David Mackies Blue Brain - All Comments

re: I so need a smack

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re: Please Mr Mobs

David Mackie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:48:31 GMT

Ummmmmm No that would be Steve Mobs head of Mapple.

I understand you may have missed this because you don't distribute Mapple Products :)

Where else would I go but the Mapple Store in the Canberra Centre to buy some iPhonies :)

Maybe I'll get some whiteboard markers while I'm out so I can ink on an iPad :(

re: Please Mr Mobs

Peter Holland — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:23:21 GMT

um, just a small one, but isn't his name Steve Jobs??

re: Canberra SMB Consultant Community??

Peter Holland — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:32:00 GMT

you need to speak to kristoffer sheather. cloud central is going great guns... and I would be interested from a ex reseller perspective...

re: We are so getting this on DVD…

Peter Holland — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:27:47 GMT

David,

avatar's effects are the culmination of a couple of heavy hitters in the ICT industry.

Autodesk and Adobe made reality and animation blur so well that there is no grey area between the two, they are seamless...

the portability may be a result of autodesk's new releases coming up - imagine what the students at the AIE will be capable of soon...

Peter

Merging Differencing Disks

David Mackies Blue Brain — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:04:15 GMT

In December I blogged about the new lab but mentioned a customer problem that came up which made having

Merging Differencing Disks

SME Infrastructure, Architecture & Design — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:03:53 GMT

In December I blogged about the new lab but mentioned a customer problem that came up which made having

re: IBM System Storage N series and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

edupleboully — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:05:39 GMT

Can anyone recommend the robust RMM system for a small IT service company like mine? Does anyone use Kaseya.com or GFI.com? How do they compare to these guys I found recently: <a href="http://www.n-able.com"> N-able N-central help desk software

</a>? What is your best take in cost vs performance among those three? I need a good advice please... Thanks in advance!

re: Always Listen to Mark

Mark Giles — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:38:13 GMT

It is a 10 minute install and you get a free 30 day trial so it is not much of an investment of your time when you can get so much out of it. We bill out an extra $1000 per month just on capturing and invoicing support that would have been missed using our previous systems. Also with the utilisation reporting of technicians and accurate management of support tickets it really does allow you to take control of your IT support business.

For fewer than 10 technicians your Commit server will run quite happily on your SBS box but when you get over 10 you may want to look at using a separate server (not that we are anywhere near 10 ourselves yet) And as far as 'always listening to Mark', I listened to Peter Emmanuel when he mentioned Commit CRM to me over 2 years ago!

re: Canberra SMB Consultant Community??

David Mackie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:22:49 GMT

Thanks Robert however I do think this will be a position validation exercise. Meaning that the takers will be low and if we get 5 I'd be surprised and with those numbers we would probaly only get a few months before it gets really old.

Now if I am Wrong and I hope I am then sure Sharepoint (Tick) BPOS (don't take the green ones, they are not ripe yet)

Thanks for reading

re: Canberra SMB Consultant Community??

Robert Crane — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:53:10 GMT

David,

I'm happy to come down and do a presntation on SharePoint or Microsoft BPOS and the like or just share some caffine.

Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help as you've been helping us in Sydney for a long, it's time we returned the favor.

Thanks

Robert

re: Must be XMAS

David Mackie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:40:56 GMT

Thanks Ben

Not too worried about the Internal Disk because I will mount the File System for the VMs via iSCSI so I can cluster.

Plan is to use Hyper-V Server R2 so I can do failover clustering and some SCVMM stuff.

I didn't spec for a second Socket because it is really a spin up tear down environment. Only 18GB of RAM to start as well.

Will let me do some screen casting again of lots of interesting (to me) technologies.

Am buying two so it will be a toy for me and one for the kids, the second one is not the bundle however.

re: Must be XMAS

Ben — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:52:38 GMT

Just watch that RAID card mate, especially for virtualisation. I'm no expert, but all reports are you need a beefy RAID card for the HyperV stuff.

re: HP Multiseat Solution based on Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

David Mackie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:47:53 GMT

Sure John slightly busy with a large engagement but very keen to learn more perhaps I'll spend some time on your site and see what questions I have.

How can I keep Facebook keeping my interest?

David Mackies Blue Brain — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:42:52 GMT

I blogged a while back about how Some social media Facebook in particular are helping me engage in a

re: HP Multiseat Solution based on Windows MultiPoint Server 2010

John Robinson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:33:40 GMT

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I am the country manager for ANZ and based in Sydney.

Take a look at www.ncomputing.com

I am sure you will be more than impressed!

If you are interested to discuss further my contact details are: jrobinson@ncomputing.com and mobile is 0412 117878.

John Robinson

re: Is VDI Stupid?

Eric Perkins — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:47:02 GMT

VDI is stupid. ok ok, I'm not being serious, I actually think it has a niche market, just like I feel blade PC's have a market. The problem I have is the marketing message is wrong. Citrix and VMware are trying to convince large enterprise companies that the solution is a fit for 40-60% of the workforce when it just does not make sense compared to modern SBC solutions.

My Article is what spurred Citrix to write that additional marketing piece see what you think here: www.insidetheregistry.com/.../viewarticle.aspx

-ESP

So how will I solve the problem of Backup?

David Mackies Blue Brain — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:14:07 GMT

Yesterday I linked to a Backup article and book to give some background into Virtual Machine Backup and

re: How should this have been handled?

David Mackie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:58:25 GMT

Not the ADF as it turns out just me. Remembered the spelling wrongly but since the last time I had a need to obfuscate a countries name was in 1989.

Post updated with real spelling

re: How should this have been handled?

Chris Knight — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:27:27 GMT

I didn't say it was simple and that it would yield useful results, but attempting passwords and logging in wouldn't necessarily yield results either. My method is less likely to trigger legal action. Mind you, I do think Wayne summed up the thread quite succintly.

I definitely think the scenario highlights the distinction between common sense and the enacted laws. Common sense should dictate what was done was in the best interest of all parties, but unfortunately this doesn't mean the actions taken are free from punitive action.

I don't mind my message being quoted. I'm of the opinion that if I post to a mailing list then my comments are fair game. You could argue implied permission but copyright law wouldn't be as forgiving.

Interesting. The ADF don't mind upsetting the southern Albanians then.

re: How should this have been handled?

David Mackie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:41:47 GMT

Let's use my SBS Server as an example..

Reverse Lookup would give you my ISPs Reverse entry for my static DSL IP

Telnet to Port 25 should fail unless you are Trend Micro's antiSPAM servers

RWW would give you a page with the compay name but no contacts.

So as you can see not entirely simple.

Per the Permission as List "Owner" I could argue a degree of implied permission to use content, but you are right should have asked ;-(

~~Cameria~~ Kamaria features in Australian Defence Exercises as a country we can go to war with and not insult anyone.

Didn't want to say country x was the originator of the attack on the original poster.

re: How should this have been handled?

Chris Knight — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:15:59 GMT

Well seeing as I was the person who blasted the original poster I suppose I better offer some suggestions.

I would have performed a reverse lookup query to see what the FQDN returned was. I would then telnet to port 25 to see what the SMTP hostname was and compare this with the FQDN. I would also perform a whois on the IP address, the FQDN and SMTP hostname. If the FQDN, hostname or whois return provided details on the company actually running the server and not an ISP, I'd then use various directory services to get a contact address. I'd also try browsing to the IP address to see if a Web page was returned with company name and contact details.

And continuing the pedantry, you're supposed to ask the authors permission to reproduce all or part of an e-mail under Australian copyright law :-)

BTW why Cameria?

re: Blog this???

David Mackie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:49:58 GMT

Just because I see no benefit in cloud computing, because of the inherrent problems with Security (Spills to other customers, availability and backup) not to mention the oversubscription you will see as folk try to push for better sales on less.

Have I mentioned that folk who folk here are those who would not be able to build infrastructure themselves...

You are right crisis over :)

See ya next weekend.

re: Blog this???

Robert Crane — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:30:36 GMT

David,

>>But I have been struggling with ideas for topics

I have never known you to be anything less than forth-coming and over-flowing with your 'ideas'. Maybe I need to write some more items about the benefits of cloud computing to get those creative juices flowing eh?

Thanks

Robert Crane

Blog this???

David Mackies Blue Brain — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:44:48 GMT

OK as I said a while back my wife has started a blog and she joined a National Blogging Month thing and

re: Requirements workshops – Getting to empty

David Mackie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:38:07 GMT

Interesting as the Project I am conducting is with Microsoft Consulting Services.

We ran the Risk workshop using the sticky note method and now I'm wondering why we are running requirments workshops differently.

Hmmmmm might look at maybe adding a section for both.

re: Human Multi-Tasking a Myth?

Robert Crane — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:55:02 GMT

David,

When you have the TV on you are not really multi-tasking as you don't NEED to pay attention to it. It some ways it is similar perhaps to people who have music on in the background. An interesting study found that if you want to improve you retention of information or a subject you should listen to Mozart I believe. Here are some articles on that score:

http://skepdic.com/mozart.html

jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/.../HowMusicaffectsConcentrat.html

I would suggest that perhaps the TV plays the same role for yourself. However, I would challenge you to try other methods of improving your concentration by perhaps playing music to see whether that does in fact have a greater effect.

In the end I see your work and the TV actually not being true 'multi-tasking' as there is no real 'need' to concentrate on the TV. I will therefore still strongly content that the ability to multi-task is a myth and all that it is in effect is task switching, which in most cases makes you far more ineffective.

Thanks

Robert Crane

re: Requirements workshops – Getting to empty

Chris Knight — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:34:33 GMT

The sticky notes meeting works well. Get everyone to write down one idea per sticky note. Then sift through the notes and put them into categories. Then the similar notes get ranked. The ranking then determines feature set and implementation priority, so long as you get consensus.

Prototype off the requirements, which generally gets more ideas, second round of sticky notes, collate and get approval.

The notes will also include future feature set requirements.

I noticed Microsoft did something similar for Windows 7.

re: While clearly non compliant with the RFC this is interesting

Chris Knight — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:56:36 GMT

Well that just goes to show how last century both those RFCs are.

The frame format needs updating to cover the use of avian-friendly USB keys.

And QoS can be updated to include Token Buckets and DiffServ.

That should do it! :-)

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