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Cool #infographics and CVs

January 6, 2010
By Gabriele Bozzi
Cool #infographics and CVs

I am “refactoring” my CV. This time I will try to avoid lengthy lists of skills, acronyms, technologies… Yaawn!! ZZZzzzZZ!!! It’s about time to present myself fit for this millennium’s 2nd decade, so, this is an idea I had on how to present my skills and experience overview: I am working on the assignment timeline, I am...
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Using disk images with Time Capsule to share files

January 3, 2010
By Gabriele Bozzi
Using disk images with Time Capsule to share files

I needed to use an Apple Time Capsule (actually backing up our home Macs) to share some files. The issue here is that Time Machine (OSX’s backup program) might use up all the space on the disk: there is no way to tell Time Machine to stop at a certain quota. Workarounds are known...
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Do we (not) work that hard?

November 22, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Do we (not) work that hard?

There is an interesting article on TechCrunch I wanted to comment but, unfortunately, I had to work so hard the last three days I had no time to put this on paper! It’s an unfiltered (presumably) insight of a London’s VC expert that claims European start-ups are not working hard enough as their Silicon Valley’s...
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Leading by example in Cloud Computing (Dilbert)

November 18, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
Leading by example in Cloud Computing (Dilbert)

Great! What the IT world might have been without Dilbert (and Userfriendly too…)
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@botchagalupe, @krisbuytaert, me and the Kwak!!

November 15, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
@botchagalupe, @krisbuytaert, me and the Kwak!!

I am a lucky chap. I received this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”. Botchagalupe aka John Willis is one of the best known Cloud evangelists and a legend in System Management; he is actually “involved” with Canonical and spreading the word on agility and life-cycle management on...
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vSphere: Invalid Virtual Machine Configuration

September 17, 2009
By Gabriele Bozzi
vSphere: Invalid Virtual Machine Configuration

Cannot Power xxxx. host on: Invalid virtual machine configuration. This error is a nice “catch all” and leads to configuration files corruption, improper snapshotting of VMs and other horror stories. My case is just one of “administration sloppiness”.. Indeed it’s worth to be mentioned to avoid some body’s else scratch their heads and think being overconfident. I...
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