2013

Apple will be live streaming today’s launch event 9to5mac.com/2013/10/22/app…

Facebook is totally broke right now, and their stock price hasn’t budged. I don’t understand the market.

Facebook isn’t allowing any updates on.mash.to/1i8p7Xu

ACA Exchange website uses open source software in violation of license agreements m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacar…

It does appear that after the Lync 14.0.6 update, I can make phone calls again without the whole client coming to a halt.

Lync for Mac 14.0.6 update, eh? Wonder if this will make it any more usable. Been horrible since the last couple releases.

Had a dream last night that Francis Underwood and Hillary Clinton came to tell me that the NSA would close in two months.

Tweetbot 3.0 for iPhone is coming soon! cultofmac.com/250085/tweetbo…

Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, now available

I can haz goobermint? Plz?

Now to cram for it tonight…

All signed up to take the VCA-Cloud exam!

VMware Horizon View 5.3 released, now includes vCOPS for View!

Solutions Specialist

Last week, I passed the EMC Implementation Engineer, Isilon Solutions Specialist exam. I actually did the EMC training for it in Franklin, Mass, back in March, but at the time EMC did not have a certification test within their Proven Professional program I could take. Normally I don’t waste time after coming back from a class to get the associated certification. But since there wasn’t one, it got put on the back burner.

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Download: 2 piece zip file, w/ combine tool, creates 1 zip w/ 1 ISO inside, extract and burn ISO.

Too hard to just offer a single ISO file?

Touchdown KAN-SAS-CITY!

EMC Isilon Solutions Specialist, Implementation Engineer certification - Done!

To clarify prior tweet: Isilon is an awesome system, that does a whole lot of stuff. It just wouldn’t be my first choice for iSCSI.

Updated Mac OS X and new iOS RDP clients are coming. Finally. neowin.net/news/windows-s…

Video demonstrating Horizon View 3D Graphics with vSGA myvirtualcloud.net/?p=5497

Thinking of adding “firefighter” and “magician” to list of descriptors on my LinkedIn profile.

Meant to put phone in “do not disturb” mode to limit alerts while I napped. In my sleepy haze I put it in airplane mode instead. #evenbetter

Just got done working since midnight on an issue. 12 hours straight. Note: replacing failed disks in RAID set is good. Backups, also good.

If you lose multiple disks in a RAID set, have only one hot spare, and you never replace the failed disks… you’re gonna have a bad time.

What does your Twitter bio say about you? nytimes.com/2013/10/06/fas…

Anyone else remember the “New Facebook” that was announced a year or so ago? Did anyone ever get that?

What do the cool Mac kids use for managing zip/7z/rar archives? Always just used The Unarchiver for decompression, need more power.

FastMail developed have purchased the company back from Opera blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exc…

Pterodactyl sounds like a prescription drug.

OS X Mavericks GM has dropped to developers, I can’t wait to get my hands on this! 9to5mac.com/2013/10/03/os-…