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September 2008 - Posts

• Windows Mobile and Cloud Computing - will it erode laptop and *books?

  Looking at some of the latest Smart/PDA phones they have pretty reasonable processors, fairly significant amounts of memory, WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS, VGA screens, audio, video, voice, camera etc. Do I really need my laptop anymore? Most development work Read More... Posted 22 September 2008 12:41 by James.Saull | 2 Comments Filed under: Virtualisation, Cloud Computing

• Could we be a bit more green about mobile device early retirement?

  I have an "old" HTC Wizard, Windows Mobile 5 PDA phone. I got it as part of purchasing an O2 talk-plan about two and half years ago. Conchango would rather I was part of the company mobile scheme. I want to keep my phone though. I prefer the PDA phone Read More... Posted 18 September 2008 11:25 by James.Saull | 3 Comments

• Snap goes Snappy Chrome

  So whilst lots of people have been marvelling at how snappy Chrome is, some people have been looking at how to snap it: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,39485521,00.htm Buffer overflows and carpet-bomb vulnerabilities it would seem. It is Read More... Posted 08 September 2008 13:34 by James.Saull | 0 Comments

• PowerShell + Microsoft Hyper-V

  I recently blogged about PowerShell + VMWare . I have also taken a look at the PowerShell management offering around Hyper-V . Hyper-V places WMI as the primary management interface. That makes perfect sense as the lowest common, standards based, denominator. Read More... Posted 05 September 2008 15:13 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: PowerShell, SQL Server, Virtualisation

• Apparently Google Chrome is Snappy

  Everyone seems to be very excited about Google Chrome so I thought I'd add some cynicism. Yet another browser. Woohoo! Just what everyone building web sites needs. Because the test matrix of all the Operating Systems and Browsers multiplied by the different Read More... Posted 05 September 2008 10:35 by James.Saull | 1 Comments

• Megastructure Data Centres

  RunAsRadio first introduced me to the topic of vast next-generation data centres being built near cheap renewable power and an Internet connectivity nexus whilst being provisioned, lego-brick-style, floors at a time. Not server, by server. Not rack by Read More... Posted 01 September 2008 14:19 by James.Saull | 2 Comments