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Archive for July, 2007

I’m pretty excited to get to attend VMworld this year in San Francisco (just over a month away). One thing I found out that should be interesting is that VMware has announced it will allow 3rd party vendors to develop virtual switches for ESX and Cisco is expected to be the first company with […]

Looks like the SanDisk SerialATA 5000 2.5in solid state drive will be available as an option for IBM HS21 XM Blades by the end of July.
The benefits of a solid state drive is reduced power, heat and improved performance/seek times.  According to reports the SanDisk flash drive uses up to 87 percent less power […]

Google GrandCentral

I received a beta invite to GrandCentral, which was recently aquired by Google.  What is it?  The idea behind GrandCentral is “one number for life”.  When you sign up you pick the area code and can choose your phone number.  After this you can assign mobile, work and home phone numbers to it.
Once I […]

Lost your crutches? Check Craigslist

dear sir or madam: at approximately 00:30 on thursday morning, i was with a friend walking back from a night of drunken revelry when i spotted a pair of crutches leaning against the fence by the tennis courts. you are evidently very tall, as i had to adjust these crutches before i could mockingly, drunkenly […]

One thing I recently ran across is I had a 7000 series BladeSystem chassis to install that had 2 Cisco Switch Modules and 2 Brocade SAN switch modules with it.
Once everything was powered up I connected to the OA/iLO port and went through the HP setup and got to the part of configuring network settings […]

Geek Squad Employee Caught Stealing Porn

It seems as though the consumerist caught a Geek Squad employee copying porn off a customers computer and putting it on their personal flash drive.
Post on Consumerist site
Complete with screenshots of the entire thing, although the real crime should be charging $29 to install iTunes.

Sprint Cancelling Accounts of Whiners

Need out of your Sprint contract? Apparently if you nag them enough they will cancel your account, too bad it doesn’t list how many times these people were calling in to customer service.
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