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News: Scott McNealy signs off in style

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http://www.raiden.net – One of Silicon Valley's last true characters has signed off - Sun founder Scott McNealy has sent a final goodbye memo to his staff. In his own words McNealy is "a big mouth who is always ready with a clever quip" and his swansong email does not disappoint. He said the last four years (since he le ... (Distributions)

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When it comes to high-flying superpowers of the tech industry, it doesn’t get much bigger than Sun Microsystems back in its heyday, while it was under the leadership of co-founder and former CEO Scott McNealy.

I sat down with Scott McNealy today after he spoke on a panel here at TUCON, the Tibco annual conference here in Las Vegas. McNealy covers a lot of topics. He discusses his new startup WayIn that provides a corporate social media experience.

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Editor’s note: Scott Weiss is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which was acquired by Cisco in 2007. He blogs at http://scott.a16z.com and you can follow him on Twitter @W_ScottWeiss. People often ask me what the best path to becoming a successful entrepreneur is: “Should I go try and start a company now? Or go to grad school?

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[ubuntu] Strange VNC 2 years 37 weeks ago

Hello all!

OK, I'll try to be quick:

I have a machine (scott-desktop) that has QEMU running on it. I manage VMs through virt-manager.

scott-desktop has VNC running on it, and I can connect to it via a VNC client by connecting to "scott-desktop"

However, today for some odd reason, I was getting connection refused errors.

Hi.

I've had a little mishap.

To cut a long story short, I've accidentally recursively ran chown on a directory (actually a bunch of 'em).