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Monsters on Post-It Notes by John Kenn
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Important Update Released on 8/24 for you Hyper-V laptop users
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First things first. Hyper-V isn’t supported on laptops. However, a lot of you run a variety of products that work well enough. Windows Server 2008 R2 of course includes the Hyper-V role and I’ve been running this for years now on the Lenovo...
Lock and Load - It’s nearly Halo Reach time
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over 3 years ago
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Keith Combs
Bungie launches Halo Reach on XBOX 360 and XBOX Live September 14, 2010. Have you been practicing? Are you ready? Here’s a little video to get you properly focused. Enjoy the new wallpapers in the meantime. Makes for a nice...
IT Pro Interviewing - Level 100
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Once upon a time ago, Kai Axford an I were interviewing candidates for the Third Amigo . Kai and I looked down at the resume for the next person and it had Matt Hester's name on it. I looked at Kai and we both rolled our eyes. We knew...
Original Sized screenshots with Windows Live Writer
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This particular blog post is the result of some testing using Windows Live Writer, and how it behaves for images that are pasted. In essence, I now have the default set to preserve the original image and upload it, but create a medium sized version...
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 – now available for download
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over 3 years ago
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Keith Combs
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications. Flexible and reliable - Exchange Server 2010 gives you the...
Katrina Retrospective: 5 Years After the Storm
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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast. Five years later, NASA revisits the storm with a short video that shows Katrina as captured by satellites. Before and during the hurricane's landfall, NASA provided data gathered...
OSU Buckeyemobile goes fast, real fast
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over 3 years ago
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Matt Hester is from Ohio and is of course a Buckeye football fan. What he probably didn’t know is that there’s more to life than football. It’s true, and some enterprising folks at the university just went 286 and 297 miles per hour in a battery...
Happy Anniversary Windows 95 !!!
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And just in case you forgot how to install it, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q151062/ . And just in case you really can’t stand these new fangled graphical user interfaces, here’s how to make sure you can always boot to the command line. ...
Samsung Galaxy Tab revealed – here’s the teaser
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over 3 years ago
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Texting World Record Broken Using Swype
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over 3 years ago
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It hasn’t been “certified” yet, but it looks like Melissa Thompson, Samsung, Android, and Swype currently own the world texting record. See Tom’s article on the subject. I’ve heard good things about the Windows Phone 7 tech so maybe I’ll try...
Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a HP Elitebook 8540w – the elusive smartcard driver location
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over 3 years ago
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This week one of the Microsoft employees came to me and asked about using the HP Elitebook 8540w with Windows Server 2008 R2 as his production workstation environment. In our corporate environment, that means the machine must have a rather stringent set...
Honey, I just heard a Pop. Was that a bug hitting our grill?
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over 3 years ago
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Keith Combs
I’d hate to see a tangle between one of these (KIA Pop concept) and an Escalade .
Windows, TRIM and other SSD Mysteries
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over 3 years ago
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The Lenovo ThinkPad T61p I am using to write the post has the second generation Intel 160GB SSD. I also used to have the first generation drive in the 80GB flavor but sold it for a couple of reasons. Capacity and TRIM support were the main...
Windows Live Essentials – new beta now available for download
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over 3 years ago
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Got get the new beta @ http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta .
Hardware Photo Contest Winners
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over 3 years ago
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See the creativity at http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/19464 .
The IT Investigators Interview Microsoft Corporate VP and CIO, Tony Scott
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over 3 years ago
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Matt Hester and I have a podcast show called the IT Investigators . We like to have fun interviewing a variety of guests on wide ranging topics and this episode is no exception. We reached out to Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Chief...
Windows Home Server (WHS) “Vail” Beta – now available
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over 3 years ago
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Keith Combs
Windows Home Server is part of a long-term vision by Microsoft to create a new platform for the home. Windows Home Server helps families and home-based businesses with multiple computers to organize, share, and automatically back up photos, videos, music...
"How will the iPhone compete with this?"
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over 3 years ago
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Engadget.com has a great article on the coming game titles for Windows Phone 7 and the Xbox Live integration. Check it out at http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/xbox-live-launch-titles-for-windows-phone-7-finally-revealed-we/ . I used one...
Toshiba Libretto W100 – now available for order
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over 3 years ago
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I’m not sure why they still have the word concept in the video because this just went from concept to reality. Who’s ordering one?
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 – RC now available
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over 3 years ago
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Keith Combs
VMMSSP (also referred to as the self-service portal) is a fully supported, partner-extensible solution built on top of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, and System Center VMM. You can use it to pool, allocate, and manage resources to offer infrastructure...
I Spy the Win7 and R2 Service Pack 1 Beta
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over 3 years ago
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When we first made the SP1 Beta available a few weeks ago, it wasn’t particularly easy to discover and download. It’s a little easier now. Just head right on over to the Microsoft Download Center @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...
Lenovo ThinkPad X201s - mini review
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over 3 years ago
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It’s fascinating to have one of the smallest ThinkPads made, sitting side-by-side with one of the largest. The mighty W510 sitting next to the diminutive X201s . But don’t let size fool you. The X201s evaluation unit I received has more...
PHP 2.0 Drivers for SQL Server released !!!
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over 3 years ago
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Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0!! The major highlight of this release is the addition of the PDO_SQLSRV driver, which adds support for PHP Data Objects (PDO...
Lenovo ThinkPad T410 - mini review
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over 3 years ago
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Want a solid 14” business class laptop? Look no further than the Lenovo ThinkPad T410 . It’s the upgrade from the T400 and like the T400, it’ll do just about anything you throw at it. My wife uses the T400 and loves hers. She likes...
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