Author Archives: Tom

Primal Pacs

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Tom

I tried out a few pre-packaged dried fruit, nuts and jerky companies that target the ‘Primal’ lifestyle and thought I’d give some thoughts.

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Primal

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Tom

I’ve tried, failed, and tried, failed and a few other stupid attempts to lose a lot of weight for some time now. I’ve done atkins successfully for almost eight months.   I got down to a stellar 250 lbs.  Lost … Continue reading →

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Continuing Adventures with Centurylink Prism

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Tom

Previously I mentioned how things are going with Centurylink Prism TV.  Recently I did a TV upgrade downstairs as with new kid #4 I found ourselves downstairs a lot at odd hours and the 27″ TV down there wash’t cutting … Continue reading →

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Prism Results So Far

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Tom

So I had a number of adventures getting there, but I moved from DirecTV + DSL to Centurylink Prism.   I wanted to document some of my experiences with it.

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Cisco 5000 vs 5500 FCoE Gotcha

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Tom

Let’s say you work in a lab environment and have been setting up FCoE on Cisco 5010s and 5020s for years. You get a new shiny 5548 and since they run the same level of Cisco iOS you just copy … Continue reading →

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Getting Lucky Part Deux

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Tom

So this happened.  And now, February 25th, 2012 is the due date for Quinn Rose Boucher.   Guess we got our four kids after all.

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Centurylink Lurkers, Help me Find this Guy

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Tom

I was supposed to get Prism installed today.   There was a problem upstream from my house and that isn’t my problem.

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Google+

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Tom

So I got invited to Google+ and have set up an initial account.  I will admit to not being all that excited about the concept as I have been one of the few people it seems that worries about Google’s … Continue reading →

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Grey Skies Are Gonna CLEAR up.

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Tom

It’s been quite some time since I mentioned anything about my experience with CLEAR.   I’ve had them now almost a year since I originally signed up and thought I’d provide some information for random google searches out there on … Continue reading →

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How to properly configure a BNT (Now IBM) Switch for a VMware VST environment when using the Emulex Virftual Fabric family of adapters in pNIC (two port) mode.

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Tom

I would like to provide some technical details for a configuration error I ran into this week. A Customer was setting up a proof of concept using vSphere 4.0 U1 and attempting to use VMware’s Virtual Switch Tagging (VST) in … Continue reading →

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