First real winter storm of the year.
I was working in Provo at strategy meetings until late; I didn’t leave the office until 6pm.
I-15 was a nightmare. My usual thirty minute commute took almost two hours. Several inches of freezing snow on the freeway and the usual bad Utah driving.
Got home, cleared some snow and settled in. No tonic; so had to resort to gin and cranberry juice. Quite palatable actually.
Talk about time to value:
Novell’s desktop software distribution products have been licensed enterprise wide in this deal, enabling the move to a pervasive managed desktop environment with a lower total cost of ownership throughout the NHS. Novell will create ‘appliance-like’ solutions using their ZenWorks technology that can be deployed across an NHS organisation in as little as two days.
The full news release is here: http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/news/news_novell
Sigh.
I keep tweaking and tightening my anti-spam rules for my mail server – but the amount of inbound spam is getting crazy. I’m catching about 95% of bad mail – and getting all viruses – but I’m looking at switching to a dedicated inbound mail filter.
I’m probably going to run SpamAssassin and ClamAV running on SLES9.
Don’t ask why – but I had need to reset an Administrator password on a Windows XP workstation today.
I had forgotten the password, it was locked out, the machine wasn’t in AD – and I was stuck.
Luckily there are a wealth of tools to help in this situation – including this. Petter Nordahl-Hagen has written a stunning Linux based boot floppy that just fixes things like this in seconds. Thanks Petter.
Time to take a moment and reflect.
My laptop dual boots [I swap between two 80GB hard drives] between Windows XP and Novell Linux Desktop.
My XP installation has a really annoying problem with Hibernate – described in this Microsoft article. Put simply – it can’t Hibernate about 90% of the time.
There is a lengthy blog post describing the issue – and today a hotfix was released from Microsoft for the issue.
I am trying to get hold of the patch.
Firefox 1.5 should now be available.
Even mozilla.com had a makeover.
Firefox 1.5 is pretty great. My beta feedback:
Here’s to the next 100 million downloads!
A few weeks into using Google Analytics – and I must say I’m very impressed.
The data collected is stunning – for example – 70% of blog visitors use Firefox (not surprising for a tech blog)
Also currently 5% of my blog visitors are from a microsoft.com domain. A hearty hello if you’re in Redmond right now.
Now I was tracking a lot of this before – by trawling my apache logs. Google Analytics is just easier – and it produces pretty graphs!
The only downside – and I don’t recall seeing many blogs on this point yet – is the payload of the tracking technology. The analytics uses javascript – and downloads a huge 17KB of script. It’s not a lot – but the latency is noticable on some sites.
Not UPS and filtered power – more the generation.
I’ve just signed up with Utah Power for their Blue Sky program.
I join 12,000 other Utah customers – including businesses like Uinta brewing. Sounds good to me 🙂
[Edit – I made a 80×15 button for this: 
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Xbox 360’s crashing?
Lots of posts about this now – Xbox-Scene seems to have most.
[Edit – here’s a great video of a crash – thanks to Digg for that one.]
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