Here's KROQ's Kevin and Bean show with Kevin Federline's outlook on Obama's election.. .you just have to listen it's effin hilarious

I have been looking really hard for a replacement for Windows Media Center for a long time, and I have finally found a suitable and extensible replacement in XBMC ( XBox Media Center ).   It supports basically every platform from the original XBox to Linux and Macs.  The thing I absolutely love about it is you can do just about anything with it as it has a full plugin environment that you can download plugins and shit to get it to do what you want it to do.

So lately my status of a Network Administrator has been veered over to a Web Developer mostly dealing with the TYPO3 platform that we have put in place for the company's forward facing website.  I needed to figure out what I was going to help me get the job done in the most effecient way.  So currently these are some of my daily tools of my newfound trade:

VMWare ESXi server is the latest addition to VMWare's server virtualization hypervisor platforms.  Surprisingly being the having a vast majority of the market control in server based virtualization VMWare decided to offer the ESXi platform for free.  Usually you hear free and a company name like VMWare and you're like you have to be absolutely shitting me that they are going to let a product that they have been historically charging $1500+ per license for.  You're immediate thought goes into what CAN'T I do opposed to the full blown ESX 3.5 server? 

so I have been working about 2 hours to create a fucking webform for our website, and we are supposed to use this extension called powermail which is being a complete pain in the ass right now.  Ok enough venting...

I have been fighting with a server that is running out of resources at the data center, and it is impossible for me to access the machine remotely and kill the offending process some of the times.   Since the machine is connected to a managed power distribution unit, I wanted to find a way that I could script of the power cycling of the outlet.   My first thought was to see if I could do it using IPSentry the server alert and monitoring system that we have in place right now, which is basically a Windows version of Nagios but not near as flexible.  I found that none

Symantec is probably one of the most forward facing security company that is basically a household name.  Here just recently they have released what looks to be a little outside of their normal product line that they have offered in the past which is pretty surprising and scary at the same time.  The Symantec Protection Network application is a SaaS (Storage as a Service) client that gives you the ability to secure your critical data to their secure datacenter in an automated fashion.  Those who know me I have an extensive backround in this exact type of industry, and to have