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Just a Minute
On my journey to and from the office yesterday, I had my Zune with me and I was listening to one of may favourite podcasts, Hanselminutes by Scott Hanselman . Scott is a technologist and web developer working for Microsoft, he is one of the ‘gang of four...
Microsoft Kills Essential Business Server
In a surprise announcement today, Nick King (Senior Product Manager - Windows Essential Business Server) revealed that Microsoft is to withdraw Windows Essential Business Server from the product range. In a conference call with Small Business Server MVPs...
Future Vision
Successful information technology requires vision and strategy . People sometimes ask me why I work exclusively with Microsoft products, when there are free alternatives available. There are many reasons, and one big one is because Microsoft has the vision...
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups...
A Great Success Story for the Small Business Specialist Community
Richard Tubb of NetLink IT has written on his blog – TubbBlog – about a recent venture where several partners from the Small Business Specialist Community came together to deliver a large, high quality service that would have been out of reach of any...
Server Fault Public Beta Launches
Server Fault Public Beta Launches - Blog - Stack Overflow All you IT Professionals out there need to check out Server Fault – if it is as successful as its sister site Stack Overflow , then it is going to sweep away sites like Yahoo Answers and Experts...
Free Microsoft Web & Cloud Computing technical event in Swansea, June 10th 2009
If you live or work in Wales you might be interested in this free Microsoft event being held at Conference Centre, Technium 2, Kings Road, Swansea, SA1 8PH on 10th June. UK ISV Developer Evangelism Team : Announcing free Microsoft Web & Cloud Computing...
ServerFault.com – support for system administrators
This is one to watch for the IT professionals out there. ServerFault is a new community driven Q&A specifically for system administrators. It’s from the same stable as StackOverflow , an amazingly successful site aimed at software developers. ServerFault...
The Tipping Point for Solid State Drives Gets Closer
I’ve been predicting the arrival of Solid State Drives (SSD) for a while now. It doesn't seem like much of a prediction any more, we must surely be close to the tipping point where most computers will begin to ship with an SSD. The reality is almost...
How is the Recession Affecting IT Budgets?
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I’m Just a Little Black Raincloud
My fellow MVP Amy Babinchak from Harbor Computer Services has an interesting blog post outlining why we shouldn’t all jump into the deep end of Cloud Computing services. “The adoption of “cloud computing” is something that we’ve been doing here for a...
Solid State Drive Performance
I’ve been watching the progress of Solid-state Drives (SSDs) carefully, because I’ve predicted that they are going to quickly kill magnetic media while dramatically boosting system performance . Joel Spolsky writes about his experience upgrading some...
The Illusion Of Feedback
Microsoft claims it is good at listening. No doubt, they do listen to some customers some of the time, but I am constantly infuriated by the way Microsoft treats feedback from beta testers. Take this example . Despite the interest in this piece of feedback...
Attack of the PingBots
I’m starting to see pingback spam on both of my blogs. A ‘Ping-Bot’ is dropping pingbacks onto my blog posts that link to unrelated commercial content. Technically, the attack is indistinguishable from a genuine pingback, they aren’t really doing anything...
Touched by Technology
Every now and then, a new piece of technology comes along that changes the way you work. The last time I felt like that was when I got my Acer TravelMate Tablet PC and many of you will have seen me scribbling notes at the various meetings and events I...
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