I’m procrastinating finishing an MBA assignment, so here’s how to get your shiny new Telstra 4G dongle working under Linux. I use Ubuntu, but these instructions should help you on other Linux variants as well. This process worked for Ubuntu 11.04, but I haven’t tested anything else. Let us know… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. Symantec were the last vendor of the day, and we arrived more or less on time at their offices in North Sydney, which is quite a feat given the distances between vendors all day. We were met by Michael Porfirio,… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. Update 2011-07-29: Download the slides from the Dell presentation here. Update 2011-08-10: I’ve received an email from Dell with some clarifications and corrections, which are updated inline, with some extra information near the end. Dell was our third vendor for… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. First vendor of the day were Dimension Data at their offices in The Rocks, Sydney. SNIA very kindly bought us breakfast downstairs, and we all had a quick catchup before the session. Rodney was excluded from the first session on… Read More
I was reading MetaFilter this morning, and came to this comment in a thread about the root pwnage hack of the PS3, regarding why people harbour animosity towards Microsoft. The comment is a sincere query, coming from a place of ignorance. It is interesting to me that enough time has… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. NetApp were the fourth, and final, vendor of the day. We were met by John Martin, Principal Technologist, and a young guy from NetApp’s PR firm who was presumably there just to observe. We gathered around a conference table,… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. IBM were the second vendor of the day. We travelled to their Pyrmont Street office, which is a bit of a fishbowl for the poor folks who work there. There’s a transparent glass partition separating the front entrance from… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. Ok, so #SNIAfest happened and now I need to write it up. Wow. SNIAfest was a new thing for all of us: SNIA, the bloggers, the vendors, and you. I’m just feeling my way through it, really, so enjoy… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. I’m off to Sydney on Thursday to attend the SNIA ANZ Blogfest. It’ll be a long day for me, since I’m flying home to Melbourne the same day, and kickoff will be from just before 8am for breakfast. It… Read More
I won’t be the least surprised to see that headline sometime in the next couple of years. Let’s take a look at recent trends in tech to see why: VMware Prior to VMware, no one knew what a hypervisor was outside of banking folk who deal with IBM AS/400 and… Read More
