IT Guy Vs Dumb Employees
– Watch more free videos
Archive for August, 2008
Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008
It is good to see that Amazon released a pretty detailed statement detailing the events of the S3 outage on 7/20. Some people have been complaining about the stability of the environment, but I think it has been overall really good. When there are problems they are fixed extremely quickly and if there was going to be any delays they kept everybody up to date. I think the Service Health Dashboard is great information tool. I may not be happy when there is a problem, but atleast I don’t feel like I am in the dark like I have in the past with some other hosts/service providors.
Installing Crystal Reports XI Release 2
Today I found out the hard way that if you have Crystal Reports XI already installed on your machine and you are going to upgrade to Crystal Reports XI Release 2 you should uninstall the original as the Release 2 “Upgrade/Service Pack” is a whole new installer and doesn’t remove the previous version automatically. Once I had installed Release 2 each time I tried to access a report in Visual Studio I was prompted that Windows needed to setup the software. This process would take about 10 minutes. Also if I tried to save changes I had made to a report they would be lost and I would get an Active X error. After several hours of researching the problem I found the solution. It was a “good” waste of a day. After uninstalling Crystal Reports XI and Crystal Reports XI Release 2 and then just installing Crystal Reports XI Release 2 I had an installation that works correctly.
Mobile SSH Client for your Blackberry
A friend told me about this cool SSH client that you can run on your Blackberry. It has already come in handy for me when I needed to reset a service on linux box and I was out running errands. It is called MidpSSH.
AT&T Launches Global ‘Next-Generation’ Utility Computing Service
AT&T announced the global launch of AT&T Synaptic Hosting(SM), its next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses.
More information on the Synaptic Hosting Service can be found on their website.
It is good to see more companies jumping into Cloud Computing. Competition and variety of services is a good thing.