http://community.zdnet.co.uk/uptime-blog/ ZDNet UK Blogs - Uptime Blog en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:38:21 +0000 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:38:21 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (() Information security professionals can look forward to a deepening appreciation for their skills as security continues to be recognised as an essential element for doing business in 2010 and beyond. However, despite this new-found appreciation companies ... zdnetuk/10014599 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014599o-2000542945b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:55:29 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) This story is is spot on: although network vendors make noises about reducing power consumption, in reality the nature of both their products and their locations in the datacentre...]]> zdnetuk/10014519 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014519o-114626b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:36:53 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) How utterly stupid - I am ranked #40 in the top 100 - as a member of this site..... I mean HOW utterly stupid.... I have done sweet FA, I have only rejoined this site after a 3 or 4 year absence..... And I have only posted about 3 comments so far - ... zdnetuk/10014460 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014460o-2000678139b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:59:24 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) Apologies for this late update to our core Patch Tuesday update. Here is a summary of the update .... The November Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft follows the largest patch and security update in Microsoft’s history. This month there are six update... zdnetuk/10014459 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014459o-2000673533b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:45:01 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) have announced that they'll be sellin...]]> zdnetuk/10014382 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014382o-114626b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:30:18 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (G) This week I had the pleasure of working with some of the Microsoft Premier Field Engineers (PFE's) in an effort to further understand some of the application compatibility issues that might occur when sequencing for Microsoft App-V (formerly SoftGrid). ... zdnetuk/10014345 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014345o-2000673533b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:30:59 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (S) When VMware’s main competition was a little company called Connectix (100 people to VMware’s 200), the two virtualisation teams were best enemies; staring each other down, going head to head and planning to crush the opposition and own the market. When... zdnetuk/10014328 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014328o-2000675210b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:30:00 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (S) SharePoint conference this week and I was thinking about Google in the session about using the FAST search engine in SharePoint, in terms of the tweaks administr...]]> zdnetuk/10014291 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014291o-2000675210b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:44:08 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) I'm still keeping my dual-Atom CPU Multi-Boot Mini-Server up to date, so I was pleased to see the release of CentOS 5.4 a week or so ago. This is known as the Community Enterprise Operating System, and although it is based on a fresh compilation of the ... zdnetuk/10014290 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014290o-2000498448b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:56:55 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (m) Are flywheels better than batteries? I visited a datacentre a while back that had a flywheel to fill the gap between power outages and the diesel generator kicking in. The datacentre manager told me it made sense because batteries - the usual alternative ... zdnetuk/10014247 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014247o-114626b,00.htm?s_cid=266 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:53:16 +0100