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Bloody Windows Spyware

By on February 5, 2006 in General

A guy I know, but haven’t seen for ages, arrived at my door the other day and told me his Windows laptop was displaying ads and stuff after his kid went to some site on the Internet. I was just heading into the office so couldn’t fix it. I’ve decided I’m not going to either. I don’t need that crap in my life anymore. I’ve told him to take it to a PC shop and get it fixed.

I felt bad doing that. I’m sure it’ll get easier as I do it more and more. I’m not fixing anybody else’s PC just cause I happen to know them a bit. Or even worse, because they are a friend of a friend.

Here is the best solution.

Virtualisation – we live in interesting times…

By on February 3, 2006 in Uncategorized

Next week looks like it’ll be interesting for those of use interested in server virtualisation. Word on the street is that VMware will introduce a free mid tier product in the space they currently sell GSX Server in. Also it appears that NSI will be releasing a version of DoubleTake targeted towards replication of virtual servers. You can already use VMware and DoubleTake together but it’ll be good to have an easily configured and licensed product.

I broke my web site

By on January 28, 2006 in General

I was changing log file settings earlier and managed to completely break this site. Obviously it’s back now 🙂 This post is just to really see if I can post new entries to the reconfigured installation of WordPress.

No bullet presentations

By on January 16, 2006 in Uncategorized

How many times have you been in a presentation where the slides were simply read to you? Death by PowerPoint anyone? The Presentation Zen web site is a really good resource for avoiding this in your own presentations.

I’ll be trying to do more visual presentations in future. Keep the text to a bare minimum.

My Essential IT books

By on November 22, 2005 in Uncategorized

Doing Windows based IT pays my bills. There are several dead forests worth of books on Microsoft software, and other IT topics, published every year. The list below contains what I consider to be my current essential IT books, with links to Amazon UK.

If you have a favorite IT book feel free to post details in the comments.