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June 2007 - Posts

Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:45 PM

I wonder if my Laptop's faulty ? Troubleshooting Vista's sleep and hibernate.

I've been pretty pleased with this Dell of mine. But a few days ago it began refusing to go into Sleep mode. Since I use sleep quite a lot this was, frankly, a darn nuisance. Saving and Reloading 4GB of RAM is actually slower than booting the OS, so I'm
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Friday, June 29, 2007 6:07 PM

Announcing the Virtual server Res-Kit and a great tool.

The tool is VMRCplus - an alternate UI as opposed to the Virtual Server web interface. VMRCplus uses the documented Virtual Server COM interface and is a great example of what can be accomplished with it. In due course VMRCplus will soon be available
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Friday, June 29, 2007 2:56 PM

Open source lobby: "We'll get the EU to stop your telly"

For some reason media seems to be on my mind at the moment.... The BBC i-player is to go live at the end of July. This follows Channel 4''s "4OD " service (I'm a bit peeved the that it's not available on Vista today, but C4 tell me it's in the Pipeline)
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:31 PM

Two stories of consumers who wouldn't put up with it.

For years - and I hadn't realised quite how many years I've been trying to get a specific DVD. It's a TV series called "Joking Apart". It was written by Stephen Moffat , who is better known for "Coupling", some Episodes of the rejuvenated Dr who ("Blink"
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 5:11 PM

I'm beginning to dream of analog days...

... could it be that life was oh so simple then ? I remember when Channel 4 arrived - a time before cable and satellite TV, when there were programmes we wanted to watch. And the newly affordable VCR meant we didn't have to watch it when it was scheduled.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:28 PM

Campaign for real numbers update

I've had an outlook rule in place for a while to tell people about broken phone numbers, I thought I'd report back. The first thing I found was that colleagues who forward lots of mail threads soon tired of seeing the message, so I've filtered out anything
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 12:19 PM

PowerShell , VB , Media Center and SQL

I hesitate to describe myself as a dilettante (1) programmer. Not because it isn't true but because we have a running joke in the office about vocabulary deficiency. Eileen said to someone "What's it like to be surrounded by People more Erudite (2) than
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Friday, June 15, 2007 12:00 PM

Virtualization news.

I've mentioned Jeff Woolsey from the virtualization team a few times. And I've praised his clarity e.g saying "You may provide this information to customers. However, the only request that I have is that you please do not copy and paste this onto a BLOG"
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Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:17 PM

Are you a Time lord ? (Or a shift shaper)

Well.... Eileen's said some things that I never expected , but "I need you to stop evangelizing about working for me, because now we've got too many people who want to work for us." made me laugh out loud. So I'll have to ask forgiveness for a post which
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:48 PM

Vista's network throughput improvements

There is a rule for presenters: every time you put an equation on the board/screen you lose about half the audience. I think that can also apply to presenting on the ins and outs of a network stack. We've got clever with the stack in Vista, and Server
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:56 AM

Should we be working on our privacy ranking ?

Steve characterizes some conversations as being "You suck." "No - You Suck" types, and Privacy international published a report last week which rated a couple of dozen organizations with a major presence on the web. The BBC fared pretty well. Google came
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Friday, June 08, 2007 2:07 PM

Mobile phone round-up

Steve has been had a play with the HTC "Touch" (lucky man). He asks "who on Earth would want an iPhone?!" That's simple, any one who buys for what the badge says about them. The kind of person who thinks a £300 (after contract) fashion accessory phone
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Friday, June 08, 2007 11:26 AM

Server core, IIS7, things I can't tell you, and why Powershell means you'll still have a job.

[note to self. Work on snappier titles] Eileen called me from Tech-ed in Florida on Monday and said how Fantastic it all was, and that in the keynote Bob Muglia announced that that IIS 7 would run on Windows 2008 server "core". Mary Jo Foley was one of
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Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:07 PM

Powershell vs VB script.

OK, OK I know there is nothing as annoying as a convert. But here's a real world problem , and how my old solution stacks up against PowerShell. First the problem: there is a standard for digital cameras which says they old use 4 digits to identify the
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 5:36 PM

Manuscript Teaspoons and why Jason's getting a better voice experience than I am

I was going to write about my Experience of using Outlook Voice Access. And Voice command on my phone. I have phone set up so that when it sees my Bluetooth headset, it announces my calls. On a typical day I'll clear mail that came in overnight before
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 3:11 PM

My first steps with PowerShell

I've been taking my first stumbling steps in PowerShell . I'm the contact here for the PowerShell user group and have been along to a couple of their meetings, and their enthusiasm is pretty infectious. PowerShell's really got some momentum behind it
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:48 PM

Interested in Pictures ? Got 8 minutes ? Watch this.

It seems I got my Blue Monster business cards a few days before Hugh did. Hehe. Steve's got some so has 't other Steve . We'll soon have enough for a Blue Monster user group. It will be interesting to see who wants the traditional Microsoft one and who
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Friday, June 01, 2007 10:06 PM

A little bit more about installing Vista - or Server 2008

Matt McSpirit IM'd me a couple of days ago to ask if I'd built a custom Windows Vista installation DVD. And I had to confess that I'd only looked at it briefly - I know Microsoft IT have an image we can burn to a DVD, and I've done about every other install
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