing environments to a full fledged enterprise computing platform. It brings many benefits to the companies that implement it, however with those benefits come changes to the access layer of your data center. Your access layer is no longer a [...]

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Cisco recently released a new series of router called the Aggregation Services Router, or ASR for short. This series of routers is mainly targeted at the service provider market, where it is targeted as a single chassis solution for what is called the “triple play” - Voice, Video, and Data. More accurately it can [...]

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Ok, put the guns away. Linux rocks… My beef is with GoDaddy and how they are hurting the average linux virtual dedicated server user.
GoDaddy, one of the nations largest registrars and hosting providers is distributing bloated and possibly insecure code that will cause the average user to more then double their hosting costs. In [...]

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Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233 – (858) 927-4515 - colin@2cups.com
CERTIFICATIONS HELD
CCIE - Cisco Systems Internetwork Expert #18233
GCIH – GIAC Certified Incident Handler
CCVP - Cisco Certified Voice Professional
CSNSSS - Cisco Storage Networking Solutions Support Specialist
CSNSDS - Cisco Storage Network Solutions Design Specialist
CCIE Storage Networking
RHCE - Redhat Certified Engineer #804006368822511
RHCT - Redhat Certified Technician #804006368822511
NSCA - [...]

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New features in VMware 3.1
* Solid State Drive (SSD) boot support
As initially discovered last month, VMware will make available a special version of ESX Server (mentioned with terms like ESX Lite and Embedded ESX) for OEM vendors, to be installed into bootable Solid State storage devices (flash drives, etc.). This option will allow creation of [...]

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I got a question on groupstudy about my background, and why I chose Storage as my first CCIE. It seems like a good idea to post it here also.
My background is all over the place. It goes from running a small ISP when I was 18 to managing international CallManager clusters, to enterprise data center [...]

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#!/bin/sh
# Figure out kernel source version & you server location, echo string to install
# Written by Colin McNamara 10/27/2006
# http://www.2cups.com
# “The impossible we do difficult we do immidiatly, the impossible just takes a little longer.”
KERNELVER=`uname -r | sed ’s/-smp//g; s/-bigsmp//g’`
PLATFORM=`uname -i`
YOUSERVER=`cat /var/lib/YaST2/you/config | grep LastServer= | sed ’s/LastServer=”//g; s/;;”//g’`
YOU64=$YOUSERVER/$PLATFORM/update/SUSE-CORE/9/rpm/x86_64
YOU32=$YOUSERVER/$PLATFORM/update/SUSE-CORE/9/rpm/i586
if [[ `uname -i` [...]

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