OS X 10.4.10 update causing widespread wifi problems? – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) I updated my girlfriend’s laptop to 10.4.10, and now I feel bad about it. Always sucks when you tell people to patch, patch, patch but then get bitten by something like this.
Dear companies who were affected by the 365 Main outage, That sucks. Been there, done that, and I hope everything came back up okay. I do have one comment, though: Next time don’t put up a “scheduled maintenance” page. We know it isn’t true. If it is you picked the worst maintenance window ever. 🙂 Believe it or not, we understand things like power outages, and how they’re freak, disruptive problems. Even a simple note about what is happening goes a long way to reassuring everybody that you’re on the job, fixing the problem. Thanks. …Your Customers
Today I installed VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.2 in my test environment. Went okay. The release notes indicate that you need to follow KB article 4478241 before you upgrade. Despite that, VirtualCenter wouldn’t reconnect to one of my two test ESX boxes, and HA wouldn’t come up on the other. I ended up: Disconnecting (not removing) both test ESX servers from VC. Disabling HA and DRS for the cluster. SSHing into both and restarting the management daemons (/sbin/service mgmt-vmware restart). Reconnecting the ESX servers in VC. Re-enabling HA and DRS. Seems to work fine, now. I’m glad, because my next step was to slaughter a goat in sacrifice. That gets so messy. The 2.0.2 release notes also indicate that a client upgrade …
Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend
Guy Kawasaki has a great interview with Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of What Were They Thinking? Two quotes stand out for me: “sometimes…the best leadership is less leadership. No seed can grow if it is dug up and examined every week, and for people to innovate and get things done, sometimes they need some time and space and resources.” It does take the right touch, though. Some folks will not get things done when given time and space, and some will flourish. The trick is to know who is who and treat them accordingly. For example, I like to let a big problem “stew” for a few days before I start working on it. This bothers some of my coworkers who …
Pupils browse porn on donated laptops – Yahoo! News Turns out it’s One Porn Viewing Station Per Child… My guess is that nobody working on this project has kids, because this would have been obvious. DUH. Herd – the hidden truth about who we are: Advice to a 12 year old Forthcoming: kids, leading and managing I was a Scoutmaster once, and the ideas here are dead on. Key to kids: “How can I get them to want to do what I want them to do?” Plus, be honest with them. No, really. Fake Name Generator WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THIS?!? Next version of Windows: Call it 7 | CNET News.com Three years until the next Windows… great. …
“Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows” has been read. I may now return to my regularly scheduled life. At least until Gibson’s “Spook Country” comes out on the 7th. I better get some work done before that.
Will security firms detect police spyware? | CNET News.com My opinion: they better detect any spyware, police or not.
On Dell PowerEdge 1950 and 2950 hardware the built-in network interfaces have always been detected backwards under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The NIC labeled “1” is eth1, the NIC labeled “2” is eth0. Okay, no problem, we were able to figure that out and compensate. It isn’t hard to reverse the cables. The latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel patch (2.6.9-55.0.2, maybe 2.6.9-55, too) fixes the detection on 2950s. So when you patch and reboot, your cable is suddenly in the wrong port. Found that out the hard way about 30 minutes ago on a machine 82.3 miles from me. Luckily I had two cables on this machine, and my network engineers just swapped the port configurations. Just …
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