Cub Scout web site
If you’re looking for the St David’s cub scout web site – hang on. It’ll be back shortly.
ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1
–
If you are a ZENworks administrator – you have probably seen that we released ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 in the last few days.
The whole ZENworks team are very proud of this release – it is of high quality, fixes problems reported via Novell Support – and adds some new features to ZENworks 7.
This post will describe how to get ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 and how to install it. My next post will talk about what’s new in this release – including platform support and software distribution bandwidth management.
This will be a longer post than normal – but there is a lot of useful information that needs to be shared!
Written at: Draper, UT
1 – Where to find ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1
We have made some updates to where ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 is downloaded – and also how it can be installed.
The Support Pack is available from http://download.novell.com – you will notice that this is a new set of integrated CD ISO images. The specific link is here:
Documentation for the Support Pack is online at Novell Documentation. The link is here: http://www.novell.com/documentation/zenworks7
There is also a comprehensive Support document – TID 10097368 – describing the Support Pack.
There are FIFTEEN ISO images available for the full ZENworks 7 download. You most likely do not need to download them all. Here is a great document describing what is needed for each components of the ZENworks 7 Suite. This document describes what is on each ISO.
2 – installing ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1
First a note on the Support Pack itself.
You have probably noticed that ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1 is delivered as a new set of product CD images. We have moved away from a non-integrated support pack. The main benefits of this approach are:
- integrated installation of ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1. Upgrade customers do not need to upgrade to ZENworks 7 then install the Support Pack. You can get the latest and greatest with a single install.
- interactive upgrade from ZENworks 7 to ZENworks 7 Support Pack 1. You can work through an interactive upgrade, server by server and upgrade components.
- unattended upgrade using ZENworks Server Management CPKs. These support both the Standalone Package Processor and automated deployment with ZENworks Server Management
There are really three methods of installing the Support Pack – each method really depends on ‘what you have’ and the size of your organisation.
The CPK based upgrade is the most interesting option – it is new with this release. Take a look at the options for installing this with the Standalone Package Processor. For customers using ZENworks Server Management this is another reason to smile – you can now roll out this support pack after hours, with no interaction.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
I just updated two servers in the office to SLES 10 – officially launched today.
Things have improved since the internal alpha and beta releases – no problems so far – and very good hardware detection.
I’m writing a document on installing WordPress on SLES 10 – I’ll have that out soon.
[Edit – SLES 10 and WordPress 2.0.3 are running nicely together in my tests. I’ll update the Evil ZEN Scientist blog server tonight and see where that gets me.]
This blog is now running on SLES 10 – woo!
# tail /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586)
VERSION = 10
GC74 – First Mass. Geocaching in Boston
I’m in Boston for work – and I had a free hour or so – so I did a geocache.
I found the first geocache placed in the North East USA, way back in the summer of 2000. At the top of ‘Horn Pond Mountain’. There’s an interesting article here.
Nice jog – weather was terrible – rain, humidity and warm. And no view of Boston – just haze and fog.
Firefox – the onward march of progress
So long Bon Echo – welcome Firefox 2.0 Beta 1
Available in the nightlys for Bon Echo – but should pop live as a ‘beta build’ soon I guess.
Citysearch and badly written content filtering
I use Citysearch to look for new and interesting places to eat and go out.
It won’t let me enter my location ‘Draper’ – it complains about ‘Inappropriate Content’:
Here’s my location:
Here’s the complaint:
Looking at the content all I can assume is that ‘Draper’ contains ‘rape’ – and that’s bad.
I hope they don’t extend the service to people living in Cockermouth or Scunthorpe.
Haha
I don’t know how offensive this might be:
Too busy to blog?
–
I have got about six different blog posts I need to get posted in the next few days – I’m backlogged with ideas and comments from the last week or so. I wrote lots of draft posts – I will get them posted really soon.
That brings me onto the main subject of this post – what do you expect from articles on Cool Blogs?
Written at: Draper, UT
My personal manifesto is that these are my ‘PostIt Notes of ideas’ – that I share with you. Some are short and quickly written, some are longer pieces. I hope all are somewhat useful. (As an aside – I post my ‘other stuff’ on my personal blog..)
Corporate blogging seems to have split down the middle on this concept.
One one hand their are CXO blogs – like our own CTO Jeff Jaffe and CMO John Dragoon – who blog regularly – but who write longer posts. These are aimed at their peers – senior IT management, decision makers and CXOs.
On the other hand you have something like Cool Blogs – and most other technology sites – which give you a rich, condensed post with lots of information and tend to link to the source data and articles.
I like to think that as ‘geeks’ and ‘technologists’ we prefer the latter; we are all overloaded with information (24×7 email, web, news feeds, pagers, Blackberry..) – and we like our information short and sweet.
This concept comes full circle back to us – the Cool Bloggers – and what we write. You can tell that I don’t shut up. I blog here, on my family blog, on my personal blog – my ‘PostIt Note’ concept again. I’ve also found that blogging has let me get back into writing longer articles and documents again.
Please share your feedback. I’m not ‘too busy to blog’ – so long as it’s concise.
Written at: Draper, UT
Viruses
–
I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ’something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomon’s labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
I’d love to hear your stories of close encounters with viruses and malware. Feel free to comment – anonymously if needed.
Written at: Draper, UT
Viruses
I found an interesting article via Digg about twenty years of computer viruses.
Touch wood I’ve been virus free for over a dozen years. Good practice and a well honed sense of paranoia I guess.
My ‘virus claim to fame’ was being one of the first people to find ‘SMEG.Pathogen‘ in the wild – this was in the summer of 1994. I found it on a hard drive from a customers laptop.
It infected a lot of my floppy disks and my main PC. I vividly remember thinking that ‘something was wrong’ with my system – and I took an example of an infected executable to the Dr Solomons labs in Aylesbury on a day off. I remember meeting Graham Clulely and getting some raw code to at least detect and quarantine this first polymorphic virus.
I had to give a few statements to the police – including a ‘financial impact statement’ describing how much the outbreak had personally cost me and my company.
The virus author – Chris Pile – was famously sentenced to 18 months.
Recent Comments