Many websites are designed to allow for multiple languages. They often will detect where in the world you are and adjust the language settings to suit that aspect of it. I had not thought too much about it until now. I’ve been in Taipei, Taiwan for the last week and I’ve attempted to use some common sites to do various things. I’ve found that many of the … [Read more...]
Grrr to Bigpond and usage limits
My home network is on a 50GB plan with Bigpond, and 3 days ago I received notice that I’d hit 40GB for the month. Our month ends on 10th, therefore 10GB left to go for the week. For some reason however we used that 10GB in 3 days. grrr… now we are speed limited to 64kbps. Ok – the solution for me today is to bump the limit – which means 100GB and $129/month … [Read more...]
EBS 2008 is dead – Post Mortem time
I spent some time this last week being very angry and upset over Microsoft's decision to kill the EBS 2008 and future mid market product based on it. It's now a week later and I've got to say I'm really surprised at the lack of response from other resellers on this topic. I'm also somewhat surprised at some of the comments and in particular who they come from on my … [Read more...]
Microsoft kill EBS (Essential Business Server)!
I learned about this yesterday, but due to NDA could not talk about it until now. This has been the most frustrating 24 hours I can remember. At 8am PST Friday March 5th, 2010, Microsoft pronounced dead on arrival their EBS Product Line. This includes both the upcoming release (EBS v2) and the current product EBS 2008. June 30, 2010 is the last day of sales for EBS 2008 … [Read more...]
Fabulatech USB over Ethernet Problems
Many of you will know that I’ve been a big proponent of the Fabulatech USB over Ethernet software specifically for use with the Microsoft Hyper-V environments. I’ve spoken very highly of their product and how we use it in our client environments. Well I’m sorry to say that has changed. We are now testing an alternate product to suit this requirement called KernelPro. So far … [Read more...]