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I purchased a new 13″ MacBook Air last week. It arrived today, though FedEx has this habit of delivering my personal Apple hardware purchases to ECE instead of CSE. I was watching the tracking like a hawk, so I picked it up from them within 30 minutes of delivery. I bought the Core i7 1.8GHz [...]
It seems the NFS problem we were having is due to a bug in Celerra NAS codes 5.6.36 to 5.6.43 (fixed in 5.6.44). We upgraded to NAS code 5.6.40 before our EMC support ended. I found something in the EMC Knowledgebase about customers having performance issues under heavy CIFS load due to the CIFS trickle [...]
We had the same problem today as yesterday, though at a much smaller scale. The following error messages seem to happen when NFS goes out to lunch: I knew the word “cache” was in there somewhere. This combined with the recoverable single bit errors seems to be the problem so far. We failed over to [...]
I really wanted to title this “Frame 527 hates Frame 526″ or something like that. These two Ethernet frames were perfect examples of an NFS problem we’ve seen in the last few weeks at work. We were having intermittent I/O errors, which usually resulted in a Bus Error in the process that was lucky enough [...]
I finally broke down and bought an iPad. I wasn’t going to buy one. I thought to myself, “You always have either your 17-inch MacBook Pro or your 15-inch MacBook Pro work laptop anyway… what do you want with an over-sized iPod?” Well, it’s not that simple of course! For a long time I did [...]