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The Security Show Episode 1 - Meet the Feds
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Long time friend and confidant Kai Axford is taking his mad skillz online. As some of you are aware, Kai is a former member of my team and is now a Security Strategist for Microsoft. Like me, Kai doesn't hold anything back and always has an entertaining...
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V wrap up
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over 5 years ago
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Most likely by now you’ve been bombarded with the news. We entered the virtualization market today with a new product called Hyper-V. It’s a downloadable and installable Windows Server 2008 role. It’s pretty simple to install and use and I would advise...
Should I Be Evil?
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over 5 years ago
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There's been a considerable amount of discussion lately about Apple, our image, and if Microsoft employees should buy Apple products. There is no official policy that says I can't buy an iPod, iPhone or a Mac. But how does this look to you? Do you...
Since I'm an Evangelist, I should be running this...
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over 5 years ago
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Story @ http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080625/the-holy-sku-microsoft-church-package/ .
Bill Gates – Looking Back, Moving Ahead
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over 5 years ago
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Bill is obviously a special guy. I met him many years ago right after I joined Microsoft in 1996. He seemed very normal to me then but the encounters I had were pretty brief. I have of course seen him many times in person at our company meetings, on town...
TIRED = Hemi, WIRED = Hydrogen
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
This thing sounds like a rolling H-bomb to me, but what do I know. Here’s an excerpt from Ronn Motor Company: Hydrogen Fuel Injection (HFI): Produces hydrogen during vehicle operation through electrolysis of water using the power generated...
My dog Elvis starts his Seal Team training
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Looks like my Verizon FIOS data plan changes to 20/20 next week
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over 5 years ago
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The heat is on and the ISP connection speeds here in the US are getting ready to get crazy. With DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts happening in the cable company turf, Verizon announced today they are increasing the speeds of their fibre optic plans. Verizon...
Time is running out – Register your US launch kit SQL Server 2008 today !!!
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over 5 years ago
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You have about one week left to find your launch kit and the voucher in it, to register for your copy of SQL Server 2008. The card says the deadline was 6/2/2008 but it’s was extended because we had a few events later than that in June...
Springboard Series – Security Virtual Roundtable Today at 9am PST
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
With all of the activity last week at TechEd, I totally forgot about the next roundtable happening today. Join Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich and a panel of IT professionals and security MVPs as they discuss Windows Vista deployment...
Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plug-in preview now available for EE 2
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
For those of you using Silverlight Streaming at silverlight.live.com , I’m sure you’ll be happy to know we just made available a preview of the publishing plug-in for Expression Encoder 2. I’ve been using this version for a few...
Operation “No Snoring” – Phase I Complete
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over 5 years ago
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For years (decades) I have struggled with sinus problems. I always thought it was just the “Combs Nose” because my father had sinus issues for years and I figured it was hereditary. It was easy to think that. I am allergic...
Can Tiger Take Jack?
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over 5 years ago
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We need a time machine. After Tiger’s win today at the U.S Open Championship you have to start to wonder how great Tiger really is. I mean let’s face it, there’s no way to really compare the greats without a time machine...
My bird is dead
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over 5 years ago
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I killed my twitter account. I really don’t have the time to stay logged on 24/7 and you miss all the fun messages if you don’t. Email is for old people. I swiped the pic from Hugh at gapingvoid.com and turned it upside down. I hope he doesn’t mind...
240 Multi-threaded Processing Cores – But will it run Hyper-V ???
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over 5 years ago
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NVIDIA released the specs today on the new parallel processing processors that are part of the GTX 280 graphics cards. I was checking out all of the comments and specs when I spied the part about 240 processing cores. I wonder if this bad boy will...
Lenovo ThinkStation S10 Workstation – a nice review of the goods
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
Lenovo recently sent me a Lenovo ThinkStation S10 Workstation all tricked out with an Intel Extreme Quad processor, wicked fast video card, 15,000rpm SAS drives, etc. I took a look at the opportunity and thought to myself I need another pair of eyes on...
What is the “Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP)” ???
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over 5 years ago
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The Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) is open to any vendor who delivers a virtualization machine solution that hosts Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and subsequent service packs...
What I learned at TechEd 2008 this week
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over 5 years ago
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The annual pilgrimage to Orlando was fun and busy as usual. This year I spent nearly 20 hours helping man the booth for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 team. On the opposite side of our booth was the Windows Server 2008 Hyper...
Windows Essential Business Server - key whitepapers and guides
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over 5 years ago
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Migrating DHCP Server Service to Windows Essential Business Server - This document explains the steps for preparing your environment to work with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server service for Windows Essential Business Server Windows...
SQL Server 2008 RC0 – now available for download
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over 5 years ago
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Keith Combs
SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. It enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents, such as images and music, directly...
Running A Bunch Of Vista SP1 VMs on Hyper-V With A Single Laptop
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over 5 years ago
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In this case, a picture is worth a thousand words. I spent some time this afternoon and evening setting up for a fun little test of the Lenovo ThinkPad T61p I have. As you’ll recall from my previous post, my laptop is loaded up with...
Windows Live Writer – new tech preview release available for download
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over 5 years ago
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The Windows Live Writer team released a new tech preview earlier this week. Here are some of the new features in this release: Video and Image Publishing Enhancements Upload videos to Soapbox Image cropping and tilting Additional border styles Support...
My Lenovo ThinkPad T61p now has 8GB of RAM
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over 5 years ago
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Kingston Technology was kind enough to sent some evaluation 4GB SoDIMMs to me for installation and testing. They arrived a little later than expected this week but were sitting on the front porch when I got home tonight. They are now installed and I thought...
Old Orbs versus New Orbs
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over 5 years ago
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I was all set to be impressed then came the letdown. Someone sends me an email that clues me into this website at http://www.microsoftcommunities.com/ . Great, another community site. Just what we need. I’m sure someone is going to take offense to that...
Windows Vista Complete PC screencast
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over 5 years ago
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It’s been a while since I brought up a great feature in Windows Vista (not present in Windows XP) called Complete PC (CPC). Available in Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions, Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore is a image-based...
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