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Hey everyone, just wanted to write a short little review about a great product I received for testing a couple months ago.

This probably should have been posted a while ago, unfortunately as we all know life gets crazy sometimes, and you forget about shit.

So here’s the review of the Sumo Sultan.

I recieved one thanks to Andrew Milligan over at Sumo.  Initially when he contacted me, we didn’t have carpet, none of our other belongings or any other furniture in the house.

Looking back, it wasn’t exactly the best time to get a giant bean bag, but I digress.

Getting the package into the front door was a little bit of an issue.  This thing even wrapped up is massive.  And it’s not even the biggest they sell!

Unpacking it was even more fun, and I must admit, more work than I thought it was going to be.  The Sultan comes vacum packed in a cardboard box, and you need to break up the foam particles in order to expand it.

Now I say foam, but it really isn’t.  Think of a foamy cotton material, but a very soft and comforatble foamy cotton.

Once you’ve got it all wrapped in it’s great suede outer shell, let it sit for a good 24 hours.  Go to sleep and when you wake up and you’ll notice that it’s quite puffy and larger than it was last night.  Go ahead and jump on it and begin to experience how amazing this giant blob is.

We had originally planned on purchasing a number of these units and replacing our couch with them, however it turned out that it wasn’t the greatest idea.

So in closing here’s some pro’s and con’s…

Pro’s

• Amazingly Comfortable
• This thing is big!
• Cover is very easy to throw in the washer and clean

Con’s

• Don’t think you’re going to use this as primary seating.

Thanks again to Andrew from Sumo Lounge for sending one of these out to test!

So I’m at the office today installing a very large updated package of SAP’s Process Integration platform, and while SAP has officially announced support for Windows 2008, there’s a couple things that one should know before taking the plunge.

• You want a good amount of memory, period – I can’t stress this enough.  Being that 2008 server is only 64bit, there’s no excuse for deploying a box with anything less than 6GB of RAM.
• Disable IPv6 support -  This one is a little more self explanatory.  SAP does not yet support IPv6, and your install will choke when installing the instance basics.  Another thing to do is to remember to update your hosts file to reflect the IP address of the server instead of the localhost 127.0.0.1
• Time – This install is probably one of the most time intensive SAP installs I’ve done to date, ensure that you have an adequate amount of time to troubleshoot anything that happens.
• Password strength – If you’re installing any SAP environment into a Windows 2008 domain, please ensure that you remember that 2K8 has greater password requirements than 2K3 did.  So ensure you have a strong password (letters, numbers, and special chars).

As of now that’s what I’ve come across, you can go ahead and post any questions you may have and I’ll be happy to answer them.

So what does VMWare ESX Server 3.5 do when installed on a maxed out Dell R900?

Kick Ass! That’s what

Yes, that’s 16 cores (Quad Quad-Core) with 128GB of RAM!

This is more of a notice to those of you who may be ahead of the curve on your enterprise messaging deployments.

Microsoft has recently released version 7.0 of their Messenger client for the Mac and I must say I’m pretty impressed.

For those who haven’t tried it previously, the old client was an absolute nightmare to try and connect to OCS 2007 as you had to manually import certificate keys, and mess with host files, arrg it was a pain in the ass.  But I’m happy to report that all of that is no more, and full compatability is possible with your Mac users and OCS.