Nice Rack!
Half height rack – courtesy of Dan who’s moving away soon.
Now the servers will have a real home again!
Ouch
Never ignore the cones in the construction zone.
Seen on State Street at about 10000 South in Sandy.
Guess someone has some explaining to do. That thing wasn’t coming out of the 3 foot deep pipe trench.
Yonghegong Lama Temple
I visited the Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing yesterday with Laurence.
It is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastries in the world; there is considerable controversy about the political freedom of the Tibetan Buddhists – certainly the monks in the monastry were all goverment approved.
That aside – it was a very tranquil and relaxing end to the day. The road to the monastry was lined with shops selling insense sticks; the smell of sandalwood was incredible.
Two more large panoramas – they are large files so download may be slow. The originals are massive.
Shangri-la towers. Real life or only in films?
Art imitating life?
Here is the advertising promotion for ‘Shangri-la towers’ in the film Brazil:
And here is the poster I saw on the Beijing subway:
Commuting in Beijing
Most of the visitors to the Novell office here in Beijing are from the US – and get ferried around in a company car with driver.
The first time I was here with Laurence we wanted to stay at the Marriott – a whole 15 minutes away; we got a lot of pressure from the local team to stay at the ‘company approved’ hotel just a 2 minute walk (or a 2 minute drive!) from the office.
This time we just made our own bookings and are staying about 20 minutes from the office; nearer the city center.
We’ve been commuting in on the Beijing subway. That’s an experience.
Not so much “Mind the Doors” – at every door there is a uniformed subway employee who physically pushes people into the train.
The walk to the office is also interesting – every crossing has a uniformed crossing guard keeping people moving and traffic moving.
Logging defects
I’m a-logging bugs against code.
Reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon:
Usual disclaimers – (c) Scott Adams and all that
Great Wall of China from the air
I flew into Beijing last Sunday – it was (surprisingly) a clear and sunny day. The Great Wall of China was clearly visible as we flew into Beijing.
PGP Whole Disk Encryption
I upgraded my PGP to the latest version to support Vista – working well – even the GroupWise C3PO works reasonably.
I took the plunge and did the Whole Disk Encryption for my laptop. Wow. 60GB of data encrypted in 3 hours. Now I get the PGP WDE sign on at boot, I use my home Active Directory password and I get single-sign-on into Vista. Very well implemented.
Now I’m less worried about travelling with my laptop and confidential data. BIOS password and physical security are part of the solution; but crypto for the whole disk is important.
It’s also a lot easier than the Vista Bitlocker. It works with 2000, XP and Vista – and does not require TPM on the workstation. My T42p works flawlessly so far.
Copfilter 0.84 beta 1
My IMAP patch got included in the latest update to Copfilter.
- fix: fixes from various copfilter forum users (see the bugs section in the forum or
CHANGELOG for the details), most important ones are mentioned below- fix: fix in cron.daily (it could hang) – thx DaPinky
- fix: IMAP Buffer increase (it could hang) – thx evilzenscientist
- fix: deleting a huge amount of mails from the spam quarantine is now possible – thx mdages
- fix: proxsmtp/tmp could get filled up without removal of old files – thx Alevizos Dimitrios
- new: ability to sort spam quarantine by columns (ex. by score level) – thx taurus
Nice to see my stuff make it 🙂 Officially “I don’t write code”
Blogging at Microsoft
Shel Israel writes:
UK Microsoftie Darren Strange reports that Microsoft now has 4500 bloggers among its 71,000 employees. Both numbers show significant growth. As irecall, when Robert and I were writing our first chapter of naked Conversations there were 2500 bloggers among 56,000 employees. By the time we finished the book in October 2005, the bloggers were topping the 3,000 mark. This would mean that the number of Microsoft bloggers has grown by over 50 percent in about a year and a half.
By percentage, I’m not sure whether Sun Microsystems or Microsoft has more bloggers, but both companies continue to grow and continue to extol the virtues of doing it.
One interesting aspect in Darren’s report is that there is no longer any controversy about it. When Joshua Allen, became Microsoft’s first blogger, the first call to fire him for blogging came just a few hours later, as we reported in Naked Conversations.
Now it is seems to me, blogging is normalizing at Microsoft and that is what should happen.
In contrast I think Novell has a couple of dozen prolific bloggers at most. That is way below par.
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