Archive for the ‘Social’ Category
Experts 2 Experts Virtualization Conference
These days I attend so many events you’d think I get bored of them. Well actually no! The opposite, I just try and choose the best ones! Flying out of Jersey I managed to sneak in a quick yet thoroughly enjoyable family visit, then ran down to the docklands for a multi-vendor programme updating me [...]
In: Citrix, Events, Social, Virtual Machine Manager, Virtualization
Techies in the 80’s
Earlier this year I wrote an article on my blog about my history and some technical experiences called Backup Evolution Today I thought I would open up one of the boxes from my late mothers belongings, I found cool photo’s and my school reports. Lots of interesting stuff but this particularly inspired me. A States [...]
System Support Engineer (Cloud)
As a freelance IT guy with a focus on “Le Cloud” I do like a little trickle of potential contracts filtering into the inbox, this one though, well I can’t resist. If it were not for the hate of filling in forms, I’d probably apply for the fun of it. Not that I can spell [...]
ZaaS
Is that a typo? No it’s not. It’s nothing short of a little cloud innovation. Something I just saw and had to pass on. It’s Zooming as a Service! A consequence of running a utility called Zoomit from the cloud . I noted this when @markrussinovich tweeted about the ability to run the Sysinternals tools [...]
Airport Tower visit
A little while ago I had yet another opportunity to test my love of heights, and what a great time that was . In the dark of night I had the opportunity to tour this hi tech wonder from bottom to top. Not only did I get to see it, I got to understand how [...]
Interesting play dough from my 5 year old
We have advised our 5 year old he is not allowed to play Kinect Sports, that this particular game is daddies game, he has Kinect adventures. In frustration he has taken the play dough and he has made us a present! Is this a hint? Is that sporty shark? I’m sure that those letter say [...]
Increase password complexity, use a fingerprint reader…
I’m just doing some light reading on Windows 7 security, I found this Windows 7 Security Primer article interesting and it made me think of a useful security enhancement I have begun using on my my HP TouchSmart tm2, the built in finger print reader. It comes with HP SimplePass, a password database app that [...]
Back from my trip – happy new year
Wow, today I am back from 3 weeks in la belle France. This Christmas my wife and I finally had our new septic system fitted, we have been trying to co-ordinate it for 6 years! It cost the earth and involves a lot of digging and a lot of space. We were snowed in initially, [...]
Back from a long tech free holiday.
I have been away from technology and doing some renovation work, visiting relatives and some of the great chateaux in la belle France, batteries recharged I’ve got a bit of time to do things like review a book and possibly work on this blog.
Tech-Ed 2010 North America – summary.
Here is my summary of Microsoft Tech-ED North America 2010. Hosted in the vibrant city of New Orleans. I have been to a major Microsoft event in both Europe and America now, I had an awesome time learning, even though a few times the demo gods let the presenters down, there was never enough to [...]
In: Data Protection Manager, Events, Service Manager, Social, System Center General, Virtualization · Tagged with: DPM 2010, Hyper-V, TechEd