二手電腦市場的高端垃圾
Comments (0) 竟然發現了Equallogic的蹤跡，當然已經是很舊很舊的型號了。 但是如果沒了Firmware，就等同一塊廢鐵般Useless。
這個Controller更舊，完全不知道是什麼型號。
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今時今日擺錢係銀行冇乜保障
By admin, December 4, 2015 12:35 pm
關於今日單頭條: 今時今日各大網上銀行嘅保安做到足，要什麼1024Bits加密，又要雙重密碼加埋隻RSA蛋，轉帳有手機SMS提示…IT人都覺得複雜…點知櫃檯就幾乎中門大開…任攞。
好多時小數目，個客簽名(好多途徑…超容易拿到)差不多，唔需身份證就攞到錢，話是話仲容易過手持AK47打劫銀行，直頭係White Collar Easy Job。
好啦，頭先打電話俾恆生問今日單新聞如何防範，點知個醒目職員答: 先生，大多數正常人都會有幾個不同的簽名! 銀行一個，信用卡一個，公司/買樓另一個。 (真係好正常!)
跟住當然係揾佢Manager繼續傾有關於銀行櫃檯保安嘅問題。
當然傾完個結果都係一樣，既係擺錢係銀行冇乜保障，安全程度同阿婆將D錢放係床下鐵罐差唔多。
第一對Nike Zoom Vapor 9.5 Tour
By admin, November 25, 2015 1:38 pm
兩個月前我的Barricade V Classic經過10個月後終於報廢，而Adidas Barricade 2015 (B9)跟B6-B8一樣，後面還是比較單薄，很容易刮傷腳部。
另外Nike也不再推出舒服好穿的Court Ballistec 4.3，而變成了不適合香港天氣，鞋面極之不透氣的Nike Lunar Ballistec 1.5。
環顧之下，剩下唯一的選擇只有正在做大特價的Federer的Zoom Vapor 9.5 Tour。
大部份擁有Zoom Vapor的師兄之前都跟我都反映過這雙網球鞋很舒服，最大的問題就是不耐用，大概6個月就完了。
我試穿的感覺很不錯，最大分別就是重量很輕，而且左右腳跟明顯感到有兩塊回彈力頗高的像Air氣墊的物料。 (Zoom?)
最後發現標籤裡寫著版本的日期為03/15/15。
Nike Zoom Vapor 9.5 Tour Volt/Black
法拉利賽車歷史上唯一的女駕駛員?
By admin, November 25, 2015 12:59 pm
這張60年代的照片裡，有兩樣東西顯得特別突出。
首先就是法拉利F1賽車那個誇張的Spaghetti形狀排氣管，另外就是座位上的美女。
難道她就是相傳法拉利賽車歷史上唯一的女駕駛員?
這當然是個玩笑，其實她是當時紅極一時的法國女歌手，而當年樂壇鬼才Serge Gainsbourg也曾經幫她作曲過以下這首十分好聽的歌。
Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 10 on ESX 4.1!
By admin, October 31, 2015 10:22 pm
Well, you didn’t mis-read the above! Yes, I finally managed to get both (W2K12R2 & Win10) running under the old daddy VMWare ESX 4.1 with the latest VMTools installed, not supported? Huh? You must be kidding me.
1. Basically, in order to run your OEM copy of Windows Server 2012 R2, you will need to select Windows Server 2008 R2 as the OS template. Also you need the latest SLIC 2.3 ROM, the correct Dell Cert and of course a valid OEM Key.
2. De-select the default video driver (ie, WDDM) when installing VMware Tools or you will get a black screen immediately. At least this is true on Windows 10, but somehow no problem with W2K12R2. Details please refer to this blog article. (Update: actually you don’t need to install VMware Tools here)
3. Still, you will find the mouse isn’t working smoothly in W2K12R2 and Win10, this happens to both Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 as well, and the solution is simple, download and install the latest VMWare Tools which comes with the updated drivers for video (VMware SVGA 3D), disk controller (PVSCSI) and network cards (VMnet3).
4. Again, after you have successful upgraded your VMWare Tools, then you will need to create a 1MB hard disk and select the SCSI to 1:0 and change the secondary controller type to Paravirtual, restart the VM, shut it down, change the primary hard disk controller to Paravirtual as well, finally remove the 2nd disk and controller. Viola, there is your lightening fast PVSCSI disk!
5. The other things I discover W2K12R2 and WIN10 keeps crashing for every 3-5 hours without any reason, then I found this KB which solved the problem, and make sure you applied all the windows updates.
6. Another tips is to turn off the Sleep Mode under Power Option in Windows 10, or you will face VM constantly went to sleep and hence VMTools status always shows “Not Running”.
7. Finally I discover you can install the latest Linux CentOS 7.x and Ubuntu 15.x without any problem on ESX 4.1 although it’s not listed as supported OS…strange, but working perfectly fine which leads me to think we can in fact install any updated OS on the much older ESX 4.1. One hint is to download the latest VMTools and install it! (Actually you don’t need as somehow CentOS 7-1611 comes with VMTools automatically somehow)
8. I also noticed those Linux VMware Tools status shows as “Unmanaged”! That’s actually ok, as the tools is installed from the latest package instead of using the default attached CD-ROM (which the version doesn’t work anyway), so you can safely ignore it.
So who said these two latest OS from Microsoft aren’t supported on ESX4.1? Think again. 
Update: May 15, 2017
Tested the latest CentOS 7-1611 also worked perfectly on ESX4.1.
Update: Oct 10, 2017
Problem found W2K12 constantly hangs, finally identified it’s the old anti-virus program Symantec Endpoint Protection that’s causing the conflicts, you will need the version at least v14.0.2415 in order for the OS to be stable.
Update: Dec 25, 2017
It turns out Windows Server 2016 follows exactly the above step and I can confirm W2K16 is running happily on ESX 4.1 without any problem! Except you need to have SLIC 2.4 BIOS!
Dell purchase of EMC should set off alarms
By admin, October 13, 2015 1:56 pm
姣婆守唔到寡…
Dell Inc. founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell, right, and EMC Corp. CEO Joseph Tucci shake hands in an image provided by Dell after the merger of the two tech companies was announced Monday morning.
Dell Inc. is making its biggest move ever to expand beyond its personal-computing roots and compete directly with Hewlett-Packard Co.’s corporate business, buying EMC Corp. EMC, +1.76% But there are worrisome aspects to the largest tech deal in history.
One is the hefty debt load privately-held Dell is taking on in order to do the deal. The company expects to pay for the deal with cash on hand, a debt issuance and through the creation of a stock that will track Dell’s ownership interest in EMC’s virtualization software business, VMware Inc. VMW, EMC shareholders will receive $24.05 per share in cash and approximately $9.10 per share in the newly created VMware tracking stock, which didn’t seem to please VMware investors: While EMC’s stock ticked up slightly on the news, which was first reported last week, shares of VMware fell 8% Monday.
Dell hopes to pay down some of the debt through cost-cutting and the elimination of duplications and redundancies in the company. Michael Dell, the CEO of the company he founded in his college dorm in 1984, assured investors Monday the company was not taking on more than it could handle, even amid a threat of potential rising interest rates.
“I think what you’re going to see is in the first 18 months to 24 months, a significant de-leveraging coming from some cost synergies,” Dell told reporters on a conference call. ‘We have revenue synergies that are three times larger.”
Executives, though, declined to be more specific about what areas could see cuts or restructuring, preferring to focus on the more amorphous “revenue synergies,” which they told analysts were about $1 billion.
Analysts were not too keen on the idea that the companies would be looking to issue debt in an environment of rising interest rates.
“We still believe raising $33 billion plus in debt at reasonable interest rates will be challenging (but not impossible) for Dell,” Jeffries & Co. analyst James Kisner said .
Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said in a note on Monday that he believes Dell will have to raise about $45 billion in debt to finance the deal and that he was “a bit surprised that Dell was able to get financing,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
Meg Whitman, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard HPQ, +0.00% believes Dell is going to face an ominous task raising that much debt, and she hopes H-P can take advantage of the confusion among customers as the companies embark on this massive deal.
“To pay back the interest on the $50 billion of debt that the new combined company will have on their balance sheet, Dell will need to pay roughly $2.5 billion a year in interest alone,” Whitman said in a company-wide email to employees obtained by MarketWatch. “That’s $2.5 billion that they will allocate away from R&D and other business critical activities, which will keep them from better serving their customer.
While Whitman’s comments can be seen as self-serving, H-P has its own experience with big mergers that sucked up its cash, notably the $11 billion deal for software company Autonomy, most of which it later wrote off. H-P also wrote down a huge chunk of its $14 billion acquisition of EDS, a computer services company, both moves that H-P did in a similar push for enterprise-focused businesses.
Whitman, whose tenure at H-P started with a mandate to strengthen the company’s then-weakened cash balance, contended that the company is “two years ahead of the game,” as it prepares for its own separation of its corporate server business from its printer and PC business at the end of this month.
“We’re organized, we have a strong balance sheet and our innovation engine is humming,” Whitman wrote. “So, get out in front of your customers and your partners. Tell them our story. Take advantage of this moment.”
In addition to the hefty debt load Dell is going to be saddled with, the company is going to have to again publicly report its financial results, as a result of its new tracking stock. EMC Chief Financial Officer Zane Rowe told analysts on a conference call that along with the tracking stock, “we would expect Dell to report financials.”
“We’ll become an SEC registrant and will report financials on their business as well as the VMware business,” Rowe said.
So in addition to adding on a pile of debt, Dell — which seemingly enjoyed being out of the public limelight as a private company — is now going to be foisted into the public glare again. At least investors will be able to track its progress in this mega-merger, but it’s unlikely to be an easy road.
(Market Watch)
