Amusing video from VMware on how easy it can be to get a clear health assessment of a Cloud environment using VCM.
I love the doctor joke at the start. It reminds me of the joke about a man who asks a Yogi for the meaning of life:
The Yogi says “go to the furthest corners of the earth, drink from the rivers and streams, climb the tallest peaks and you will find what you seek”. The man leaves, does as he was told but after years and years of searching he comes to no conclusions. He returns to the Yogi and complains “I went to the furthest corners…did all that you said but nothing happened”. The Yogi looks deep into his eyes, holds his hand and says “Ok, maybe I was wrong. Here’s another idea…”.
Even if you could find a cloud Yogi you probably would be better served by a product like VCM to automate assessment of your environment’s health.
A database of events in time was in dispute, as explained by the EFF Press Room
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce that a copyright lawsuit threatening an important database of time zone information has been dismissed. The astrology software company that filed the lawsuit, Astrolabe, has also apologized and agreed to a ‘covenant not to sue’ going forward, which will help protect the database from future baseless legal actions and disruptions.
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In a statement, Astrolabe said, “Astrolabe’s lawsuit against Mr. Olson and Mr. Eggert was based on a flawed understanding of the law. We now recognize that historical facts are no one’s property and, accordingly, are withdrawing our Complaint. We deeply regret the disruption that our lawsuit caused for the volunteers who maintain the TZ database, and for Internet users.”
In Part 1 of this article, I provide an overview of how to uniquely identify a virtual machine in both a vSphere vCenter and vCloud Director environment. In this article, we will look at an example environment and show you how to extract the information needed to uniquely identify a VM using both the vSphere API and vCloud API.
The Easy Bay Express has an interesting article that tries to identify officers involved in protests by reviewing footage for unique markings on their uniform.
Two stripes and a star, OPD’s insignia for acting sergeants, are visible on the officer’s left sleeve. In both clips, the officer is holding his shotgun with his right hand on the trigger, his helmet visor is up and the numbers “35” are visible on his helmet. According to an OPD roster of the three-digit helmet numbers assigned to individual officers and the personnel detail for October 25, Officer Robert Roche is the only one with a helmet number beginning with “35” who was assigned to a Tango Team that night. Roche’s helmet number that night was “357,” according to OPD records.
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Sergeant Chris Bolton, chief of staff to Police Chief Howard Jordan, said the investigation into the [October 25, Marine veteran Scott] Olsen incident is ongoing. “Any known or alleged uses of force against Mr. Olsen are assigned to an independent investigator,” Bolton said in a statement. “Based on available video, photographs, and reports, the department has identified several officers that they are subjects of those open investigations.” Bolton added, however, that “no investigative findings or discipline have been announced or imposed.”