Chinwag with Mike… and Chris Dearden [Episode 01]
This weeks chinwag is with Chris Dearden. It’s a first chinwag I’ve done – so many thanks to Chris for being my hapless guinea pig. I learnt quite a bit in the recent weeks preparing for this – which I think is subject in its own right. There are SO many competing formats, software and publishing methods for video. There are some practical concerns as well – such as watching a delivery man look at me weirdly when I don’t answer the door because I’m in the middle of chinwag!
The big issue I currently have is the lag between audio & video which you get from Skype and re-encoding generally. I had hoped the AVI format and VirtualDub would help – but it turned out not to be the case.
You can keep in touch with Chris by following him on twitter. In his spare time Chris enjoys killing people with paint apparently.
Footnote: In the chinwag, Chris mentions a password management tools they are considering for ESXI. It’s called Secret Server
Chris works for a major financial institution (who will remain nameless!). Chris has been working in IT for about 10 years, although a relative newcomer to virtualisation. It’s something that’s taken his interest more than any other technology. Inspired by some of the high quality of technology blogs out there, he got talked into starting his own by a colleague – its at its fledgling stages currently but like all bloggers, but he has high hopes! When not knee deep in ESX clusters, Chris is also an administrator on the HEXUS.net forums, one of the UK’s larger tech communities.
In the chinwag we discussed, the planned move of a very large number of VMs from the US – and also some challenges he’s been facing with VMware Snapshots. The video is in two segments because Skype bombed out on us half-way through! If you want a MP3 version for your iPOD/iPhone you can grab it here – alternatively if you wish to subscribe to my podcasts you can do here:
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February 4th, 2010 at 10:59 am
MP3 linky no worky Mike!
February 4th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Grrr. rtfm.co.uk, rather than rtfm-ed.co.uk. That’s for drawing my attention to it…
Regards
Mike
February 4th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Thanks…spooky but my brother used to own the domain name rtfm.co.uk
February 4th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Yeah? I looked into that domain name back in 09/01 when RTFM was first put together. At that point it was owned by Real Time Financial Management. Apparently they didn’t know the true meaning of RTFM. Go figure!