by ezs | Jan 27, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized
A week late posting this – sorry.
For those that haven’t heard it – Pandora is an online music player – that plays music that you like and other music similar in style to it.
We’ve been wowed by it for over 15 months.
So late last week I read on the Pandora Blog that Tim – a founder of Pandora – was going to
be in SLC for a public ‘Town Hall Meeting’ – we decided to turn up.
I’ll let Grania add her comments too – but it was fascinating hearing about the business and the music side of Pandora; especially the level of detail, training and consistency of breaking down the genes of a piece of music. I think Grania was almost ready to move to Oakland, CA to train for the Classical analyst role.
by ezs | Jan 27, 2007 | travel, Uncategorized
Friday morning I got on a plane; Sunday morning I am in Singapore.
Where did Friday and Saturday go?
by ezs | Jan 25, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized
I asked for a feature; it got included in GLoSS 1.3.6.1 – I’m impressed.
I asked for the ability to turn off caching of bitmaps.
I got my feature; I paid the bounty.
by ezs | Jan 23, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, ZENworks
My name is Andy Philp and I am a ZENworks specialist working in Novell Consulting UK. For the past 4 years or so, I have worked with many customers across Europe architecting, designing and implementing solutions with all of the ZENworks products.
So why I am on Cool Blogs? Well, I’m very passionate about ZENworks and want to hear from you directly regarding your experiences, good or bad, so we can learn from each other. Over the coming weeks and months I’ll be sharing my experiences and posting tips and tricks to help you maximise your ZENworks experience.
I hope you find my future posts informative and useful.
Written at: Frankfurt, Germany
by ezs | Jan 22, 2007 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress
“Ella” is here.
A long beta program – and it looks sweet.
Download from here.
by ezs | Jan 22, 2007 | Technology, Uncategorized
Vista has been available for corporates since November; the retail launch is readying for the end of January.
Meanwhile there is a lot of discussion about Vista Service Pack 1 and when that will appear.
Microsoft Watch and a few others point to ‘project Fiji’ as SP1; and talk about a fall/autumn availability. This is slightly sooner than Windows XP SP1 (just under a year) – but if it’s true it will accelerate enterprise deployments for those that ‘wait for SP1 before deployment’.
by ezs | Jan 19, 2007 | Evangelism, Technology, Uncategorized
I’ve blogged about Collanos before.
I’ve had to tweak the client to make best use of bandwidth. I’m finding that because most of my team are on pretty fast connections – fast DSL, fast LAN – the default settings are too conservative.
I suggested to the Collanos people that they have a ‘I have infinite bandwidth’ setting.
Here are my two settings that I changed.
Under Tools – Preferences, select Connections. Select Individual and click Apply.
Next click on Advanced Bandwidth Settings and bump up the upload and download speeds; also set the upload and download to use more threads.
by ezs | Jan 15, 2007 | blogging, patching, Technology, Uncategorized, wordpress
WordPress 2.0.7 – security fixes.
Kinda instantly obsoleted WordPress 2.0.6 – which in itself was bug and security fixes.
WordPress 2.1 still moves forward; beta 2 via svn is looking pretty sweet.
by ezs | Jan 12, 2007 | fun stuff, Technology, travel, Uncategorized, ZENworks
Post 2 of many in the next 100 days – talking about ZENworks.
Ah – time to travel home from Düsseldorf. Up early and to the airport.
It’s great seeing your product in use. Lufthansa check-in desks are powered by NAL. Check-in agent logs in, up pops NAL and all of the applications.
I’m travelling United from Chicago to Salt Lake City – and United are also a ZENworks customers.
Take a look next time you fly. You might be having your check-in made possible by ZENworks.
by ezs | Jan 10, 2007 | Technology, travel, Uncategorized, ZENworks
First of a long series of posts from the next 100 or so days talking about the next version of ZENworks.
I’m in Düsseldorf – running an internal training course on ‘Pulsar’. I wrote a pretty detailed, deep dive, technical training course on ‘Pulsar’ and delivered it today.
I’ve been polishing and writing labs and training course notes all week; I’ve had a couple of hours sleep in the last three days.
Today was the actual training – and I think it went well. We trained 25 internal people from across EMEA on the next version of the product; yesterday was training on our messaging and positioning; tomorrow is marketing, positioning and ITIL training.
It’s been a long time since I spent time with this many EMEA people in technical training; the response so far has been very positive.
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