Today we shipped ZENworks 7.
Lots of press and news on this – I’ll try and get everything into this one post.
Also internal blogs on ZENworks 7.
I found this while trawling other Novell peoples blog posts – it’s a great essay by Scott Berkun
#40 – Why smart people defend bad ideas
All the more palatable because of the Monty Python references.
Bandwagon alert.
I’ve got some presentations where I provided voice over; also some video of me presenting at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.
I’m going to pull the audio off, compress it and clean it up and post it – see if it works well.
Hopefully this url will work for content: http://blog.evilzenscientist.com/index.php/?feed=rss2&category_name=podcast
I keep getting asked about updates to the ZENworks Desktop Imaging engine – specifically driver support and the like.
There is a cool project on the Novell forge site – that hosts new drivers, lots of docs and complete ISOs of the environment. It’s here – http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?zfdimgdrv
Point to note – in ZENworks 7 – we moved to a SLES9 based distro for imaging – so driver support is vastly improved.
Flew back from Stamford, CT – I had to check a carry on bag as it was ‘not permitted’ – not too large, not too heavy – just ‘not permitted’.
I got a leaflet from TSA explaining that sometimes items can be ‘just not permitted’ – at the discretion of the TSA agent.
It’s not like I tried to sneak a box cutter (Stanley Knife to the civilised world), wrench, hockey stick, 5 gallons of gas/petrol or anything else on board. Just a small rucksack – way smaller than the carry on limit – that was ‘not permitted’.
I fly a lot. I fly a lot with just carry on. I fly a lot with this bag.
Jobsworth. Another English word that I proudly introduce to the wider vocabulary of the English speaking word. Learn it, use it, love it.
I took some screen shots of ZLM7 in action – mainly a look at the ZENworks Control Center
Columbus,OH airport has free wireless.
I’m finalising my BrainShare Barcelona sessions – lots of late breaking data for ZENworks 7.
I’m re-writing the ZENworks Architecture session that was ably presented by Ron Tanner and Ty Ellis in Salt Lake City – hopefully I can get all of the information into an hour! I really want to cover the futures of ZENworks and how Novell is investing in making the transition (note – not migration) easy.
I’m sitting in the airport in Denver – watching CNN and reading my mail. Simultaneously I get an email alert from my IDS showing a lot of unusual activity, also a Microsoft PR person is on CNN describing the impact of the latest worm.
This from SANS:
Another PnP Worm: W32.Zotob.E
CNN is reporting a worm outbreak which is affecting their network, ABCNews, NYTimes, as well as Capitol Hill. All statements so far make this look like a Zotob variant…
Symantec just released info on the W32.Zotob.E worm here.
Trend Micro is also released this: WORM_RBOT.CBQ
This is an exploit of a known vulnerability, and the patch is available from microsoft here: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-039
Interesting – firewall, IDS, host-based hardening – all seems to work for many people. Good practice leads to safe computing.
An interesting article here – talking to Bill Hilf about Microsoft researching non-Windows server and desktop products:
Microsoft’s Linux and Open Source Software Lab serves as both a place to examine the threat posed to Microsoft products by open-source offerings and a venue for testing software from Microsoft and others that’s designed to span that divide. The lab is home to hundreds of servers and desktops that run dozens of different types of Linux and Unix.
Hilf has been pretty open about Microsofts investigation of Open Source and non-Windows technologies:
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