by ezs | Feb 4, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
Get up at 0400 Friday; final glance at email, get ready, check out and head to Changi Airport in Singapore.
Check in, security and a spot of shopping. Ready to board and depart ontime at 0655 local time.
Fly from Singapore to Hong Kong.
More security, more shopping, spend some time in the United Airlines Lounge. Board and depart ontime for 1240 departure local time.
Fly from Hong Hong to San Francisco. About four hours into the flight we cross the International Date Line.
Arrive in a foggy San Francisco an hour early – at around 0730 – Friday morning. Miss the early flight to SLC.
More security. No shopping. Collapse in the United Lounge. Get on my flight for Salt Lake City ontime at 1100.
Arrive home at just after 1300. Still Friday.
by ezs | Feb 2, 2007 | evilzenscientist, podcast, Technology, Uncategorized
A colleague asked about converting WAV audio (from a voice recorder) to MP3.
Here is a how-to for Audacity on Windows. The same general approach is appropriate for Linux too.
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by ezs | 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!
by ezs | 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.
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.
by ezs | 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.
by ezs | 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.
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