Following my last article on Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system and its review from the New York Times I felt that I should provide my own insight into the state of Windows Vista. I have been using Windows Vista for almost a year now. I am an IT professional and an early adopter of most …
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Solaris Dstream Package Format (Package Stream)
If you have worked on Solaris for a while you have probably stumbled across the package stream or “dstream” package format sometimes used for Solaris packages. Dstreams can come as a surprise to Solaris administrators who have become accustomed to the traditional package format. But Dstreams are very easy to work with if you just …
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March 19, 2008: No Good Title Today
I was up bright and early this morning to get in to the office for the early morning coverage. My broken desktop was repaired after hours yesterday so that I can return to Wall Street and get some actual work done today. I talked to the desktop administrators and they locked down my desktop so …
March 18, 2008: Oreo is a Dog Poser
I went to bed at a reasonable time last night but Oreo got me up to walk him at eleven thirty and then again at one thirty in the morning. Once you do that twice you tend to me rather awake. So I didn’t fall asleep again until two thirty or maybe even three making …
March 17, 2008: Fires on St. Paddy’s Day
I got stuck working from home for a little while this morning going from one emergency to another. While I was working a large fire broke out in Newark as two abandoned buildings went up in quite a blaze fueled by the high winds. I was on a conference call when I looked over and …