Melissa-isms
by danlor on Oct.03, 2008, under Uncategorized
Have to put your name on the back of your belt…
so when you pull your head out of your ass you know who you are.
iTunes “genius”… no.
by danlor on Sep.14, 2008, under Uncategorized
I'm sure I could come up with a word for it. Lets see…
Crap
Useless
Painful
Imitation of an artificial flavor?
I have used other dynamic playlist systems for years. I even have had some fairly good luck doing it within itunes with smart playlists. The solution that apple has come up with makes no sense. I cannot understand what their goal possibly could have been. They state that they use my meta data from my library to figure out what else I might want to hear… So… why the fuck would the system give me playlists full of songs with ZERO playcounts… and 1 star ratings? 1 star means don't fucking put it in my play lists… not, "Hai I LUV ths SoNG!!!" <sigh>
With pandora and the other good systems being squished by the record companies, I guess we have little hope.
Another day… Another Vista Push.
by danlor on Aug.15, 2008, under General, Technology, Work
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/08/15/ms.windows.7.updates/
You know… My problems with vista are not some voluminous, ambiguous, undefined rant. The problems are real, and they make the OS completely unusable. Between my job and home I some how own three copies of it now. Take a wild guess how many of them I am using. If you forget the stupid forced obsolescence of tons of hardware(wireless/printers/cameras), the crappy drivers(nvidia/creative), the unfinished interface(why do we STILL have computer properties/manage, that link back and forth between each other?), the extra layers of gui crap on top of already buried functions of the OS(just try to configure that wireless network)… You still have to deal with god-awful slow speeds.
Now server 2008 on the other hand… that is something. THATS more like it.
What we don't need from you Microsoft, is more marketing. FIRE THEM ALL! THEY are the reason you are in this mess. No amount of bullshit telling me how "great" vista is will change anything.
I desperately hope windows 7 will come better. My career depends on it.
Big
by danlor on Aug.04, 2008, under Work
We are finally getting close to finishing our datacenter here. Here are some photos of the power infrastructure along with our HVAC.
Saying of the Day
by danlor on May.20, 2008, under Uncategorized
Drier than a popcorn fart
Dell Deals For EqualLogic – Forbes.com
by danlor on Nov.05, 2007, under Technology, Work
Dell Deals For EqualLogic – Forbes.com
If you hear a faint sobbing in the distance. It's probably me.
Equallogic has been one of the two pillars of success in my department. The combination of VMware and Equallogic has been amazing to watch. But in all reality. Any decent iSCSI system would have achieved the same results. We were onef their first customers, and have been very happy with their hardware. But we will not do business with Dell. They still owe us money for not honoring our warentees on hundreds of machines.
I have another meeting with Compellent on the 19th. They seem to have taken equallogic a step further.
Why oh why could they have not been bought by hp or EMC?
Ballmer: Microsoft will power the mobile revolution | The Register
by danlor on Oct.23, 2007, under Technology
Ballmer: Microsoft will power the mobile devolution
Someone should let him know he is too late. And devices that can use this won't be out for another 8 months… at least… wow.
Microsoft’s System Center Mobile Device Management SCMDM 2008. Rolls of the tongue huh? In another demonstration as to why marketing cannot be allowed to run amuk, Microsoft has once again developed a fully branded letter and word jumble. Since it's from microsoft… it must have microsoft in the title. They are also pushing system center hard at the moment… so it has to be there to. Mobile is a key marketing term for the windows mobile division… they probably tried and failed to throw windows in the title. Of course we can't forget the year. Without adding the year… how will people know they need to upgrade!!! Gotta have that churn. Why would you want to run any thing from last year?
It's just too simple to name applications what they really are.
Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill – Free passes to our buddies!
by danlor on Oct.18, 2007, under Uncategorized
Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill – washingtonpost.com
Could someone please explain to me why you would need to grant legal immunity to the phone companies if they are not breaking the law?
UPDATE – Looks like someone woke up and stopped this madness for a moment.
Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill
Vmware convertor
by danlor on Oct.16, 2007, under Technology, Work
We having been using VMware here at work for quite a while now. We have the full setup, and it all works really good. But we have had a very annoying problem with VMware convertor for some time now. It migrates virtual machines to ESX server from Virtual server just fine. Also handles Physical-toVirtual great as well. But after you get the VMs on to your ESX box, and you want to reconfigure them, or move them back to virtual server, you can't. You get this error "unable to determine guest operating system". After search the forums and such, we found little advice. But a small line at the bottom of a discussion board on a third party site had the answer. "unplug your usb drives". What? Bullshit. That can't be it. I took a look around my computer, and sure enough I had a USB floppy plugged in. I removed it and tried again… It worked.
So. If you use VMware convertor… UNPLUG YOUR USB DRIVES BEFORE RUNNING!
Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners – CNN.com
by danlor on Oct.10, 2007, under Uncategorized
Carter says U.S. tortures prisoners – CNN.com
The response from our fearful leaders is, "Our position is clear. We don't torture. It's just sad to hear a former president speak like that."
Indeed.
