Dear VMware: Recent OS Support
Dear VMware, I’ve noticed that your flagship product, ESX Server, doesn’t support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Fedora, Solaris x86, or FreeBSD 5.x. RHEL 4 was released on February 14th, 2005. FreeBSD...
View ArticleUse Freakin’ DVDs (and IBM doesn’t get it)
Dear all OS vendors: Provide DVD images. Seriously. Everybody you care about has a DVD burner. Everything has a DVD drive. Well, almost everything. Some older equipment might not, so yeah, you’ll have...
View ArticleOmea: Day One
So I’ve spent more time playing with Omea. I love some of the details, like the setting to mark an item read once it’s been displayed for 2 seconds. I don’t know how many times I’ll errantly click...
View ArticleDear IBM/Tivoli: Transport Encryption
Dear IBM, At SHARE a couple years ago you were presenting the new stuff going into Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3. A number of us ganged up on your staff afterwards and told you we need transport...
View ArticleDear Apple: Two Mouse Buttons
Dear Apple, Your Boot Camp product looks cool. I applaud you for providing supportable solutions to your customers, even if you are encouraging them to use Mac OS X. However, I still won’t buy a...
View Article“You Chose Poorly” says the dumb installer
I hate things that make my life difficult. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 does just that. Its installer will not install the product on Windows Server 2003, which is what my desktop happens to be. I argue that...
View ArticleDear Anybody Who Develops a Music Player: FLAC
Dear anybody who develops an application to play music, One word: FLAC. It’s free, it’s open, it’s what I’m reripping all my CDs into. Apple, it would be absolutely killer if you supported FLAC in...
View ArticleMy Excel Wish List
Say what you will of me, I love Microsoft Excel. I don’t think my life as a system administrator would be as easy without it. Basically, I love it for Autofill in combination with it’s text functions,...
View ArticleGoogle’s SMS Sports Scores Not Working
Dear Google, I cannot figure out how to tell you that the sports scores feeds into Google SMS aren’t working. People are posting in the help groups about this issue. Basically the only scores you get...
View ArticleCredits For Sysadmins In Shrek 3
Dear Dreamworks, I saw Shrek 3 tonight. It was funny as always. Good work! I’m the sort that watches an animated movie not only for the plot but for the way you rendered the water, sky, grass, hair,...
View ArticleDear Apple: Multi-Monitor Mac Minis
Dear Apple, I’ve been using a secondhand, older PPC Mac Mini for the last three months at home, replacing my homebuilt PC running Vista. I like it. It is simple, quiet, and small, and exactly what I...
View ArticleDear Folks Affected by the 365 Main Outage
Dear companies who were affected by the 365 Main outage, That sucks. Been there, done that, and I hope everything came back up okay. I do have one comment, though: Next time don’t put up a “scheduled...
View ArticleDear Microsoft: One Central Update Framework
Dear Microsoft, I really like Windows 7. A lot. It’s most of what I was looking for in Windows Vista, and a worthy successor to Windows XP. You left one big thing out, though. I have, beyond Windows...
View ArticleDear Google: I’m Not Changing My SSID
Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel, Google: I’ve considered your offer to not add my wireless network to your location database in exchange for appending “_nomap” to the SSID. I am rejecting it...
View ArticleMy Adobe Lightroom 4 Wish List
I was just reading the Adobe Lightroom 4 public beta preview over at dpreview.com. I’ve been a Lightroom user for a few years now, and I’ve got a wish list for what I’d like to see in version 4.0: 1....
View ArticleAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Wish List
It looks like TechCrunch & USA Today blew an embargo on the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 beta due to be released, and now lots of places are getting in on the action. I thought it’d be a good time...
View ArticleRedundant Gigabit Management NICs, Please
I’ve been doing a lot of system design work lately, building virtualization infrastructure for places where there is no pre-existing infrastructure available (also known as the revered “green field”...
View ArticleFix the Security Audits in vRealize Operations Manager
(I’m grumpy this week and I’m giving myself permission to return to my blogging roots and complain about stuff. Deal with it.) Several bloggers have written about the Runecast Analyzer lately. I was...
View ArticleIntel X710 NICs Are Crap
(I’m grumpy this week and I’m giving myself permission to return to my blogging roots and complain about stuff. Deal with it.) In the not so distant past we were growing a VMware cluster and ordered 17...
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