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Why Servers Rock!
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on May 21, 2010
You mean you need to convince people ???
Some may see it as: Why servers rock ?
Others may see it as: Why, servers rock! 
As you may notice he just talks about the processing power. Which is the major selling point but there is so much more. I came to a conclusion, well it is a fact of life that is applicable almost anywhere, the more money you have the more awesome servers you gets to see 
Servers with multiple sockets for processors, hot swapping, fiber connections, RAM GOD-power, separate physical servers merged as one, my favourite, blades with their management and so much more.
You know what makes them more beautiful, virtualisation … enough said 
Yeah not an ideal thing in a data centre. But imagine rocking it out and managing your IT infrastructure in soothing style
Spam Comments
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on April 20, 2010
Spam is an unwanted message, whether be it electronic or hard copy. It can be in the form of mails, emails, messages, comments, video links, etc.
No matter the ways out there to prevent such unwanted and sometimes harmful messages, they do get smarter and more and more measures need to be tweaked and added to detect them.
Usually when I get a Pending or sometimes an Approved comment on my blog that happens to be spam, I don’t delete it, I mark it as Spam. This helps whatever system or people behind the system define how this spam managed to get around its detection method and hopefully provide more understanding so that detecting techniques can be improved.
People often refuse to contribute in reporting incidents, when windows crashes for example you can send a report to Microsoft, well in this case one can understand why they are reluctant to participate Some may fear that they are not fully aware of the information they are allowing to be included in the report, it might not be only technical.
The interesting new spam comments I noticed, are ones using sentences in legitimate comments mentioned in the post and creating a spam comment with the spam URL that you’ll be directed when you click on the author. So these comments were flagged and went into the pending queue and not the spam queue. I manually identified them as spam. Click to enlarge the picture below.
Hardware vs Software
Posted by Bloggylife in technology, thoughts, troubleshooting on February 11, 2010
I decided to call them that! Hardware and Software people/approach. Two people can attempt solving a problem in different ways.
Imagine this scenario, PC, cable and another system/gadget. The cables is used to drive data from PC to system. If the PC suddenly says cable problem when you are trying to push the data to the connected device, how do you solve the problem?
Hardware people start off by touching the cable! Making sure that the cable is properly connected at both ends and maybe replace it with another cable just to make sure that the cable is not the cause and go on from there to solve the problem.
Software people start with restarting the application and maybe re-install/update the driver. They may even examine the cable settings from the PC, the bit rate, connection type, device type, etc. and go on from there to solve the problem.
Both might end up solving the problem, it could’ve been a loosely connected cable or improper settings, two different mind sets with the same aim.
Google Translate
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on January 27, 2010
I just love it I tried automatically detect the language but it could not, so I forced the language option.
Google Solution Wanted
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on January 10, 2010
Sometimes I search for solution based on needs I am having. I am Googlized aren’t we all. I have my gmails, my google search results bookmarked, my google documents, google waves, even tweets. Sometimes I want to centralize them all together, is there a product out there that does that for me. Why am I having something called, Google Projects in mind, is it out there or am I imagining it.
I want to be able to create a project within a portal for example, and link everything I have control over in one location. I’d set a project page and name it, link all related emails, documents, tweets, bookmarked search results, youtube videos, etc. Has anyone got the solution or an idea? I just don’t want to alt+tab or ctrl+tab no. all the time.
btw, is twitter still a standalone, has anyone bought it, Google, Microsoft, since everything is bought by either Google or Microsoft nowadays, I remember the last one was Google with youtube and Yahoo with who again ??
Publish Bug Update (link):
Firefox browser has no problem, just Chrome. Preview then Publish clicked from the same window can be done with Firefox but not Chrome!
Network Issue: I Know Why!
Posted by Bloggylife in technology, troubleshooting on January 5, 2010
So I know why the IP phone in my room is not working on this port. That particular port is not configured as part of the voice network. Should I call up the IT department and give them the socket label and tell them to include the switch port to the voice network. I can simply suggest to switch cable connections on the switch side or just give me the keys to the building’s data room and I’ll do it It’ll be a bonus, I’ll see the data room, switches, configurations, cable management, cable types, cabinet layout, physical security, all in all, it’s a win win situation
It so much simpler when you are in charge
Google Translate
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on November 27, 2009
I did write about this before, but I love Google and what they have to offer.
How their services take over our daily vocabulary.
Does a day go by without one saying, “Did you google it?”
Now I’m using a new one, “I’ll wave it to you” when I’m using googlewave 
I notice now, for Google Translate, you can write an Arabic word using English letter and press the spacebar and it’ll automatically convert to Arabic, without the hassle of (alt+shift) between Arabic-English keyboard settings
If you translate to English, a small speaker icon appears and you can hear the word out and it’s only for the English words so far. I tried French, but the feature is not included.
When typing in the box, the translate is done live on the wire! Isn’t that cool, so you can see the formed words interpreted at each keystroke, it’s kind of fun
The one thing I’m missing is having a spelling checker, I’m not sure why my browser doesn’t do that! I do remember that it’s included within my Chrome or was that Firefox, will check it out laters.
Go Google, keep ‘em good things coming
Google Wave
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on November 19, 2009
I’m still trying to figure out Google wave and haven’t read too much about it and mainly used it so far in a manner of normal chat and emails.
I’m just going to point out the things I ponder from my scratching the surface of Google Wave.
- I still don’t get the live wire update, as soon as I lock down a character in one end the other end sees it, is it feasible performance wise and also in the real world I don’t think it is practical practice, one always read proofs before submitting.
- In an email, you have the “To”, “Cc” and “Bcc” field, currently in Google wave there is only one field which is basically the “To” in an email. I’m sure that’ll be put in somehow.
- I think wave clients will come out just like email/twitter/chat clients. Someone somewhere will give it a try. Though it’s a bit tricky, because do you want to be notified of all new waves and/or updates of waves. I think that can be managed through settings somehow.
- In the navigation box, there’s Inbox, All, By Me, what’s the difference? Also, if you hover over them there are options, move up/down, which basically moves the option up and down and then there is set colour, which just sets the background of that option to your selected colour. I thought it would tag the waves within that particular category with the selected colour but it didn’t! Strange option, didn’t see the use of it.
- Could someone please tell me, how to delete a wave indefinitely! It just sits there in the trash.
I still need to figure out and be comfortable with waving Also, having your own wave server!
MAC-ness
Posted by Bloggylife in UK, technology, thoughts on October 16, 2009
The computer services director was talking about the importance of installing an anti-virus software of personal laptops and the university can not provide one to their students for licensing issues but recommended some free ones, like AVG, which I have installed on my laptop.
One question was asked, “what is recommended for a mac?”
The director wasn’t aware of free mac software, but then this debate started that for a mac you don’t need an anti-virus!
“mac doesn’t need one”
“I’ve had mine for over 6 years, no anti-virus software installed and no problems at all”
OK this is madness anti-virus applications are now more than scanning and protecting the computers from viruses, these are the modules in my current AVG software.
I’ve disabled the resident shield because it’s scans, real-time, files you are working with, it’s annoying and if you are viewing a video, the experience is terrible.
Some argue that mac infections are low because not that many use them compared to windows and also because the majority use windows thus more hate it From an attacker point of view, target the largest market share.
Sleepless Roaming Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in technology, thoughts on October 7, 2009
I couldn’t sleep last night, mainly because my dad and I are sleeping in the same room and he snores!
Anyway, this question popped in my head so me, myself and I can debate it, do people really need to carry their laptops with them nowadays?
It’s not about needing to check your emails anymore, it’s about taking your office with you, having all your data and applications at the touch of your fingertips.
So the computing device becomes a dummy terminal with good processing power that provides an access to your much needed information wherever it may reside.
In companies network, we provide that by establishing secure connection to our network that contains our data, we install VPN clients on end users’ machines, sometimes you run into incompatibility issues with certain operating systems, aka Vista oo 64-bit ba3ad, so you provide secure connection via SSL, of course performance wise, having a running encrypting application is better. You can give it a try and compare.
Accessing files back in the office that you can’t carry on, running published licensed applications, accessing internal resources, etc.
Imagine, in the future we’d have all our data roaming somewhere in a big bubble over the Internet stamped with our names and we’d have terminals, we won’t need to worry about it having the proper application to run a certain file, because the application is published somewhere. That puts a lot of worries aside.
Processing power isn’t an issue, nor storage, it’s enough bandwidth.
That was something I debated in my mind until I fell asleep, I may have overlooked a lot of issues, but weird things pop in my head if I didn’t sleep as soon as my head hits the pillow
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