I recorded a series of podcasts today for the new Novell Communities site.
Usual delays – see posts below – but should be up and posted in mid-February.
Topics for discussion: ZENworks 7, ZENworks Asset Management, Patching and BrainShare 2006.
Cool.
I wrote a few days ago on how a few Novell people are going to start blogging on CoolSolutions.
This is delayed. Sigh.
End of quarter IT lockdown is the reason. Means that our internal IT people do not touch IT systems during quarter and year end periods.
Looks like another month of waiting.. I’m still collecting the requests for the first post 🙂
Sounds crazy – flying without incurring the cost of CO2 emissions.
However – I found an interesting website that helps calculate the ‘carbon cost’ of flying and the remedy to neutralise that usage.
The example given – for a medium haul flight – is something I do on a weekly basis. For example a round trip from Salt Lake to New York. To counteract this I need to purchase two trees. Or about five trees per month. That’s over fifty trees per year. Ouch.
You can calculate your own impact here.
It’s a long weekend – so fun with servers.
I wanted to replace the Windows 2003 server that hosts my Active Directory and Kerberos pieces – with a newer server running pretty much the same. I ended up using Windows 2003 R2.
Foolishly I assumed that ‘Windows 2003 R2’ == ‘Windows 2003 SP1’ and a few features. Nope.
Classic case of rtfm.
For those that want to do this – make sure you update the Active Directory Schema on the Windows 2003 servers before running dcpromo on the 2003 R2 server. Otherwise you’ll not get anywhere fast – and there is not a lot documented.
Here’s my find:
Update the Active Directory schema on domain controllers. In Windows Server 2003 Active Directory networks, you will need to update the Active Directory schema before:
• Installing Windows Server 2003 R2 on a domain controller. • Configuring a Windows Server 2003 R2 server to be a domain controller by using the Active Directory Installation Wizard (Dcpromo.exe). To update the schema, on the schema master domain controller, insert Disc 2 and open the command prompt. Then, change to the CmpnentsR2Adprep folder of Disc 2, and type: adprep.exe /forestprep
Right there in the docs. RTFM as I said.
I’ve had this mantra since university – it keeps me legal and stops me getting into a world of pain with support etc.
That been said – I’ve just debugged, fixed and submited a patch to a problem in a Drupal module. Woo. PHP debugging.
Being on the road meant I missed this one.
… the R-rated Western gay romance “Brokeback Mountain” – had been pulled from screens at the MegaPlex 17 at Jordan Commons. Management at the MegaPlex 17 decided late Thursday afternoon not to open “Brokeback Mountain” on Friday as scheduled.
No reasons given. Any guesses 😉
My sister is the Akela of a cub pack back home in England. She wanted something ‘on the web’ – she now has a blog and a website.
I looked at all sorts of options for building the website – it needed to be easy to use, minimal maintenance, good functionality – but also secure, not resource hungry and obviously run on Apache, PHP and MySQL.
I eventually selected Drupal. It has an active developer community; the architecture and structure was logical; the security seems good. Best of all it’s easy enough for non-IT people to use.
It’s Thursday – today I am on Wall Street to see a large financial services customer.
I took the train in from Philadelphia – that was fascinating. Amtrak looks starved of investment. Grand old stations like Philadelphia 30th Street – look magnificent in the main hall; once on the platform it is dark, unkempt and pretty dirty. The new Acela “high speed train” looks good; with a striking similarity to the French TGV or Eurostar. The similarity ends with looks. Turns out that the original plan for the Acela was a fast TGV-like corridor between Washington, New York and Boston. The reality is the investment in new track, dedicated running and then compromises and beaurocratic meddling made the train slower, heavier and unreliable.
On the positive side – the transportation was pretty well integrated. Train to 30th St Station, Acela to Newark, PATH to the World Trade Center site. Pretty good.
I’m kinda sneaking this out early – but several ZENworks people from across Novell are going to start blogging on Novell Cool Solutions.
It’s called ‘Cool Blogs’.
Any requests for a first post?
I’m in Philadelphia for a couple of days visiting customers; currently in my hotel room IMing with Jose and talking about Apple.
The new MacBook Pro looks sweet.
I’m watching a DVD of New Order music videos –Â NEW order A COLLECTION. It’s stunning. Music videos that are almost twenty years old for Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith and Round&Round look really fresh.
There is also an interesting – and half completed – web site http://www.kinoteca.net from Michael Shamberg which describes a lot of the background to his music videos for New Order.
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