Geekness for 2/8/11

I got a new 16GB thumb drive for < $20, >$20 after shipping. I put my 2 4GB on it last night and now copying the network My Doc folder from the Net App to the drive...cool.

It is a Maxell drive I got from rtevo.com. They sent out 8gb to a lot of customers, including me, but made it all OK within a couple of days. I am just waiting on the RMA so I can return the unopened 8gb.

This drive does have locking software to require a password, but I am not going to mess with that.

Today at work we had a small problem with the SonicWall email security appliance due to the fact that Tom form Zumasys installed a new SonicWall firewall in and made DNS changes to point our mail to the MPLS circuit and off of the XO. Some firewall rules was re-directing the email to the back-end server and that was bypassing the spam filtering. A lot of emails from users wondering what was up was flooding my inbox. The second port just got shut off and now things are good.

At least the Inet speed is at 5M down and 3M up and it should double real soon.

I had to tweak the Intranet site today and made it so that the people in MPA can update their own Vendor of the Week pages. I will only have to update the overlay page once a year now.

Now that was fun! Tom the consultant was plugging in the additonal Internet connection in the bunker. Well that is when the help desk phone started to ring off the hook! For soem reason when he plugged it in, it affected 6 ESX servers here in the main computer room and people were being disconnected from Citrix. I tried to call his cell and ended up walking over there just as he was coming beck to the venor office which is 30 feet from my desk. He turned around and unplugged the cable and my phone started to get emails again. For some reason this line that he plugs in has some other info on it and it knocks out communication. Well he is busy creating a VLAN on the switch and he will call me before he plugs it in the second time while I monitor the network.