Chris Josephes on O'Reilly Broadcast tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008-08-07://53 2009-10-13T00:59:25Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en Managed Services Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38162 2009-10-13T00:59:25Z 2009-10-13T00:59:25Z It hasn't been a good week for managed service providers. Everyone knows about the T-Mobile Sidekick fiasco, and a few astute readers are aware of the problems encountered by Air New Zealand. In both these cases, Air New Zealand and T-Mobile relied on outside vendors that provided infrastructure and IT services to handle their business operations. Those vendors (IBM and Microsoft, respectively) had failures that cost their customers millions of dollars in revenue and damaged reputations. Chris Josephes It hasn't been a good week for managed service providers. Everyone knows about the T-Mobile Sidekick fiasco, and a few astute readers are aware of the problems encountered by Air New Zealand. In both these cases, Air New Zealand and T-Mobile relied on outside vendors that provided infrastructure and IT services to handle their business operations. Those vendors (IBM and Microsoft, respectively) had failures that cost their customers millions of dollars in revenue and damaged reputations. Songbird Should See a Pre Opportunity tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.37518 2009-07-24T20:40:24Z 2009-07-24T20:40:24Z Palm needs software. Songbird needs mainstream music devices. What would you do? Chris Josephes Palm needs software. Songbird needs mainstream music devices. What would you do? Is Oracle Getting Ready To Kill Unbreakable Linux? tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.37494 2009-07-13T22:21:51Z 2009-07-13T22:21:51Z Will Unbreakable Linux be pushed to the sidelines by another open source operating system? Chris Josephes Will Unbreakable Linux be pushed to the sidelines by another open source operating system? The Command That Humbles Us All tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.36184 2009-05-11T14:44:52Z 2009-05-11T14:44:52Z There is one Unix command that most have yet to master. Chris Josephes There is one Unix command that most have yet to master. Xen: Scrambling For A Market Base? tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35424 2009-02-25T12:48:30Z 2009-02-25T12:48:30Z Citrix XenServer is now free. They were never winning over VMWare users on quality, so now they're shifting focus to price. That may not be a bad idea in this economy, but my suspicion is that Xen was more worried... Chris Josephes Citrix XenServer is now free. They were never winning over VMWare users on quality, so now they're shifting focus to price. That may not be a bad idea in this economy, but my suspicion is that Xen was more worried... Understanding Snapshot Consumption tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35198 2009-02-05T14:24:32Z 2009-02-05T14:24:32Z Graphing snapshot usage on a Netapp volume. Chris Josephes Graphing snapshot usage on a Netapp volume. My Fear Of Commodity Storage tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35089 2009-01-27T15:51:00Z 2009-01-27T15:51:00Z Despite the Barracuda issues, Seagate is probably one of the better consumer drive vendors out there. I give them credit for offering recovery services to anyone that needs it; although I have the benefit of making that statement without... Chris Josephes Despite the Barracuda issues, Seagate is probably one of the better consumer drive vendors out there. I give them credit for offering recovery services to anyone that needs it; although I have the benefit of making that statement without... OpenSolaris: Driver Wrangling tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.35080 2009-01-22T12:54:37Z 2009-01-22T12:54:37Z I've been running OpenSolaris 2008.11 on a laptop, a virtual machine, and a test server configuration for about six weeks now. I promised earlier that I'd write a few articles on how well everything worked and on the differences in... Chris Josephes I've been running OpenSolaris 2008.11 on a laptop, a virtual machine, and a test server configuration for about six weeks now. I promised earlier that I'd write a few articles on how well everything worked and on the differences in... Audience Growth vs Digg tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.34465 2009-01-05T15:59:48Z 2009-01-05T15:59:48Z Can Digg increase your overall audience growth? It could, but it's usually a long and painful process. Chris Josephes Can Digg increase your overall audience growth? It could, but it's usually a long and painful process. OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.34489 2008-12-02T01:49:20Z 2008-12-02T01:49:20Z The 2008.11 release of OpenSolaris just hit their download page. Chris Josephes The 2008.11 release of OpenSolaris just hit their download page. Web Apps and Password Security tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.34122 2008-11-13T04:05:21Z 2008-11-13T04:05:21Z Do you trust web based applications with your password? What about trusting a third party web application? Sometimes it's hard to avoid the temptation of using a third party application, and sometimes you may not even know you're using a third party application. Chris Josephes Do you trust web based applications with your password? What about trusting a third party web application? Sometimes it's hard to avoid the temptation of using a third party application, and sometimes you may not even know you're using a third party application. Beefy Storage Offering From Sun tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.34093 2008-11-11T02:10:26Z 2008-11-11T02:10:26Z Sun Microsystems revealed their new enterprise storage solution today -- the first enterprise product to market combining HDDs and SDDs. Chris Josephes Sun Microsystems revealed their new enterprise storage solution today -- the first enterprise product to market combining HDDs and SDDs. OpenSSH Visual Fingerprints tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.34044 2008-11-06T03:41:42Z 2008-11-06T03:41:42Z OpenSSH 5.1 includes a feature called visual fingerprints for host keys. The previous representation of a key is a hexadecimal sequence. Perhaps the ASCII art version will be easier to remember -- and verify. Chris Josephes OpenSSH 5.1 includes a feature called visual fingerprints for host keys. The previous representation of a key is a hexadecimal sequence. Perhaps the ASCII art version will be easier to remember -- and verify. Netapp Filers and Role Based Access Controls tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.33869 2008-10-21T17:50:01Z 2008-10-21T17:50:01Z Most Netapp environments do not take advantage of multiple user accounts and passwords. It's safe to say that anyone capable of logging onto a Netapp is likely to be someone that properly knows how to administer it. The Netapp API allows more remote tools to manipulate a filer, reducing administrative overhead, but increasing the risk of compromised security. Chris Josephes Most Netapp environments do not take advantage of multiple user accounts and passwords. It's safe to say that anyone capable of logging onto a Netapp is likely to be someone that properly knows how to administer it. The Netapp API allows more remote tools to manipulate a filer, reducing administrative overhead, but increasing the risk of compromised security. And I Approve This Application tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2008://53.33655 2008-10-03T10:51:39Z 2008-10-03T10:51:39Z The Obama for America iPhone application is probably the coolest campaign tool I have seen... EVER! Whoever thought this thing up is a genius. Chris Josephes The Obama for America iPhone application is probably the coolest campaign tool I have seen... EVER! Whoever thought this thing up is a genius.