Software
Going with the flow
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Several months ago I took a 2nd, part-time, after-hours job doing sysadmin work for a company that I have a close relationship with. A large part of their business infrastructure is a 10-blade Dell Bladecentre system. It’s a mean beast. 20 CPUs, over 40Gb of RAM, and is set up as a VMWare ESXi cluster, [...]
If it’s not broke, sometimes it just can’t be broken.
Friday, December 4th, 2009As part of my work, I was required to do a demonstration / instructional on an introduction to Windows 7. My main interest was getting people to understand how Windows 7 has changed from Windows XP (since many people avoided Windows Vista, and now have heard how great Windows 7 is) and also to see [...]
Sharing sound between Pulseaudio instances in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10
Monday, November 9th, 2009The goal of this post is to respond to a query about how to synchronize soundcards across several Ubuntu-based computers together using pulseaudio. I will present two methods, demonstrating the GUI tools that are available, before showing how to come up with the manually-edited files. In theory, at the end of this post you will [...]
The Personality of Computers
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I was reading an article by John C Dvorak about the difference between Apple & Microsoft – and, critical as he usually is, he raises some good points. He made a single point that I thought relatively brilliant: Where is the Microsoft personality? In summary, he’s referring to how Apple has played the marketing game [...]
Technology & The Economy: Part 2.
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Windows 7. It’s really just around the corner, especially with how time seems to move so much quicker these days. The public ‘Release Candidate’ will be released in May – supposedly. And at this point in time, there’s a lot of speculation around the ‘hype’ of Windows 7′s ability to perform on older hardware. Vista [...]
Technology & The Economy: Part 1.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009The world-wide economy is – interesting – to say the least. We’ve had the credit bubble go *pop*, the subsequent mass hysteria of everyone pulling money out of investments so fast (thanks to the wonder of technology: High speed Internet and Internet banking) causing entire countries to become bankrupt, and generally society starting to panic [...]
Technological Complacency
Monday, March 2nd, 2009It seems that as society has progressed, people have become lazy – complacent. No longer are we required to think innovatively to solve problems – we’ve become relient on machines to work it out for us. A classic example was in a historic show I watched a few years back. Their goal was to try [...]