April 2006 - Posts

Monad is Now Windows PowerShell!

Published 25 April 6 4:35 PM | Charlie Russel

Microsoft announced this morning that Monad is now the Windows PowerShell. With the release to the Microsoft Download Center of RC1 of the PowerShell, there are a number of other changes you’ll need to be aware of in your scripts. · A new executable name...

Happy Birthday!

Published 25 April 6 3:35 PM | Charlie Russel

Windows x64 Edition is one year old today. It's been an interesting year, I must say. So how has my x64 experience been? Solid. I work in x64 Edition full time, and haven't booted any of my main workstations or servers over to 32-bit Windows in months...

Microsoft.com Runs on x64

Published 11 April 6 10:15 PM | Charlie Russel

Just ran across a great whitepaper about how Microsoft.com moved their entire IIS operation to x64 Editions of Windows Server 2003 R2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/operations/mscom64bitarchi.mspx . In the Windows Server blog post...

Security and the Windows Firewall

Published 7 April 6 4:21 PM | Charlie Russel

I've been saying for quite a while that all those folks who worry that there isn't much in the way of released firewall products for Windows x64 should stop worrying and use the really quite good Windows Firewall that comes with the OS. Well, I ran across...

Eagles

Published 4 April 6 2:15 AM | Charlie Russel

OK, this has nothing to do with x64, or even computers. But what a great use of computers. http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/default.asp Live bald eagle nest webcam, here in BC.

Speaking of Virtual Machines - Virtual Server 2k5 R2 is now free!

Published 4 April 6 1:23 AM | Charlie Russel

Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition is now a free download from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6DBA2278-B022-4F56-AF96-7B95975DB13B&displaylang=en . One suspects that the upcoming release (and present public...