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Helpful Hint for Using IE8, Windows 7, and the Yukon Government VPN

By Evan - September 1st, 2009
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If you have been having trouble connecting to the internal servers at the Yukon Government by their short name over the VPN then this tip is for you.

This tip is tested with Windows 7 and IE8. Other OSes and browsers may not give the same results.

1. Ensure you have the hosts file with the short name - the Service Desk should be able to provide this. It goes into <Windows>/System32/drivers/etc

2. Set IE8 to NOT Automatically Detect Settings. Under Internet Options -> Connections -> Lan Settings deselect the Automatically Detect Settings checkbox.

Meltdown v.3 Redux

By Evan - April 16th, 2009
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Thanks to everyone that came out to the Meltdown this past Tuesday! We had a great Q&A session on Virtualization with Richard Whittaker, who had many great observations from his experiences in virtualizing a data centre. We then continued the conversation at the Roadhouse over a beer.

Thanks again to Outcrop Yukon for providing a comfortable location and drinks and nibbles for the attendees. Many thanks to Jason.

The next Meltdown is scheduled for a Monday in early/mid June so keep your calendar open for the next event!

Meltdown v.3

By Evan - April 9th, 2009
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This is the third MeltDown scheduled to re-occur every 6 to 8 weeks. We avoided a March meet-up because of "March Madness" and gave our busy tech community some time to recover from the end of the Government's fiscal year.

The last event was awesome!! Thanks to all that attended and Outside the Cube for hosting.

MeltDown 3 will be graciously hosted at Outcrop Yukon's offices, details below, where there will be some nibbles and drinks and space to chat in. There is not a lot of power available so bring fully charged devices if you are planning on bringing them.

This time we are going to have an Q&A evening with Richard Whittaker, a Configuration Manager at Northwestel, on a current buzz technology topic: Virtualization.

Richard was a significant player in the very successful migration of Northwestel's significant server infrastructure to VMWare's ESX platform. Their migration reduced power consumption, heat production and physical server counts.
Richard will be available to talk about software concerns, hardware concerns, and any of your other tricky virtual questions. He will also be available after the Q&A session to chat about specific solutions for your business.

The Q&A session will start after 5:15p.

Event Details:
Location: Outcrop Yukon Offices - 207 Black St (the big blue building beside what used to be the Brick)
Time: 5:15pm
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Duration: 1.5hrs - if people have an urge to go longer we will be migrating to the Roadhouse to continue the evening!

For people unfamiliar with this event see this link: http://www.justwerks.com/site-tags/meltdown

Join the Discussion on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32095888353

I have no doubt missed some people so please forward this on to others (e.g. your employees or co-workers) that would be interested.

Please RSVP so we can know the headcount for the evening!

Thanks for your time! Hope to see you shortly!

Meltdown 2 Redux

By Evan - January 16th, 2009
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Thanks to everyone that came out to the Meltdown this past Monday! We had a great presentation on XML Storage by Glen Jolly of Pinnacle Consulting and there were many questions along the way.

Thanks again to Outside the Cube for providing a comfortable location and drinks and nibbles for the attendees. Thanks to Alastair.

The next Meltdown is scheduled for a Monday in early/mid March so keep your calendar open for the next event!

If you have a desire to present and/or host a Meltdown please fire me off an email and we can work out the details.

I have attached a PDF summary of Glen's presentation for your interest.

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