Sep 07 2007

64 Bit Rant

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I’ve been persevering with Vista 64 bit over the last few weeks, but I’m failing to see any benefit in sticking with it. Very few applications are native 64 bit and some applications just do not run at all. Microsoft is probably the worst culprit – last year they released Exchange 2007 and forced all […]

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Aug 15 2007

When does my evaluation copy of Windows Server expire?

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I’ve been using a lot of evaluation software at home recently to build up a virtual lab that I’ll use for testing and demos. I needed to know when my eval copies of Windows Server 2003 were due to expire but couldn’t figure it out without having to trawl through Google Groups first. Turns out […]

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Aug 09 2007

Unlimited Potential Geek Event

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As I posted before, I made it along to the Gadgets, Games and Geeks event that was hosted by Unlimited Potential (UP) at the Wellington Convention Center. It was an interesting night, I wasn’t too sure what to expect but I was hoping that there would be lots of gadgets to look at. Disappointingly there […]

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May 11 2007

Microsoft in defensive mode

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Big news this week was that Microsoft have had to drop postpone some key features from their new virtualisation software currently in development. Mike Neill, GM of virtualisation strategy went on the defensive with a lengthy blog post detailing all of the cool things about Microsoft’s new virtualisation platform, codenamed Viridian. But if you kept […]

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Apr 18 2007

Enterprise Centralised Desktop

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There was an interesting download posted on the Microsoft Download Center last week, but I still haven’t been able to access it… This wouldn’t normally bother me but it intrigued me as it looked similar to the announcement that Citrix made about their Citrix Desktop Server product. I wonder if Microsoft pulled the download because […]

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Apr 10 2007

Citrix Desktop Server

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This has just been released but I haven’t had a chance to look at it properly yet. Will write more once I have a better understanding of it. Citrix Desktop Server New Citrix Desktop Server revolutionizes desktop delivery and management Managing and securing the Windows Desktop OS is a significant and growing challenge for most […]

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Sep 28 2006

iTunes 7.01 just released

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Seems like lots of users had problems with iTunes 7 so it’s good to see Apple release an update so soon. Thanks to Neowin for the heads-up. Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Organize and play everything on […]

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Mar 04 2006

New blog – beta.amanzi.co.nz

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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/

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Feb 21 2006

Beta software

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I’ve been playing around with a lot of beta software recently – this also includes beta services that are popping up all the time from the new “Web 2.0” companies. I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen so much beta stuff around at once. The word beta used to be reserved for pre-release software […]

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