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James O'Neill's blog

Windows Platform, Virtualization and PowerShell with a little Photography for good measure.

Powershell in Birmingham

For those in the audience, the files needed for this demo are in my skydrive folder (link on the...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/19/2008

Hyper-V Release candidate officially announced

A few minutes ago, in Clive's session at the UK server launch event, our UK product manager...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/19/2008

Vista SP1 now on Windows update.

I'm in Birmingham for the Windows Server 2008/SQL Visual Studio Launch. We British Microsofties...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/19/2008

Building dangerous things into products.

In the comments an earlier post, "PMunro" raised an interesting point, and I mentioned it...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/15/2008

VMware - running hot enough to cook the figures

It's quite amusing to see the VMware blogger (Citrix's blog names him as Eric Horschmann) has come...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/14/2008

Reasons to go to San Diego.

Eileen has already mentioned that she's going to San Diego (there's a song in there...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/14/2008

Expensive Hypervisors - a bad idea even if you can afford them

There's a saying in politics People will fall more easily for a big lie than for a small one*. I...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/12/2008

Looking after customers...

I'm back from my holiday, and as usual after a break trying to get back into the swing of things ......

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/12/2008

Parkour at TVP

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/29/2008

Everything comes to those who wait ....

Something which by turns amuses and annoys me is they people seem to have become very fond of...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/28/2008

An interesting journey with PowerShell, GPS data and SVG. (Part 2)

This is, I'm afraid, another of those "Wow! what can you do with a couple of long lines of...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/28/2008

An interesting journey with PowerShell GPS data and SVG. (Part 1)

Eileen phoned me from a traffic jam yesterday. "I've got a demon in the car" she said. A little late...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/27/2008

PowerShell Community Extensions

–I referred to the PowerShell Community extensions in the last post. It's interesting, but not...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/26/2008

On PowerGadgets

At the end of this week I fly off for a few days Scuba diving, and shortly after I get back I have a...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/25/2008

While you were sleeping ... an attack on bitlocker etc

I'm always suspicious of people talking down security vulnerabilities, but I don't like to see them...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/22/2008

Testing Pictures

[UPDATE] I've been refining my EXIF Library for .NET, and the blogging utilities I wrote in...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/21/2008

Skydrive goes Live

I mentioned skydrive a while back, well over on the SkyDrive blog they're celebrating. Now available...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/21/2008

A presentation tip (especially for PowerShell)

I try not to stand still when I'm presenting; stand behind a lectern for too long and you end up...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/20/2008

Makes me glad I got co-pilot.

I recently blogged about reactivating software - having rebuilt my computer I needed to get my...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/18/2008

On film ...

Skimming down my feeds this weekend I found a post from Scoble on obsolete skills (a new wiki has...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/17/2008

Most Saturdays I freeze watching my daughter's football team. it's not so unusual. If you've got...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/16/2008

Vista SP1 update is now on Technet and MSDN

It's no use trying to pretend otherwise, we didn't do a great job on making Vista SP1 available....

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/15/2008

You know that Virtualization is going mainstream ...

It's not when you see articles like this from Mary Jo  (Self styled Linux guy and VMware...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/15/2008

On expectations ...

  my more-having would be as a sauce to make me hunger more William Shakespeare; Macbeth Act...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/13/2008

Deploying Vista SP1.

For the last year I have been saying that the mentality of waiting for a Service pack is a way of...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/12/2008

More news on Vista SP1

As I forecast when I posted the news of Vista  SP1's release the delay in making it widely...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/11/2008

Who makes a good decision ?

I provided Eileen with a quote to use in the Management Excellence programme she's been involved...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/10/2008

For our friends in other departments

Ray Fleming posts over on the Education blog: he has news of the little Asus we saw at BETT, it's...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/10/2008

Spun with Dr Fooner.

David dropped me a very nice mail about the cartoons I posted yesterday on Wednesday, and this one...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/08/2008

Can you see the Join ?

I said I couple of posts back that I have to remind myself that I haven't been doing PowerShell long...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/07/2008

Cartoons about Cartoons and presentations.

My morning has gone to ruin, I was supposed to be doing a Live Meeting to show some of things we'd...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/06/2008

It is done.

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 have released to manufacturing. Actually it...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/04/2008

Getting to grips with Hyper-V's API

It's only 7 months since I first installed Powershell. Hard to believe that last week I saw a copy...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/01/2008

Yahoo!

I got mail about this at 11:55, and the BBC had the story at 12:04 I assume it all went public at...

Author: James ONeill Date: 02/01/2008

Scotty.

I’ve developed a bit of a reputation as a curmudgeon, although I prefer to think that I don’t waste...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/26/2008

Vista vulnerabilities - a comparison.

Perhaps it's a bit strong to say "if complete and utter chaos was lightning, Jeff Jones would be the...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/24/2008

Hyper-V API information on MSDN

I've been waiting for this for a little while, in fact I had hoped to see a draft before it went...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/24/2008

Touch phones.

I was wrong. People seem to get on better with "touch" phones than I thought. I understand that...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/23/2008

Strings, strange forces and being misquoted

When I was in my teens, my school Physics class was taken on trip to the Royal Institution, and the...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/22/2008

The Wow of powershell (again)

I've recently bought Efficasoft's GPS utilities for my phone - I keep thinking about GeoTagging...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/21/2008

Homework, Plagiarism and Intellectual property in the 21st Century

I went to school in Brighton, and while the Brighton Evening Argus is the daily evening paper for...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/20/2008

On the superiority of Windows vista.

One of the ways to divide I meet is break them into the "Stallers and Installers". I meet plenty of...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/19/2008

One of our laptops is missing.

A snowclone I guess, with films like one of our Aircraft is missing , and Thomas Dolby's "One of our...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/18/2008

Will you be our hero ?

I've talked about my habit of "Brutal e-mail triage" before my equation for guessing the usefulness...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/18/2008

The Final silence

They called me the sparkle. I was the best I worked them all. I've used that quote before. But when...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/13/2008

Powershell to add social bookmarking tags

I blogged before about Lee Holmes' code to fetch and modify blog posts from PowerShell I was talking...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/10/2008

At the BETT show

One of my personality traits that makes me doubt my vocation as an evangelist is a general dislike...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/10/2008

Screencast: Hyper-v without integration components

When I explain Hyper-V to people I usually have to spend a fair amount of time on the Integration...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/09/2008

Getting wireless access from a Hyper-V VM

One of the limitations of Hyper-V is Virtual networks can't be bound to Wireless LAN cards....

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/08/2008

Search: A quick round-up

I've been meaning to have a play with Search Server since Viral demo'd it on the last roadshow. We...

Author: James ONeill Date: 01/08/2008

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