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Friday, November 06, 2009 10:06 AM

The point of Windows 7 libraries and search

In my previous post I mentioned a correspondent – his name is Andy – who’d written asking the question “What the hell is the point of libraries and if you have the name of the person whose idea they were please post it for summary flaming” He made another
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:26 AM

Car trouble – a possible metaphor for new software ?

A little over a year ago I mentioned I had taken delivery of a big Citroen. It’s my seventh, I’ve likened it to driving a church – not as a criticism but because of the sense of serenity inside, due in no small part to Citroen’s clever HydroPneumatic
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Monday, November 02, 2009 6:11 PM

You can’t be a 21st century admin without PowerShell

When I was at school my father gave me a copy of an article he’d seen at work. I remember nothing of the article itself, but the title has stayed with me: “You can’t be a 20th century man without maths”. I think even then “You can’t be a [time] [person]
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:56 AM

How to cut the crap in IE8 (IE and Privacy Part 2)

  I mentioned IE87 pro in the last post, but recently I was doing some work on a server 2008 R2 which didn’t have it installed, and I wanted to look up some data on how much less current solid state drives use than traditional hard disks. I fetched
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Friday, October 23, 2009 3:06 PM

IE8 and privacy , part 1

I wanted to talk about the privacy enhancements in IE8 , and to save you from reading something of epic length this is only part 1. First, I do know there are some poor souls out there who work for benighted organizations which can’t get off IE6 - so
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:49 PM

Can Bing do twitter search better than twitter ?

First off to avoid any frustration, you need to set your country to United States, because this feature hasn’t been rolled out to all the baby bings. The you go to www.bing.com/twitter and put in what you want to search for, you get the most recent tweets,
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:35 PM

A uniquely good day to be at Microsoft

I don’t think you can have missed that today was the day Windows 7 became generally available. I’ve been trying to come up with some unique angle on this for a blog post and not getting anywhere. Two thoughts related thoughts I will share. The first:
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Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:42 PM

More on VHD files

I’ve had plenty to say about the uses of VHD files on different occasions. They get used anywhere we need to have a file which contains an image of a disk. So from Vista onwards we have had complete image backup to VHD, we use VHD for holding the virtual
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Friday, October 16, 2009 4:02 PM

Microsoft Security Essentials

Somehow, in all the other activities of the last couple of weeks I missed the release of Microsoft Security Essentials which is our FREE* anti-virus / anti-malware product aimed at home users. (We have the more business oriented Forefront Client Security
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Friday, October 09, 2009 11:42 AM

A quick thank you

The theft of my laptop, bag, fleece, keys, etc was a pretty galling experience as I described in the post before this one. There’s never a good time for this to happen, but in the run up to our big launch event at Wembley was especially inconvenient.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:59 AM

My life in a bag

I have became a crime statistic. It was only a bag. And I didn’t realize the significance it had until it was gone. Jerry gave out laptop bags as a thank you: working with him and that group of people was the best aspect of that stage of my life, so the
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Monday, September 28, 2009 3:52 PM

Hello Exchange 2010

Inside Microsoft we have this custom of “dog-fooding” new software, and Exchange 2010 is now at the point where Microsoft IT feel they can run it outside of North America. So a few days ago I got a mail saying my mail box was going to be moved to a new
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 8:12 PM

Windows 7… “Media for everyone !”

From the betas of Windows Vista until the start of September I ran the Ultimate edition of Windows, rather than the enterprise edition. We had a perfectly good enterprise edition as a network installation, but in Vista there one some features missing
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:46 AM

On Scanners, Cameras and their USB modes, and lifting the lid on how they can be scripted.

Long title, and I’m afraid I’ve been on a bit of a voyage of discovery about some of the things Windows 7 (and Vista) can do with photos and first thing I wanted to cover here was something I’ve been trying to ignore: Cameras have two USB modes. In “Mass
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:46 AM

Story of a photo.

My last two working days were spent at a team “off-site” – and these things tend to bring out the curmudgeon in me (as I’ve said before ). Past experience sends me in braced for a combination of people mumbling their way through 10,000 word PowerPoint
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