October 2005 - Posts

• More StArWaRs-ness!

  Star Wars Battlefront 2 is out! And yup, as I type it's installing it's bloated form on to my HDD (night on 4GB of space required, wow) ... i've got practically every star wars game ever released. One of my fav's was Jedi Knight 2 which allowed you to weild a Saber and duel with friends, quality game for LAN parties, friggin awesome! This release of SWBF promises to let you become a Jedi, and run around doing things with light emitting poles of death! can't ask for anything more! May the fork be with you Posted Oct 31 2005, 08:27 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Portable keyboard

  Holy cow! I so want one of these to try out! If anyone can send me one, pm me so I can give you my address! I promise to do a full write-up of it using the keyboard! If it's responsive enough, and works in 99% of conditions, day\night then this would suit me down to the ground ;-) http://www.itechdynamic.com/html/border4.htm Posted Oct 30 2005, 07:55 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Kaiser Chiefs

  Went to see the Kaiser Chiefs last night at the Brixton Academy. The venue is not very big, so with all those people crammed in, it got very hot. Fortunately when we got outside, well the weather is still warm for this time of year, so wasn't chilled to the bone! Company I was with was great as usual. Was a great night, and enjoyed every minute of it! Posted Oct 27 2005, 10:48 AM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Skype Client - Security Bug

  If you use Skype, then you definately need to patch it ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/skype_vuln/ Posted Oct 26 2005, 12:55 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Matts article

  Great article Matt, nice one. Posted Oct 24 2005, 05:53 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• VMWare Player

  WOW! VMWare released VMWare Player. And a selection of VMW Guests to download from the VMWare Technology Network. Created by the likes of IBM, Novell, MySQL ... such a bold move, because it's all free!   Posted Oct 21 2005, 11:06 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Long day ...

  Just got back from a day out at the Microsoft Reading campus for the UK Community Leaders meeting. Was fun meeting loads of new people, bit overwhelming trying to remember a torrent of new names and acronyms. Enjoyable though. This was the UK Windows Management Groups first proper get together. Good to get to see the faces behind the email addresses ;-) Barcelona IT Forum 2005 is a no-go for me. Shame as I was looking forward to the content there. Such a busy day, and this week I was on night-shift so kidna out of phase with everyone else. Urgh. Early night for me me thinks. Posted Oct 21 2005, 09:58 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Be nice to be able to go to Barcelona

  John, I'll be in Barcelona for the IT Forum '05 event ... http://www.mseventseurope.com/msitforum/05/pre/content/default.aspx Be nice to meet up with some MyITForum'ers there so drop me an email if you are going - robmarsh101 [AT} gmail [DOT} com I see Wally Mead will be there presenting the following sessions: CHT064 Systems Management Server (SMS) Red Zone Issues MGT310 Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 SP2 Overview and Upgrade Best Practices MGT327 Implementing the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) MGT405 Troubleshooting Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Other sessions i'm interested in: MGT314 Monad: Next Generation Command Shell CHT071 Next Generation Scripting with Monad MGT201 Systems Management Server (SMS) v4 Sneak Peak MGT308 Introduction and Drilldown to System Center Reporting Manager (SCRM) CHT073 Inside System Center Data Protection Manager  MGT307 Introduction and Drilldown to System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) MGTDEM02 Rescuing Your Data with Data Protection Manager (DPM) CHT074 Drilldown into System Centre Capacity Planner MGTDEM04 Using System Centre Capacity Planner to Plan for Exchange MGT301 Performance Modeling: A Powerful Tool for Planning Deployments INF318 Windows Hypervisor and Virtualization Futures INF307 Understanding and Working with the Virtual Server Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Disk Format CHT037 Active Directory (AD) and Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) SEC301 Rootkits in Windows PRE006 What's New in Windows Server 2003 R2 MGT302 WS-Management in Windows Server 2003 R2 and Beyond CHT070 Improving Administration Experience with WS-Management and Windows Remote Shell CSI303 Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Overview Whats the odds most of these overlap? :> Very interested in the first session. I'm going to have to pay careful attention to the sessions so I can get in as many under the System Center\Management space     Posted Oct 16 2005, 01:40 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Rod's next post ...

  I have a feeling in my bones that Rod is going to Chimp. Aside from the phone I don't think he's chimped in a while? Go Go Go Rod ! Flame a Vendor! Posted Oct 05 2005, 05:14 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General

• Doube agreed ... pay for news sites, fear them no more

  Rod Trent posted this earlier as a follow up on Johns posting about pay-for-news websites. Those sites, they annoy me silleh. But there is hope: www.bugmenot.com is quite a good site for circumventing (in a good, and healthy kind of way) these registration requests to view news. Usual disclaimer: I do not use this website, my dog doesn't use it. My Iron has no knowledge of this and nor do my neighbours either. NSFW and definately not condoned but worth knowing about ;-) Posted Oct 03 2005, 05:32 PM by RobM with no comments Filed under: General