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Well, it finally happened. I have replaced my aging and battered iPhone with the Nokia N95 i won a couple of months back. The iPhone finally pushed me over the top today: something crashed in the background and it used all its battery, processor power, etc, to, well, fail. the back of the iphone got [...]

Congradulations to the Windows Essential Business Server team for hitting RTM! Essential Business Server, for thouse of you who dont know, if a step up from Small Business Server. this is for companies who have more than one server and allows you to run, say, Exchange on one box and Sharepoint on another. Congradulations again! [...]

Now this is cool! Cray and Microsoft have announced the Cray CX1 Supercomputer, which is a really tiny (7U) super computer for use by, well, anyone who can afford it. Starting price is about $25k, going to upwards of $60k. the enclosure takes 8 "blades". you can mix and match these blades. There are 2 [...]

In the first installment of my Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation series, i talked about Media and how iTunes needed to work perfectly for me to be happy. Well, Over the last couple of days things could have been better…. I have noticed some interesting things that iTunes 8 has been doing which i [...]

 The Microsoft Virtualization Team blog has news about the upcomming releases of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Hyper-V Server 2008 is, directly quoting from the site "a new hypervisor-based server virtualization product (like ESXi)". Very cool stuff. Ohh, and its FREE! $0, EUR0, GBP0! Feck all money exchanged! FREE!!!! [...]

 Both Anandtech and Toms hardware (and probably more, but these are the ones i have read so far) have gotten their hands on the Intel X25-M SSD drive. I dont feal comfortable calling them "Hard Drives" because are they really? Anyway, reading the reviews, some things have poped out, which i will go though here. 

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So, i finally got accepted into the Woopra BETA pool, and man this thing rocks! For those who dont know, Woopra is a real time web analysis system. it has some really cool features, including a nice desktop client for watching your sites. the idea is quite simple: add a small peice of tracking code [...]

So, i have been looking at replacing my aging and dented (dont ask) Power Book G4 with something a lot more powerful for the last while. I know i have just bought the Advent 4211 a few days back, but thats a small, lightweight portable laptop, which will be used exclusivly for email, browsing, etc. [...]