Sometimes I'm Right - Hardware

CFUG Toronto Presentation on Server Virtualization

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:14:00 -0400

Myself and Byron Bignell will be giving a presentation on server virtualization on March 14th 2007 for the ColdFusion User Group Toronto chapter. If you live in the Toronto area come on by and you will learn how to create virtual development servers that you can use to development and test against without having to deploy new hardware.

We will be focusing primarily on VMWare for the windows platform and Parallels for the mac crowd. The presentation is in the Tippet Room of the Metro Central YMCA, at 20 Grosvenor Street and we will be starting at 7PM sharp. After the meeting we will likely go to a nearby pub for post meeting beverages.

See you there.

If you cannot attend the presentation can viewed online at the follwing address: http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/cfugtorontomarch2007/

Update

For those who could not attend the meeting live you can check out the recording here https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p58155459/

Sun MicroSystems Lost My Business

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:11:00 -0400

Yesterday afternoon I was trying to purchase an entry-level rack mount server for a project my company is working on. Initially I was planning on purchasing a Dell (out of convenience) but on a whim I decided to investigate what HP and IBM where offering. I quickly ruled out HP, as they don't sell servers direct in Canada and IBM was in my opinion was over priced for what I needed. I was resolved once again to purchasing from Dell when I just remember that Sun now offers reasonably prices Windows and Linux servers. So off to Sun's website (Canadian Site) I go. Unfortunately Sun's Canadian web site didn't seem to offer online direct sales so I called them instead with some pre sales questions. Despite my pre sales questions I was already convinced I wanted a Sun server too bad Sun wouldn't sell it to me. [More]

Make Your Cursor JUMP!

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:31:00 -0400

If you’re like me you and you work off a desktop and laptop at the same time then you need to read this article. My workstation consists of a dual monitor Windows desktop and my 15 inch apple powerbook. It used to be a pain in the ass to constantly have to move my hands from my windows keyboard and mouse to my laptop and back all day long as I work with each machine. A while back I discovered a gem of a program called Synergy 2 and it eliminates this problem remarkably well. Check out the video below of my Synergy2 Setup Synergy 2 is an open source program that lets you create a Virtual Keyboard Mouse switch between physically separate machines and its compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux. So imagine if you will having a Windows machine and Mac machine on your desk side by side. Synergy will let your mouse "jump" from Monitor to Monitor or OS to OS. It also allows for copy and pasting of text between machines too.

Download Synergy 2 Here
Get the Mac OS X GUI for Synergy2 Here