Smartphones are selling like hotcakes and in a couple of years time from now virtually all mobile phones will be smartphones at least throughout the developed world. It seems odd, then, that the various smartphones and Mac OS X don’t seem to get along very well with each other. When it comes to synchronising [...]
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When I said “as a corporate customer of Microsoft products, the probability of me installing Windows 7 on a physical machine any time soon is infinitesimally small” less than a week ago, I spoke too soon. That’s because, err, I am now running Windows 7 on my ThinkPad T61 laptop at work. This is [...]
Is the time for biscuit, I mean, time for a new shiny netbook finally upon us?
September and October will be new operating systems galore with the debut of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It seems mass shrink-wrapping has already begun on all three of them. I am [...]
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
(Rodney King on television pleading for peace, 1 May, 1992)
Windows versus Mac OS X. Microsoft versus Apple. The Great Tech Divide is still prevalent in 2009 and the latest Microsoft ad campaign has once again ignited the fiery debate among geeks. But the [...]
All IT job interviews carry a product-specific, technical component – and rightly so. But if you are an employer, assessing a candidate solely on the grounds of specialised expertise cannot always be fair. On the other hand, relying heavily on character and cultural fit is also potentially risky because that does not necessarily gauge the [...]
Virtual machines, by definition, exist as files inside a physical computer. They live on the file system just like any other movie clips or text documents do, except VM’s happen to be self-contained machines of their own. As such, managing virtual machines is both remarkably similar and fundamentally different to managing physical machines. While Part [...]
Part 1 covered the preparatory steps and considerations for provisioning Windows virtual machines. Now let’s look at some of the best practices for keeping VM’s in good shape once they have been created and deployed. You may notice that what’s discussed here is very much applicable to maintaining Windows machines in general, not just virtual [...]
In continuation of my earlier post regarding setting up a SharePoint lab with virtual machines, here I have put together a collection of awareness notes and best practices for dealing with virtual machines in general. When I say “in general,” I refer to the personal, experimental, or small-business setup for developers, engineers, and consultants who [...]
It’s now January 2009, and a statement like:
The price of crude oil hits an all-time high of US$140 a barrel before it falls dramatically down to around US$40 by the end of the year.
…would have been a hell of a new year prediction for this time last year. I am neither qualified nor willing to [...]
New year predictions carry more excitement than new year resolutions. When it comes to technology, here are my takes, listed in no particular order:
Blu-ray succumbs to a decade-old technology called… DVD.
In January 2008, HD-DVD, one of the two contending next-generation disc storage media formats, lost the war against Blu-ray. But the time it took the [...]