Mind Circus

• Sony VAIO support officially sucks. They won’t even talk to you until you register your Vaio with them. Morons. Follow Dell’s example! #

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From what I know/have seen/have heard, generally, companies see IT departments as cost centres, rather than something that adds business value.

I liked this quote on joeware.net:

“[Computers] will just get more and more important and if you intend to simply coast on whatever talent you get for some poor pay, you deserve everything that happens. I have no problem hearing that tech specialists make more than their managers. IMO, in many cases they should make considerably more. It is the tech specialists who keep your company’s tech running efficiently.”

Joeware.net has some great free IT Pro tools btw

• Been following the Dell “E” netbook thingy for a while. Seems it’s due soon: http://tinyurl.com/6g823j #
• Seems the Fedora 8 installer doesn’t like you having both VGA and DVI plugged into a nVidia Geforce 7300 LE. Having just one works OK. #

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How to remove the harddrive from a Sony Vaio SZ Series notebook.

I kinda figured you’d need to remove half the chassis. Makes me appreciate just how accessible the HDDs are in most Dell laptops

Paul Maritz, VMware’s CEO, has posted an explanation of the time-bomb “incident” that occurred yesterday.

It’s a sincere post, explaining what happened, why, and how VMware intend to improve their QA processes and regain customer confidence.

As someone who’s VMware fan-boyism has been tarnished by this incident, I’ll be interested to see how they’re going to go about rebuilding customer confidence “fully and quickly”…