by ezs | Aug 14, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Phew. Finally we shipped ZENworks Configuration Management.
An incredible team effort by the Novell engineering and QA teams – a complete rewrite and integration job from the ground up in just over 18 months. There have been some fantastic individual and team contributions – both early on and in the final few weeks.
It’s been the sole focus of my life for the past six-nine months – it feels like a massive weight has lifted from me.
The last few weeks have been pretty intense – I’ve spend time in the Novell Superlab overnight, testing the product; more time in the Superlab running more tests and competitive tests; endless hours logging bugs, getting fixes and verifying that everything is resolved.
I’ve logged way over 200 bugs against the product in the last nine months (that’s a lot for Product Management) and about twenty showstoppers.
I know the product is a lot better, more customer ready and more ready to be deployed because of this.
I’ve got a backlog of posts that I’m going to start posting.
by ezs | Aug 5, 2007 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized, wordpress
I’ve not blogged about WordPress patches and updates for a while – I’ve been just that busy.
This weekend another two patches – for 2.2.x and 2.0.x
So far so good – easy and clean updates.
Worth an upgrade too – looking at the code changes there seems to be a lot of additional checking and url handling safety.
by ezs | Jul 20, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’m in the Novell SuperLab for the night – don’t ask. I’ve got the run of the place – there are thousands of machines in here – and I’ve got 500 workstations to play with. It’s a geek playground.
I’m running some tests, collecting data and writing notes for a set of white papers about ZENworks Configuration Management.
Written at: Provo, UT
by ezs | Jul 13, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I got a new rack a month or so ago – now it’s in the basement and I’m moving the servers into the rack.
I ordered new shelves (bare rack – no rails!) so slowly but surely the mail server and web server have been moved.
Next step – moving the internal infrastructure and putting it on a new internal subnet.
by ezs | Jul 12, 2007 | fun stuff, Uncategorized
UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.
How strange. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6295138.stm
by ezs | Jul 10, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
It’s always sad when old hardware dies.
Time to kill off the last old Compaq box:
A bomb proof Compaq Proliant 800. Running as a backup server for six years now.
I’m on the lookout for a replacement – anyone from Dell, IBM or HP offering some eval kit?
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