Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Over at O'Reilly GMT I blogged about GravityZoo but I'd figured it would be interesting here also.

There is a lot of hype going on about desktop virtualisation these days, most of the products are looking at traditional ways of transferring GUI of one machine to a desktop somewhere else. When not trying to publish desktops remotely, people try to use the web as an alternative. However the web has lots of limitations as do traditional methods.

Check out what GravityZoo has up its sleeve ;)

Warning: IPv6 promotional video ahead

John Willis has a good piece on Infrastructure 2.0 , talking a lot about Puppet and his meetups with Luke

Worth reading !

Linux is to fast for todays hardware, I think today was the 3rd or 4th time in the past couple of weeks that I had to put a sleep 15 in an installatiion or rc.sysinit script because by the time I wanted to access my disk the controller or disk just wasn't awake yet.
Waiting a limited amount of time resulted in perfectly being able to access the disk. And no this has nothing to do with old and slow hardware, it happened with different SAS and SATA controllers also, not just with an external USB disk alone.

MySQL is listing a good overview of the bugs they still have open in 5.1
This list comes very handy as I have on my todolist to figure out which bugs they still have open in 5.1 Cluster to see if we are impacted by one or more of them.
Now I don't have to manually go trough the lists anymore ..

thnx MySQL !

Just found out about the VLC plugin for mozilla.. awesome

And while Elise points us to that quote again.. does anyone remember from which Coupland book I actually got it ?
I`m guessing Microslaven but I`m really not sure anymore .. could be Generation X also .

The deep motivations are exactly the reason why we could be in marketing, only we'd probably
really have to believe in a product to market it.

So some unknown Sean 1800+ mails me .. doesn't know me .... wants to be connected with me , why ? Beats me..

He finishes his email with
"If you would prefer not to accept my request then please simply ignore this message. It would be very much appreciated if you did not click on the “do not know this person” button. Have a great day and thank you for your time. "

Now why would I want to do that ? He just spammed me, via LinkedIn, there is only one sensible thing to do and that is report him as a spammer. What was this guy thinking.. If I send unsollicited mail directly to someone's inbox he'll probably tag it as spam. If I do it via LinkedIn he`ll like it ?

I only link with people that I have communicated with over different media , know in person , have spoken with on the phone ( a head hunter that calls me doesn't count), worked with in real life or have worked with online intensively in different open source projects.. there are couple of exceptions in my connections from my early days when I didn't have my own set of rules yet.

I have a couple of people on hold .. knowing that I will meet them in the next couple of months.. , these are the kind of people I won't
click "Don't know" on.. mostly because I do know them, by reputation by referral but not in person yet.

Once in a while there is this person that you want to meet up with, get to know better, you are doing similar stuff and you planned to meet but just missed each other by 5 minutes.. difficult ..

LinkedIn is my personal addressbook , it helps me to keep track of people email addresses, it helps me to see where people are moving to and what their new projects are.

But please don't spam me there... it will only hurt yourselve

Rumour says that Novell just layed off 200 people in Europe including half of its force in Belgium.
Seems like lot of the victims are in the GroupWise department.

Dear Asus,

You are about to launch a new Sub laptop device with by default a Linux distribution.
I would love to take the opportunity to test this device and show it around to as much people as possible,
Please send me one to test and spread the word !

thnx in advance

Kris