Microsoft have created a new blog for System Center essentials which if I remember correctly is a new management tool that enables you to manage a bunch of servers and stuff, including ones not on your network - ideal for a consulting company to keep track of everybody's servers. Note that I got this impression from a podcast I listened to so I could be wrong but if I'm right, this will be an awesome utility - hopefully it's not too expensive.
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I've been invited to join the Friends In Tech team as a blogger which was a nice offer and an honour to take up. I'll still be posting over here but will have some content on their site too now.
My first post was about the firefox upgrade to 1.5.06 and an easy way to get extensions to work afterwards.
Mike McBride was also invited to post and his first post is about having an appreciation folder in your email client.
If you read either of our blogs you will probably be interested in some of the other Friends in Tech blogs and their podcasts.
I've also started reading The Lazy Admin, not because I'm lazy, but because it has some interesting stuff including sbs and vista (the former being the reason I discovered the blog after looking at SBS Myth Busting
I was surprised to see that there was a Columbus Bloggers group and they held their inaugral meetup last week. I had looked to see if there was a similar group some time ago but had never seen anything organised.
Coupled with the list of free wifi in columbus and I know there are some other places out there, these sites and The Columbus Underground are worth keeping an eye on - I've added the RSS feeds to my reader (which is about 1 week behind at the moment)
For the past couple of days I've not been able to read Mike or Angela's blog with the server returning a "No data" error message. However I was able to read their newsfeeds and post comments. Apparently it could be a caching issue so if you have problems accessing their pages just add ?asd=qasdads (or other random text after the ?) after the url
Scott Adams has a blog and starts off with "If you’re reading this on company time, congratulations on beating the system. If you’re reading it on your own time, you really need to find a job where they pay you to do this sort of thing."
I'm sure i've read the follow up story in one of the dilbert books (or management principle books) but its still pretty funny and shows how pointless committees are.
Thanks to Adam
PC Doctor has a useful article on some easy removable molex's (the power connectors to hard disks etc). These normally swine bits of plastic have been the bane of my existence when working on other peoples pc's and several times I have managed to scrape the skin off my knuckles whilst trying to pull these power connectors off the hard disks, especially when they are in a confined space - in a computer case.
Unfortunately pc doctor doesn't say where he got these new connectors from. Even a google search took a couple of attempts until I came up with a source from Whitedog at 4 pounds for 10 which seems a reasonable price. You do need a UV light for best effect though, which would also mean a pc case with a window in it, so you are talking pc modding territory here.
Graham at Sensitive Light is back posting his great photos again. Unfortunately he has had a problem with MT and can't get into the control panel so he's installed Wordpress instead so the RSS feed location has changed. You can get the URL's by viewing the source of his webpage - I've subscribed to his Atom feed
Happy Birthday to you...... The Astronomy Picture Of The Day is a great source of some incredible photos of the solar system. I've been reading it on and off for about 7 or 8 years I think.
Happy Birthday to you...... The Astronomy Picture Of The Day is a great source of some incredible photos of the solar system. I've been reading it on and off for about 7 or 8 years I think.
An alternative to Geourl.org has been launched and you can add your site at the homepage at geourl.infoby using the form which then provides you with a link like blogs near Absoblogginlutely via mike@zed1
I found a referral to this site in google today - Findory : Absoblogginlutely. This somehow links websites together with how relevant they are, quite similar to bloglines. I do like the way they have reproduced the content with related content too.
An interesting concept in webdesign but there are some good pointers to computer stuff at Wilsonmar.com including some interesting notes on security which is how I stumbled across the site.
- Curious? So was I so I clicked and saw it was another list of blogs. At the moment I'm down at the bottom as I've just entered the charts - will be interesting to see how it progresses.
Stumbled across Robert-O-Rama who takes some fantastic photos and uploads them to textamerica. If you like Sensitive Light then you will like Robert's pages too and the rss feed (with pictures included) is at http://robertk600.textamerica.com/rss.aspx
Finally got round to listening to kevin's latest podcast - some of the links including the download cd's are worth checking out.
Kristen posted her 100th post to CupTeaLuv? with a goofy (but neat) picture of her parents.
Simply Stu blogs about his experience at a really bad Wetherspoons where they had no spoons to eat the puddings (such as sponge pudding with custard) because the spoons had all been stolen a couple of weeks previously!
I used to read Jerry Kindall a long time ago when I used blogrolling as my primary method of finding out when blogs were updated...then I discovered RSS readers and at the time he didn't produce a feed. I checked out my blogrolling links this evening and saw he had recently updated so went across to take a look. Not only does he now use MovableType and therefore has a rss feed, he linked to a neat Animals on the underground website. I'm almost considering having an underground category as I've quite a few posts on the underground (Ok, not as many as I thought I did, but this might change!)
A very good and artistic blog with Picture Postcard's of an American's study year in Leeds. It was amusing to read his thoughts on english life and interesting to see the normal, everyday things that stuck out to an american visitor, but which we brits take for granted. The photos are really well done and it makes good reading - highly recommended.
From Stewed Tea comes a couple of links which I thought Kristen should put on her blog as she's suffering from a flu which led to an ear infection which led to vertigo problems. So we have the , Flu eme
My answers below:-
1) Has the 'flu caught you this winter If so, when? Not yet for me thankfully.
2) How many people at home/work d'you know who've had the 'flu? 1 at home, 2 at work so far
3) How many days have you/they been off sick (on average)? The week for Kristen, two days at work.
4) Worst symptom? Ear infection and vertigo
5) What did you/they do while off sick that you/they wouldn't normally do, in an attempt to stave off boredom/cheer yourself up? eg what daytime TV programmes did you watch? Play Ratchet and Clank I think :-)
Theres also this domain which would be related to Kristens blog too, www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
Kristen's started another blog, CupteaLuv? (to be said in a Northern accent. Speaking of which, its a nightmare trying to create a new blog in the same sort of style of another existing blog...there are so many things you have to tweak.
Found a new blog, Noded where the author has a similar sense of humour to me.
I couldn't get my hosting site to read the update_quiet.php file on a scheduled basis so I'm using wget to retrieve it every hour from one of my pc's permanently connected to the internet on an hourly basis. This means that my feedonfeed page is up to date and it works great!
