Ran into this error this morning, which of course took down one of our (1000+ VM) vCenter environments: The vCenter Server’s vpxd logs contain entries similar to: An unrecoverable problem has occurred, stopping the VMware VirtualCenter service. Check database connectivity before restarting. Error: Error[VdbODBCError] (-1) “ODBC error: (23000) – [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Violation of PRIMARY [...]
So we ran into this last night and are trying to work through why things happened the way they did – which is to say, why we had some support personnel on the phone who said “it shouldn’t do that.” The long and short of what a split-brain scenario is this: You have two hosts [...]
My lovely wife might disagree, but I’ve been on Facebook for a while – since you had to petition to have your non-.edu account opened up to it (she’s been on since, like, day 2). At one point I completely destroyed my FB account over drama and “friends” and whatever. Now I’m just getting more [...]
You’ve got to wonder how badly you foobered up your product release when the Electronic Frontier Foundation has this to say about Buzz: If you’re going to use Google Buzz, we recommend that you opt-out during profile creation. If you have already created a profile,¬†change it to private immediately. Then go through the suggested list, [...]
Didn’t realize that Google Buzz gets turned on with some really, really huge privacy-nuking options. WTF, Google? From the Silicon Valley Insider: A Google spokesperson asked us to phrase this claim differently. Like this:¬†“In other words, after you create your profile in Buzz, if you don’t edit any of the default settings, someone could visit [...]
via Gizmodo: AT&T Comes in Last in Consumer Reports Study That Surprises No One Here’s some news anyone with an iPhone could have told you: AT&T delivers crappy service that its customers hate. But this news comes from a reputable source, Consumer Reports, instead of the usual whiny friends. Carrier exclusivity and all that.
So I’m interested in this ’cause I run a Mac at home for sanity’s sake. Gizmodo’s reporting about a particularly nasty (possible) result of hoovering that new copy of iWork ’09 that was announced a few weeks ago: OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. This may be a first for the Mac software world, and it’s not cool at all: [...]