My son said “Papa next week we are going to sleep over at school, must bring along blankie!” I said, “You bring your blankie to school everyday, there is no need to bring any extra!” He replied, “If my blankie…
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VMware Server discontinued
This is old news to some. This is regarding about one of my favourite software, VMware server. I came across several posts in the past week about its passing. Finally found the official confirmation. This really sad, as I have…
Leo is out!
HP just announced that Leo Apotheker has resigned as CEO and Chairman of HP. Meg Whitman, a HP board member, ex EBay CEO will take over Leo’s role as CEO. Ray Lane has been appointed Executive Chairman. Ray was from…
This is the end for WebOS
I just read that HP is beginning to layoff the WebOS developers. This spells the death knells for the handset OS. This may be sold off to other handset manufacturers. Supposedly to HTC. This is a sad way to end…
Did you change the settings?
Way back in the days of Wordstar, I used to reconfigure nearly every option, colors, backspace buffer, highlights etc. It was really easy, all the settings is in just one file. The single program instance helps a lot. When I…
Nokia E71 firmware update to v501.21.001
I missed out this firmware update Nokia E71 which went out in December 2010. The change log includes Ovi Maps 3.03 Lite with free navigation New version of Music player New version of Ovi Store Office 2007 support Usability and…
Mooncakes for 2011
Last year’s mooncakes were barely satisfactory. The dough still has a long way to go to approach commercial quality. Below is the new improved recipe. Equipment Mooncake mould Round box for dusting the assembled balls. Disposable food container will do…
Cmdr Taco is leaving Slashdot
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Backup your data
This is the most basic and important operational task. All data should be backed up as frequently as possible. This is to protect against logical data corruption or data loss. The server’s hard disk is protected by RAID 5, but…
The importance of the domain controller
The first step of any site disaster recovery (DR) is the recovery of the domain controller. This server holds all the user and service accounts and controls the rest of the servers. Without it, the entire IT infrastructure won’t really…