24 February 2008

Busy busy busy

Filed under: General — Stuart Maxwell @ 8:23 pm

Wow – what a busy couple of weeks… My brother and his partner. Jerome, were over from Amsterdam for a holiday and we spent most of the time down in Kaiteriteri in the Nelson region.
We also bought a house last week. It all happened very suddenly and also came as a bit of a surprise [...]

7 February 2008

Google Apps Team Edition – initial thoughts

Filed under: Internet — Tags: , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 9:25 pm

Google have released another edition of their online apps suite called Team Edition. This differs from the other versions in that it doesn’t have an email component and thus doesn’t require configuring DNS records to get started.
What this means is that small teams in large organisations can sign up to Google Apps using their work [...]

6 February 2008

NZWC – New Zealand Web Community

Filed under: Internet — Tags: , , , , , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 9:26 am

One of the results of last week’s  Foo Camp in Warkworth was that the New Zealand Web Community (NZWC) site was setup to aggregrate and promote local web content.
The site is still in a basic form but is fully functional and currently aggregating content tagged with “nzwc” from Technorati (blog posts), del.icio.us (bookmarks), Flickr (photos), [...]

5 February 2008

Windows Server 2008 RTM

Filed under: Infrastructure — Tags: , , , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 9:19 am

Microsoft have just announced that Windows Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. I’m really looking forward to this product becoming publicly available and my own testing has been very positive so far.
I have to correct one point made in Microsoft’s blog announcement, it was stated that Server Core doesn’t install a GUI which is [...]