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Getting old?

by | Feb 1, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized

.. or blame the jetlag?

I left my (actually Grania’s) camera in the restuarant last night.

Anywhere else and there would be zero sight of it again; lifted and sold on eBay.

In Singapore a totally different experience; one phonecall last night – “Yes – we have your camera”; I walked in this evening and the camera was waiting for me.

The local team told me that this was the ‘norm’ and Singaporeans are very honest. Well – it saved me getting in trouble when I got home!

Trans-pacific internet connectivity

by | Feb 1, 2007 | Technology, travel, Uncategorized

I’m in delightful Singapore this week; with good, fast local internet access.

The trouble is that all of the content I need is in the US.

Ping Plotter

The graph from Ping Plotter tells it all. Locally little latency. The trans-pacific hop adds 200ms to each packet.

The bandwidth itself isn’t bad; just the latency.

Training room fun

by | Jan 29, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Ah – this takes me back ten years to 1997/1998 when I was training Intel LANDesk 2.52 and 6.x to customers.

I’m in Singapore and training about 20 partners and internal people. 4 of the training room machines have hardware failure. It seems that about 20% failure rate is normal; the other two Novell tracks are also seeing hardware problems at that rate.

As always – it’s the wear and tear of the training room regime – lots of uptime and rebuilds; as well as the additional shock of running in a high temperature, high humidity environment.

I remember training in Wymeswold with Netman and having 50% failures after a cold weekend – totally different problems.

100 days of ZENworks – Windows only management

by | Jan 29, 2007 | Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized, ZENworks

I’m in Singapore at the Asia Pacific Partner Academy; we are training partners on the forthcoming ‘ZENworks Pulsar’ release. It’s just gone beta 1.

One question that came up:

How do I integrate ZENworks 7 with Active Directory?

Well – here are the links.

Here is a really cool article from Novell Connection Magazine; it’s from December 2004 and refers to ZENworks 6.5 – but the concepts are valid today.

Also take a look at the Novell Wiki.

Here is how to integrate the ZENworks Middle Tier with a Layer 4 switch; here are the Middle Tier Best Practices.

There have also been several BrainShare sessions on Windows only management. I’ll try and find the links to presentations.