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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:14 AM

Update on Windows 7-E / IE 8

Many thoughts have been expressed about the situation with Windows 7 and internet explorer in Europe, but relatively few of them on Microsoft blogs.  No-one wants to be the idiot who prejudices a legal case, so anything I (or other bloggers) might
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:00 AM

Vulcan hunting: a mini case study in social media

I’ve described some of my activities over recent weekends as the biggest hunt for a Vulcan since Star Trek III - The Search For Spock . The Vulcan I’m after isn’t the pointy eared kind but XH558, the only flying example left of the V Bomber. It’s very
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Friday, July 24, 2009 8:40 PM

Seventh Heaven

As I mentioned recently I have bought a new Camera – the Pentax K7 : as a proper photographer I’m bothered more by lenses than camera bodies and last year I acquired Pentax’s beautiful 77mm Limited series. All those 7s and a new version of Windows...
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Friday, July 24, 2009 4:39 PM

PowerShell on-line help: A change you should make for V2 (#3) (and How to Author MAML help files for PowerShell)

In the last could of “change you should make” posts I’ve talked about a couple of things which turn Functions from being the poor-relation of compiled Cmdlets (as they were in PowerShell V1) to first class citizens, under V2. Originally the term “Script
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Friday, July 24, 2009 12:16 PM

A tale of two codecs. Or how not to be a standard.

I’ve just bought a new digital SLR camera. Being a dyed in the wool Pentax person, I’ve upgraded to their new K7. Being fairly serious about (some of) my photography I shoot quite a lot in RAW format.(In case you didn’t know higher end digital cameras
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:24 AM

Oink flap –-- Microsoft releases software under GPL --- oink Flap

Mary-Jo has a post about the release of our Hyper-V drivers for Linux entitled Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux drivers , it’s one of many out there but the title caught my eye: I thought I’d give a little of my perspective on
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:03 PM

Release the Windows 7 !

It’s official. Windows 7 has released to manufacturing. http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-22Windows7RTMPR.mspx   It’s official. Windows Server 2008 R2 has released to Manufacturing http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2009/07/22/windows-server-2008-r2-rtm.aspx
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:11 PM

PowerShell Modules: A change you should make for V2. (#2)

A few days back I wrote about PowerShell version 2’s ability to confirm whether it should be changing something . Since I was writing something which would some pretty drastic changes , supporting –WhatIf and –Confirm for almost no effort seems like a
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:52 PM

How to activate Windows from a script (even remotely).

I have been working on some PowerShell recently to handle the initial setup of a new machine, and I wanted to add the activation. If you do this from a command line it usually using the Software Licence manager script ( slMgr.vbs ) but this is just a
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:22 AM

Michael Jackson memorial concert

I’ve had a “please blog this” email: most of these get deleted on sight, but because of the unusual circumstances I’m posting this one. I’m not going to add any commentary on the Music, life and/or death of Michael Jackson: it’s all been said. July 7
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Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:54 PM

Tennis as a way of testing search.

Like a lot of people who would really call themselves Tennis fans I was watching the Wimbledon final with that very long last set. I wondered what the longest set at Wimbledon was. A quick tap into my favourite search engine pulled up this page on wikipedia
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