Linux upgrades
I took advantage of the enforced, unplanned outage to update SLES 11 from SP2 to SP3.
All good – the only tiny gotcha was running the MySQL upgrade manually at the end.
Otherwise – looks happy so far.
udev, SLES and Hyper-V
I got bitten by the udev GUIDs when I did the move/upgrade/move back of my on-prem blog server this morning.
What should have been a simple evacuation of some VMs, upgrade the host to Windows Server 2012 R2, move the old VMs back in place – turned into another episode of handcrafting grub entries and checking that everything mounted back up correctly.
I got bit by this before – and I need to drill into the best practices for using SLES 11/udev in a virtual environment.
Re-testing Azure
After an initial set of testing in 2011 – I am back testing the Azure IaaS capabilities for the blog.
IPfire 2.13 release candidate
IPfire 2.13 RC1 was released a week or so ago – currently in test – and so far, so good.
Windows Intune for Windows 8
I found the secret sauce to make the Fall 2012 release of Intune work with Windows 8.
Happy now I can manage the new machines with Intune.
2013
Fifteen years ago I would spend six weeks writing the incorrect year on every cheque I wrote.
In 2013 I’ll be lucky to write a cheque during the year.
Browsers
I’ve been a long time user and supporter of Firefox – through all of the pains and memory hogging years. Before that I swore by Netscape Navigator.
I dabbled for a short time with Rockmelt – good idea – but didn’t seem to have the execution and updates.
I’m now back to trying Chrome. It’s improved a lot.
For fairness – Internet Explorer 10 is actually pretty impressive too. The ONE THING that I miss is a plugin that does adblock. There is a paid option for IE9 – but nothing for IE10.
Testing blogging from Office 2013
Word 2013 allows direct publishing to a blog – this is my first test to see if it’s a replacement for the venerable Windows Live Writer.
ZoomIt
I just got reminded of this very cool demo tool.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx
ZoomIt is free – and lets you zoom into an area of the screen to highlight a piece of functionality or an area of interest. Great for demos.
Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012
Just loving Windows Server 2012 and the updated version of Hyper-V – it’s fast and furious on modern hardware.
The updated Linux support is great too – multiple v-procs – and great aware drivers for SUSE Linux.
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