XS55EU2 - XenServer 5.5 Update 2

Update 2 released for Xenserver 5.5 - Should fix the IPv6 + win 2008 issues alot were having.

The iPad is finally released - Its a big iPhone? Was expecting OSx

****Update 11/02/10: Having read over the reviews and looked at what windows 7 is like on a touch screen device im really warming to the iPad, Looking forward to getting my hands on one. June / July in Ireland prob Sept for 3G model.

Small Business IP Phone Documentation

Great resource!

MX Lookup

Domain Name:

ABOUT MX LOOKUP

This test will list MX records for a domain in priority order. The MX lookup is done directly against the domain's authoritative name server, so changes to MX Records should show up instantly. You can click Diagnostics , which will connect to the mail server, verify reverse DNS records, perform a simple Open Relay check and measure response time performance. You may also check each MX record (IP Address) against 147 DNS based blacklists . (Commonly called RBLs, DNSBLs)

Great tool ever since dnsstuff went paid for.

John Todd has posted an interesting link about a speech that will take place in which Jeremy Wadhams from Yahoo will discuss an Asterisk implementation in a Fortune 500 company.

I don't know how many of you are going to be at ITEXPO/Digium Asterisk World in Miami next week - I hope to see as many of you as possible, though.

There has been an interesting change in the line-up for the show, that I think bears mentioning here since it possibly will help quite a few of you in your discussions about getting Asterisk into your company. We've had the good fortune to have a last-minute keynote addition at the show, which is going to be Jeremy Wadhams from Yahoo. He's going to be talking about a Fortune 500 implementation of Asterisk across their entire network, and why they made the decision to move to Open-Source telephony for the core of their voice network.

Keynote: 3:30 - 4:00 PM on Wednesday - Jeremy Wadhams, Yahoo

It's not yet on the ITEXPO site, since we only confirmed this yesterday with Jeremy, who is really being a great sport for doing this on short notice.

Having Yahoo giving a keynote on their multi-thousand seat installation is great news for the Asterisk community in general, and is great news specifically for other Enterprise managers who have been looking for that all-important set of examples of public users of a technology. (Enterprise tends to move in herds.) There are large numbers of Enterprise users of Asterisk, but it's always great to get a "name-brand" company who can be offered as a proponent of Asterisk.

Again, hope to see all of you there in Miami next week!

http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/

This will be interesting!!! Stay tuned

Fellow Boards Members,

Today, Thursday 21 Jan 2010 at 11:20 GMT the Boards.ie database was attacked by a source external to Ireland. This triggered our security response policy and as a result we are sending you this warning email.

In this attack, part of the database which includes our members usernames, email addresses and obfuscated passwords was accessed. While our investigations indicate that individual user accounts are not in danger we have taken the step of changing all user passwords. 

We also recommend that if you used the same username/email and password on other sites that you change your password there too as a precaution.

What happened:

• This morning our database server was accessed by an unauthorised source.
• We discovered this intrusion and took the site offline.
• As a precaution We contacted the Gardaí, the Data Protection Commissioner and an independent security consultancy.
• We have followed the advice we have received on how to proceed.
• Like all large sites we are regularly the target for disruption and take continual actions to proactively protect your data.  This particular attack was completely unprecedented despite our rigorous security measures and while we have no idea if this data will be used for any malicious reasons, we felt it vital to tell you this immediately.

What you need to know and do:

• If you use the same password on Boards as you do on other services, you should change it on those other services to be safe. Boards passwords are NOT stored in plain text, they are obscured with the standard vBulletin "Hash". While this provides strong protection, we have altered all passwords on Boards as a precaution and suggest you take this time to allter other similar passwords.
• If you are a subscriber, please be assured, we do NOT store credit card details or any payment details on our servers. Nothing of that nature is held on our site and as a result such data was not compromised.
• We apologise for this inconvenience. We do not want to over stress the problem, however we felt the situation requires full disclosure.

Tom Murphy.

Update:

We've naturally been getting a lot of questions about what exactly has happened and what people can and should be doing.  In an effort to help you out, here are some of the more common questions.

Will I get a new password emailed to me?

• We won't be emailing the new altered passwords to people.  When the site returns, you will have to request a new password at http://www.boards.ie/changepassword

I didn't get the email yet.

• We're hearing that some services are flagging the email as spam, so please check your spam or junk mail folders and see it it's there.  The emails are being sent in reverse order of who was most recently active on the site.  So, if you were on the site when the attack happened, you'll most likely have been in the first few people to receive the email, but if you hadn't been on the site in a couple of days, you'll be closer to the end of the sent list.

I don't have access to the email I signed up to Boards.ie with anymore, what can I do?

• Unfortunately, we may not be able to release account information in these cases as we have no way of verifying ownership of an account outside of your email address.  We are working on a solution for this issue and will keep you updated.

Do you know who attacked the site?

• We can't really get into the specifics just yet as there is an investigation underway.

Things to check out:

• Boards.ie on Twitter

Boards.ie / Adverts.ie hacked - Look on the bright side at least the user database will be alot more accurate.

Sequoia Capital invests between $100K-$1M in start-ups across the energy, financial services, healthcare services, internet, mobile, outsourcing services and technology markets

The company that funded YouTube - check out their other investments, some great services.

Installing Dell OpenManage on Citrix XenServer 5.0

Good post - Notes

1. Reinstall XenTools 5.5
2. On the Virtual Machines, Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
4. In the right pane, make sure that the DisableTaskOffload registry entry exists. If this entry does not exist, follow these steps to add the entry:
a. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
b. Type DisableTaskOffload, and then press ENTER.
5. Click DisableTaskOffload.
6. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
7. Type 1 in the Value data box, and then press ENTER.
8. Exit Registry Editor.
9. Restart all Virtual Machines

Fix poor IO on iScsi targets.