2014

Jabber Persona

I just got finished with a customer issue who had deployed Cisco Jabber along with VMware View, using Persona Management and floating desktops set to refresh at logoff. Much to their annoyance, users would have to reconfigure their Cisco Jabber client with the server connection settings and any client customizations made were lost after logging back in to the desktops. After looking into this, what it looked like was happening was that the Jabber configuration XML files were not being sync’d down to the local PC before the Jabber client was launching and this was causing the settings to default back to a non-setup state.

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Storage Controllers previously supported for VSAN that are no longer supported kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi…

Except that we are losing.

The problem with me listening to #BELvsUSA on the radio is I have no point of reference as to what is going on.

Desktop Tested

Yesterday I sat for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Desktop Administration exam. While I would love to tell you that I passed, sadly it seems I will be sitting for the exam again soon. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to take the exam at 8AM on a Monday morning, and then not study. Add in staying up late on Sunday night to watch World War Z on Netflix and you’ve got a receipe for a rough morning.

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16 minutes until US corporate productivity grinds to a crawl.

Want to test the beta version of vSphere? blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2014/0…

Hard reboot fixed the iPhone 5.

Retina MacBook Pro updated to 10.9.4, iPad Air to 7.1.2. iPhone 5 has been sitting at progress bar trying to boot for about an hour now.

Quick turn-around on the VCAP-DTA exam. It appears I will be taking it again. Next time not first thing Monday morning after not sleeping.

Just sat for the VCAP-DTA exam. Feeling pretty good, which probably means I failed. Guess I know soon enough.

Oh hey, World War Z is on Netflix, I’ll watch that before bed.

Said no sane person ever.

The sky is green, the wind is gone, and the humidity has dropped. Just another summer in Kansas. #TornadoWatch

Facebook just let me know I’m now a member of the “Guard” group. Wonder what this is for? #FailedPsychologyEthics

Facebooked Out

Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote: I’m taking a Facebook Vacation. I’ve logged out from every device, removed the apps, the bookmarks, integration to operating systems. The duration will be as long as I can swing it. There may be a point at which I can’t take it and come crawling back. I wouldn’t say I’m having withdrawal, but when I woke up this morning and got on my phone, the first thing I would normally do would be to open the app.

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Facebook logged out and disabled on all devices. Apps deleted. Ghostery in Safari blocking all trackers.

Facebook’s science experiment on users shows the company is even more powerful and unethical than we thought pando.com/2014/06/28/fac…

Facebook just told me press a button to apply a lethal electrical shock to one of my friends. #FailedPsychologyEthics

I’m actually considering closing my Facebook account over this manipulation nonsense. Sort of a final straw.

Testing out Zentyal as a new home domain controller. I like what I’ve seen so far.

“Nogabar” … The term my 2 yo came up with to describe a bowl of plain Greek yogurt and granola with nuts.

Facebook manipulated for a massive psych experiment avclub.com/article/facebo… … remember when it just showed you what your friends were up to?

My wife expects five 9s of uptime from home network. Had to take ESXi host offline to pull a couple drives. Untangle FW had to go down. :O

For some reason I’ve wanted some buffalo wings for weeks, and finally had them tonight. It’s like a giant weight has been lifted.

Nevermind the speeding ticket I got on my way to the client.

Replaced my bricked fabric interconnect, finished my upgrades, added a new chassis and blades. Feeling like a bad ass now.

Everyone, I understand the rounds are points based, I just didn’t realize we could still not score any points and advance.

So, the USA lost, but we still advanced to the next round?

No more free SUSE with your VMware licensing longwhiteclouds.com/2014/06/26/sle…

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s good, but the NSA can still just walk in and take what they want via secret court order.