James O'Neill's blog
Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.
Phase one strategic alliance
I've been using Phase One's "Capture one" software for the last 3 years and I like it better than...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/29/2007
More halo 3 picture fun
Driving home last night I heard Stephen McGill (who's in charge of all things Xbox in the UK) on the...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/27/2007
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Author: James ONeill Date: 10/24/2007
Units: introducing the millitree
One of my colleagues has in her e-mail signature "Please think of the environment before printing...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/22/2007
It's 1986 all over again.
A few minutes before yesterday's race in the Brazil began, I had a bad feeling about how the Formula...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/22/2007
Software + Services - X-box live as a model ?
We keep talking about a world of Software + Services. I saw a slide recently that talked about this...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/19/2007
Windows Activation (Server 2008 style)
One of the things we've done with Windows over the years is to try to make life a bit harder for...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/18/2007
Skydrive update (and live vs on-line)
Over on the SkyDrive team blog there's news of some improvements they've made. In case you haven't...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/14/2007
One of those "Oh no" moments
Someone was asking me about gadgets, and went off looking for something and turned up a page at...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/08/2007
Windows Server Virtualization (2008) Rapid Deployment Programme (RDP)
Update. Some days, I worry that the things I forget might be a sign I'm heading for the "twilight...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/05/2007
PowerShell and One-Note ... No, really
Long ago, when I had my first job in the IT industry, all the engineers I met carried hard-covered...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/02/2007
New Live Search ...
After a couple of mistakes where people thought they'd seen it release (when actually they'd just...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/01/2007
An Unhelpful mire of Marketing-speak
I've shared the text in my post "Civilisation will come to an end because no one will understand...
Author: James ONeill Date: 10/01/2007
WyMiwyg
Eileen says I'm auditory (rather than visual or Kinaesthetic ). Odd for someone who spends so much...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/28/2007
Load up on guns, and bring your friends.
The original Halo was the making of the original Xbox. It looked fantastic and sounded fantastic -...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/28/2007
Other big news 2008 RC-0 and installing Windows server Virtualization.
Windows server 2008 RC 0 is out! Regular readers may have noticed the link in last night's post....
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/26/2007
Silverlight and more Halo 3 fun,
I posted before about use of Silverlight for the Halo3 videos - I've got to say the whole museum of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/26/2007
The truth will out...
Years ago, during the Browser wars I got a quote from a friend of mine (I'll call him "David",...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/25/2007
What happens if you break a Microsoft embargo
Today has been Halo3 day. Marred for me by the fact that I've been on the Road away from my Xbox,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/25/2007
PowerShell and Telnet.
I've got a backlog of posts at the moment. Steve and I have been getting ready for the Road-show,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/18/2007
Europe ...
It was interesting to watch peoples reactions to the findings of the European Court of First...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/18/2007
Colin McRae
Not the the game he lent his name to but the man himself. His helicopter crashed yesterday...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/16/2007
"Perfidious Microsoft"
I don't know whether to be angry or frustrated, and whether the target should be journalists who...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/14/2007
Ferrari International Assistance
"Ferrari International Assistance" , the FIA, the governing body of Motorsport, appear to be out of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/13/2007
Feeling that you might be certifiable ?
In the Microsoft Certified professional sense that is. I've taken over 40 of the exams since 1993,...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/13/2007
More tales from the weekend of PowerShell: a bit of a horror story
I mentioned my weekend of PowerShell, and that I've been working on scripts for the Office...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/13/2007
Windows Server Virtualization beta availability (soon !)
I've got to admire my colleague Rick Claus over on the Canadian IT pro blog. See, While I don't have...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/13/2007
Sun to become Windows Server OEM.
That's a title I never expected to type. Check calendar. No it's not April 1st. I got a mail...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/12/2007
The scientific reason why social networks don't do it for me.
Somewhere in my school science lessons we were introduced to something that I know as the law of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/11/2007
Tales from a weekend of PowerShell: Get-Needle -haystack ...
First to explain the title: Sooner or later I will stop banging on about hot-desking and the bedlam...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/10/2007
On Cartoons #2: Software / Services. Desktop and centre
Hugh drew this, and Steve Clayton talks about it on his blog. I was going to post something about it...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/10/2007
On Cartoons #1
I've told the story before about introducing myself with the words 'I...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/10/2007
Virtualization on tour, SCVMM Released and a peek at WSV
I remember the first time I saw the comedian Eddie Izzard perform live, he walked onto the stage in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/07/2007
A stapler on every desk and in every home
Not everything about working for Microsoft UK is perfect. I've mentioned some of the daft e-mails we...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/03/2007
So long Compact flash: a new camera
It's amazing to see a technology to go from "new"to "Obsolete" in half a dozen years. I remember...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/03/2007
Wanna see what Silverlight video streaming can do ?
Eileen mentioned on her blog that the New Zealand tech-ed folk had posted their keynote in...
Author: James ONeill Date: 09/01/2007
Persistent chat - what's that then ? A quick guide to collaboration modes.
Since I posted about Parlano, a couple of people have asked me about persistent chat. So.. (very...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/30/2007
"Microsoft to buy Parlano" peristant chat.
One of the things about working odd hours is I see things come in from the US, when most sensible...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/29/2007
Windows Live Writer: Getting a new dictionary
Adam sent me a mail, saying that he noticed my gripe about Live Writer: that it's behaviour around...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/29/2007
Powershell again. Pipes, and "This is not an output"
My experiences with PowerShell continue and every so often realize that I never really understood...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/28/2007
...I will do no work today.
There is a Cafe which serves our building. They serve Starbucks Coffee, there's a screen showing MTV...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/24/2007
One small step for search...
I was talking to a customer (I know he reads this blog, so no names). He was having some trouble...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/23/2007
NSLookup, WMI and Ping - three random things from the "I didn't know that column"
If you're a regular reader you may know that I've been doing quite a lot of stuff with powershell of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/21/2007
The power of Silverlight and Live search.
I'm a cynic. I admit it. No... I'm proud of it. A quick search of my posts will show you I also...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/21/2007
PowerShell to Fix Phone number formats part II
I said when I posted about fixing the phone numbers in your Outlook Contacts that I'd come back and...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/20/2007
I wish I'd known about Get-Eventlog before
Having mentioned Powershell in several recent posts, I said in passing I'd discovered that it had a...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/19/2007
Seems like it was software after all... you might want these patches.
I wrote that I blamed the rather odd behaviour my laptop was showing on some kind of hardware fault...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/19/2007
Powershell and Paradigms of VB
Since I was talking about experiences from long ago in my previous post, here's another. When I was...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/19/2007
Quality assurance Vs Quality improvement. Which thinking do you want ?
One of the Microsoft internal discussion lists has had an interesting thread over the last couple of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/18/2007
System Center Virtual Machine Manager expected this month.
I love seeing senior managers making contributions to blogs: it's rare that they can sustain on of...
Author: James ONeill Date: 08/15/2007