The news of Steve Jobs’ death last week was sad and, to some, sudden. It generated (and is still generating) a lot of buzz, a veritable outpouring of articles, blogs, columns, talks, speeches and books along the lines of “what a great man we’ve lost, what are we to do now?” Let me be perfectly [...]
Oh snap, the thing that everybody IN THE WORLD predicted would happen, happened. Some Belgian newspapers sued Google in 2006 because Google was linking to them and the wanted money. Now the courts have ruled in their favor, they got some money and (of course) Google stopped linking to them. And now they’re complaining that they [...]
There’s two news subjects that have been keeping me busy lately, and I’m starting to think that the first subject could greatly help the world by kicking the ass of the second. Maybe then we can get a handle on the third. I guess I should clarify that, before the men in white coats arrive: The [...]
This is an intriguing design concept dating from 2008, once again from Art. Lebedev Studio who brought us the quite cool Optimus Maximus keyboard as well. While the Maximus has been available for some time now the Optimus Tactus is, alas, still “just” a concept. The idea is simple yet very elegant: a keyboard which [...]
I know there are several scripts floating around out there that do this, but I still decided to make one from scratch. This script (for ESX servers or ESXi servers managed through a VMA) will find any VMs that are powered on on the server, try a “soft” shutdown, wait a while and then retry [...]