Nov 24
Ah, SCO and their copyright claims over Linux and other flavors of UNIX…they’ve been at this for years now and it looks like the final nail is being hammered into the coffin. From the get-go, I knew this company was in for disaster. And, so it has come full-circle. A pretty healthy company with plenty of prospects was driven into the ground by the greed of its CEO. One man took away the bread from the tables from a number of families because of a vague notion that he owned the keys to the kingdom. Might have helped if he got irrefutable evidence but who needs that?
Maybe next time (if there is one…who would fund that idiot?), Darl will focus on innovation rather than snake oil.
Tagged with: Fail • Linux • SCO
Nov 11
Had an interesting task at the Microsoft ITAC site related to Cloud Computing. Since it’s a members only site (no, not the jacket…I can’t find mine 
), I figured I’d post it here.
There’s something out there but I think the market needs to mature a bit more.
Whether Microsoft will care or bother to read anything posted there is anyone’s guess.
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Tagged with: Cloud Computing • Microsoft IT Advisory Council
Apr 22
So I know this is a gratuitous attempt at getting into the beta for Xobni but I figured I’d drop the referral link in here for the hell of it:
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Looks to be an interesting product (or potential product). The question is how well it works in practice.
It reminds me of Splunk which is a great product if you’re trying to manage a lot of log files from apps and Webs. I’d been trying it at work on some web logs but without much direction so it was more “cool” than “wow”. Then, I needed to parse some app logs for an app across two days (2 servers x 2 days x about 10MB each log file). Dropped it in my watch folder and was narrowing down the entries I wanted in seconds. More “wow” this time around. You can click on key words and Splunk will filter the results based on that. You can set up reports and the like to extract out things like errors and have it e-mail you. My big problem with it is the lack of an easy exporter (you have to do it via the command line prompt). Maybe the next version?
Tagged with: xobni splunk
