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IBM Centennial Film: They Were There - People who changed the way the world works
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
THINK
Come Fly With Me!
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Is this an automobile or a jet? You owe it to yourself to checkout the wonderful gallery on autoblog.com. Swoosh! If you are feeling exotic http://www.paganiautomobili.it/ .
“Long time listener, first time caller”
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
For anyone hosting a “radio show”, those words are certainly music. Yesterday Matt Hester and I hosted the first Talk TechNet show. Our guest was Jeremy Moskowitz and we had a great time chatting it up online and on the phone. Attendance...
Talk TechNet Landing Page Launches
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
See http://technet.microsoft.com/talk for the radio show launch page. In this area of TechNet you can see the coming lineup of guests and topics we are booking. Feel free to send me ideas of people you want me to try and get on the show. ...
Will.i.am is Intel’s Director of Creative Innovation
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Press release at http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/25/intel-teams-with-william-black-eyed-peas-front-man . Be sure to check out his shoes. I’m thinking they are Sandy Bridge powered or something.
System Center Service Manager – Exchange Connector - ready for download
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
The System Center Service Manager – Exchange Connector connects Service Manager to Exchange for processing incoming emails related to incidents and change requests. The emails can update the incident action log or change the status of an incident to resolved...
The Office Resource Kit (ORK) - updated download now available
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Are you an expert on all facets of deploying Office 2010? If so, you’re a rare bird. If you are like the rest of us, you are probably looking for help. The Office Resource Kit (ORK) is an invaluable resource for planning and deploying...
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) 5.5 - ready for download
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop and server migrations and upgrades. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive...
“Talk TechNet” Episode 2 - Sys Center Config Mgr with Jason Sandys - Register Now!
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Next Friday is Talk TechNet Episode 2. Matt Hester and I are the hosts and each week we’ll have a guest on the show that is a subject matter expert on some facet of Microsoft products and technologies. We are starting off the show with twice...
“Talk TechNet” Episode 1 - GPOs with Jeremy Moskowitz - Register Now!
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Next Wednesday we launch the “ Talk TechNet ” show. Keith Combs and I are the hosts and each week we’ll have a guest on the show that is a subject matter expert on some facet of Microsoft products and technologies. We are starting off the...
Dig this slate device - noteslate®
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
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I have often wondered if I have a device like this, what my doodles will be like. I am willing to find out. Looks really sweet. See http://www.noteslate.com for more information but be warned. Their site is getting hammered...
OneNote Mobile for iPhone now available!
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
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See http://blogs.office.com/b/office-exec/archive/2011/01/18/onenote-mobile-for-iphone-helps-you-free-your-ideas.aspx for more information.
Have your Lexus LFA on order?
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
It’ll do 202mph for $375,000. Available in a variety of colors.
I Love This Rule
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over 2 years ago
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I was intrigued by the Apple promotion for a $10,000 gift card for the person that downloads app number 10,000,000,000. Even more interesting is the fact you can enter without downloading using the form at http://www.apple.com/itunes/10-billion...
Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 to a ThinkPad Ultrabay hard drive
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
A colleague from overseas sent me a series of emails today as we were troubleshooting his installation. In this case he is using a USB stick to install Windows Server 2008 R2 into a .VHD file . The machine he is using is the Lenovo ThinkPad...
The Toyota Prius C Concept
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Pretty cool concept car . It’ll be interesting to see what comes to market.
Discussing Security with Microsoft CSIO Bret Arsenault
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Bret Arsenault. Bret is the Chief Information Security Officer for Microsoft and has been with the company many years. In fact, if you look closely behind him, you’ll see...
The Motorola Atrix
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Remember the Motorola DynaTAC? How about the Motorola StarTAC? Maybe the Motorola Razer? Well Motorola is still alive and kicking and just announced a fascinating dual core phone called the Atrix. Motorola hasn’t put the exact...
CES 2011 Day 3 - electrifying stuff
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over 2 years ago
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I’m giggling just a bit because I thought today was going to be a boring product announcement day. Boy was I wrong. Here’s the perfect toy to liven up any product demonstration or presentation. Grin. Behold, the Taser C2 . Now...
CES 2011 Day 2 - more eye catching goodies
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over 2 years ago
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Like yesterday, there were a number of products that were announced and shown off today. Verizon seemed to be everywhere with their wireless LTE announcements and devices. The new HTC Thunderbolt is a looker. It looks very much like...
CES 2011 Day 1 - some eye catching hardware
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Two devices caught my eye today. First up is the ultra chic Samsung 9 Series laptop . Like the Apple MacBook Air, this baby just oozes kewl. I like it. Too bad I’m already set for light laptops for a while. Let me know if one of you plunks down...
Beware of his swords
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
If you watch this and the 2009 show reel, you’ll notice AZO has a number of swords hanging on the wall. He doesn’t show off his skill with them much, but I have no doubt he can use them.
Vizio outs iPad competitor?
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
Light Saber little boy?
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over 2 years ago
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Keith Combs
http://www.slothfurnace.com/sabers/ROTJLuke_01.html
Technology I Want In 2011 - some real, some fantasy
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over 2 years ago
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8GB laptop SoDIMMs 30” Dell Ultrasharp IPS LCD panel TiVo Premier XL Holodeck Gibson Les Paul Custom 3TB Hitachi Deskstar 300 or 400GB Intel SSD 64GB WP7 Certified MicroSD .5” thin 14” IPS display Windows laptop 150/35 FIOS Ultimate