ITIL update
I passed the ITIL v2 Managers exams. Just missed a distinction on the Service Support – that’s the slightly sad part.
Otherwise good news.
ITIL v2 Managers results
The results are in the post. Several people who were on the training sent out a ‘warning’ email saying they were arriving and to watch out for an anonymous looking white envelope.
I guess it’ll take a few extra days to get here.. Still waiting for the ITIL v3 Foundation results too.
This is worse than waiting for A-level results.
It’s Christmas
I’ve been a-dancin’ around the house with the kids – Pogues on the speakers.
ImageMagick and batch files
I borrowed a film scanner this week – and I’ve been scanning old (and crappy quality) APS films to TIFF files. The results are pretty good – considering the limitations of APS.
Here’s the stunning Taj Mahal, Agra, India taken in August 2001.
I needed to convert around 2000 TIFF files to something that was useful on the photo album – JPEG. I decided on ImageMagick – it’s open source, free and really comprehensive.
I love ImageMagick – it’s a core part of the image resizing and conversion for my online photo albums.
I wrote a one line batch file for Windows to do the conversion:
for %%f in (*.tif) do c:progra~1imagem~1.7-qconvert %%f %%~nf.jpg
Nice use of the macro – the %%~nf will strip the filename out of the full filename %%f. Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 2003 server allow this – HELP FOR gives the full detail; it’s buried quite deep.
ITIL v3 Foundation
I’m in Provo for a couple of days – sitting on an ITIL v3 Foundation course.
The main reason – it’s a cheap and convenient way to sit the exam..
I can’t sit the electronic exam at Prometric in Utah until the New Year. If I was in London I could do it today. Strange how electronically delivered tests take so long to roll out.
Unix admin
Who said Solaris admins are bearded, 280 lbs and over 50?
Six degrees and Dan Clark
I was at the Novell Global Sales Conference in Orlando, FL all of last week.
Final evening – Saturday – we had the final wrap ups and call to action; followed by Dan Clark – the motivational speaker.
He was actually pretty good; and did well making his time personal to Novell and the audience.
Later that evening I was talking to my friend Rick Fowles – and mentioned that Dan made a funny Northern Ireland joke. Rick just grinned and said – “I know – I did my mission with him in Belfast”.
Small world. Proving Six Degrees of seperation is true once more.
Everyone is on Facebook now. Even Grania!
I joined ages ago – but I concentrated on LinkedIn for the business connections.
Vista deployment
Just working on the final pieces of the Vista deployment thread for the Sales Conference.
I’ve got a whole hands-on lab from the fine lads at ENGL – should be good.
Windows 2000
Windows 2000. Ah.
That takes me back.
Building more Vista migration stuff for the Sales kickoff; and I’m shocked how different Windows 2000 and Vista are in terms of resource requirements.
I’m running Windows 2000 quite happily in a machine with 196MB RAM on a VM; Vista takes at least five times that for the same performance.
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