NOTE: I wrote this post back in August so the time references are a bit out. I’ve upgraded my Toshiba Portege R500 from Windows Vista Business to Windows 7 Ultimate. I’ve had the laptop now for nearly 2 years and it’s still running on the original factory installation of Windows Vista. I’ve loaded up quite a number of applications on it over time and was quite prepared to … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2009
How this site was built – Part 1
The building of this site actually started well over 12 months ago and is part of a long term vision I have of providing great resources to the community. For many years I had wanted to rebuild the site using SharePoint so that I could show the world just how much you could do with it. I soon however had to make a business decision. If I was going to rebuild the site in … [Read more...]
Where’s the SWAG?
Having been to TechEd Australia and New Zealand over the last two weeks, I’ve had the chance to see the Expo halls at both events. I’ve heard attendees even comment/complain about the significant lack of SWAG (free stuff) that vendors are giving away. Personally – SWAG is not what I want from vendors. What I want and expect from vendors at an expo or … [Read more...]
CRN Fast 50
Something local to our Australian readers is the CRN Fast 50 competition. Instead of Channel Champions awards this year, Sholto and the team at CRN decided to focus on the thing that really matters to us in the reseller channel – the revenue of our business. They are having a competition to highlight the top 50 business in the IT Reseller space based on your year on … [Read more...]
Is memory usage on your Antivirus software high?
I did a full day session recently with the Brisbane SMB IT Professionals group which was a lot of fun. During that day, Radek Tkaczyk who works for VMVault a virtualisation hosting specialist company, showed me something very interesting. He has a customer (quite a few of them actually) that runs both a hosted SBS 2003 server and a hosted Terminal Server on their systems. … [Read more...]