Yesterday I passed the last exam I needed to gain Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) status. It’s taken me a long time (four years to be exact) to get here but I’ve finally got it.
These are the exams I passed and the certifications I picked up along the way…
Aug 2001 – 70-210 – Installing, Configuring, [...]
¶VMWare have released a free tool called the VMware Player. You can use it to run virtual machines that have been created with VMware Workstation (or GSX/ESX). You can’t create VM’s but it’s definitely useful if you’ve only got a few full VMware licenses available. I haven’t tested it yet – it won’t install on [...]
¶The new iPod plays video too
¶After weeks of rumours, Apple today announced the new iPod that is capable of playing videos. It isn’t being called an iPod Video, it’s just the iPod, but it has a 320 x 240 (QVGA) screen with 260000 colours. The new iPod comes in two sizes, 30GB and 60GB, but each model is the same [...]
¶The Net Solutions team at Datacom spent the day on Saturday on the Kapiti Coast doing a quad-biking adventure. The quad-bikes were powerfull, 4×4’s that could get in and out of anywhere – we were almost completely submerged in muddy water at one stage.
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The quad-biking was great fun which was followed by a huge, barbeque [...]
Google have released yet another new product! This time it’s a web-based RSS aggregator called Google Reader (Beta – of course) and it has a similar look and feel to the Gmail interface with labels for different categories and a lot of snazzy javascript.
This is probably one of the most beta products I’ve tested from [...]
News just in….
Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the second Beta release of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.
Project page here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.5beta2.html
Direct download here: [...]
