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For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007), Apple had various mocking campaigns and posters for the preceding conferences with slogans along the lines of: Redmond, start your photocopiers This was a very public and very open jibe from Apple regarding Microsoft’s reputation for simply [...] I will be taking a hiatus from this blog, which will last at least two weeks, or perhaps longer. Share this using… I was told yesterday that one of the changes Oracle has wrought at Sun is the killing of all educational discount programmes. Apparently while they’re still listed on the Sun websites, they’re unavailable. Another fascinating change is collapsing support programmes from multiple levels of varying cost to one single level. From a Unix perspective, I grew [...] On my personal blog, where I normally babble on about anything that strikes my interest at any given time, I recently wrote a piece about the coming internet censorship storm in Australia. If you’re not aware, it would seem that the Federal government is only weeks away from introducing into parliament a law mandating internet [...] The top article(s) for March related to the highly successful NetWorker Usage survey run. With over 200 respondents, this survey asked questions covering: NetWorker server operating system types and versions The results were quite interesting; with over 65% of [...] After clearing with EMC (in this era of DMCA I like to get things cleared properly), I’m now hosting local copies of the EMC NetWorker documentation, for both the core software and modules. If you visit the main nsrd.info site, you’ll find a new link for documentation. This currently covers all the database/application modules as well [...] Close enough together that I have to declare them a tie, the top stories for February were: micromanual: NetWorker Power User Guide to nsradmin, and It’s fair to say that Carry a jukebox with you is remaining a big hit all [...] Covered in several places last week, including The Standalone Sysadmin, was the story about Dell updating their RAID firmware/systems on the latest PowerEdge servers to block the use of non-Dell supplied disks. The offending support letter from Dell (quoting as per Standalone Sysadmin) reads: Howard_Shoobe at Dell.com Howard_Shoobe at Dell.com Thank you very [...] Over at Xiotech’s blog, there’s an interesting piece about the evolution of 2.5″ drives in enterprise storage titled The Great Shrinking Disk Drive. I’m not 100% convinced of Xiotech’s argument, but over the years I’ve seen increasing use of 2.5″ drives in enterprise computing – particularly to decrease the footprint and power requirements for DAS in [...] We’re used to seeing EMC and NetApp punch it out in the blogosphere and tweetverse, with the occasional pause from both of them to have a minor dust-up with the likes of HP, IBM or HDS, but component manufacturers don’t seem to normally go for such … abrasive^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdedicated … web behaviour. A couple of weeks ago [...] |
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4 hours ago @iCoolen Seems to be affecting about 8 or 9 people I know at the moment. At least I know it's not just me, thankfully :-)
5 hours ago @prestondeguise OK. Just so you know, I am still online with MSN. So it might be something local to you. Good luck with that.
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