OK, I just got the 5th email in one day about the Nikko R2D2 Projector.
Yes, yes…. it is VERY cool, and I already know that it is the kind of thing that Rachel and I would love to have… but its $3000.00! I don't see a mention of BluRay anywhere!
Now, for company promotional work it may be cool alright!… I will have to think about that.
Now, the webcam I may be able to convince myself to buy! 
Finally, Mark Minasi is coming to town. Aidan Finn should take most of the credit for this!
30th May 2008, Microsoft Atrium Building. Dublin, Ireland.
Click Here for registration – Register early!
A few days ago a nice new HP MediaSmart server arrive at my door from an anonymous source. (Thanks anonymous source). This product is amazing! Terry Walsh already did a great review over at wegotserved.co.uk which you should check out.
The unit that arrived had a 500GB drive in it… not nearly enough for me! So I ordered three 1TB Seagate drives yesterday and they arrived today. Using the Windows Home Server wizards I added the drives and now have a whopping 3.5TB of storage space to play with. Oh YES!
Now, I must go upload all of my porn excel spread sheets….
I see that my pal Arno is the featured MVP on the MSDN portal. Nice one!
I was asked, but declined, as I knew that my amazing good looks would scare other geeks away.
For the past few days, my house has been having power problems…. Lights turning off and on, power tripping out in the office and the like. I called the Irish power providers (the E.S.B.) on Sunday night to complain with a couple of beers in tow… it seemed to work, because a nice fellow from the E.S.B turned up on my doorstep an hour later at 10pm!
Now that’s good service!
Finally we managed to get the problem to reproduce itself at about midnight after many tests. My previous explanation of “my house looks like it has a poltergeist” did not cut it… I was never so happy to have a fault in my life; the poor guy honestly thought I was making it all up.
They spent the entire day disabling all the neighbours’ power supplies to finally figure out that “because I have the best power supply in the area, I am the earth for everyone”.
Brilliant.
So… where the hell was I going with this post…? Oh yes… I wanted to put you all in the direction of Hal’s post. It cheered me up to no end after these few days of power outage hell.
Microsoft have opened the ESP Team blog
hereThis is great news, and I look forward to seeing how that team progress over the coming years. It is a
very exciting project.
I just hope they change the blog skin
For those with MSDN Subscriptions, you can now get the standalone download from
this link!Hey, what do you mean….. Your still running XP! ;)
Over the summit I met a good few of the product teams, including the guys at Windows Home Server.
Now, I am under NDA, so I have to be careful what I say here, but as a few people know there has been a Windows Home Server corruption bug issue floating around for the past few months. Some pundits have, of course, slated the team over at Microsoft for this issue and the lack of updates from the team.
You see, that is the problem… they are pundits that simply want a story… They do not give the whole picture and “human factor” of the Microsoft team behind the product.
Data corruption is taken very seriously by the team, but the reality is that the problem has only affected a few people. Also… and this is where I am pushing the boundaries a bit… there are top people working on the issue, and a fix will be forthcoming (along with the new Power pack features). The team, from conversations I had with them, are passionate about getting the right fix to everyone along with the new features of the Power pack. Since the fix is at the kernel level of the OS, they are spending some extra time testing it... which I am sure that nobody, in their right mind, would complain about.
Once again, I was amazed at how much the Small Business Server team shared with us at this years summit. I must quickly mention that a lot of that is to do with Kevin Beares, so thanks man!
A lot of what we heard is still very much NDA, but there are a lot of things that the press have already released so I thought it would be a good thing to give out a “you may not know this about SBS2008” list:
- There is some really cool backup stuff coming – I cannot say more than that!
- There is going to be a Windows Live Onecare especially for Small Business Server 2008.
- There will be (excellent) Office Live integration to get your company a web presence right out of the box. <<< I would like to point out that this is VERY cool.
- There are massively improved migration tools.
- You will be able to have a USB key to run the “Connect Computer” client on PC’s instead of having to go to the website.
- WSUS can be removed from the server and everything, including reports will function perfectly. Not a “feature” per say, but something that R2 users will especially appreciate.
There are some other REALLY cool things that I cannot talk about, but I am sure that info will be available over the coming months…
Edit: I just read this post again… Did I say “cool” enough?
About 30 seconds ago, I posted the first ESP MSDN forum question
I am sure that potential developers on the ESP platform will find this to be a helpful resource. This forum, along with fsdeveloper.com (although that is more the Flight Simulator side of things) should be a helpful place for developers worldwide!
I am testing this friendfeed thing on my Facebook account. Agh… I cannot get it to work! Hopefully this will show up on it!
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