Community Server

After adding extra disks to the home "data centre" and then getting a new backup device (Dell RD1000), today I took a punt on upgrading the RAM. When I originally bought my Dell PE SC1430 it was rated at a maximum of 8GB RAM. The latest models offer a maximum of 16GB of RAM, and after finding nothing on the interwebs that might ...

Well, I'm writing a blog post on IIS application sandboxing, and this item crosses my inbox. It appears that all the time spent mucking about with Windows Home Server, and Windows Media Centre might now actually result in MCTS certification. So, I can justify the endless hours spent mucking with drivers and backups as a work-related endeavour! ...

My current preferred PC is a specced out Toshiba Portege M400. It's Core Duo, 4GB of RAM, two 7200 RPM disks, and a high res (1400x1050) screen. All in a compact 12" form factor, and it's a Tablet PC as well. Recently Avanade upgraded my work-supplied laptop to a Dell Latitude D830, which also has pretty mean specifications: Core 2 ...

If you have a Vodafone 3G card you may have been a bit frustrated that v7 of the VMC software doesn't work under Vista. It's particularly annoying since "3" seems to use the same Novatel Merlin U630 card and their Mobilink software does work under Vista. Well, you can now get VMC v9 and it works under Vista! Thanks to Jason ...

Amongst all the hoopla around the Window Vista and Office 2007 launches, there are a few more downloads out there worth checking out. The new IIS Download Center has been launched by the IIS Product Group. Here you can download add-ons and extensions to IIS. In their words "The DownloadCENTER at IIS.net, is a community hotspot for ...

If you head over to the Microsoft Connect website, you can now enroll in the VPC 2007 Beta. There's nothing to download yet unfortunately, but a posting from Ben Armstrong in the MVP newsgroups stated that downloads should be available within 24 hours if everything goes to plan. New features include:Support for hardware virtualisation ...