(Reuters) – Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called for Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer to step down, saying the world’s largest software company’s long-time leader is stuck in the past. He says Microsoft is stuck in the past… I don’t agree with this. i am far from a Microsoft evangelist, however, the …
Internet Explorer does not retry bad proxy server for 30 minutes After deploying a proxy server using WPAD (proxy autoconfiguration scripts) i found that firefox always works as intended, yet internet explorer 7 has some wierd behavior. For one thing, IE7 caches proxy lookups and refuses to to failover properly. In some cases, webpages …
Well, we all knew that this would happen some day. Medical Professionals are having patients sign a “mutual privacy agreement” granting ownership of any online commentary you make about the visit to the doctor? The concern that the doctors have is valid, i mean come on, who wants to be slandered by some customer and …
Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second. read the full story here! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13469924 My favorite snippet from the article states “”The problem was they didn’t have just one laser, they had something like 370 lasers, which is an incredibly expensive thing. …
Fun with Citrix and Legacy Applications Legacy applications sometimes have issues when you publish them as a seamless application in Citrix Xenapp. We recently came across this when publishing McKesson Practice Plus and found a fix that seems to work well. I wanted to pass this along since im sure there are plenty of Citrix …
I am sure you saw the news the other day. A very weird thing has happened. Microsoft has purchased Skype for 5.xx billion dollars. You may hear that Skype is not really worth it, and you may be right. But im betting the reason Microsoft inked the deal had less to do with its profitability, …
I ran across this today when researching a Citrix user profile issue, and thought i would post this up for others to enjoy. GR Cooling (Green Revolution Cooling) provides a rack utilizing a special Mineral Oil suspension used to cool the servers and other equipment that would normally be cooled using air. This is very …
Earlier this week i was tasked with troubleshooting the DFS replication for a development environment at work. I figured the issue was related to staging quota settings, so i ran a DFS Replication Health Report. After reviewing the report i found the following error: A USN journal wrap occurred 1 times in the past 7 …
Well, here is goes again. The dreaded call to Verizon (or insert pretty much any telco) to find out why the service of one of my customers is down. This time it turns out they upgraded the line to static, but they did it without scheduling the cut-over. This means the firewall was still configured …
Over the last year or so i have had to restart my Apache Webserver due to a memory leak (this is my theory so far) The behavior shows up as some or all of the web servers going unresponsive and i have to run a script i created to kill the httpd processes and restart …