April 2008 - Posts

Virtualization - Some of my hints and tips
22 April 08 09:11 AM | nking | 0 Comments   

Being on vacation this week I've had a chance to catch up on some of my home network maintenance I've been putting off for a while.  One of the items on my list was to implement Hyper-V in my lab at home.  Now before I get into some of my practices Read More...

Filed under: SMB IT

Extreme Makeover: Server Room Addition
18 April 08 11:52 AM | nking | 1 Comments   

Here's something from the archives.  Previous to Essential Business Server we did a ton of research.  Part of the research involved working with a local company Watson Furniture to refresh their IT to essentially become "Centro" before Read More...

You know your product is real when.....
17 April 08 02:41 AM | nking | 0 Comments   

You have logos on cars.  Check this out.  Oliver Sommer from Germany has recently updated his Trinity.de fleet of service vehicles. Check out his site here. Nicely done Oliver!   Read More...

Filed under: Coolness

Using Powershell to find unsecured accounts with no passwords
12 April 08 12:17 AM | nking | 0 Comments   

Since it's inclusion in Windows Server 2008 I've been tinkering a lot with Windows Powershell.  I rapidly growing to be a convert.  Sorry cmd.exe Anyway, one of the features is that you can use PS to call WMI.  Which got me thinking on Read More...

Filed under: SMB IT

Kiwiana Creme Egg Smasher
11 April 08 05:04 PM | nking | 0 Comments   

Some people just have way too much time.  Check this out. Creme Eggs are a NZ Easter treat which when eaten instantly send your pancreas into meltdown.  I don't think I've even been able to finish one without having a sugar headache.  Anyway, Read More...

Filed under: Coolness

Got RAM?
08 April 08 08:15 PM | nking | 1 Comments   

One of the coolest parts of my job is getting to use and influence new software, but recently a group of us had a slight moment as I plugged in my new upgrades.  Check this out; Dual Quad Core with 32GB of RAM goodness.  I still grin when I Read More...

Filed under: Coolness

Backstage at a Keynote
08 April 08 01:39 PM | nking | 0 Comments   

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a keynote? This weekend I spent most of my time setting up a 3 minute portion of the Intel Solution Summit - Tom Kilroy keynote.  I blogged a bit about the ISS event itself on the EBS blog and thought Read More...

Filed under: EBS 2008, Travel

K-nearest neighbor - Heuristic what?
04 April 08 01:27 PM | nking | 0 Comments   

I was reading an article the other day about heuristics and how taking historical data allows you to forecast what a result may be.  The article was specific to search engines and SEO but I thought I would talk about one the simpler machine learning Read More...

Filed under: Internet

SBS 2008 in the news
03 April 08 01:05 PM | nking | 0 Comments   

New Richmond News recently did a story on one of our TAP customers.  Nice to see our TAP program already getting press! It's a great article, check it out here My favorite quote “They don’t have to be a computer whiz,” he said. Read More...

Filed under: SBS 2008

5w/50 SBS Webcast Recorded and Ready to View
01 April 08 09:12 AM | nking | 0 Comments   

Last Friday I presented a Webcast on Small Business Server 2008 to the US and now Worldwide Partner channel.  You'll need to be a registered partner to check out it. I talk about SBS 2008 and do a whole pile of demos that have not been seen before. Read More...

Filed under: SBS 2008