Guys, please, seriously, stop that. They don’t work on mobile or desktop devices when the window size is smaller than the area required to see the [X] Close button. Whom ever came up with this, it is a bad idea. Stop it now. Before I get pissed off enough to write a web proxy that specifically filters out such stupidity, or purposefully renders that to an offscreen invisible layer which is forced to be non-modal.

See here. TL;DR version: A free month on Lucera’s cloud.

I didn’t post a response to the article written a little more than a year ago claiming that OCP had “blown up the server market”. Yes, that was really in the title. I’ll ignore most of the obvious issues with this, but lets review a year later, shall we? Open hardware designs are great in concept. Share your design with the world, and lower your customers costs … er … whoops.

I’d waited a while before posting on this for a number of reasons, not the least of which was I was quite busy. But also, I wanted to understand what was and was not sold. Now that some of the dust has settled, and both companies have publicly discussed this, we know pretty well what is included in the sale. I don’t need to get in to that aspect, you can read it all very succinctly on Lenovo’s site.

We’ve had customers migrating off of it for the past few years, as bugs have gone un-addressed, reports closed, and discussions cut off or ignored. Its costing us too much in support time and effort now. Its time to pull the plug. I like many things about gluster. Really I do. I’ve been a strong proponent of it long before it was cool to do so, as the design was in line with what I thought was needed to build scale out file systems.

… and believe it or not, I forgot to mention it. This is the first time in company history that we had a backlog going into Q1. Orders being built and tested on the last work day of the year. We grew, not the amount we had originally forecast, but we understand why (and sadly have little control over that aspect). We are working very hard on our appliances … I am blown away as to how perfect a fit they are for folks.

I am obviously not a lawyer, and I’ve not consulted one. Feel free to point out my mistakes, and note that this is not legal advice. You need to speak to a lawyer on that, I am just guessing. The language on here is pretty clear as to what Red Hat owns. I have no problem with their ownership of it. Nor do I have a problem with them imposing their particular concept of ownership.

JRE 7 u 51. Self signed Java console applet. Let the hilarity begin. I tried uploading our own cert and key to the unit. No luck. Its the applet the needs to be re-signed. This is the joyous message that awaits: Of course, the IPMIview tool sorta kinda works. Though its useless for remote support ops. Doesn’t set off the signed issue. Mebbe they ignore signing? Which is worse … the self signed cert, or the sign ignoring app.

See here which is the response to the arvix article here. While the Facebook data scientists refer to their post as a debunking, using irrelevant metric (enrollment vs google rank? and the theory behind this is … what?), the paper points out something quite important. Social networking success has been largely ephermal, and not sustainable. Its a transient phenomenon. Anyone remember Friendster? MySpace? More to the point, the internet entities that dominated 15 years ago are largely gone.

So I’ve got a Mac Mini and a Linux machine on my desk at work. I am trying hard to use the Mac Mini for day to day stuff, but the sheer broken-ness of the keyboard (yes, really) for Mac’s is driving me near batty. I am trying though. (Hint to Apple: You aren’t better at everything, and most especially not keyboards and interfacing to higher quality Logitech keyboards, you almost completely fail … don’t even get me started on mice …).