Author Archives: Vincent Ran

Vibe Coding Project – Dictation Helper – Release V2.0

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The Dictation Helper V2.0 is released with below enhancements:

New Features

  1. Online Mode: Allows users to type answers directly on the screen.
  2. Auto Dictation Mode Toggle: Option to enable or disable automatic advancement to the next word.

Optimizations

  1. Input Separators: “User Input Words” now accepts commas, spaces, periods, slashes, and similar separators.
  2. Pre-defined Word Lists: Refined and organized by school learning years.
  3. Reset Auto-Dictation: Added button to reset Auto-Dictation status.

The URL is as below:
infrapcs.com/my-tools/dictationhelper

Vibe Coding Project – IP Spreadsheet Generator

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This coding project is to generate a web tool to help user to automatically generate an IP spreadsheet and exported as CSV or XLSX file format. The user can choose the common columns to be included and add user-defined column as well. It’s a bit old school, especially since IPAM is commonly used to handle IP details these days.

https://infrapcs.com/my-tools/IPSheet/V8

Again, this tool is simple enough when using and no need further clarification.  

My First Vibe Coding Project – Dictation Helper

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As part of my AI exploration, I tried to fully utilize AI to generate code. Until I finish this coding, I didn’t realize that there was name for this coding approach – Vibe Coding.

This coding project is to generate a web tool to help student for word spelling and dictation. I knew student won’t like it:) This tool is simple enough when using and no need further clarification.  

https://infrapcs.com/my-tools/dictationhelper/V1

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Veeam Immutable Backup with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store

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Veeam V12 has extended the immutable backup feature to integrate with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store. By utilizing the new feature StoreOnce introduced “Independent Software Vendor Controlled Data Immutability (ISV-DI)”, Veeam can create immutable backup copies based on give retention or GFS retention.

This is a post to highlight the key points for Veeam and StoreOnce Catalyst Store integration regarding immutable backup.

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What We Are Talking About When We Talk About Immutable Backup

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Immutable backup has become a trending topic in data backup world. Everyone talks about immutability, vendors keep developing new features to support immutability and immutable backup has become a must-have in backup solution today. When we talk about immutable backup, what are we talking about?

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100,000 Yay!

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I found my little site has reached a minor milestone, 100,000 views, over years! Yay!

Inspired by Dan’s famous blog PENGUINPUNK (https://www.penguinpunk.net/blog), I started to write technology blog years ago. Thanks Dan!  Since then, the intention of writing articles didn’t change – purely for sharing. Thanks for the internet, except reading and training, a large part of my IT knowledge and skills are built on IT professionals’ experience around the world. Starting to share my experience is the way to join the sharing team. I am proud to do so and believe someone could benefit from my sharing as I did from others’.

As a LAZY writer, I will continue to write. This is a minor achievement, but every step counts!

I am ready to cheer for 200,000 views soon!

A little bit about Gigabyte (GB) and Gibibyte (GiB) in computer storage

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I am going to write a little bit about this basic concept in storage: Gigabyte (GB) and Gibibyte (GiB). This is all because of the annoyance between standard and reality.

I can still remember 15 years ago, when I first got in touch with enterprise storage system, the first concept introduced is about the differences between physical disk labelled size and reported size in storage system. No need to calculate, even today, I can still clearly remember a 73GB SAS disk will report 66GB usable capacity in EMC CLARiiON, a large part of this difference is contributed by the difference between GB and GiB.

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