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Today I passed the 70-292 exam. It’s one of the two exams needed to upgrade from MCSE 2000 to MCSE 2003. I studied quite hard for it and even managed to find some time on the fishing trip to learn about stub zones! I found it quite easy in the end and got 850 so […]

The NZ Herald is reporting today about Wellingtonian Claudia Batten who sold her startup company, Massive, to Microsoft in a US$400 million deal. The software allows publishers to download adverts into online games which is estimated to reach a $US700 million a year industry by 2010. Claudia isn’t revealing the exact figures but the sale […]

I noticed this on Niall Kennedy’s blog: Apple’s new TV ads. I think they are really good, you should check them out. Apple – Get a Mac – Watch The TV Ads

I won’t write too much about this as there is so much being blogged already, but Apple have just released a product called Bootcamp which gives users of the newly updated Mac operating system a graphical utility to repartition your disk and prepare it for the installation of Windows XP. No more needing to hack […]

This was widely accepted to happen sooner or later, but Microsoft have today announced that Virtual Server 2005 R2 will now be available as a free download. As both the Enterprise and Standard editions will now be free, the Standard edition is becoming redundant as there is no reason why you would run Standard instead […]

Microsoft have finally taken the wraps off their much-hyped project, Origami. Turns out that it’s the same device that Intel showed yesterday and Samsung today. Microsoft are calling it the UMPC and I am very under-whelmed with it. It’s a small, touch-screen computer that runs Windows XP Tablet PC edition. It has 2 – 3 […]

I’ve created a new blog where I’ll be sharing my experiences with new, beta software. I’ve just created the first article here: http://beta.amanzi.co.nz/2006/03/04/how-not-to-design-a-webmail-service/

In a previous post I mentioned that I setup WPA2 wireless security on my Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I didn’t mention though that you need Windows XP SP2 and an update from the Microsoft Support site to get it working from the client-side. The update and related article can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893357

Someone has managed to get Windows XP dual booting on one of the new Intel Macs. The article below describes how to do it on a MacBook, but this is really only for the geeks out there as there’s a lot of tricky work involved. Windows XP on Mac? at Ramblings of a Computer Guru

I’ve just published my first article to my new ActiveDir site on BlogTown NZ which is a “how to” article: “Remotely reboot a server into DSRM” Hope you like it – feel free to comment on the article.