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1. What NOT to do in your server room
Leave unused cables in-place. Do not use cable management. Leave no cable unlabeled. Use cables of appropriate length (this is a SCSI cable!):
by Dan Stoner on 11/04 11:14PM - Story - 22,663 Hits

2. OSCON 2006
In July, I attended the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ The conference was great and I was lucky enough to attend with three other people that I know from the University of Florida. All of us had different interests, so we often attended different content tracks ...
by Dan Stoner on 09/02 03:04PM - Story - 1,233 Hits

3. Portland, Oregon and post-conference fun
After OSCON we had time to enjoy the area around Portland. Henry's was our favorite bar. Service was great and just look at the beer selection! Here are pictures of the Chinese Garden:
by Dan Stoner on 09/02 04:16PM - Story - 479 Hits

4. Museum Server Racks - Part 1
The museum has allocated part of a collection room for server space. I am posting a few pictures to track the progress of that project so far. Here are the racks the day we first rolled them into place. We are using the 42U APC NetShelter 750mm wide SX (AR3150) ...
by Dan Stoner on 03/05 09:54AM - Story - 435 Hits

5. Server Racks after the Cleanup
In a previous story, I showed What NOT to do in your server room. Over the past year I have been able to improve that server room a little bit. In addition to a general rack cleanup effort, I installed a whole new rack with square holes and plenty of ...
by Dan Stoner on 02/16 07:16PM - Story - 414 Hits

6. Work buddies
Here is a picture of some of my work buddies (the museum IT department) from a few months ago, taken at a local restaurant named Buddha Belly.
by Dan Stoner on 12/09 11:23AM - Story - 348 Hits

7. Museum Server Racks - Part 3
We have cooling! The first server has been installed:
by Dan Stoner on 04/21 01:16PM - Story - 292 Hits

8. Museum Server Racks - Part 4
We have declared the new server space project "Done!" and have started to move in the servers. There are some complexities with our situation of sharing physical space with one of the world's largest collections of Lepidoptera:
by Dan Stoner on 05/23 08:35AM - Story - 291 Hits

9. Museum Server Racks - Part 2
A lot of progress has been made since the project began. These pictures show some of the intermediate steps. Here I am installing a vertical PDU (Power Distribution Unit):
by Dan Stoner on 04/03 05:34PM - Story - 262 Hits

10. Current job
I apparently never blogged about taking a new position in 2008. I am no longer with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. I have been an IT Senior with the Children's Oncology Group at UF for about a year. COG is under the College of ...
by Dan Stoner on 09/25 06:04PM - Story - 128 Hits

11. What I learned at the Agile2010 Conference
I attended a conference, yeah! The Agile 2010 Software Development Conference was held in Orlando, Florida from August 9-13. The last technical conference I attended was OSCON (Open Source Convention) 2006 in Portland, Oregon. Agile 2010 was a really great opportunity for me to jump-start my transition from system administrator ...
by Dan Stoner on 08/16 11:50PM - Story - 73 Hits

12. New job - Shimberg Center for Housing Studies
I'm really excited about my new position as a Database Analyst / Programmer with the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies . This was a lateral move within the University of Florida. I have been wanting to shift into a web and database development role for a while now. I was ...
by Dan Stoner on 07/28 10:00PM - Story - 57 Hits