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Infrastructure updates

by ezs | Nov 10, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I’m moving my primary Active Directory and Kerberos box (which also hosts the internal DNS and DHCP) from Windows 2003 to Windows Server 2008 this evening.

That should free up a box to put System Center Operations Manager 2007 on to.

My goal is to get Operations Manager to map and display my home and lab infrastructure – and to alert on health and performance issues. I hope to use Operations Manager 2007 R2 beta; that will give me cross-platform monitoring. I’ll try and tie in some other partner tools to get some sexy mapping and alerting.

Update Monday

by ezs | Nov 10, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

It’s change control time again..

Big blog updates this week:

– WordPress 2.7 beta
– Gallery 2.3
– SLES 10 x64 SP2

Blog updates

by ezs | Nov 2, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Live family blog is now updated and running WordPress 2.7 beta 1. This site will be updated later today.

Looks like a small cache/redirect glitch somewhere on the WPG integration – it was rewriting URLs in a strange way. That’s working now.

Peel documentaries rebroadcasted on BBC Radio 6

by ezs | Oct 31, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

A great re-broadcast of the John Peel documentary about New Order on BBC Radio 6.

If you are quick you can catch it here.

Really moving to here Peel on the radio four years after his death.

Amazon S3, Azure, Live Grid and the cloud

by ezs | Oct 30, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Now Amazon have opened a European S3/EC2 datacenter in Dublin I am experimenting with video hosting on Amazon S3 and having data in Europe.

Several reasons:

there is a big fat pipe out of that datacenter into most European markets; most of the family watching our videos are in Europe. It’s a lot of hops closer (lower latency, better experience) and it’s a whole lot faster (not slurping out of my server rack at 1 Mb/s at best)
I don’t have to worry about the storage of the data. It’s just there.

I’m looking at moving other data into the cloud too; waiting to see what Microsoft offer up in terms of Azure and other offerings. Live Grid is consumer grade right now – but looks like a good start.

“Even as we speak”

by ezs | Oct 27, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

The usual late night web browsing (with music playing and a cold beer in hand) got me to Egg Records.

They have released the early catalog of Even As We Speak – an early 90’s Australian band; who happened to make it big on John Peel, released an album and disappeared.

Take a look at the compilation – “A Three Minute Song is One Minute Too Long” and try and find yourself a copy of “Feral Pop Frenzy”.

Adobe AIR and updating twhirl

by ezs | Oct 14, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Problems updating twhirl – it kept reporting an ‘Adobe AIR error 0’.

The problem was that the installer did not have permissions under Vista to install into c:program files.

The solution – run the Adobe AIR installer as Admin – c:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobe AIRVersions1.0Adobe Air Application Installer.exe – then select the .air file and install.

Snapfish firefox plugin

by ezs | Sep 5, 2008 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

What a pain. Lots of photo printing sites use the Snapfish uploader – the only problem is there seem to be multiple versions out there – and they don’t co-exist at all.

Here’s an example – the UK Truprint site clashes with the legacy Costco printing – so Rachael had problems uploading.