ArchiveMay 2008

May 26, 2008

TIP: Mouse issues running Windows 2008 under Virtual PC 2007

By Craig Bailey

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26May

This is exactly the same issue I mentioned in my VPC: Mouse issues running W2K3 under Virtual PC 2007 almost a year ago. But this time it’s with Windows 2008. Solution: Set Hardware Acceleration to Full Problem: My mouse movement was really sluggish in a VPC running Windows 2008 (and 2003, but other OSes are fine) Acknowledgement: Thanks to Paul Adare on the Microsoft Newsgroup for...

May 26, 2008

Microsoft’s new Green Strategy – it’s called Vista 64 bit

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The Techies at Elcom completely reformatted my machine a few weeks back and installed Vista 64bit. This has been great because I can now access all 4GB of RAM (woo hoo!). But there’s been another unexpected benefit… It turns out that there’s no printer drivers for our Elcom printers that work on Vista 64. So, for the last 4 weeks I’ve been unable to print anything...

May 25, 2008

ELCOM: New product launch – Elcom TrainingManager.NET

By Craig Bailey

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25May

We’re launching a new product this week. This Thursday morning to be exact. You may know that Elcom, where I work, is a web company that builds products for medium to large companies. We do intranets, extranets, portals, web sites, etc. Plus we do a fair bit of customisation. Over the last few months we’ve been turning things around a little and ‘productizing’ our custom...

May 24, 2008

SBTUG: Microsoft Groove 2007 + 2008 Stack + Prizes

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24May

This Wed at the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBTUG) we’re lucky enough to have Aaron Saikovski along to bring us up to speed on all things Microsoft Groove related. Oh, and check out the prizes…   When: This Wed 28 May 2008 Time: 6pm (until approx 8:30pm) Where: Microsoft, North Ryde Contact: Craig Bailey : 0413 489 388 Cost: Free (Pizza all provided) Plus: Prize:...

May 16, 2008

OPINION: The Death of Gen Y

By Craig Bailey

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16May

The whole Gen Y thing really intrigues me. On one hand I think the concept behind Gen Y is a complete myth, and on the other I think there is something compelling we can learn from. In this post I cover the following: why Gen Y is a useless categorisation why I think the IT crash is coming soon why Gen Y will be especially disadvantaged, and some suggestions for how we can all best survive...

May 13, 2008

Microsoft Data Centres – it’s staggering

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13May

There’s been some interesting articles about data centres lately. This one from ComputerWorld questions Microsoft’s plan to use container based data centres (yep, as in you stick a bunch of servers in a 40 foot container). There’s further follow up from Michael Manos here. And don’t miss the forest for the trees – they are talking about housing up to 440,000 servers...

May 11, 2008

Grand Theft Auto 4 sells $500M in first week

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11May

Yep, half a billion. Not that anyone really needed convincing, but computer games are big business. This one eclipsed the record set by Halo 3 last year. And games are only going to get better. Interestingly – but I can’t find the reference (send me the link if you know it) – I was told last week that the average age of a gamer these days is 37 (this link from 2 years ago pegs...

May 10, 2008

BizTalk Roadmap

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10May

Thanks to Rahul for linking to the BizTalk Server Roadmap. It’s nice to be able to get a summary of view of where the product has come from, currently sits (eg RFID is a big focus) and is going. Apart from a few marketing ‘guffettes’ (eg using terms like ‘People-ready processes’) the page (yes, a single page – Yay!) is easy to read and informative...

May 10, 2008

Chris Williams – INETA Director of User Group Recruitment

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It will be interesting to see how this one pans out. INETA seems to cop a lot of flack in the developer circles I mix in, and from my perspective some of it is valid criticism. Chris Williams has his own thoughts on the matter along those lines, and rather than sit on the sidelines (as I and many other armchair critics do :-) – he’s keen to get in and fix things. Today he notes...

May 10, 2008

Visual Basic ‘Learn’ Section continues to improve

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I continue to be impressed with how Microsoft is organising and presenting their online help. The Visual Basic site is a case in point. Beth Massi highlights some of the new features coming whereby you can create your own dynamic lists – ie tailor help to just your area of interest. Neat. But even in its current format it is useful and manageable. Being interested in more of the VSTO and...