I saw this on the BBC News – a new variant of the Boeing 777 flew non-stop from Hong Kong to London. 23 hours in the air.
Urg. Imagine the tedium and discomfort of such a long flight. Even in business or first class I imagine it would be difficult to find something ‘new’ after 8-10 hours.
Sigh.
I keep getting other priorities. Sorry to anyone who is waiting.
I’ll post a mindmap of where I am soon – problem is that there are still a lot of questions that I need to get answered on this.
My main pain right now is getting SLES 9 support packs cleanly into ZLM7 – this is driven by a customer request. My other pain is some of the internal workings of ZLM and how to best document that.
Thanks for your continued patience.
For years I’ve hit Slashdot as a morning ritual; what’s going on in the world of IT. It’s been one of my staples for an (almost) accurate snapshot of the zeitgeist.
Recently I’ve been using Digg and Memeorandum – often in addition to Slashdot.
I saw an interesting post on TechCrunch pointing out that Digg has grown almost as large as Slashdot in just one year (in terms of traffic).
Wow.
It’s another big patch week – and SANS are reporting that Microsoft SUS is having problems:
Microsoft SUS not playing well (NEW)
Published: 2005-11-09,
Last Updated: 2005-11-09 16:45:28 UTC by Tony Carothers (Version: 2(click to highlight changes))Matthew Bailey just provided this input in regards to the SUS problems that are occuring
“I found this posting at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs
The SUS 1.0 update cab is delayed today but will be published at ~ 5:00pm PDT today.
The WSUS cab has no delays and has been published.”
We’ve had a busy last ~12 hours. Reports are coming in that Microsoft’s SUS is not updating correctly, causing a lot of readers to have to manually roll out patches. If anybody has found this to not be the case, or found a way to kick SUS into gear, please send us a note, and I’ll get it out to the rest of the world 🙂
Most enterprises who are relying on SUS/WSUS for deployment of patches are still on SUS (the older technology). This is a pretty important process for enterprises – patching, and the race to patch on time, is causing a lot of IT administrator headaches.
For SUS to fail and administrators to have to manually roll out patches is a disaster; I am sure that after this many CIOs will mandate a close look at other options; maybe this will cause them to switch platforms, or at least look at a more robust patch solution.
I’ve been lurking around with Windows Live for a while – since it was announced at least (Scoble seems to be the aggregator of the Microsoft bloggers on this one). Glad to see that now Firefox is now supported.
Windows Live is interesting; I’m still not seeing the ‘Woo!’ factor here; much of this has been done before. I blogged on some of the cutting edge ‘Web 2.0‘ pieces earlier. Protopage is still one of my favourite neu-portals – it’s clean and fresh.
My personal take is that Windows Live is a direct head-to-head response to Google – and some of the innovations they are delivering.
It will be interesting to see who ‘wins’ in this space; Gates vs Schmidt; both have openly stated that the content is not king; the advertising revenue is king. [Note to self – dig out the quotes and references on this..]
Here’s one:
“This coming ‘services wave’ will be very disruptive,” Gates said in an Oct. 30 e-mail to top Microsoft employees, which was seen by CNET News.com. “We have competitors who will seize on these approaches and challenge us.”
Microsoft have millions of developers and a captive desktop audience of hundreds of millions of machines. If the mooted Office Live comes to fruition and delivers an online office and neu-desktop environment targetted at the home and small business users – then that is a great revenue stream. I can see a ‘free’ (a la Hotmail) service funded by ads; and a ‘nominal fee’ service with minimal or no ads. Interesting.
Google on the other hand have cornered the search market; they are also becoming the de-facto standard for mapping and directions in the web. Can they turn this into another ad-driven revenue stream without becoming another Microsoft/AOL – and incurring the wrath of their users.
Remember – when everything is ‘free’ and ad-supported; the next cool thing can easily kill you.
Software as a service; will it finally be a reality?
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