Working on the data center design and backup test today.

Just got the call, ~$2000 to fix the truck. Ouch

Good morning, we got a full nights sleep. Grace only woke up once. yah!!

its been a long week already with a sick child and little sleep. I hope Grace can sleep through the night tonight.

IM spam DIE !!!!

up late, working on China's email server. Offline addressbooks on Exchange are lots of fun

Happy Friday, I'm taking a vacation next week, yeah!!!

This week has been dragging by. I've been really busy, but its only wednesday

watching preseason football!!!

watching preseason football!!!

watching preseason football!!!

watching preseason football!!!

Restoring an exchange database to restore a deleted file, just started the eseutil

Argg, why isn't ATT Uverse in my neighborhood yet? Its in other areas around me :-(

Any central web contact manger that can two way sync with gmail and google apps contacts? I don't think plaxo does two way.

Mah Nà Mah Nà

Looking for a wireless media streamer for SD movies and TV with a really nice GUI

Good morning Friday, oh how I have been waiting for you

Heading home for the day. Yeah!!!

Testing different backup software solutions. Just need to get my hands on a demo copy of comvault

wow what a day EMC had on the market up over 13%

about to dig into the vmware consolidation section of virtualcenter

Its been a crazy day. The UPS is on bypass, found on one of our clusters is not on support (someone missed an email) I'm not going to sleep well tonight!

Today is flying by..

Just saw the Dark Knight.....One word....Awesome!!!

had a great time bowling last night.

Half way through the week. Blah

all of the E3 streaming sites seem to be down

Another great Sunday, church, pronto pups, nap....

I just signed up at seconbrain.com I've imported my sites...now what??

Watching the A-Team on Hulu

Up to 3am drinking beer and playing xbox. Now its time to get the honey-do list done.

So ready for the weekend. But I will be at work Saturday night doing upgrades

vmotioning servers during the middle of the day is so fun. Upgrading another ESX server to 3.5

What a great afternoon, its been slow so I've been able to catch up on some paper work and little things that just needed to be done.

Not good, looks like GM is going to lay of 1000's

Not a good sunday, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and have been in a crappy mood all day.

Anyone have a flip mino? 60 minutes seem sorta short, if you take it on trip you'd need to bring your computer...feedback?

Can anyone recommend a good site for camcorder reviews.

how do I use ping.fm to post to identi.ca since I used openid?

Why is the gears of war 2 disc edition so hard to find?!?

Had a great day at the zoo with Grace. Now I'm trying to get her to lay down for a nap. Its not going well

best budget CPU/motherboard combo for building a vista media center box?

Not good, I just put an ESX server into maintenance mode to upgrade it and vm are timing out during the vmotion..

Can anyone confirm that Gears of War two-disk set released today? I have a best buy gift certificate I'm waiting to use for this.

So ready for lunch, but my lunch meeting isn't until 12:30 :-(

Going to get Subway and meet Melissa and Grace for lunch at the park

QT with my little girl

Sitting in a video conference with China

Talking Cisco Vs Microsoft for collaboration and unified messaging

Anyone running vista media center and a xbox 360? how easy is it to rip DVDs and watch them on the xbox 360

On the plan for today...Server room power, charge back cost for backups and DRAC replacement

coloring with Grace

stupid Dell DRAC...

Yeah, its Friday. Upgrading ESX servers today.

Planning ESX 3.02 to 3.5 upgrade.

wow my grammar really suffers sending these short quick messages.

I feels like its been a really long week

ARGGG, I can't hold back. MAC people drive me nuts :-)

Collect documentation on upgrading virtual center.

Is there anyway to view my sidebar layout in wordpress 2.5.1, like it was in 2.3. I like to see both sidebars next to each other and be able to drag between them. Plus the latest version doesn't seem to like Firefox

Fathers day was great, lots of time with Grace and Melissa. 22 months is a great age

back in Grand Haven, working on the servers.

What's the best windows base cell phone from verizon or ATT right now or coming soon?

I hope the rain holds off so I can mow today

I signed up for Xanga, all I get is spam comments and 'eprops' What a waste

My brother-inlaw had their baby this morning. Congrats to them!

power outage this morning, found a few devices not plugged into the UPS :-(

power outage this morning, found a few devices not plugged into the UPS :-(

I have a bad headache.

Heading to off site meetings until the afternoon. Nice to get out of the office.

Heading to off site meetings until the afternoon. Nice to get out of the office.

Monday after a weekend of heavy storms. Hopefully they don't follow me to work

Monday after a weekend of heavy storms. Hopefully they don't follow me to work

Church, then pronto pups and ice cream for lunch, now a nap. Only thing missing is football

Twitter is currently down for temporary maintenance. Twitter Oh how I miss you.

Now, that I'm using Ping.fm to send my outgoing updates. I'm updating much more...not sure if that's good or bad

Now, that I'm using Ping.fm to send my outgoing updates. I'm updating much more...not sure if that's good or bad

http://ping.fm/MpJ2A
31 Wordpress people to follow on Twitter. Too bad twitter isn't working so I can add them :-(

http://ping.fm/MpJ2A
31 Wordpress people to follow on Twitter. Too bad twitter isn't working so I can add them :-(

twitter seems flacky again today. Trying to follow a few more people and errors...

it'd be nice if friendsfeed could import my twitter friends list automagically :-)

Good morning everyone, I got a rash of facebook invite the last few days. Interesting....

ick, its very muggy out tonight. Meetings didn't go to well this afternoon.

Meetings for the rest of the day.

Meetings for the rest of the day.

So I have ping.fm posting to multiple micro-bloggins sites. But how to I track and add friends to 4 micro-blog sites :-)

So I have ping.fm posting to multiple micro-bloggins sites. But how to I track and add friends to 4 micro-blog sites :-)

Good morning world, really for an interesting Thursday

Hey, Hey, Hockey Town. Let me hear you

Too bad they didn't win it at home, the crowd in Pittsburgh (of course) isn't into now. The awards and Cup presentation

The Red Wings Win the Cup!!!! Yeah, Yeah, Yeah....

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Imitation Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery

 

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess that stays true for LinuxMCE. This has got to be one of the funniest videos that I have never seen, even though I didn’t watch the whole thing. Niall put together a good overview relating to Media Center.

"LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Ubuntu including a 10' UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only basic computer skills"

Great concept, too bad it falls short from what they want it to be. It’s to bad today is not April 1^st, because if it was this post would be titled “Switching to LinuxMCE”

 

 

Source: Imitation Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery
Originally published on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:16:00 GMT by chrisl

 

 

Technorati tags: mce, microsoft, linuxmce

Improving IIS and NS response times by disabling debug mode

 

Some solutions still have debug-mode compiling enabled in their related web.config files. Debug-mode compiling can cause performance problems for any ASP.NET application. In particular, the following debug-mode behaviors impact NS performance:
The compilation of ASP.NET pages takes longer (since some batch optimizations are disabled)
This can be seen in the initial viewing of each NS console page
Code can execute slower (since some additional debug paths are enabled)
Much more memory is used within the application at runtime
This is of particular importance on NS servers with 2GB of physical memory, and large client facing servers with multiple Altiris solutions enabled
Additional information about debug mode is available at ScottGu's BlogNote: The current version of Altiris Notification Server utilizes ASP.NET v1. It is not currently possible to use the deployment retail="true" setting which is available for ASP.NET v2
Manual Resolution
Make the following modification to each web.config file that is part of the Altiris installation (\Program Files\Altiris). The change will be implemented as soon as another request to the related page occurs. In most cases, this will involve a visit to the related configuration or task NS console page.
Before (web.config)
After (web.config)
Automated Resolution
On the following link you can find an exe file that provides a resolution.
http://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=33499&p=3

Source: Improving IIS and NS response times by disabling debug mode
Originally published on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:13:00 GMT by Marc

 

Technorati tags: altiris

YouTube Has Porn?

 

 

Update: use “flickr-eroticr” as your code to gain access.

Yup, we were surprised, too. But a brand new service, currently in private beta testing, aims to extract the “soft erotic” videos and images from the popular social media sites YouTube and Flickr. Members of eroticr (behind a holding page) can import photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube or upload images from their own computers.

Obviously eroticr is being very careful here with regard to the DMCA and child porn: there are warnings about uploading copyrighted content, making sure that those in the images/videos are adults, and only adding “erotica” to the site, rather than “pornography”. I’m not really sure where they’ll draw the line, and I wonder whether moderators could be held responsible if the onus is on the site, rather than the users, to keep things semi-clean (they do have a “report content” button”, suggesting that they want to hand this responsibility to the users). There’s certainly lots of partial nudity on the site, mainly due to Flickr’s relaxed policies, but I guess most of this would be considered “soft” or even artistic.

Technically, it’s an average attempt: images/videos pop up in ajaxy windows with ratings, comments and tags, and you can subscribe to RSS feeds and rank content by “hottest” or “newest”. I get the sense that they should increase the number of source sites, however, especially considering YouTube’s strict moderation policies: it’s well known that Metacafe and Google Video are more inclined to leave this stuff online.

It’s easy to ignore the scores of porn-related submissions we at Mashable get every week, but entrepreneurs should note that adult content is as popular on social sites as it is elsewhere on the web: Pornotube was said to be growing faster than YouTube, for instance. Another data point: did Flickr become the most popular photo site in the UK in June last year thanks to its high brow photography? Nope - apparently it was due to soft porn. As usual, however, companies are faced with a dilemma: VCs often won’t invest in sites than are considered adult. On the other hand, these relaxed content policies can bring a huge boost in user numbers.

Oh, and there’s that whole morality thing, too. Yawn.

 

 

Source: YouTube Has Porn?
Originally published on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:27:00 GMT by Pete Cashmore

SoftGrid Migration Tool Express: A Free tool For Converting MSI Packages To SoftGrid sequences

 

After being in development some time, Login Consultants has released a free new tool simply called the SoftGrid Migration Tool. This tool converts MSI packages to Softgrid sequences with the least possible amount of user intervention. This tool was written by my talented colleagues Dennis Damen and Rodney Medina.
They've published an article at BrianMadden.com explaining this new tool: The SoftGrid Migration Tool was written in Visual Basic 2005 and requires the .NET Framework 2.0 or higher in order to work. It's very easy to use:
• From the zip file, copy the SGMT.exe, defaults.ini, and SettingsChanged.exe to the sequencer machine and [more ...]

Source: SoftGrid Migration Tool Express: A Free tool For Converting MSI Packages To SoftGrid sequences
Originally published on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:03:00 GMT by Michel Roth - mrdizzz@thincomputing.net

Walk-through Of The CTRL-ALT-DEL Tools - Michel Roth

 

Wilco van Bragt has written an article in which he discusses some of the wonderful tools that CTRL-ALT-DEL IT Consultancy offers. In his article Wilco covers: • QRYPUBAPP • QRYDEPTAPP • QRYCLIENTIP • QRYCLIENTIP • WHEREIS • TSLOGOFF • BOMPROF • TSPassChg Read the article here.

Source: Walk-through Of The CTRL-ALT-DEL Tools - Michel Roth
Originally published on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:54:00 GMT

Multiple Remote Desktops manager: MuRD 2 Released

 

Anyone who uses a lot Terminal Server connections a lot (in only in Remote Administration) knows that you need some kind of tool that helps you out in managing all these RDP connections. Since the Microsoft Remote Desktops snapin isn't flexible enough to meet my demands, you'll have to find another one. Next to the somewhat more well-known ones like RoyalTS and vrD, there's another one: Multiple Remote Desktops manager (MuRD) 2. It allow you to:
• Manage and arrange your remote desktop connection settings using folders and shortcuts in a way that works for YOU.
• Combine connections into "groups" to [more ...]

Source: Multiple Remote Desktops manager: MuRD 2 Released
Originally published on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:43:00 GMT by Michel Roth - mrdizzz@thincomputing.net