I’m in Las Vegas this week at Techmentor. It’s been a pretty good week so far. I guess I was expecting a bigger conference, but it’s been cool that it’s smaller and more intimate “experience.” I’ve been able to talk to the instructors and meet some other IT guys and talk about stuff they’re working [...]
After years of putting up with VMware Server’s bullshit I finally made the transition to VirtualBox. I just created a WS2K8 R2 test domain at home using VirtualBox and it’s a breath of fresh air when compared to VMware Server. (At least when you’re trying to use VMware Server on Linux — especially Ubuntu.) Generally [...]
My desktop has been acting up a bit lately (i.e., hanging during POST) so I decided to get some new parts and upgrade it. It was the first computer I ever built from scratch (in 2003). We’ve been through a lot together (XP, Vista, Windows 7, CPU upgrade, RAM upgrade, video card heatpipe installation, etc.) [...]
It’s almost the end of July and this is my first July “entry.” I guess that means I’ve either been really busy or really lazy. Truthfully, it’s a combination of the two. I finally got my MCSE certification a few weeks ago. I was cramming pretty hard for a couple of months, trying to prepare [...]
Uh, that didn’t work out as I had planned. I should have known better since this was my fourth TechEd. You see, TechEd is more of an endurance event than a tech conference. I’m usually up at the crack of dawn so I can wolf down some breakfast before cramming in a hands-on lab. Then [...]