I had a very bad day today dealing with one of my customers over a very small detail that was overlooked in the presales process by everyone involved. This isn't just an EMC issue, yet it is. The issue revolves around support for different stripe sizes. EMC supports a number of stripe sizes, two, three, and four cylinder stripe sizes, to name a few, on the Symmetrix 5 architecture. They only support two cylinder stripe sets on the new DMX series of Symmetrix frames. I have been told it was an engineering decision, but it has royally screwed my project. As a result, EMC is going to eat a ton of very expensive disks and upwards of 500 man hours to configure an existing environment to be compatible with their new products. How does this make sense?
An experiment with RSS enclosures. If this works, users who subscribe to my feed with an enclosure-aware aggregator will have an MP3 of the interview Chris Lydon did with me last month, with no click-wait. [Scripting News]
After seeing John's post about Macromedia weblogs, I took a closer look at the site and found this page. It look like they are attempting to replicate what you get from Weblogs.com. The problem is that they are using Cold Fusion on the backend, which can't scale to meet the demands of hundreds of thousands of weblogs pinging it with updates. Furthermore, the list appears to be dated or not yet set up to receive pings.
