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  • What are they thinking?

    Mar 8th 2010

    By: Thomas

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     Have you been driving and seen the cute decals on the back of a minivan or SUV?  They come in many patterns from Mickey Mouse to Karate to Flip Flops show here.  I realize that people have some need to display what family favorite activity or group or club they are aflilated with.  I think that sometimes this done without any thought to the real world that they are living in.  Child predators are all around, just search the Megan’s Law database in California.  I did, and found within 5 miles of where I live there are 3 people convicted of various crimes against children. 

    One major factor in these travesties is familiarity, someone asking a child, “hey come here” is completely different from, “Hi, kailey, your dad Chris asked me to bring you home.”  See the difference.  If you see anyone with the names of their kids plastered on the back of their car, stop them and tell them what they are doing.  Maybe the decals needs to look like this one.

    Check the websites for more information  http://www.amberalert.gov/  http://meganslaw.ca.gov/

    Ramblings

  • Small Business Loan

    Mar 3rd 2010

    By: Thomas

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    So I work for a small, privately owned business that did a building expansion 11 years ago. They of course had to get a loan for the improvement.   The terms of the loan was 10 years with a balloon payment at the end of $700k.  For the entire 10 years the loan was paid on perfectly,  no late payments, no penalties, no problems.   The loan was done in October of 2008 and the bank wanted the remaining $700k.  Typically this balance is again given to a bank to finance.   Except this time the bank that received the 10 years of perfect payments will not turn the loan over.   The company has again and again applied for and spent months fulfilling requirements for bank loans and at the end of the process they are told, sorry no loan.   The property apraises at 1.7 million more than twice what the loan balance is for.   I though that our wonderful government had put in place policies that will help small businesses to stay open.   This business is has been open for more that 80 years and has grown from one location to six, a simple building load should be easy.  Well now they are looking for private investors.   If you know someone who want to invest in commercial property and earn 8% on your money then email invest@closelumber.com for more information.

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  • DVR Alert! Rules of Engagement

    Feb 21st 2010

    By: Thomas

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    Now showing up on your scheduler for most DVR’s, Set it for March 1, at Rules of Engagement returns to CBS.

    TV and Movies

    David Spade, Patrick Warburton, Rules of Engagement

  • Hyper-V vs VMWare

    Feb 21st 2010

    By: Thomas

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    I recently had a vendor meeting with our local representative from VMWare, had to beat them up on their lack of response on a recent support issue.  During the conversation we brough up new advances in Microsofts virtualization.  The VMWare rep backpedaled and spouted about their long reputation in the industry.   OK, so that is all well and good but I reviewed a recent purchase for hardware.

    We needed to add a few more blades to our HP C7000 blade center.   Lately we have been specifying the BL495c G6 model blades (the G7 models will be out in July)  These are AMD based systems with 2 Six Core processors, we load them with 64 Gigs of RAM.   Total cost for these blades adding Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Center is about $8,000.   OK, now we need to add a Virtualization technology, VMWare adds to the cost another $8,000.  Wait a minute that makes no sense.  With Windows Server 2008 R2 we have a virtualization method that supports moving virtual machines from one host to another without shutting it down.  VMWare calls that vMotion and Microsoft calls it Live Migration, VMWare makes you pay more for that feature as well as clustering which is included with Microsoft.  Read More

    Tech

    ERP, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Technology, VMWare

  • Install Microsoft Exchange 2007

    Feb 11th 2010

    By: Thomas

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    Had a phone interview for a job in Los Angeles the other day.  They were looking for someone who had installed Microsoft Exchange in a larger environment.  I have done the install several times, version 2003 and 2007.   So this weekend I will be utilizing my 2008 R2 Hyper-V box to do a complete install of Exchange and setup users just to refresh my installation skills.  I will be updating this post with my installation steps and issues.  Step one will be to build a completely new Active Directory / Domain Controller / DNS Server.   I the real world you would be integrating into an existing infrastructure and bring along whatever problems may come up, but for my install I will have the luxury of a clean environment.    I have a VHD file with Server 2008 R2 already setup to use as an operating system template so I will not have to go through that install step.  Read More

    Tech

    Microsoft Exchange, Technology

  • New Phone on the Way

    Feb 8th 2010

    By: Thomas

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    Finally have a phone upgrade to replace my cell phone.  My current phone, a Samsung Eternity, has worked well for the last 10 months but lately it has been shutting off, rebooting and there are icons missing on the screen.  So now I have an ATT / HTC Pure on the way.  Have had Windows Mobile based phones before and that has been a pain for me with the Eternity which had no easy way to synchronize with my computer.    My service is with AT&T so I breifly looked at the iPhone but paying that much for a phone that has mediocre support for Microsoft Outlook.   Plus I don’t like the Apple arrogance that they can charge so much for products, why buy an iBook for $1500 when I can but a Windows based notebook for $300, and still perform the same exact tasks.  Makes no sense.   Next AT&T does not have an android based device yet.  But does anyone really want the first version of any phone device? Ask the iPhone early adopters, cut and what?  Android is also linked back to the Google mothership, anything you do is online and pushes up to google, wait till AT&T makes a mandatory $90 a month data plan for that phone. No thank you. 

    So along comes Windows Mobile 6.5, supposed to be a leap above previous versions of Window Mobile.  I have used v 6.0 devices and they all worked quite well and synced up with my computer easily.   This screen on the Pure is 480×800 resolution so it should have great detail.  My device is set to arrive on Wednesday, I will post a full review of the phone shortly after that.

    Tech

    Technology, Windows Mobile

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