December 2004 - Posts

SMILE FOR THE DAY
Friday, December 31, 2004 10:26 AM
Once there were two mice who lived in a museum. One evening after the museum had closed; the first mouse crawled into a huge suit of armour. Before he knew it, he was lost. "Help!" he shouted to his friend. "Help me make it though the knight!"
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HP Insight Integration with Microsoft® Systems Management Server 2003
Friday, December 31, 2004 8:59 AM

HP has finally updated their Insight Integration to include Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 and their have updated the one for SMS 2.0 as well.

 

Thank you goes out to Maarten van Willigen for pointing this out.

 

SMS 2.0 Docs

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/management/HPSMS%202.0-rev7.1.pdf

 

SMS 2003 Docs

ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/management/HPSMS2003-20UG.pdf

 

Download the new version of the collect.exe

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/integration/regform.html?

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Hockey withdrawal
Thursday, December 30, 2004 10:11 AM

 

I know that I am in Hockey withdrawal when I have to plan my life around the IIHF www.iihf.com round robin games. Good thing that I have an understanding wife too! We had plans to go out for dinner and movie tonight with some friends. However I have changed the plans so that I can watch Canada’s final “Round Robin” game tonight before we can go out for dinner and movie. Go Canada Go ;-)

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U.S. to Reopen Borders to Canadian Cattle
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:03 PM

Young live cattle from Canada will be allowed across the border into the United States beginning March 7, marking a significant break in the BSE crisis that began wracking the Canadian farming sector 19 months ago.

The rule change, which officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday, basically recognizes Canada as a "minimal-risk region" for bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/12/29/mad-cow-border041229.html

 

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Electrical utility starts outdoor trial of broadband over power lines
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:07 PM

PUC Telecom Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has begun one of the first market trials of broadband over power line outside a building on the electrical grid.

The division of Sault Ste. Marie's electrical utility is providing Internet access in parts of the city by transmitting data over medium-voltage power lines. It has been running technical tests of the technology from Amperion Inc. of Andover, Mass., since February, said Martin Wyant, general manager of PUC Telecom. Now it is offering the service to a wider audience, though still not charging fees.

 http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=57598

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2004: Year in Review 2004: Year in Review
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:07 PM

http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=57731

 

Highlights:

 Beer good

 In a truly Canadian move, The Beer Store gets ready to brew efficiency with a pilot project designed to provide better service and real-time inventory so patrons can always find their favourite brand.

 Canadian companies take on spam

Internet service providers finding spam hard to digest say they plan to meet soon to carry out a plan of action against the unwanted e-mail messages that clutter up inboxes. The Canadian Association of Internet Providers and AOL Canada Inc. ask their members to participate in an effort to get tough on spam sent from Canadian mail servers.

 Banking Systems under seige

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and TD Canada Trust reported system problems affecting thousands of customers in late July, one month following a technology-related banking crisis at RBC. TD described the situation as a "temporary service disruption" that lasted less than two hours. At the same time, CIBC made a "technical change" to its system in late July and, during a processing of transactions involving its personal line of credit accounts, the system stopped, said Rob McLeod, communications director of the bank. Toronto-based security expert Paul Wing said customers are becoming intolerant of glitches owing to an increased dependence on technology.
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Dell and Microsoft Systems Management
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:33 AM

 Value of Dell/Microsoft

Together, Dell and Microsoft deliver comprehensive solutions designed to make it easy to build, manage, and deploy powerful enterprise infrastructure and business solutions. Whether you are a small business, a large corporation, or an educational or government institution, Dell and Microsoft are working together to help deliver key innovations in hardware, software, licensing, services and support.

Value of OpenManage, SMS and MOM

Dell and Microsoft work together to bring you one easy solution for managing both server software and hardware throughout your entire organization, whether you have hundreds of systems or thousands.

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/microsoft_sms?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz

 

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The Scalable Enterprise - Managing Your Server Environment With Leading Edge Microsoft and Dell Technology Solutions
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:27 AM

The Scalable Enterprise is a pragmatic, phased approach to the Enterprise of the Future. Based on industry standards, and "pay as you grow", the Scalable Enterprise provides flexibility, choice, lower TCO and control. The Scalable Enterprise enables customers to simplify operations, improve utilization, and cost-effectively scale out and not up.


Please join us for an informative morning at Microsoft's presentation centre focused on exploring the latest technologies from Microsoft and Dell to manage your industry standard server environment. We will present to you the elements of Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and show you Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. The combination of MOM and Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 is powerful, and when coupled with Dell's OpenManage software and DRAC4 hardware components, represents unbeatable versatility for managing the Scalable Enterprise! During the session, we will perform a live, remote demonstration of a fleet of distributed Dell PowerEdge servers using the technologies discussed. Microsoft and Dell technology experts will be on hand to answer any questions related to the field of advanced Server Management.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/canada/events/event_details.aspx?event_id=1032266823&go.x=13&go.y=15

 

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Root Beer
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 9:57 PM

To make a long story short, I was looking for an alcoholic drink that used Root Beer. Anyways I can a cross this RSS feed. J

 

http://www.idrink.com/rss/rssfeed.xml

 

 

BTW, I tried out “Root Beer Fizz

http://www.idrink.com/v.htm?id=1114

 

 

umm I wonder how may people will sign up for this feed?

 

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Growing pains hit Dell's customer service
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:55 PM

The March issue of Consumer Reports, which came out last week, included a survey of 4,100 consumers, who gave Dell 62 points out of a possible 100 for its support on desktop PCs. Although it still managed to top competing brands Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, which scored 54 and 51, respectively, Dell's rating represented a decline from the magazine's last desktop support survey, published in June 2003, in which it received a 64.

Apple Computer led the pack, with 74 in the recent survey, while Gateway scored 61. A score of 80 would mean that respondents were very satisfied, while 60 is described as fairly well satisfied. Differences of more than four points in the survey were meaningful, the report said.

http://news.com.com/Growing+pains+hit+Dells+customer+service/2100-1042_3-5162141.html

 

 

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Testing the strength of today's applications
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:54 PM

MOM's the word

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. has servers and networks spread across multiple continents, the majority running Windows 2000 or 2003, with a few Unix boxes and IBM AS/400s. The Toronto-based entertainment company recently moved to Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to monitor all servers except the AS/400s, says John Kemp, director of computer operations and infrastructure. Operators still monitor the AS/400s locally using internal monitoring tools. Kemp hopes to tie them in with MOM next year.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=57736

 

 

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Outsourcing spree amps up privacy concerns in B.C
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:52 PM

Recent outsourcing deals by the B.C. government to American providers have raised the spectre of citizen privacy, particularly in light of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=57719

 

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World’s Longest Skating Rink.
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 6:26 PM

Rideau Canal Skateway, open today for it’s 35th year.

http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/skateway/index_e.asp

 

Ice conditions:

http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/skateway/conditions/index_e.asp

 

Hope to see you there! J

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New Years Resolutions
Monday, December 27, 2004 9:11 AM

I was starting to think about my New Years resolutions. I am determined to make all of my resolutions “real”, therefore I will not make any resolutions for “world peace”. So far this is what I have come up with:

 

-         Finish the home theatre included cleaning up the garage. J My wife will love this one; it was suppose to be done by Dec 1.

-         Find a way to go to MMS 2005

-         Co-ordinate a minimum of 4 OWSUG meeting this year.

-         Write minimum of a dozen articles.

-         Work on my asset management ideas.

-         Finish setting up my virtual server lab with SMS and MOM servers.

-         Take a vacation with my wife somewhere nice.

 

Of course there are others that I will keep to myself. J

 

So what are your New Years resolutions?

 

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Merry Christmas
Saturday, December 25, 2004 5:27 PM
Ellen and I would like to wish a Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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