I need an extra four or five hours in each day at the moment. I’m adding these videos to my to-do list.
System Center Essentials 2007 Training Videos
Presenter Biographies
Scott Bleasdell
Scott Bleasdell is a program manager on the System Center Essentials team responsible for product planning, focusing on future releases. Scott has been with Microsoft since [...]
27 July 2007
System Center Essentials 2007 Training Videos
Visual Studio 2008 Express Beta 2 available for download
Lost in the hoopla of the announcement that Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 has been released, was that their ‘Express’ counterparts have also been updated to Beta 2 and are now available to download from here: Visual Studio 2008 Express Downloads
This is great news for us part-time coneheads and there’s a whole bunch of [...]
David Benson-Pope resigns
I try to stay away from politics as rule-of-thumb, but I find this interesting:
LATEST: Environment Minister David Benson-Pope has resigned from Cabinet after being found to have misled the public.
This wasn’t the first time that this minister was caught being ‘economical with the truth’ and looks like he got what was coming to him.
[Article on [...]
24 July 2007
New WordPress plugin
I’ve been creating a bunch of WordPress plugins recently. They are really easy to make and the documentation is great. I don’t really know much about PHP but it has the same structure as the way I write VBscript, i.e. write a bunch of functions, then call them with parameters.
Most of the plugins I’ve made [...]
More broadband speed for free
[tags]telstra clear,geekzone,broadband,internet[/tags]
From the Geekzone forums, I found out about TelstraClear’s speed increases on their cable network – FOR FREE! (Official press release here: More broadband speed for free)
More broadband speed for free
TelstraClear has doubled the speed of two of its most popular InHome broadband plans. The free speed increase raises downstream speeds on the [...]
Strongest-performing currency in the world
I know that it’s not supposed to be good for the economy, but it’s definitely good for those of us that like shopping online at American sites like Amazon. The Kiwi dollar hit the US80c mark after hovering just beneath that for the last few weeks.
So to celebrate, I bought a bunch of books from Amazon, and ordered some [...]
Windows XP Service Pack 3
As far as I’m aware, Microsoft have been keeping very quiet about Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Paul Thurrott even theorised that Microsoft may never release a SP3 for XP.
So it was interesting to read two posts on the TechNet Blogs site, mentioning the “forthcoming XP Service Pack 3.” This is the first official [...]
23 July 2007
21 July 2007
Breaking: The Internet has crashed
Via: Nigel’s Blog
[tags]youtube,videos,humour,internet,crash,onion[/tags]
18 July 2007
Deploy Adobe Reader and Acrobat via Group Policy
Most large organisations employ dedicated packagers to create automated software installations that can be deployed enterprise-wide using distribution tools such as Microsoft’s SMS 2003 or Group Policies. Smaller companies, however, can’t afford to package applications and often revert to manually installing the software on computers as required. Adobe provides a useful utility to help administrators customise [...]
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