Archive for June, 2009
Our twin boys (pictured above) every now and then get to watch their TV favourites, below is a list I have compiled of their top 10 (with their assistance of course)! 1. Peppa Pig 2. Fireman Sam 3. Frances 4. Doodlebops 5. Teletubbies 6. Pitch & Potch (they liked this from newborn but still are partial […]
Like many people one of the first things I do after installing Windows is “enable classic start menu” (in fairness I probably do this after de-selecting “hide extensions for known file types). In 7 this option has been removed *sniff sniff*, whilst I could take the hint and move on I am not going without […]
Why the big deal here? From what I can tell a special EU version will be “available” (not mandatory?) and why bother you can remove Internet Explorer easily after install? This stuff really bugs me, even the BBC are making a deal out of this. Source: here
Ever wondered what the differences are between “Windows Imaging” and other “sector based” formats? During an internal workshop we were discussing plans for our shiny new Configuration Manager 2007 R2 server and ways to backup user data, in view of a vanilla system retore with an approved configurations. One of the questions was around the disk […]
Update on the Virtualisation debacle: At long last Scott Drummonds from VMware has come to his senses and apologised in the VMware blog post: “I made a bad call. About a month and a half ago, I anonymously posted a YouTube video depicting a controversial test of Microsoft’s Hyper-V. The video was a bit hyperbolic in […]
Till now I have been using AVG Free, (prior to this I tried Sophos 7.6 and this did not play nice at all, Internet Explorer was unable to load and I could not be bothered to create exceptions). However this may all soon change, Reuters just leaked information on “Morro”, this free Anti-Virus product will […]
