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Random short take #108. Looking for old news? You’ve come to the right place. Let’s get random.

This is a fantastic article by Leon Adato over at Techstrong about how somehow there’s never enough time to get the real work done.
If you’ve been reading this weblog for a while, or have been to my house, you’ll know I’m a fan of physical media. Articles like this are a reminder of why that’s the case. Remember, the studios don’t wanted you to “own” anything. Especially if they can sell it to you over and over again. Now I just wish I was handy enough with electronics to be able to repair my LaserDisc player when it plays up.
Speaking of media you can steal, this article about the Nicolas Cage Fortitude movie disk being stolen from a Netflix office is mind-blowing on a few levels. From my reading it seems like there’s enough blame pie for both sides. Lock up your stuff. Encrypt it before you give it to someone. How is this a thing in 2026? With companies operating at this scale?
Speaking of things that make me feel old, Windows NT 4.0 went on sale 30 years ago. My first NT was 3.51, but my favourite will always be 4.0.
And while we’re talking about NT 4.0, here’s a great article from Corey Quinn at The Register on some of the cool stuff AWS is doing with networking.
Not had enough of old things that are new? LTO is still shipping. And in pretty large numbers. More on that here.
It wouldn’t be a modern listicle without some kind of AI take. Here are Chan’s thoughts on AI and sales engineering. Good stuff.
Finally, here’s a great article from Tom Hollingsworth on engagement and social media.

Disclaimer: I haven’t done a Windows-based CLARiiON host-attach activity in about 4 or 5 years. And it’s been a bit longer than that since I did boot from SAN configurations. So you can make of this what you will. We’ve been building a Windows 2008 R2 Boot from SAN cluster lately. We got to the point where we were ready to add the 60+ LUNs that the cluster would use. The initial configuration had 3 hosts in 3 storage groups with their respective boot LUNs. I had initially thought that I’d just create another Storage Group for the cluster’s volumes and add the 3 hosts to that. All the time I was trying to remember the rule about multiple hosts or multiple LUNs in a Storage Group. And of course I remembered incorrectly.

To get around this issue, I had to add each LUN (there are about 67 of them) to each Storage Group for the cluster nodes. And ensure that they had consistent host IDs across the Storage Groups. Which has worked fine, but isn’t, as Unisphere points out, recommended. There’s also an issue with the number of LUNs I can put in a Consistency Group (32) – but that’s a story for another time.

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Random Short Take #108

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