Migration to AWS Well, almost seven years after my last post, I’ve decided to move my personal home yet again. Things are going to be ugly for a while as I refresh most of the content and pages. Tumblr was a great, cheap option for
2013 Migration So I’ve decided to make some significant changes to my online presence. The first of which is moving away from my self-hosted WordPress solution to Tumblr. I have finished moving over all of the posts and will be transferring the domain name
fdisk Restoring grub bootloader Here’s a quick how-to for restoring your grub bootloader when you load a new OS (like Windows) and it overwrites your grub bootloader. Hopefully you can follow this guide and have luck. Unfortunately, that did not work for me. I was running
Housecleaning I finally decided to do some housecleaning on the website. I noticed that the old theme didn’t seem to fully work with the latest version of WordPress so I’ve changed it to something that may or may not be temporary.
Finally removed weekly tweet posts So, I finally decided to remove the weekly twitter blog posts. It was completely redundant – if you wanted to see what I post on twitter, you would’ve followed me @jbctech. It made the blog look terrible (even though I never update
apple Ventrilo and Mac OS X 10.5.7 Ever since I updated to Mac OS X 10.5.7 on my main machine, people started complaining that I occasionally sounded like a robot when using Ventrilo. I use a USB headset and thought that they may have modified the USB stack and
Happy Belated New Year Well, I apparently completely suck at this internet blog thing. Shortly after working with the PR people at NetApp to get my own blog, I wrote a few short articles on installation of some of the products I work on and then…quit
A second blog I now have a second blog going on blogs.netapp.com. It will be where all work-related postings go. So, if you’re here looking for my random work related thoughts, please check out my new blog: WHU Who!?
jbctech.com outage If you usually visit jbctech.com, you may have noticed that the site was redirected to an advertisement page for the last two days. That’s because I forgot to renew my domain name. I’ve owned jbctech.com for the last
Web Hosting and NetApp I was browsing around the web the other day, and stumbled upon a blog entry from Jesse Ruderman. In this blog entry, he describes one of the reasons he likes the hosting provider DreamHost so much. You know what that is? Snapshots. Sweet! DreamHost
iSCSI on the iPhone So, as most of you know…even though I work on the Windows platform – I’m an Apple fan. As such, I subscribe to one of our mac mailing list to listen in on what other Appleheads at NetApp are doing.
Life Air Quality I was born in the Texas panhandle and spent a majority of my life in West Texas/Southeastern New Mexico…where it was hot and dry. I never really experienced much humidity – but I’ve experienced extreme temperatures living in Arizona.
Apple AirPort Extreme with GigE It’s funny – the other day at work, I was talking to another Apple fan and we were discussing how dumb it is that the AirPort Extreme supported 802.11a, b, g, and even n but lacked gigabit ethernet. I was really
Life Bodies: The Exhibition This past weekend, Rebecca and I went to one of the malls in Durham, The Streets at Southpoint. While there, we went to BODIES: The Exhibition. What is it? Their website describes it as: BODIES…The Exhibition Celebrate the wonder of the human form
Data ONTAP DSM 3.1 posted to NOW Data ONTAP® DSM 3.1 for Windows® MPIO has been posted to the NetApp NOW website. Last week, we finalized the product and it is now available for download. This release includes the following new features: New load balance policies that offer
categories Oddities Speaking of the blog, you may notice that there are a few oddities…for instance, even though this post is posted under the “Blog” category, it doesn’t show up under the title. I’m working on resolving that
Quick downtime Yesterday, you may have noticed that the blog was down. I recently switched hosting providers and had to move the data over. As it turns out, everything appears to be fully functional again. The backup from the previous hosting provider was a bit over
Great Apple Service! When I bought my MacBook Pro over a year ago, I also got AppleCare – it came highly recommended. Well, after a year of just dealing with the high-pitched buzzing sound, I decided to send it off for repair. I scheduled an appointment with
jbctech.com worth $19K My friend RBChallenger from Lightning-Alley.com informed me that jbctech.com is worth around $19K on the LeapFish Domain appraisal site. Well…I don’t know about that, but I can tell you this: if anyone offered half that much for the
Has it been that long?? Well, everyone – I apologize. It’s funny – since I moved to North Carolina, I’ve had a hard time keeping in touch with people. When I do get time to catch up, they always mention the blog – and there
WinHEC 2007 I am currently at this year’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles, CA. I arrived here yesterday and have had a chance to check out the Expo Hall, attend the keynote presentations by Bill Gates and Craig Mundie, as well
NetApp RTP Softball Well, after a couple months of not blogging anything, I figured it’s about time to make another attempt. 🙂 I’ve been extremely busy at work lately working on our next multipathing product for Windows. But, in my copious free time, I
JamesMBurke.com Since this is a personal blog, I thought I’d go ahead and make the domain name match as such, so today, JamesMBurke.com went live. It may take up to 72 hours for the DNS entries to resolve for you, but the
Life Vacation: Day 15-16 Traveling. That’s how I would describe these two days. We left Honolulu on December 29th at around 9:00pm HST, and arrived in Lubbock at around 11:00am (Central) on the 30th. Another horrible experience – it took the Lubbock Airport a
Life Vacation: Day 9-14 - Hawai'i Hawai’i!! We woke up early and took a ride to the Lubbock Airport for our flight to Honolulu. This was definitely the single longest flight I’ve ever been on. I’ve never flown abroad, and after this – I&