Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Daily Archives: July 27, 2008
vinf.net at 50k Hits and 8 Months.
Posted by on July 27, 2008
Well over the weekend this blog turned over 50,000 visits since it started in November 2007 whilst I was on a break at Briforum 2007 in Amsterdam, so lots of thanks to everyone who has been reading, this blog is currently averaging 500 views/day which considering I just started it as a repository for my own useful work tidbits is quite amazing to me.
I’ve got a couple of interesting posts in the pipeline around unattended ESX installations and a step by step to build this under VMWare Workstation and my experiences with Platespin PowerConvert – particularly how it maps into my mini/dedicated cloud architectures to deliver a totally flexible and easy to manage infrastructure through the physical to physical conversion process (P2P) and the normal V2P/P2V features.
Similarly, if there is anything you’d like to see – comment here with your suggestions!
Happy reading
Vista Mobility Centre
Posted by on July 27, 2008
Ironically, I’d never actually seen this screen before.. Windows Key – X and it pops up the following screen so I can get one place to find the Dell extensions and the MS normal control panel applets in one place that are relevant to “mobility”.
Thanks to
James O’Neil‘s post on where Microsoft went wrong with Vista for the tip, maybe thats one of the areas 🙂
For the record my laptop flies with Vista, and I agree with James’s point about suspend rather than shutdown reboot with suspend/resume it’s ready in < 5sec .. so why continually shutdown etc?
I hardly ever reboot my laptop other than to (un)install some software and suspend/resume works flawlessly, (unless I try to do it with my laptop’s built in 3G cell modem connected to Vodafone – as it will fail 1/2 way though and slowly cook in my laptop bag – but that’s a driver issue I assume rather than the OS).
as Eileen Brown discusses here I also frequently use MSCONFIG.EXE to keep the startup crapware free and the services stripped down to bare minimum…although I think Vista should police this a bit better.
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