by ezs | Feb 4, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized
Another sidebar to the release of ZENworks Pulsar.
The management console is moving from the tree-based heirarchical view of directory objects to becoming a much flatter, much more filtered task-centric view of objects.
A lot of discussion took place in the last couple of years internally to get the metaphors and behaviour just right.
The aside – take a look at Visual Complexity. Hundreds of examples of mapping and modelling then displaying very complex data.
It has everything from transport mapping to systems management:
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 | 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 30, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized, ZENworks
HP aquired Novadigm.
Altiris acquired Previo, Computing Edge, Wise, FSLogic, Bridgewater Tonic and Pedestal.
Symantec have aquired Ghost, Powerquest and On Technologies.
Novell aquired Ximian and Tally Systems.
LANDesk was aquired by Avocent.
Microsoft aquired Softricity and Desktop Standard.
Now Symantec have spent again and announced the intent to acquire Altiris.
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.
by ezs | Jan 28, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized
My final two ‘missing’ Vista applications got fixed today.
Ping Plotter and Flash Video Studio.
I had a problem with Ping Plotter crashing on installation and startup; I emailed Pete Ness the author – he found a problem with a component interacting with DEP on Windows Vista.
Turns out that this fixed the Flash Video Studio crash too. I just added the two apps to the exclusion list.
Cool.
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