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Desktop Search from Google

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:49:56 -0700

Today, I was talking to a friend, and he told me about this new Beta utility from Google, and I thought, wow, these guys come up with new cool stuff everyday! This one is called Google Desktop at http://desktop.google.com. Basically, it indexes your whole computer including your files, email, web history (including secure web content), and makes them available in a snap through a "localhost" website on your machine. I haven't had it on my laptop for too long yet, so not everything is indexed, but from what I've seen so far, you can search for ANYTHING on your computer in snap ... (literally).

7i server running on a VM for the first time

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:46:40 -0700

The request for having the 7i server running on VMware GSX server has finally been completed. The network part of it that I thought would be a problem was actually a very easy deal. the server was setup the same way as any other server. I have to say, GSX is a pretty sweet application. the newest version allows OS access control by assigning permissions to the filesystem on the VM, which allows us to control access to it via AD Auth. if I'm not mistaken, this is a new feature on GSX 3.1 Unrelated to the host OS, and not that this is new, but I find it very odd that SBI never included SSL support for the 7i server until version 7.4.

Citrix Feature Release 3 in place in lab

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:32:22 -0800

Yesterday, I finally was able to aqcuire a full set of licenses for both FR2 and FR3 for our Citrix servers.
I was able to successfully get this installed and running in the lab. this also allowed me to apply a lot of hotfixes that would be necessary.

I am hoping that in the near future, i will be able to upgrade the production Citrix servers to the latest Feature Release (3) as our Citrix users number might be hiking up soon, and we need to have a stable setup of Citrix.
I am still however, frustrated and disappointed that we haven't made budget to buy any sort of support package for a service that seem to be going mainstream soon.

Working with Citrix

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:41:27 -0800

Today, I spent most of my day working with Citrix on a test instance, contemplating an upgrade to FR3, since, at the moment, we're running on no feature releases.

I am also trying to set it up with a MS SQL database backend instead of the MS Access database that it's currently running on.

Having no support for it does create a big problem though, since I won't feel as comfortable doing any upgrades knowing that if something breaks, nobody's there for support.

on the other hand, our management box completely broke this morning (I think a drive in the raid set died, and there was no spare) .... so Jarod's been working on it all day. hopefully by tomorrow, everything will be back to normal, most of our admin scripts are there, so we're pretty crippled... aah!

Netsight test server for Ifas 7.3 up and running

Sun, 07 Mar 2004 15:35:58 -0800

Last friday, i reconfigured the swt (netsight test server) to point to the antioch test database.
the process seemed to be pretty simple, and took little time.
I had a few complications with compiling the xml screens, with the new server configuration, but eventually found the problem, and successfully compiled.

in a few weeks, a the rest of the netsight servers will have to be upgraded to Ifas 7.3. this might be a bit more of a challenge as this involves an upgrade instead of a fresh install. I guess we'll see what happens when we get to that point.

RSS Feeds are cool

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:35:41 -0800

I spent sometime figuring out how RSS feeds work since they've been getting pretty popular lately.
so I installed a reader from http://www.rssreader.com, and it seems to work very nicely. I recommend it if you want to stay updated on any blog content.