Moving (and we lost our "skin")
If you noticed that the blog suddenly went back to basic ugly, that was an unfortunate and unanticipated side effect of preparing to move my blogging to a new location. We'll be moving to http://msMVPs.com/blogs/russel shortly, but in the process of getting things configured for that move, we appear to have lost our look and feel a bit. Susan has enough to worry about handling the move, so I'll just wait until she's done before trying to fix the look.
So, why am I moving? Because, frankly, 64-bit is no longer particularly interesting in and of itself. It's become the norm we all use on the server side, and is fast replacing 32-bit even on the desktop for new machines. So the problems specific to 64-bit are going away, and thus the need for a resource devoted to them is less important. So it made sense to change and move to a more general purpose blog. Which is, ultimately, what I'd already been doing, so this just reflects that reality.
Does this mean I don't care about 64-bit any more? Hardly. It just means the world has caught up to those of us who were on the bleeding edge of the transition. So, what will I focus on moving forward? Hard to say. A bit of this, a bit of that. Software and hardware that I really like. And probably some I don't. For example, I'm hoping to get my hands on a new version of StarWind Enterprise Server shortly. Version 5.0 will add high availability active-active clustering of your iSCSI storage, something usually only available on very, very high end SANs. I've also been looking at a new deployment technology for Windows 7 from Prowess called QuickDeploy. Expect to see posts on both of these soon, but probably not until after we make the move to the new digs.
Charlie.