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I have had a Lenovo T61p laptop for almost a year now. This is absolutely the best laptop I have ever used (no...it is not the laptop that has given me so much grief for the past few weeks). The T61p is used as my demo platform when I am in front of audiences...
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The latest edition of TechNet Radio is now online. In this session we speak to Roni Karassik (Product Mgr SQL Marketing - Microsoft), Paul Mestemaker (Program Mg SQL CAT - Microsoft), and Richard Tkachuk (Sr. Program Mgr SQL - Microsoft) about SQL Analysis...
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While posting my previous article, my eye caught a link on the PCPro.uk site stating "Microsoft bulks up Windows with Blue-ray support" . The article says we are developing a feature pack that will add native support for burning to Blu-Ray media...
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I didn't receive nearly as much feedback to my question about where you get your news from as I wish I had so I had to go looking on my own. One thing I realized is that I do not spend enough time at the on10 and TechNet EDGE sites . Sure...these...
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Nothing particularly exciting to post about today. Lots of busy work around the house. The peak of the day is right now as I write this and load up the new Zune with some tunes. Actually, I did build two dog beds. One for Shadow, my friend Jamie's...
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64! I have been telling IT Pros in my audience for about 2.5 years now that I gave 32 bit CPU's about a 5 yr life span. I predicted that by 2010, all consumer PC's would be 64 bit and consumers would have multi-terabyte storage capabilities and...
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And so it begins.....this is the first post of the 1 year test that I am doing to make at least one post a day for the next 365 days. At first I thought I would shoot for just business days but I figure I can get the other 104 posts in as well. I don't...
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I canceled my cable TV service today. Later this afternoon I am going to drop off the HD DVR and since I have consistently overpaid my bill for the last year they actually owe me money when all is said and done. People that know me real well might think...
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Technology Wizards is a group of independent IT consultants with a strong focus on small business. I have delivered some Windows and SBS sessions for their group in the past. Ken Shafer leads the group and he let me know about an independent "Get...
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I am in San Diego today where I will be chatting with Partners about our Response Point offering. Way cool product for small business and I think some partners are going to do very well offering solutions around this product. But that is not why I am...
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I have spoken about my home network at a few presentations and during the breaks there have been plenty of "oh yeah!?!?! well I have....." conversations. I think some of the most interesting conversations are around how we name our machines...
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Way back in January, I asked my readers to explain to me why I should be on Facebook or Twitter. You can still hear the crickets on that one..... I am back again asking the same question but I am also going to throw in a few other services - Quechup,...
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While at the Seattle Windows Server Launch event this week, I sat down with Michael Cooper, a Microsoft TS here in the PacWest area and we had a casual conversation about technology. We spoke quite a bit about virtualization and how it has impacted organizations...
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What? That's right....IE 8. IE8 Beta 1 to be specific. I am running the Vista x64 edition and while I have only been running it for the better part of 3 days, I am pleased. There are some new features I have not had a chance to check out yet...
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First, let me start off by saying that my event yesterday was in Saratoga, Ca. Not San Jose. Not Cupertino. Not Santa Clara. It was Saratoga. Second, I found a very small bar that does Karaoke and went last night. The bar is Woodham Sports Lounge and...
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There have been some funny spoof videos over the years, but this is one of the best. It is also the single most star studded video (that I have seen us do). And it is long! Clear the next 7 minutes.....and laugh out loud...it's good for you! Bill Gates’...
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This week I am going to a bunch of internal training as a part of our TechReady readiness effort. Since I am going to be speaking to you about this stuff afterwards, what should I be focused on? What do you want to know about? What do I need to know about...
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I just saw this on Techmeme (link back to the InsideMicrosoft blog). I have not heard any rumblings around this. But I don't hear rumblings about anything until the deals are announced. It is remarkable how in the dark employees are some time. I am not...
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I know I am not the first person to post about Microsoft Surface , but I am not going to not post about it just because of that. This is a product that will take us closer to full interactive computing. Think Matrix + Minority Report + Real Life (sorry...
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Windows Server 2008 . It finally has a name. Giving our upcoming server release a real name means we can all start planning for the next round of MCSE certification tests. There isn't anything on the public Training and Certification site yet except for...
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I am on the road today (like that is a big surprise....) in Redmond, OR at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds for the local Technology Showcase . Lots of local vendors and some big players showing off some cool technology. I will post more about that later...
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(subtitled - Isn't technology supposed to be making our lives easier? Simpler? Less complicated?) I hear that all the time - why can't it just work ? I say it all the time - why can't it just work ? Examples..... I am watching TV last night. Actually...
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(subtitle - My porn is my porn. Go get your own) (sub-subtitle - Welcome....to YOUR machine) The web and all of the things it offers up is pretty awesome. I can search for and find just about anything in seconds. Using the web as the "string" I can fire...
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subtitle - an overuse of parentheticals.... An email came across an internal alias today that really got me thinking....I am going to quote a portion of it here..... The weirdest thing happened tonight – my Outlook said it was connected. To Exchange Server...
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