By admin | December 30, 2008
Well thankfully I’ve returned from my stint over 200 clicks north of the arctic circle with all my fingers and toes! Mind you, we were lucky to catch some unseasonably warm weather – the coldest it got was a toasty -3 (celsius) instead of the average -20 at this time of year. Anyhou, I’ve been [...]
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By admin | December 24, 2008
Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas to everyone. I’ll be ducking off to try and catch the Northern Lights between now and new years, including a stint of sleeping on ice. Should be cool (ho ho ho, pun fully intended!). Wherever you are, I hope you have a safe and happy festive season.
By admin | December 21, 2008
VDI that is. Technically that should say ‘terminal services’, but I had to get in a Christmas themed post title before the 25th Remember back when VDI reached that tipping point in the enterprise? It was hailed as offering unprecedented levels of flexibility. Hailed as the slayer of terminal server based environments with their draconian [...]
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By admin | December 15, 2008
About this Mohamed Fawzi bloke. He’s talking about _music_ fellas, more specifically para-metal. I don’t mind the odd bit of thrash, maybe I can find some of these Hyper Wii’s (or whatever they’re called) on iTunes.
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By admin | December 14, 2008
The hardware vs software race is becoming more and more a hare vs tortoise these days, with the advent of multicore. And you can understand why – concurrency is hard. _Very_ hard. But oddly enough, I don’t see much on the intertubes about people changing their hardware standards, except for the odd bit of marketing. [...]
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By admin | December 13, 2008
While I’m a little insulted that Martin didn’t tell me he is now contributing to Doug Brown’s excellent site (j/k Martin , he is and you should keep an eye out for his posts. Martin is Strategy VP for AppSense. I and others have been saying for a while that user environment virtualisation is the [...]
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By admin | December 10, 2008
I’m not going to try and claim credit for this development, but Rich Brambley (the only blog with a description that I feel outshines my own broke the news today that the free version ESXi 3 Update 3 appears to have a fully functional API. I plan on testing this out tomorrow, and will report [...]
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