Having been in the IT techie game for some time, I’ve lived through some pretty hairy formats where data has been forgotten, excluded or just plain ignored, all at the client’s expense. To this end, I’ve developed my own little formula over the years when it comes to doing this.
So, after being really busy over the past year I’ve decided it’s due to time update the ol’ blog. In the business (busy-ness), I have since moved into a post requiring a vast amount more paperwork and organizational skills, to that end I required some kind of note taking system that was a tad more efficient than the exam-pad-per-month method I was employing.
Well, I’ve been scarce for a while, mostly due to work. Recently while on holiday I was reading up on a great little feature on Windows 7 for speeding up your initial boot time. This is going to be as short and sweet as my boot time which is now 7 seconds…
Situation: You have a bunch of VM’s on a Server 2008 R2 RC instance. The RC expires and dies a horrible death at the hands of the IT manager, who complains for more time than it takes to reinstall the server about someone actually loading an RC onto the server. You now have a working server, but an empty Hyper-V manager, zero snapshots and no config file backups. In the rush to reinstall, VM’s were not exported, but instead just had their VHD and AVHD files copied…
Last week sometime, I got a notice from Poken Africa on their Facebook page saying something along the lines of ‘sign up to come and view the Gautrain’. I have been interested for a long while in seeing what the technological marvel of the Gautrain was all about, so I notified the lass and we signed up.
Well, I am sitting here with my whiskey and reading blog posts, and I’ve decided that SSO (single sign-on) is definitely the way forward. I recently tried to comment on a friend’s blog (a brilliant post!) but on commenting was greeted with a “please register” message. This just ticks me off.
There, I admitted it, but it does. I have not found general/business purpose hardware quite as high quality as Microsoft; this also coming from someone who 5 years ago considered the company name to be “the M word”. I have to admit as well, after seeing Windows 7, working on Windows 7 and being part of one of the first Windows 7 logo signed ISV’s, their software is just as good. Put the two together, and you have a winning combination.
Following on from a post by John Lufadeju on his blog regarding hosting your WordPress blog locally, and Robert Bravery‘s post on using WordPress on Vista and IIS 7.0 I thought I’d do the geek thing and go one step further and describe how to setup your own dedicated Linux web server (among other services) running WordPress for home use, and also to let you know that it is not as difficult as it may seem! I warn you that this post is a long one, but it is bound to be an informative one!
While typing out another post, I figured I’d put in this very quick little post on obtaining your IP address for different operating systems.
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