This was pretty entertaining. I just ran down to the inconvenience store to pick up a sandwich and it was mobbed with about 15 German tourists. They walk right up to me as soon as I get out of the car and start saying things like, “Ooh, Audi. That is a very nice car. I didn’t know Americans drove Audis.” So, all of them just HAD to have their picture taken with “the American that drives a German car”. It was all I could do to not burst out laughing, but I stood there for 20 minutes while each of them had their picture taken with me and the TT.
Holy crap funny! Just funny. Go see ‘em now! I especially like the networking one.
My father and I took a vacation together to Washington D.C. last week. Lots of good food, beer, and cigars. I maintained a little photo blog of it here.
A Chinese friend of mine took offense when I told him that his government uses Internet censorship to try to rewrite history. He said that you couldn’t do such a thing.
Well, here’s the proof:
Search for “tiananmen” on Google Images US servers and on Chinese servers:
US
China
So, I’m reading a blog post this morning by an ex-Apple employee talking about working in AppleCare support, and while most of it is just a rant, one part of it really spoke to me.
I’m going to be without my computer for a week?! It’s a business critical machine! I can’t be without it!…If something is important to you, you spend money to make it reliable. If you cannot make it reliable, then you make it redundant. It’s a life lesson more than a computer lesson.
Not long ago we were talking to a client who was just planning a move to ESX and wanted to know how many host servers he would need for the number of machines that were being virtualized. We looked at what they currently had and how hard they were working and said “It will all run on one 4-way, so get two of them.” They seemed shocked that we would so blatantly recommend getting more hardware than they “needed”.
Why do people have such a hard time understanding the importance of backups and redundancy? It becomes even more important in the virtualization space where a single failure could mean losing 20 servers, not just one.
Finally…we launched the official stable release of esXpress today. Go get it!
Hmm, just possibly, Qumana doesn’t suck.
Let’s see if this works right and I actually get a big scary image on the left.
Looks like we have a winner!
This is a test of MacJournal to see if it doesn’t suck.
Nope…, it sucks for my uses. Doesn’t support upload of images except via FTP (and who would run FTP on a server connected to the Internet?), and doesn’t support downloading my previous posts.
Would somebody PLEASE make a decent blogging client for OSX, I don’t have the free time to write one myself.
About a month ago my desktop machine gave up the ghost and I broke down and bought a Mac for myself, the 20″ Intel-based iMac. Holy crap! This is a sweet machine. I’m a Linux fan-boy from way back, but there’s just no arguing with something that is this clean and tightly integrated but still gives me the command line access I crave.
Almost every application I use already exists on the Mac, or is easily compiled from the same sources I used under Linux. Except one..
VMware. My job is working with VMware products (mainly ESX), and there are NO VMware products for the Mac. Admittedly, I can work around the lack of VMware console by install vmware-console onto my ESX hosts and using ssh+X11 forwarding to get the display exported to my Mac, but the Linux version of esx-console sucks, I’d much prefer a native version of vmware-console that worked more like either the Windows version or the Linux version of gsx-console. Even better would be an OSX native version of VMware Server. I guess Workstation would be okay too, but I really prefer GSX/Server to WS so that I can run multiple VMs in the background and set up things like auto-boot of VMs when my machine starts up. Plus, I can use the GSX/Server Console to access ESX servers, I just can’t change their settings, but I always do that from the MUI or command line anyway. According to this page, it may be on the way, but who knows if/when it will be released.
This morning I ordered one of the new 17″ MacbookPro’s to replace my Alienware laptop luggable (which will be hitting eBay as soon as the Mac comes in).
I went to TCF this morning. TCF used to be a great place for finding old/rare/etc computers and parts, but not any more apparently. All that was there were ricer PCs and people trying to pawn off total crap, like old Gateways, for far too much. Every single computer I saw there you would have to pay me to haul away for you. Gee, I’m really glad I made that 2.5 hour drive…
