Archive for September, 2006

Music Maestro!

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

This week was complete hell. Everything went wrong, worked a lot of overtime and became very stressed.
Then I’ve stumbled across this song. It gave me peace and relaxed me immediately.
Stunningly simple ballad. Gorgeous in its simplicity and timeless.
This song was a hit almost 20 years ago (in 1988 to be exact).
I’m [...]

Setting persistent routes in Fedora

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

When building for example a monitoring appliance, you need to cover several networks. In that case routing becomes important.
In order to set routes in Fedora that won’t be flushed after a reboot, you need to create persistent routes.
How? Simple!
Step 1:
Create a file called route- in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
Eg. route-eth0
Step 2:
Edit the file and add [...]

Music Maestro!

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Another great classic on lucvansteen.net
Listen and enjoy this tune:

Disorganization costs money.

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Let’s talk about organization. Everybody wants everything as organized as possible and face it, disorganization is annoying, and drives you up a wall sometimes.
But did you know that disorganization or mismanagement is also costly? Living/working in chaos actually cost money at home and at work.
Let me give one example.
A disorganized or mismanaged project [...]

SKTLAB rearranged

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

At SkillTeam, the E-BI Group has its own testlab called SKTLAB. Patrick Peynsaert and Phillipe Urbain took the time to rearrange this space and to re-patch all the servers, appliances, ….
Their work is not finished yet but I couldn’t wait to put some pictures online already:

The core : Network components and some appliances [...]

Outsourcing or Offshoring?

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

When talking to customers or business relations, I often notice a mix-up of the terms outsourcing and offshoring.
So…listen very carefully as I shall say this only once.
Outsourcing is defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specializes in [...]

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