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Monday, September 29, 2008 5:30 PM

Anyone want to see 'Blade Runner: The Final Cut' (for FREE)?

What are you doing this Thursday evening? To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of Blade Runner, TechNet Ireland are running a special COMPLIMENTARY screening of ‘ Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ .  Spectacularly restored and
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:02 PM

Windows Vista Performance

I've been talking to a few people recently who are using Windows Server 2008 as a workstation. Some of their comments are along the lines of: "Server 2008 has the same code base as Vista SP1, how come it feels quicker?". Interestingly there doesn't seem
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:06 AM

How to make your laptop 300% quicker..

As you know, I'm always "dabbling" with my laptop(s) - trying to get me demos performing at their very best. I run Windows Server 2008 on my demo machine because I use Hyper-V for all my demos. Yesterday I put a Solid State Disk (SSD) into my
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Friday, September 12, 2008 12:57 PM

Anthony Crotty (UCC) - You're famous, you are!

More info here . Dave Share this post : Technet! del.icio.us it! digg it! live it! reddit! technorati!
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:38 PM

Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal - Rain and Guinness

Kimberly & Paul were with us last Friday.  Bob Duffy got to interview them for a while - I like this one best: More here: Rain & Guinness Book Fetish 2 in the Morning SQL Server 2008 Best Bits Enjoy Dave. Share this post : Technet! del.icio.us
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 4:17 PM

IT Pro Momentum for SQL 2008

A few of you wanted to know more about IT Pro Momentum that was mentioned at the SQL Academy last week. IT Pro Momentum is a method for you to get up to speed on new stuff, with loads of support from Microsoft and for me to get loads of local references
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Friday, September 05, 2008 8:55 AM

Yesterday's BSS event in Belfast

I presented at the BSS even in the Pavilion in Stormont yesterday - as usual I really enjoyed it (you're a great crowd). I just wanted to share my content with you.  You can find my slides here. The "Deep Zoom" website I showed was the
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:42 AM

Tuesday's Windows Server User Group meeting

Thanks to all those who attended Tuesday night's user group meeting . Apologies for going on a bit (I was only supposed to take half an hour or so - not the whole hour)! Aidan has posted the slides we used here . Some of my demos are here . Well - just
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