by ezs | Jul 13, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I will be speaking with the Novell TTP group next week on ZENworks and systems management.
“Novell TTP?” you ask.. Well – it’s not exactly secret, but you won’t find it listed on novell.com.
Here’s the official blurb:
The Novell Technology Transfer Partners (TTP) is an international group of colleges and universities that have made a substantial commitment to campus IT implementations using Novell technology. TTP was started in the early 1980’s with 14 universities whose goal was to share their networking experiences in order to leverage the knowledge of their diverse campus computing environments. The group has now grown to be a more comprehensive group of loyal Novell higher education customers that not only share information with each other, but with the software developers and business units at Novell. Perhaps no other group has more influence on software development at Novell than the TTP members.
Basically it’s my chance to listen to a few dozen senior admins and their ideas, comments, complaints, wishes .. and even praise.
Not a lot I can add about content – it’s all under Non Disclosure – but I will be talking about cross-platform systems management, ZENworks 7, our roadmap and some of the future trends.
by ezs | Jul 9, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
This struck close to home – Birmingham city centre was evacuated on Saturday evening – one of the busiest nights of the week.
The BBC reports 20,000 people were moved out of the city center area in response to a specific and credible threat.
Still breaking news; this is my old home town.
by ezs | Jul 9, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
A security update for WordPress – I got time to upgrade to 1.5.1.3 this weekend.
So far, so good.
Next on the list is a firewall rebuild and refresh. Hopefully sometime this weekend.
Update – new firewall is now in place. Now using IPcop as a vastly more friendly front-end to the collection of stuff I had before.
by ezs | Jul 7, 2005 | Linux, Uncategorized, ZENworks
I posted a while ago on getting ZLM 6.6.1 to work with Oracle. Just some additional clarification in the docs.
Oracle database support is limited to the following configuration:
* An Oracle 9i database running on any platform supported by the Oracle database.
* A TCP listener running on your Oracle 9i database, which can be contacted by your client using onames or tnsnames.
* ZENworks Linux Management installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Advanced Server.
* The Oracle 9i client libraries installed on your ZENworks Linux Management server. The recommended Oracle client is Oracle 9i client, Release 2.
We recommend working with your Oracle database administrator for database installation, management, and other Oracle-related issues.
Oracle 10g support on SLES will be part of ZLM 7 SP1.
by ezs | Jul 7, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in Utah for almost three years. That means the three year lease on my current Land Rover is almost up.
Looking around – and I’m really taken with buying a classic London Taxi.
One of these: 
Import regulations are nasty – only vehicles over 25 years old can be imported; otherwise lots of Federal regulations need to be complied with. Looks like a 25 year old import runs at just over $10,000 to get it to one of the ports – Houston or maybe Long Beach.
Diesel only, top speed of maybe 70 mph (no speeding!), no air conditioning, right hand drive only.
by ezs | Jul 7, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
BBC news has a lot of information.
One interesting technology part – again from the BBC
Mobile phone services across London were jammed with all major networks reporting problems as people tried to contact relatives and friends. A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the emergency services were being given priority.
Was ACCess Overload Control (ACCOLC) put in place?
More details here, here and here.
Year 2000 ACCOLC article here.
by ezs | Jul 6, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Wow. Grandpa is selling room space within Zone 2 for $2000 a night already..
by ezs | Jul 4, 2005 | Linux, Uncategorized
I rebuilt a NetWare 6.5 server at home this weekend; replacing it with SLES 9.
What should have been an hour or so turned into a fun half-day – the CD-ROM on the server was flaky; SLES 9 CD1 booted; every other CD turned into just unreadable errors.
In the end I installed over ftp from another server – I should have done this much much earlier – I keep a server just for this purpose (AutoYaST, ZENworks Imaging etc).
In the end I was very pleased with another over-the-wire installation; it’s been a few months since I last had to do this; and this time for a ‘real’ server of my own.
by ezs | Jul 2, 2005 | Uncategorized, Utah
I saw this on The Register this morning. The local interest (Utah woman gets $15k for tattoo on face) angle was interesting – but I thought “no one could be that crazy”.
The local Deseret News ran the story – and it all seems genuine enough.
Hunting around – and it looks like it may be a fake:
“However, the lack of blood or bloody tissue, redness or swelling … makes me still seriously doubt this is real.”
by ezs | Jul 1, 2005 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
A new channel appeared in the last week or so – Logo – and I’m sure there will be complaints from the locals. We quite like it 😉
WELCOME TO LOGO!
For the first time ever, Gay America has a home on television where we can go to see ourselves. On LOGO you will see more than 200 lesbian and gay films, an ongoing documentary series, newscasts tailored for a gay and lesbian audience and quality original shows and specials. Programming that reflects our lives. Programming that tells our stories.
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