Thursday, July 15, 2010
Eight different bosses
One of my favorite clips from one of my favorite movies of all time.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Carl has left the building
Today my collaborator of over a decade, Carl, will be leaving the company where we’ve both worked together to purse an opportunity in greener pastures. I know they’re greener because there are already a bunch of people over there from here and they tell me so.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Words of wisdom
From Ranum’s current front page:
In cyberspace, the old dictum “the best defense is a strong offense” does not hold. The best defense is a good defense. Cyberwar pundits who talk about pre-emption or retaliation are just hanging a sign around their neck that reads “I don’t actually understand the internet, or warfare, or technology newer than WWII-era strategic bombing.”
Friday, May 14, 2010
The underlying engineering teams are so good
The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn’t succeed,” said Ellison. “Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
Monday, March 8, 2010
From Linux to Windows: The Series
A new security initiative from corporate has forced a change in how I do things, at least on my company laptop.
I’ve been running some form of Unix on my work desktop and laptop for something like 8 years now. CentOS Linux (a free Red Hat Enterprise clone) has been the latest distro, and probably the one that’s worked best. Early on VMware became to tool of choice for providing a Windows environment to handle those things for which Linux compatible software wasn’t available or not deemed necessary by The Powers That Be.
Now we’ve got a new security initiative whose software component requires Windows on the bare metal, requiring that I re-image my laptop with our firm-standard build of Windows.
Of course part of that process for me will include preserving not only the features in my existing Windows on VMware environment, but also re-creating my mobile Linux machine in what will basically be a swap of Windows on VMware for Linux on VMware.
Over the weekend I accomplished the first part: getting a Windows image up and running on the laptop. The next step will be to migrate what’s in my Windows VM over there. Once that’s done I’ll take on the task of building a Linux VM to run on that new Windows platform.
What will follow in a series of posts will be a description of what I did and how I did it. Included will be some tricks and tips on dealing with hardware, transporting and manipulating disk images, and the continuing eccentricities of VMware Server.
Hopefully someone will find it helpful.