For those interested in using SSL certificates, I would like to bring up two very important things to keep in mind: Under most circumstances, each…
DCOM Error
Today, while working on a Windows jump box I received a Windows error message stating that DCOM had shutdown unexpectedly and as such the computer…
Macbook Keyboard Display
A couple weeks back, my wife asked me to take a look at her Macbook Pro as the display was scrambled with black and white…
Show VLAN
If you are a network administrator, then you probably know that on many switches typing the command ‘show run’ will display the running switch configuration…
Cloudy with the Chance of Computing – Part 2
In my last blog entry about cloud computing, I answered the question: what is cloud computing? To do this, I defined the term cloud and…
Cloudy with the Chance of Computing – Part 1
My good friend Luca sent me the following email a couple weeks back:
I thought you would find this Q&A in the newspaper entertaining. The Dallas Morning News just lost your company money:
Question: I’ve been listening to and reading a lot of tech news lately, trying to stay current, and there’s something that I’m having trouble understanding – cloud computing. What exactly does that term mean?
Answer: The cloud is a metaphor for ‘the Internet’. This started because in drawing flowcharts of various computer networks, the Internet was usually represented by a drawing of a cloud. Simply put, cloud computing means using the Internet to provide your programs and store your data. Instead of spending $300 on a new copy of Microsoft Office, you might find that Google’s online suite, Google Docs, will do just fine. With Google Docs, for example, you create your word processing or spreadsheet documents through Google’s Web site and you don’t have to install any software. It’s all stored ‘in the cloud.’ So ‘in the cloud’ has come to mean any online application or storage. Read the Wikipedia entry on cloud computing if you’d like to know more.
This got me thinking, what is cloud computing?
Old Matlab Information
While working at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, I initially had a fair amount of difficulty using MATLAB. As such, I documented a couple steps that…
Crontab – Bad Minute
I had an interested problem the other day with crontab that I had never experienced before. When attempting to save the changes I had made…