Couple of great tweets for the week

Just a couple/few great tweets that have rolled by on my twitter feed.

From @kix1979 to @jasonboche – What makes it a super app, a cape or tights?

From @nrr – An IPv4 address walks into a bar: “A strong CIDR please! I’m exhausted.”

and the best this week (so far)

From @DeathStarPR – #thingsweallhate People who are always negative. Yes, we blew up a few planets, but there are HEAPS more we HAVEN’T blown up. #StarWars

Enjoy!

Great Tweet…

This came across my twitter feed yesterday and I thought it was spot on…

@ChildRoland67 tweeted: My @VMware environment has been so stable for so long, I’m not sure I’d know what to do anymore if it broke.

Our VMware environment is also very stable and the issues that we do have from time to time are usually self-induced

My Week in Geek – January 21, 2011

A weekly post (hopefully!?) of blogs, articles, sites, gadgets, and other stuff I have found that is of interest to me (and I remembered to bookmark).

1. I started off the week receiving my VCP welcome package from VMware including my certificate. Very cool! Sorry to brag but I am pretty proud of this.
    
2. A Compendium of Concerns About ESXi – about two weeks ago we migrated our environment from ESX 4.0 to ESXi 4.0. This is a great post that addresses most of the concerns/differences between the two hypervisor versions.
    
3. Last Thursday night The Blinky Light (TBL) had their first AskHarley twitter Q&A. Harley Stagner is a VCDX that works for TBL and they had folks tweet (or email) questions for Harley to answer. I participated with a few questions about storage multipathing for a project I am working on. A transcript of the chat session can be found here. I thought this was a great idea and hopefully TBL will have more of these Q&A sessions in the future.
    
4. Do you really need vMA? This is an interesting post asking about the need for the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) since most things can be done using PowerCLI. Though I do not use it that often I do use the vMA for troubleshooting and management. I have not really looked that deep into PowerCLI. Here is a great reply to the post from Duncan Epping @ Yellow-Bricks.com.
    
5. Check out Eric Sloof’s Online VMware Training Podcast which is now available on iTunes.
    
6. Enabling Tech Support Mode on ESXi Nice step by step how-to on the different ways to enable Tech Support Mode (TSM) on ESXi.
    
7. Depending on where you work the following video may not be safe if you have your sound turned up, but I don’t give a flying F*ck!
    
8. Starbucks launched their Card Mobile App this week for iPhone and Blackberry. I have all my gift cards from Christmas loaded up in it. Handy since I am always forgetting to put the cards in my wallet, but I always have my phone. The only issue is you cannot use it at the drive thru (at least not at the Starbucks I stop at on the way to school), something about them not being able to touch the phone for liability reasons. HEY STARBUCKS – FIX THIS!!!
    
9. vCenter and Memory Metrics is a great post that explains the different memory details that are reported in the vSphere Client.
    
10. Since I am trying to gain some familiarity with the PowerCLI, I found this post about Post configuration of ESX with PowerCLI pretty interesting.
     
11. CNN Money’s list of Top 100 Best Companies to Work For was released this week. Several tech companies on the list including Google, Microsoft, and NetApp. You can compare it to last year’s list here. If you work for any of these guys that is great, I don’t but I think where I work is a pretty great place (most days anyway).
     
12. Using PowerShell? Make your PowerShell For Loops 4x Faster!
     

Hope you had a great week!

Sociable WordPress Plugin

This afternoon I installed a WordPress Plugin called Sociable that automatically adds icons that link to different social networking/bookmarking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to post. Neat little tool since it allow people to share your post with others on these networks by basically just clicking on the icons. Just check out the Share & Enjoy icons at the bottom of this post.

I regularly post to Twitter and it updates my Facebook status. Anyway the Sociable plugin works well but I found another version Sociable-Italia that has a feature that creates TinyUrls to help you keep to the 140 character limit of twitter. Other than TinyUrls and the settings page being in Italian in Sociable-Italia, I think the plugins are basically identical.

Anyway I added the code that generates the TinyUrl from Sociable-Italia to the Sociable plugin by editing sociable.php in the wp-content/plugins/sociable directory. Find the line

$url = $site['url'];

and add this after it

if ($sitename == ‘TwitThis’) {
$twitperma = file_get_contents(‘http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=’.$permalink);
$url = str_replace(‘PERMALINK’, $twitperma, $url);
} else {
$url = str_replace(‘PERMALINK’, $permalink, $url);
}

I also added the title of the post to the twitthis icon. Find the line:

‘url’ => ‘http://twitter.com/home?status=PERMALINK’,

and change it to this

‘url’ => ‘http://twitter.com/home?status=PERMALINK :: TITLE’,

Of course if I have to update the plugin in the future this will stop working unless I remember to redo this, perhaps the author of the plugin will add this to a future release.

Great little plugin – download it here.

Sexy Unix Commands

Got this as a re-tweet on Twitter from https://twitter.com/cinnamongirl13 and got a kick out of it.

“Sexy Unix Commands: date; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime;”

Another good one from her;

“The web is a dominatrix. Every where I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit”