by ezs | Feb 12, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
I got another recipe book for Grania for her Birthday: Madhur Jaffrey’s World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking
It’s been a great resource; even though it’s over twenty years old! We’ve taken some Persian, Thai and lots of Indian ideas from it.
This weekend (as I am going away for most of the week) I cooked up a batch of veggy curries – ranging from spicy chickpeas to a hot madras. I also did a Goan style fish and banana curry – slightly milder, sweeter and suitable for Aoife. Mmmm.
by ezs | Feb 10, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Well – we’re almost at mid-February – and getting closer to the release of the Novell Cool Blogs.
Hopefully internal testing soon – and live before the end of the month!
by ezs | Feb 9, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
I’ve been running a more aggressive anti-spam and anti-virus regime on my inbound mail servers for about six weeks now.
The statistics are interesting; inbound spam outnumbers ‘real email’ or ham by around 2:1.
This means that during any day there are at least twice as many unwanted, spam emails – as opposed to real mail. That’s unwanted bandwidth usage and unwanted costs for me! If I wasn’t filtering and capturing this then I would have to be more alert to unwanted emails and delete them.
I’m also using ClamAV to check for viruses within email attachemens. Typically around a dozen or so viruses attached to mail per day. Captured upfront.
by ezs | Feb 8, 2006 | blogging, Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Novell BrainShare, Uncategorized, ZENworks
More updates on BrainShare 2006.
I am in Provo, UT all week – working with Mark Schouls – on our BrainShare session and demo:
| Session Title: |
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ZENworks Design, and the Lifecycle Management Framework |
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2 Hours |
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Advanced |
| Abstract: |
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Over the past number of years Novell has presented the ZENworks Lifecycle Management diagram in many of the ZENworks related sessions. This session will focus squarly on how to design a rock solid ZENworks infrastructure and put lifecycle management into practice. Join this session to learn how to fully leverage your ZENworks architecture, take advantage of best practices, and see a live lifecycle management demonstration. This session is a combination of both theory and live demonstration. |
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Mark Schouls
ZENworks Product Manager
Novell, Inc.
Martin Buckley
Director of Product Management – Resource Management
Novell, Inc.
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Should be good fun. We’re working on the ‘minimal slides, maximum demo’ approach.
So far I am documenting how to build a successful ZENworks demo/workshop/lab – I will get that posted to the (soon to be launched) Novell Cool Blogs community.
The summary of the session describes the life of an employee – presented in a two hour session. From day zero (hire) to when the employee leaves for pastures new – the session and demo will describe how ZENworks, Novell Identity Manager and other solutions can control the lifecycle of the user and their hardware.
I’ll post more in the next week or so – but I’m saving the bulk of the information for the new Cool Blogs!
by ezs | Feb 6, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Urg. I’ve been flat out at work – sorry for the lack of posts.
by ezs | Feb 4, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, Utah
Sigh.
I’m glad I created a new gmail account for selling those sofas.
Within a week I’ve been inundated with spam and scam emails.
Most have not been from craigslist – but from another online ad we put on KSL – a local media company.
I wonder how the average consumer copes with this? I am naturally skeptical and wary of anyone offering to buy a sofa, sight unseen. If they are from the other side of the US – or even the world – then it’s just got to be bogus. Add to that the deluge of spam and viruses – it’s just not safe to be doing this anymore.
I will say that craigslist does have a good policy of providing an anonymous email address – that helps to reduce the instances of inbound spam. The local KSL site does several pretty bad things by default – it includes your name, phone number and real email address. Not helpful.
by ezs | Jan 31, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’m working on a new blog/site – and I’m working on a new, crisp three column design.
I found a great article that describes how to do this – with the result of really clean HTML and CSS.
A nice article.
by ezs | Jan 30, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, Utah
Most people have heard of eBay and others; craigslist still seems to still be a word-of-mouth secret.
We need to sell two large sofas.
Seems like craigslist is a good way to sell things like this – I’ve had some great feedback from friends and colleagues.
Here’s the link – if you’re interested I’ll certainly haggle on price 😉
by ezs | Jan 21, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I’ve been playing music via iTunes to my Apple Airport for a while – and it’s always been pretty perfect.
Recently however the music keeps stopping and starting – nothing seemed to fix it.
Then I found a firmware update for the Airport – here – that seemed to work. I moved the wifi to use channel 11; updated the Airport and everything is now happy.
by ezs | Jan 19, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I use Google Analytics to track traffic to this blog. I commented on this earlier – and sorry for the almost 30k payload!
I noticed tonight a visitor from the far north of Norway – in Sandvika – this stood out as being the most northerly visitor I’ve had.
Welcome – and please leave a comment and introduce yourself!
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