late night

This week I got a new Fiber run from Cogent communications and tonight I switched our network over. So now we have fiber right off the cogent Dallas backbone to our office so I'll be digging the nice fat pipe. Surprisingly, when I switched over, our dns records propagated pretty quick and I seen spam coming in in about 29 minutes. I'm also getting my FC to Sata Infortrend array in tomorrow afternoon and will have it installed in the morning. 10 Tb of storage goodness for all of our new projects coming up. i also deployed our very first linux dev server in hoping of moving to a mostly unix environment within the next 2 years. We are already looking at porting our render farm servers to linux so hopefully our dev team will be able to pull it off. on the house front I finally got the paperwork started on my loan tonight as we are hoping to close by feb 12th. ok enough for tonight, its time for a 6 pack.

new job, new town, new life

Ok many many updates. I got a new job as a systems administrator for a streaming media .com, moved to below Fort Worth, Texas, got engaged, and am about 2 weeks away from buying a house and moving to the Cedar Hill area. I'm completely new to the house buying thing. As my brother said to me, its meant to confuse and ripp off the suckers. I'm looking forward to posting pics of the new house, all the work that we are going to put into it and post new adventures of working as a sys admin working on new Apache / mysql farm.