April 2009 - Posts

• MMS and Wolfram Alpha

  Lots of folk posting about MMS, some great stuff happening in the ConfigMgr space, cannot wait for the beta :> Also, I cannot way for this to launch ... new search engine toy, woohoo! May time!     Posted Apr 30 2009, 11:30 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: ConfigMgr 2007, ConfigMgr.Next, Wolfram Alpha

• Replaced my Mountain Bike

  Bought this puppy on the weekend: http://www.cycleworld.co.uk/product/17860/Gary_Fisher_Wahoo_Disc_2009_Gunmetal Rides nice ... lightweight, disc braking system, it responded well by soaking up a lot of feedback from the trail\road. Was actually really easy to navigate around at slow speeds rather than stalling and getting too twitchy like my old heavy framed bike did (which rode on hut off in to the big bike yard in the sky). Just need to find the time to take it out often! Posted Apr 27 2009, 06:33 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: Mountain Bike, Gary Fisher

• Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition - Facing off with Star Trek

  Another "worth a read link"! Bit of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition face mining from 67 Star Trek episodes ... you can see the face recognition in action with a clip from that classic Star Trek episode "from Where No Man Has Gone Before" Looks like they are getting that tech real tight, was cool watching the software adjusting the bounding boxes around Kirk and Spocks face as they shifted about the cardboard scene and dodgy primary school props hehe, and how it was trying to figure out the folk in the background ... impressive. Posted Apr 26 2009, 03:46 PM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: Face recognisition, Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, Star Trek

• Bit of Bill

  Got a couple of links for my "worth a read" list on Our Lad Bill (sourced ./) Bill Gates the younger's growing pains from no other than Bill Gates Sr, and some photos from the Gates family album on the Wall Street Journal website. Posted Apr 26 2009, 03:34 PM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: Bill Gates

• World Digital Library

  Stumbled upon this earlier, if you love reading ancient history, right up your street ... Mission The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: Promote international and intercultural understanding; Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences; Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries. Click here to visit I found this on there, http://www.wdl.org/en/item/49/ - British Empire Throughout the World Exhibited in One View - By John Bartholomew (1831-1893) - Amazing to think we can access stuff from the 17th Century via the web! And a lots of stuff on America here - http://www.wdl.org/en/search/gallery?ql=en&a=-8000&b=2009&c=US&r=NorthAmerica And if you are in to your major league baseball history - http://www.wdl.org/en/item/29/ Awesome resource, hope you enjoy stumbling on it like I did         Posted Apr 22 2009, 12:04 PM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: World Digital Library

• Got a MAC? Are you part of the iBotnet (only if you are a dodgy pirate!)

  Interesting story over on ZDNET (I originally sourced this on Slashdot) about Apple MAC's and what's being called iBotnet ... MAC's may be so crippled that they don't get turned over by web based drive-bys, but they are not invunlerable to the invasion of the botnets! What's even funnier about this is that if you are a part of this botnet, the chances are high that you pirating some dodgy MAC software from a P2P network! haha talk about being exposed! http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157   Posted Apr 17 2009, 07:12 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: iBotNet, MAC

• Citrix and Application Virtualisation links

  A colleague passed me a link to his blog of sorts a few weeks ago, meant to post it on here ... contains lots of links about Citrix and Application Virtualisation. If thats your thing, then go pick through his links, see if there's anything that tickles your fancy. Arthurs netvibes Posted Apr 16 2009, 10:22 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: Application virtualisation, netvibes, Citrix, Arthur Chan

• SMS / ConfigMgr Callback Information and Resources website

  Useful troubleshooting jump off point for when you need to raise a support case with Microsoft CSS. It's called the SMS / ConfigMgr Callback Information and Resources website Even if you are not raising a case, its worth being bookmarked for the tips and links off in to the ConfigMgr documentation library http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrcallback/default.aspx Posted Apr 15 2009, 05:16 PM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: SMS, website, ConfigMgr. Callback Information and Resources

• Flight Control for iPhone

  I've got this game for the iPhone (yes apologies for mentioning the Apple beast here) called Flight Control. Has to be one of the most addictive games I've played in a long time. My fiance has same type of phone, and we have play off's once in a while, which is real geeky but great fun, especially since she never plays games!!! Essentially using gestures you swipe the screen on an airplane and draw it's flight path to the runway. Four different types of craft, helicopter, twin-prop, normal airplane and jet airplane. Screen gets real busy in waves, awesome idea, so simply! I'm currently at a score of 155, if you can beat that then drop a comment in the blog below! Here's a link for more info on the game: FireMint - Flight Control Posted Apr 14 2009, 08:45 AM by Robs Blog - MVP Filed under: iPhone, Flight Control, FireMint