WebEx & Aero

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WebEx and Microsoft Windows 7 don’t seem to get along 100% quite yet. If you are using WebEx on Windows 7 it’ll disable Aero during your session. However, if your session is over and you don’t get Aero back here’s how to fix it without rebooting: 1. Make sure you’ve closed/exited all WebEx components. 2. Right click on Windows Menu->All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt and choose “Run as administrator.” You will need to accept a User Access Control warning about this. 3. Issue the commands: net stop uxsms net start uxsms That should fix it. Alternately (and potentially easier): you could restart the “Desktop Window Manager Session Manager” service via the Services administrative tool.

links for 2010-01-13

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Google Has Played The China Situation Brilliantly "If Google forces any change at all in China, it will have done more for China's 1+ billion citizens than it would have if it had boycotted the country from the beginning." Amen. It seems to escape people that the most effective change can sometimes come from the inside, and for that to happen you need to be on the inside first.

Playing Mastermind With My RAM

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I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 in one of my VMware vSphere clusters that has been reporting memory errors. In fact, the machine wouldn’t boot, and the front panel suggested I reseat all the RAM. Okay… 0. Reseat all the RAM. Didn’t work, as expected. 1. Pull all twelve DIMMs out, put four back in. That worked, machine comes up. 2. Put four more DIMMs back. That worked, machine comes up. 3. Put last four DIMMs in. Machine doesn’t boot, same original error. 4. Pull last set of DIMMs out. Boot machine. Notice that BIOS is really old. Upgrade BIOS, thinking this is some stupid BIOS bug. Machine continues to boot. 5. Put last four DIMMs back in. New BIOS …

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links for 2010-01-12

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Laid-Off AOLers: DON'T SIGN ANYTHING! Good advice for anybody losing their job. Especially the part about not negotiating while you're in shock. Typotheque: Gore’s choice Hey, fonts are products, too, and if you don't like something there's no reason you shouldn't ask for a change. Mark McGwire admits steroid use – MLB – SI.com "Mark McGwire has admitted taking steroids in 1998 when he broke Roger Maris' home run record." A) Nice story (what I quoted is it), B) surprise, surprise.

links for 2010-01-10

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RISKS Digest: Y2K+10: what's underlying? "Expressing the problem as though a two-digit year were in use, the problem was that 9 was followed by 16, not 10. But in hexadecimal, $09 was followed by $10 – but it should have been $0A."

links for 2010-01-08

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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski The Big Lebowski, done as if Shakespeare did it. OMG, this is amazing. I normally dislike Shakespeare but this would just be funny. Marco.org – Destroying perfectly good retail merchandise When I worked at CompUSA back in high school I was exposed to the credit & destroy system for returns & unsold merchandise, and just floored by it. It would be cool if some of that could be donated, but it would be tricky. Look at it from the manufacturer's point of view: 1. You don't want to dilute your product's market with free stuff in another channel. 2. You don't want to encourage corruption by retail employees. 3. While it's mean (and there might be …

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Rain Forecasted, From The Cloud, On Your Desk

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“I’m filling out a survey. Can you tell me if we have a cloud?” “Yes, we do,” I reply. “We do?” “Absolutely.” “Really?” “Yeah, I’d know — I built it.” “You built it? No, I think the survey wants to know if we have a real cloud.” Well, thanks a lot. “We do have a real cloud, and it’s the same one I’m talking about. In fact, we have two clouds, in two different locations. They’d probably be best described as ‘private clouds.’” “Well, there isn’t an option for private clouds, so I’ll just say no.” ARGGGH. Ten minutes pass… “Hey, I’ve got another question. Do we use virtualization software?”

links for 2010-01-06

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Kodak Easyshare Wireless Picture Frame – How to show everyone whats on your frame « Casey Halverson Dear Kodak, hire a 7 year old to code this stuff. They'll do a better job. WineBottler Turns Windows Programs into Standalone OS X Applications – Wine – Lifehacker Dear VMware, it would sure be nice if you did something like this, a ThinApp for Fusion. I'd love to be able to give a single executable to my Mac people, and have them run a Windows app. That'd be sweet, a win for me, a win for them. Connections & Ports in ESX&ESXi -v4 I love you guys. This is quite handy for figuring out what I need to open up on firewalls. …

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Heisenberg & Monitoring

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From Wikipedia: In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to arbitrary precision. That is, the more precisely one property is known, the less precisely the other can be known… The measurement of position necessarily disturbs a particle’s momentum, and vice versa. Stated a little more simply, the sheer act of measuring a particle disturbs it, such that you can only get approximate measurements. This is also true of computing systems and monitoring. The act of watching a system consumes resources on that system, which in turn skews the numbers you get from the monitoring system. The more data you collect, the more intensive the data …

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links for 2010-01-04

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Intel Forced to Remove "Cripple AMD" Function from Compiler? "…by changing the CPUID of a VIA Nano processor to AuthenticAMD you could increase performance in PCMark 2005's memory subsystem test by 10% – changing it to GenuineIntel yields a 47.4% performance improvement!" Lame. Certainly makes the case for compilers & software from other manufacturers, like Microsoft or GNU.

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