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January 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:57 PM

How to setup iSCSI on Windows Server 2008

James and I demonstrated how to implement iSCSI earlier in the year whilst touring around the UK - many of the audience were keen to find out more. iSCSI is a cool technology as it allows you to share an area of disk on a server to other machines across
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:36 PM

Free event in London covering Windows Mobile and System Centre Mobile Device Manager

There a literally a handful two handfuls (not that that's really a word!) of places left for the Windows Mobile and System Centre Mobile Device Manager TechNet event that's taking place in London in the morning of 26th of February. All you have to do
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:24 PM

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper (DDD) is coming to Scotland on the 10th of May

Visit the DDD Scotland site to find out all about this event - if it's even 1/2 as good as previous Reading based DDDs you're in for a treat if you are able to go. Make sure you register ASAP to make sure you get a place put the date in your diary and
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:09 PM

Facebook apps are coming to a website near you

I am intrigued by the recent annoucement that you'll be able to incorporate Facebook applications in your own website simply by embedding some Java code according to Duncan Riley's post on TechCrunch titled Facebook Apps on Any Website: Clever Move .
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Monday, January 28, 2008 6:00 PM

How to deal with online bullies

I've been contacted by someone who's being bullied online asking for advice. I was typing a reply when I mentioned it to Eileen who came up with a much simpler suggestion than I was going to give. Eileen adviced me that there's a report abuse facility
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Monday, January 28, 2008 5:32 PM

Find out about Server 2008's Hyper-V & more on Silverlight @ the next Vista Squad meeting

The VistaSquad User Group are meeting again next week - it's a great place to discuss both development and infrastructure matters with your peers and it's free. If you'd like to attend then simply add a comment to their announcements blog. The event is
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Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:12 PM

Scotty Mcleod - get well soon!

I'm sorry to have read (moments ago) that one of the most enthusiastic geeks I'm lucky enough to work with is in hospital following a freak accident. I have been somewhat heartened to read the second update on Dmitry's blog and look forward to hearing
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Friday, January 18, 2008 3:39 PM

The UK launch event for Windows Server 2008, SQL 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 has been announced

Craig Murphy was pretty quick of the blocks with his post. The launch site doesn't let you register yet and it doesn't have the session abstracts yet either but that cat's out of the bag - our UK customer launch event is taking place on the 19th March
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Friday, January 18, 2008 2:41 PM

50+ top tips for computer science students and those considering such a degree

Amy has posted 50+ Killer Online Resources for Computer Science Students on the Virtual Hosting blog which she describes as follows: "Computer science students are lucky because the Internet is like a living textbook, full of information and advice for
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:50 PM

How to be a positive force for the environment

Like sooooo many people my thoughts keep going back to "what can I do to reduce my (negative) impact on the environment?" and "what can I do to help others be more environmentally friendly?" Clearly there are no appealing simple answers. Becomming a hermit
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Friday, January 18, 2008 11:42 AM

An excellent (free) security event is taking place in Edinburgh

Computer Security: What's the point! is taking place in Edinburgh on the 13th Feb. The Institute of Engineering and Technology are hosting the event - It's free to everyone including non-members of the IET It will be a good event as it's being run purely
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Friday, January 18, 2008 11:29 AM

There's a great range of free Powertools for OneNote

John Guin has posted an interesting article listing the OneNote Powertools - they are free to download (and use) and are well worth a look. John works as a member of the OneNote test team at Microsoft. There are tools for transferring information to OneNote
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:05 PM

Windows Powershell security - how to stop malicious scripts from running

There’s an interesting article discussing the security features of Windows Powershell in this month’s TechNet Magazine .Don Jones discusses both the secure by design ethos as applied to Windows Powershell and specifically how to prevent malicious scripts
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Monday, January 07, 2008 10:39 PM

How big a Geek are you?

71% Are you an Uber-Geek? Quiz courtesy of Appliance Parts from Easy Appliance Parts Click on the image above to see for yourself. Thanks to the Girly Geekdom blog for putting me onto this bit of fun.
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Friday, January 04, 2008 3:54 PM

Is there any value in Social Networking? What is Twitter? How does it relate to Facebook et al?

David Tebbutt has posted an interesting article discussing Twitter in terms of what it is and where it fits in the Social Networking space. The following paragraph in particular stood out but it's worth reading the whole piece: "When blogging first caught
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Friday, January 04, 2008 3:16 PM

Finally - a New Year Resolution that I'm sure I CAN keep!

I've joined a Spa! I went last night - it was wonderful. Oh and they have plenty of exercise stuff too but it's easily avoided :-)
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Friday, January 04, 2008 2:46 PM

Find out more about Microsoft Roundtable at the next LiveMeeting User Group meeting

Chris Dalby is hosting the Live Meeting User Group meeting on the 24th January - as it's online you can of course access it from wherever in the World you are located - simply register ahead of time to join the meeting which takes place at 4pm GMT. Mark
Posted by Steve Lamb | 4 Comments
Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:33 AM

How to get PHP to work on Windows Server 2007's IIS 7 in just six and a half minutes!

Dave Northey has posted a screencast on TechNet Edge showing how to configure IIS 7 to host PHP - there's another good one on Channel9 by Dunnry . Our aim is for Windows Server 2008's IIS 7 to be the preferred platform for hosting PHP and to that end
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:23 PM

How to get answers to technical Microsoft related questions on topics like Vista Service Pack 1 - TechNet Forums

OK so I'm sad but in my head right now I've got the line "If you've got a problem and no one else can help, you need...... the TechNet Forums" followed by "DaaDaa Dar Dede Dede Der" - yes I was a fan of the A-Team! Joking aside though the TechNet Forums
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:29 AM

Happy New Year!

Thanks to ahisgett for the image - you can view his photostream here .
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:24 AM

Wonderful Cartoons denoting the twelve days of Geeky Christmas

Each morning since Christmas I've enjoyed reading Andrew's blog to see his latest nth day of Christmas post - as you can see he's a great cartoonist AND a data geek too :-) Today's cartoon appealed to me even more than the others due to the surfboard
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