Category archives: Fun links and News
The secret to good mash – the Daily Mash at #smc_mcr
If you’re reading this, you probably got to it by reading one of our tweets, checking our Facebook page or maybe you’re even subscribed to this blog. All of these channels are just a bit of the way we like …
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Reflections on #Movember (please donate!)
By Gavin Upsall, datacentre engineer The end is neigh for my good friend and companion ‘Dave’. He was a young caterpillar trying to grow for a good cause, we had some laughs, we had some lows, we had some dramas, …
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Why thank you :)
Here at Melbourne we’re quite humble and not very good at bigging ourselves up. But when customers send chocolate to say thanks (and it’s not the first time that it’s happened), it reminds me just how fantastic our team is …
Happy 99th Birthday Alan Turing!
Today marks what would have been Alan Turing’s 99th Birthday. During his short life (he committed suicide at 41) he invented the stored program computer, became the first computational biologist and made contributions to cryptography that significantly shortened the conflict …
We actually give a shit…
We’ve been interviewing today for a datacentre team leader position. One of the things that candidates tend to do when preparing for interviews, is have a look around our website. It was therefore really nice to find out that more …
It’s World Backup Day!
Apparently it’s World Backup Day today, with the slogan “Don’t be an April fool. Backup your data. Check your restores”. No world backup day would be complete without a shameless plug for Melbourne’s managed backup product, UltraVault. Offering both continuous …
Handy DNS checking tool
One of our customers has setup a handy DNS checking tool, which doesn’t require a subscription payment. It’s handy for diagnosing DNS issues, including Parent servers, SOA and NS records, and also MX and WWW. You can find the tool …
Don’t shout at your hard disks!
Sun engineer Brendan Gregg has made an interesting discovery, posted on his blog (with youtube attachment of course) at http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency, that disks suffer high I/O latency when subjected to vocal outbursts. Something to bear in mind the next time your …