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IT Professionals Community of Greater Toronto
During the current period of redesign and reconstruction of the IT Pro Toronto Website and Servers all of my articles and product reviews that would normally be posted to the on-line eZine at www.itprotoronto.ca/Zine will be posted directly to my blog. When the site is back up (hopefully the beginning of May) these articles will…
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Starting Out with Windows Server Core
When Microsoft announced the Server Core functionality of Windows Server 2008 a lot of people got very excited. Server Core is essentially the functionality of a server OS without any of the bloat of either a regular server or workstation OS. There is no graphical user interface (GUI) and it requires much fewer resources than…
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An Interesting Response to a NYTimes Article on Cell Phones
It seems that Apple is having issues selling phones to New York City, or rather AT&T is not selling their iPhones to New York City on-line (you can still purchase them at brick-and-mortar stores). This article (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/for-new-yorkers-trouble-buying-an-iphone-on-atts-site/) explores a little bit, but the following is a response from AAA in Central Pennsylvania. It sounds like…
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Mitch & Friends Play Guitar Hero!
At TechEd NorAm 2009 in Los Angeles the Community Corner had an XBox 360 setup to play Guitar Hero… Some buddies and I played a couple of songs. Watch them now! (I seem to recall we also did Hotel California with me on vocals… be glad that video appears to be lost forever!)
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Smart Windows 7 Smartphones!
For more information about the Windows Springboard Series visit http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8418918. In June of 2009 I wrote an article about a feature of Windows 7 that I loved… but couldn’t at the time confirm would actually make it into the final release of Windows 7. In fact I was unable to find any documentation on it…
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A Windows 2008 R2 Haiku!
I couldn’t believe it. There is actually a contest to write haiku about Windows Server 2008 R2. I used to write poetry, so I gave it a shot. Here are MY entries, based on the two technologies that I use most often: Virtualize All / Hyper-V is the true path / Green are your servers…
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eFolder… my first impressions of an automated on-line backup solution
My files are bulletproof… or at least I think/hope/pray that they are. I have a 60GB file on my laptop that stores my documents (and another 10GB of pictures). For security reasons the partition on which those directories sit is encrypted with BitLocker, so if I lose my laptop my files are safe. Every night…
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A Rebuttal to Windows 7: Seven points of imperfection
In her recent article ‘Windows 7: Seven points of imperfection’ (posted on IT World Canada, and written for PC World US) Jacqueline Emigh calls out seven deficiencies in Microsoft’s new client operating system. While I understand that columnists have to find a hook to please their editors, I am beginning to find it boring with…
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10 Dumb things you can do to your Cisco Router
This article came over my RSS feed from Global Knowledge; it is an article from January by David Davis which outlines 10 things you shouldn’t do with your Cisco router. If you were to turn it upside down, it is a really good reminder of ten tips you should always follow with your Cisco router……
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Don’t Mess With Juju!
<Originally posted October, 2006> Earlier today someone referenced this article from my old blog which will, eventually, be migrated over to my new blog. However in the meantime I am reposting it. To be frank the perfect record no longer stands true. –MDG Don’t Mess With Juju: Even if you are not superstitious it cannot…
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Windows 7 and Family Guy
The week Windows 7 released Microsoft was slated to sponsor a portion of the Fox TV animated(and rather colourful) show Family Guy. At the last minute they pulled the plug because someone realized that the show did not quite … well frankly it is crude and tasteless. Nonetheless the original clip has made it to…
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Mitch speaks with Stephen Ibaraki
I can hardly believe it has been nearly a year since I sat down to speak with Stephen Ibaraki. Stephen is a very well respected professional, a past-president of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), Advisor to Chair of Culminis (now GITCA), and a 44-year-veteran of the technology field. Aside from all of that I…
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A Brief Discussion of Security with Regard to Resource Over-Commitment in VMware
There are two schools of thought when it comes to physical memory over-commitment between virtual machines. The first school of thought is that it is a great way for virtual machines to leverage more memory than the host server actually has. the memory resources available to the Guest OS machines exceed the available resources of…
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Wild for Windows 7!
I have seen a lot of contests recently… some promise cash, others cool prizes. This contest will actually help you to grow your business! Microsoft Canada has a great contest for IT professionals and implementers. Do you have a story about how Windows 7 is helping you to expand your customer base? Have you developed…
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Windows 7 Comes to the Sarnia Computer Users Group!
On October 28 I was invited to present a STEP (Springboard Technical Experts Panel) Event for the Sarnia Computer Users Group in Sarnia, Ontario. Steve Syfuhs and I drove out there and had a great time, even though we were in for a surprise! I have to say that this group of retired hobbyists were…
The World According to Mitch 