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The ZENBOOK™ is a far cry from commodity notebook PCs that are built to simply get the job done. It’s an exercise in philosophy, created by people who spend much time and effort to find a balance between technological advancement and better living. While the modern era is typified by rapid change and upheaval, the ZENBOOK™ epitomizes tranquility that seamlessly integrates with the lives of users. It is an initiative to fuse beauty, strength and stability in pure unison, built on new values, and evolved for a new age where finding what’s truly important in our lives is more vital...

Bob is one of the senior VPs at Microsoft.  In an effort to understand ALL the Microsoft technology available, he has installed all the major technology Microsoft provides into an extensive data center, in his home.

The setup is capable is serving 200-500 workstations, so it is a huge overkill for a house.  The room is AC controlled of course, and well, just watch the video.

What I think is really cool is that he has used terminal server, with a touch screen to implement touch panels all throughout the house, to provide streaming audio & video.

In one of my next blog entries, I will show you my MUCH scaled down version of this setup at my house.  It runs dual purpose, both as a data center for our home, and also...

One of the new features post SP1 in both HyperV server 2008 R2, and Server 2008 R2 is the ability to use dynamic memory allocation for your hyperV VMs.

A similar type of function has existed in VMWare for several generations, but Microsoft has put their own twist on the technology and included it as a free update in SP1.

Dynamic memory allows you to configure a base amount of RAM memory for the VM, that can expand and contract with resource demand on the system.  It’s a very efficient use of your RAM memory for servers running multiple hyperV VMs.



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Great news.  I just received this email from Netflix.  What a great improvement for both users AND Internet providers!!!

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Starting today, watching movies & TV shows in Canada will use 2/3 less data on average with minimal impact to video quality. For example, watching 30 hours of Netflix movies & TV shows will only use 9 GB of data, well below most Canadian ISP data caps. Previously, 30 hours from Netflix typically used 31 GB.

Why the change? We know that many of our Canadian members have monthly Internet data caps. This new default account setting will significantly reduce the amount of data Netflix delivers to you each month.

You now also have the ability to manage how much data Netflix delivers...

Voice dictation is a built in feature in Microsoft Windows 7.  You can use voice dictation in any program application or even on the Internet.

This blog post was entered using the voice dictation software in Microsoft's windows.  So far I am very happy with how the voice dictation works, it took about 5 minutes for me to train my voice to the computer before it can start using software.

The more you use the voice dictation application the better it becomes an understanding of voice.  The voice dictation software will also scours through your documents and spreadsheets for wording and grammatical information.

I would say the largest hurdle with using voice dictation is getting used to talking to your computer.  The room in...

A phone, to save us from, our phone….  They are quite slick!  The live tiles do save you time, and the way it integrates all types of social networks into one system is such a huge timesaver!

Certain websites required a higher level of access than others.  Specifically, those that have the need for login or are secured with SSL (https://www.site.com)

Commonly, in a Terminal Server Environment, these sites need to be added to the “Trusted Sites” list.

 

To do this, first open Internet Explorer, and look for the zone at the bottom of the window.



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So, for the first time in, well, I think ever we got a product for launch. This could mean one of two things... either there is good stock availability from Bell on the Motorola Atrix, OR we now have serious klout with Bell distribution. (my guess is the former, not the latter)

So, anyhow the Moto Atrix is the first phone is what I believe will become an entire shift in telecommunications and computers. This is not to say that the Atrix IS the phone to change the landscape, but it is something new, something very new...

 

Recently, we did a PC replacement from someone who was on Wordperfect and Quattro Pro and updated them to the latest version of Office 2007.

While Word will automatically convert WPD files on the fly, we found out fast that QPro will not. Luckily there is a simple convertor you can download for free from Microsoft (why it is not embedded is beyond me).

 

Anyhow the link is here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/excel/HA010448731033.aspx

 

 

In certain circumstances, usually due to a virus, the TCP/IP stack, and WINSOCK reg data, and files can become unstable, or corrupted.  Usually this means a rebuild, however you can run the steps below to prevent such work.

The Netsh.exe utility (netsh) is a command-line scripting tool that you can use to configure and monitor Windows Server 2003 networking. This tool gives you an interactive network shell interface.