Got a pair of computer glasses from a local optometrist. What’s so “computer” about these glasses? Well, they come with yellow tint to ease your eyes while looking at bright monitors. And the prescription that it came with will make whatever you see a slight bigger.

After a few hours of experiment, I approve this product to my fellow Computer Dudes. For less than $300 bucks, you can get one too!

http://www.gunnars.com

Some coworkers of mine left this on my desk as a Joke. This isn’t the 5¼ yo, this is the legendary 8 inch from the 1970′s. This vintage disk holds 175 Kilobytes of your precious data! About the size of a piece of your hair in a picture taken by modern digital cameras.

I surely knew nothing about this disk, because I wasn’t around when it was popular. I found the information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

by Daniel Feller

Truth be told, no one really cared about the desktop before we started talking desktop virtualization.  If a desktop failed, it really only impacted a single user, not a big deal unless the user is the CEO or Payroll. Unfortunately for that user, they could be out of commission for days/weeks.  But in a desktop virtualization world, that user can automatically reconnect and get their desktop back, albeit it is technically a different entity as it is now running on another hypervisor with a fresh OS install and Apps, but it looks and acts the same.

What happens if there is a major glitch, issue, failure, etc with the environment?  Even if your environment is rock solid, someone is going to do something that will bring down a very critical component. You might lose one user, but chances are you will lose hundreds or thousands.  If the failed component is critical, those users might not be able to reconnect.  Now you are in a world of pain.  If you are in IT and in charge of the desktop virtualization solution, it might be time to either

1.    Change your name

2.    Update your Resume

3.    Convince everyone that you are trying to save energy costs and shut down the entire system (not likely to work)

How do you avoid the name change or career change?  By doing your job correctly and designing a desktop virtualization solution that can withstand the failure of components without denying user access.  A High-Availability Reference Architecture and Implementation Guide for XenDesktop have been released to the Ask the Architect site.

The choice is yours, design an environment that has high-availability or design your own rapid exit plan.

Daniel – Lead Architect – Worldwide Consulting Solutions

via What happens if Your Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure has a Failure? » ocb – Citrix Community.

I rec’d a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate by attending the “New Efficiency” conference last week. I’m planning to install it on my new laptop. As much as I love to have it’s 64bit version, the one I got is 32bit. I’m gonna wait till someone releases the 64bit ISO and activate it with my key.

Microsoft did a great job on this release, it is the best version of Windows I’ve ever used. During the conference, I’ve learned a lot of new features, though they have to be implemented on the Server 2008 and IPV6 architecture. A lot of works to be done in the coming years for the IT team!

Here are my tips to the “Senior Tech Wannabe” about windows printer trouble shooting.

Problem: “I selected the printer, and hit the delete key a few times. But it doesn’t delete, though the status says deleting.”
Answer: “Cancel all the unfinished documents in the queue first. Damn it!”

Problem: “I cannot cancel or restart a job in the print queue. It’s just stuck!”
Answer: “Right click on My Computer > Manage > Services and Applications > Services > Right click on Print Spooler > Restart.”

Check this out, apparently shouting at your disks causes extreme latency. So, either keep your noises down in the datacenter, or upgrade to solid state drives! Click read more to watch the video. Read more »

Personally, I think wordpress updates too fast. It’s hard for my blog to keep up. I’m running a lot of customized plugins and my theme just don’t work with a lot of the crap. Each upgrade of the wordpress kernel takes me at least an hour to figure out where to modify so that all the functions work OK.

I’m once again up-to-date with it’s current version: 2.7. And I think I’m gonna stay with this version for a while. Happy new year!