While deploying storage for my clients, I frequently have to mount storage assigned to hosts and have to follow best practices for aligning the partitions. If you don't know what partition alignment is, it is the process of including an offset when creating a partition so that writes to disk do not cross a stripe unit boundary. All of this begs for some definitions.

There has been great debate about whether on not you should add one or two spaces after a period in a sentence before starting the next. According to MLA (http://www.mla.org/style_faq3 ) the answer is that it doesn't matter. On a typewriter, all characters are monospaced, and so the second space makes reading easier. In a word processing program, the fonts we use are proportionally spaced so the extra white space is no longer required to make reading easier.

I registered today for my first Triathalon! It's in May and is a sprint format...aka...easy. It's a 300m swim, 11 mile bike, and 2 mile run. Sounds easy, eh? Well, considering I am not much of the workout type, this is a big deal for me. You can get a lot more information from their website including the location, the course, and registration should you feel the urge to join me.

Wish me luck!

I was recently installing VMware Server 2 on my Windows 2003 host and came across an error 1718 during the installation. I also found in the release notes from VMware that this is a known issue with a known fix. Worked for me.

Microsoft KB reference and solution
VMware Server 2 release notes