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Inspired by Richard Tubb ’s remarks , I’m Twittering . You can follow me at http://twitter.com/Tim_Long . If you know me and you’re twittering then I want to follow you. Please drop me a PM or comment here and I’ll add you. I’m not sure about twitter, its one of those things that I can’t really see the...
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Ray Ozzie delivered the keynote speech at PDC 2008 a few moments ago. He spoke about a number of interesting topics. Challenges of Virtualization & Distributed Systems Ray suggested that business continuity is a challenge not easily addressed by small and medium enterprises. The only real way to...
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10-27-2008
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I'm proud to announce that Microsoft has renewed my Most Valuable Professional award for 2008/9. Once again my competency is Windows Server System - Small Business Server. There are currently (as of today, according to the MVP web site) about 55 such awardees worldwide, 2 in the UK and I'm the...
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The 2008 launch wave is gaining momentum. Microsoft announced a few hours ago that both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 have been released to manufacturing. Windows Vista service pack 1 will likely impact most users in the short term. At TiGra Networks, we've been actively involved...
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SanDisk is now up to 72Gb with the SSD SATA 5000 - directly equivalent to what many servers have in the form of SAS or SCSI drives, which come in 74Gb capacity. However, imagine how many of these little cards (5mm thick x 1.8 inches wide) you can fit into the space of a standard 3.5" hard drive...
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So the music industry is finally beginning to understand something about piracy. When protecting your intellectual property, It's a really bad idea to negatively impact your legitimate users by trying to control how they use your product. If you do, you'll just lose your genuine customers. Music...
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In February, while discussing Tape vs. Hard Drive backup, I speculated that if [wikipedia:Moore's Law] continued to hold, then magnetic media would be obsolete within 5 to 6 years. Then, in April, I blogged about the new 32Gb solid state memory drive being supplied in some laptops and revised my...
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Symantec are putting on a free "Sales and Technical Open Day" event in Cardiff tomorrow, Wednesday 30th May at the Hilton hotel on Kingsway. I've only just found out about it and will probably try to attend. Attached is the agenda (PDF).
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A story on CNet News says that the New York state Attorney General has filed a fraud case against Dell for "false advertising and deceptive business practices, including offering misleading financing, and failing to honor rebates, warranties and service contracts". It's about time someone had a go at...
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A story on CNet News says that the New York state Attorney General has filed a fraud case against Dell for "false advertising and deceptive business practices, including offering misleading financing, and failing to honor rebates, warranties and service contracts". It's about time someone had a go at...
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According to the BBC's technology magazine Click , Dell is to offer 32Gb solid state flash memory hard drives by Sandisk as an option in some of its laptops. Flash memory can be both faster and more robust than the mechanical equivalent because it has no moving parts and doesn't rely on magnetic fields...
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Acer has released an update kit for Windows Vista that covers most of its desktop and notebook computers. About time too! I've been running Vista for several months now and have lost much of the functionality of my soft buttons and automatic screen rotation when using as a tablet. Using some of the old...
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It seems to be our lucky day for publicity. We got a mention in Tim Kimber's webcast on Office Live today. We're also quoted in a CRN article covering Microsoft's new Business & Technology Assessment Toolkit .
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After the theft from an employee's home of a laptop computer last year containing confidential customer data, the Nationwide Building Society has been fine £980,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). "The failure to manage or monitor downloads of very large amounts of data onto portable storage...