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I've been running gigabit for a while now here at my home office (databases involve large files as we all know); I've just got myself a new gigabit router so I was checking the speed - I was only getting 12MBytes tops from server to desktop -...
Increasingly new machines have esata ports, these allow you to connect external SATA disks. Until now I've had to use USB to connect external hard drives but USB speed is limited to a poor 25MBytes thereabouts per second which when you are copying...
I've just ordered a ThinkPad W700 to replace my not so old laptop but my laptop is too noisy now, anyway - shopping around I discovered the world's most expensive laptops - check the image out.... See for yourself, though I hope they may fix the...
Ok, so I went to replace two of my servers down at the colocation facility in Docklands with a DELL poweredge 2900. Should have been simple - the box was all configured and working, just a case of swapping in and changing IP addresses. Well, that was...
Trevor Dwyer is over today and we are 'geeking' out on Microsoft research stuff; anyway - this is way cool: Microsoft Office Labs is a site with a number of projects on there coded by Microsoft part time employees. I tend to have quite a long...
Just received my email... Dear Tony Rogerson, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise...
It's been a bit of a wait, but it's there now. It's already downloadable by TechNet or MSDN subscribers. Here's the press release: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx More information though the...
So who remembers when 1GB cost a few £K's? It wasn't that many years ago. Anyway, thought I'd take the plunge into Windows 2008 and upgrade my rack servers running blogcasts etc... From http://www.orcalogic.co.uk/asp/default.asp 4 x DELL POWEREDGE...
For interest only to UK folks I guess; found this rather cool website ( http://www.trafficengland.com/ ) which shows live traffic information including traffic signs, weather etc... Smart! Tony.
The tens (probably hundreds) of thousands of sites being affected by the automated SQL Injection robot ( http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;683627551 ) will almost certainly have one thing in common - they didn't in the most part use stored...
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