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Comment on My take on Apple’s iPad by puppetier

puppetier — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:55:38 +0000

On the surface of things it seems like it could have potential. I’m keen on the idea/market/niche the device features and I think this product will help shape the use case for a casual tablet. That being said, my general feel about this thing is summed up well in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4

Comment on My take on the iPad in the Apple ecosystem by puppetier

puppetier — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:55:13 +0000

First of all, the guy you quoted from daringfireball is horribly misinformed. Apple simply does not have the best mobile processors and they are hardly the best at building them. I’m not even going to provide you any links because if he took off his apple glasses for 2 seconds it would slap him in the face.

Second of all, this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSgryN2FUL8) sums up perfect how i feel when i enter a room full of mac fanboys.

Comment on Minicom, Cisco and xmodem by StandardToaster

StandardToaster — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:30:36 +0000

@Aaron Meehan Glad to help! It would be nice if minicom had lrzsz as a dependency, but with such wide support for tftp in new devices and CF cards for primary storage, xmodem isn't as relevant these days.

Comment on Minicom, Cisco and xmodem by Aaron Meehan

Aaron Meehan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:49:55 +0000

I recently booted a cisco 3620 image on a 3640, and was trying to xmodem upload the good IOS image to the thing, and it kept failing! Not until I read this post did I realize I was missing the lrzsz package. So, thanks!

Aaron

Comment on SSL, Apache and Virtualhosting by Randomed

Randomed — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:20:02 +0000

Good article, I had to do something similar when I was installing OCSi for my last job. The software pushes were secured over an ssl tunnel and I was also using vHosts to run more than 1 site on the box. To limit the number of errors I used more than 1 IP and created a Certificate that was also its own authoitor so both intranet sites would work.

Comment on VMware Vmotion timed out by StandardToaster

StandardToaster — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:09:20 +0000

It appears that failed vMotion migrations can leave the vCenter agent in a broken state. In this specific case, I think a prior network issue caused the first failure – after the network issue was fixed, the agent was still broken.

Comment on VMware Vmotion timed out by Dallas

Dallas — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:35:21 +0000

So what causes the issue in the first place?

Comment on Android gets no love! @ d o l l m o n t . n e t by randomed

randomed — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:03:35 +0000

I don’t think that BES is that big of a deal (again, assuming the admin isn’t a dork, but the argument of competancy can be applied to almost everything). When dealing with the corporate environment one would expect to already have licensing practices in place and is centrally managed.

I’ve never used ActiveSync, So I won’t comment on how it works comparitavely to BES; I will say that In every enviroment I’ve worked in, I’ve either seen a business owned BES, or a provider Tie-in. I’ve never seen an AS deployment in corporate environments where mobile commuication was key to business in any place that i’ve worked.

Competition does indeed breed innovation and i’m glad that RIM does have some now, but they’re still in the lead by a wide margin for business and for good reason. As time moves on we’ll see if that changes, but atm they are the “Standard”. I would love to see cheaper prices from them since they are no longer the only game in town; and as always I would go with the cheapest option, since thats all you get in business these days.

Comment on Online Identities by randomed

randomed — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:55:58 +0000

I think the reason Younger people to be more open is because they’re used to the Idea of the internet since they grew up with it being more common; Sharing information, including yourself. Personally I have my real name online, but thats it. I have a facebook page but I don’t post my address, phone numbers, or a non-burnable e-mail address because I want to try and balance a professional online presence will a level of anonimity I can be comfortable with.

This can also be problematic, since if something did happen to me, only those closest to me would actually know about it; the large amount of people I converse with online under a “handle” would have no way of knowing I was gone and no other means of communication. The easyness of communication on the internet also provides a central point of failure in social communications. This can be a blessing or a curse depending on how you want to keep in contact with people.

The easyness to share information has also taken it to the above mentioned extreme; with pictures and events being digitally recorded and posted for all to see; but I think this is more of a problem with people who are trying to hide an aspect of themselves. I will agree there are some things that need to be kept personal unless you wish it to be shared (a certain picture on a friend’sfacebook in which I was tagged that my mom saw led to an interesting talk about drugs), but since the information is so easily shared, and moreover we all know it can be; it would stand to argue that anyone should know about the inherit risk and be ready for the “consequences”.

Comment on Android gets no love! @ d o l l m o n t . n e t by StandardToaster

StandardToaster — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:08:44 +0000

@randomed My iPhone isn't jailbroken. Exchange supports works better than my old Windows Mobile phone. As for the BlackBerry, BES is yet another application that I have to install, license and manage. ActiveSync can push out policies, remote wipe phones and is secured by SSL (assuming your exchange admin isn't a dork.)
There's even enterprise deployment information available for the iPhone. RIM isn't obsolete, but they've got more competition in the enterprise space than before with the iPhone. It's a shame that the Pre doesn't support Exchange policies, or they'd be in real trouble. The competition will be good though; it will feed innovation in all of the platforms.