Speed Up Windows 7 Booting

July 4th, 2010

Well, I’ve been scarce for a while, mostly due to work.   Recently while on holiday I was reading up on a great little feature on Windows 7 for speeding up your initial boot time.   This is going to be as short and sweet as my boot time which is now 7 seconds…

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Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V Snapshots

April 14th, 2010

Situation: You have a bunch of VM’s on a Server 2008 R2 RC instance. The RC expires and dies a horrible death at the hands of the IT manager, who complains for more time than it takes to reinstall the server about someone actually loading an RC onto the server. You now have a working server, but an empty Hyper-V manager, zero snapshots and no config file backups. In the rush to reinstall, VM’s were not exported, but instead just had their VHD and AVHD files copied…

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All Aboard The Gautrain

March 13th, 2010

Last week sometime, I got a notice from Poken Africa on their Facebook page saying something along the lines of ’sign up to come and view the Gautrain’. I have been interested for a long while in seeing what the technological marvel of the Gautrain was all about, so I notified the lass and we signed up.

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SSO Is The Future

March 4th, 2010

Well, I am sitting here with my whiskey and reading blog posts, and I’ve decided that SSO (single sign-on) is definitely the way forward. I recently tried to comment on a friend’s blog (a brilliant post!) but on commenting was greeted with a “please register” message. This just ticks me off.

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Top 10 Lanesplitting Wisdoms

February 25th, 2010

So, I figure its high time for a non technical post. I commute via motorcycle on a 26km stretch of highway every day (N1 and M1, Johannesburg) and thought that I might post some of the wisdoms I’ve picked up during my 6 odd years of commuting. In South Africa, it is legal (please lets not argue the semantics of this on this post) to lanesplit between vehicles in traffic, meaning you ride in-between two lanes of cars. Here are my top 10 handy hints for doing so safely, in no particular order;

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Microsoft Hardware Rocks So Hard

February 21st, 2010

There, I admitted it, but it does. I have not found general/business purpose hardware quite as high quality as Microsoft; this also coming from someone who 5 years ago considered the company name to be “the M word”. I have to admit as well, after seeing Windows 7, working on Windows 7 and being part of one of the first Windows 7 logo signed ISV’s, their software is just as good. Put the two together, and you have a winning combination.

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DIY Webserver from Scratch

February 6th, 2010

Following on from a post by John Lufadeju on his blog regarding hosting your Wordpress blog locally, and Robert Bravery’s post on using Wordpress on Vista and IIS 7.0 I thought I’d do the geek thing and go one step further and describe how to setup your own dedicated Linux web server (among other services) running Wordpress for home use, and also to let you know that it is not as difficult as it may seem!   I warn you that this post is a long one, but it is bound to be an informative one!

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What is my IP address?

February 6th, 2010

While typing out another post, I figured I’d put in this very quick little post on obtaining your IP address for different operating systems.

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Broken Truce – Bring on the awesome

January 31st, 2010

Last night we went out to Boston Rock Lounge (out Doors way in Edenvale) to watch Broken Truce. The first band that came on was Mazaru. Very different hearing a band that use a Didgeridoo and bongo drums combined with metal! They were very cool and definitely worth an honourable mention. Next was Broken Truce’s turn to take the stage.

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I have a “Poken”!

January 30th, 2010

So, I get told yesterday by battica that she has a surprise for me. When she got home, I was presented with a ‘Poken’, and my response was probably the same as yours, “a what?”.

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