27 April 2006

firefoxgurl

Filed under: General — Tags: — Stuart Maxwell @ 10:58 pm

firefoxgurl

Originally uploaded by x4d41.

Firefox girl! Another good reason to use Firefox…

FeedDemon 2 owner

Filed under: General — Tags: , — Stuart Maxwell @ 1:14 am

I am now the proud owner of a FeedDemon 2 license! I’ve been trying to decide on a feed reader recently and with so many cool online readers available I thought I didn’t need an offline version. But at the end of the day, nothing beats a full, desktop application for speed and functionality. And [...]

19 April 2006

Rolling Stones in Wellington

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 11:16 pm

We went to see the Rolling Stones in Wellington yesterday, and what a concert it was!!! They are definitely still the greatest rock band ever – the concert rocked from Jumping Jack Flash opening track, right through to the encore of Satisfaction.
I first saw them in 1995 on their Voodoo Lounge tour and I was [...]

6 April 2006

Windows XP on Intel Macs

Filed under: Infrastructure — Tags: , , , , , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 9:53 am

I won’t write too much about this as there is so much being blogged already, but Apple have just released a product called Bootcamp which gives users of the newly updated Mac operating system a graphical utility to repartition your disk and prepare it for the installation of Windows XP.
No more needing to hack the [...]

4 April 2006

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition now free

Filed under: Infrastructure — Tags: , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 12:28 pm

This was widely accepted to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft have today announced that Virtual Server 2005 R2 will now be available as a free download. As both the Enterprise and Standard editions will now be free, the Standard edition is becoming redundant as there is no reason why you would run Standard instead [...]

3 April 2006

Scoop: Virtual Machines Additions for Linux

Filed under: General — Tags: — Stuart Maxwell @ 10:13 pm

I just noticed this on the Microsoft Connect site – Virtual Machine Additions for Linux. Previously these additions have only ever been available for Windows guest operating systems, so this is a big deal that Microsoft is now working on the Linux versions.read more | digg story