Monthly Archive: July 2010

Jul 30

Google Apps gets iGoogle

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Way back in December of ‘07 I was grousing about (among other things) how much I disliked the Google Apps Start Page and how I wish Apps would get iGoogle instead. Fortunately, I’m  very patient guy… today it was announced that iGoogle is now replacing the Start Page! This is huge! This is great! This …

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Jul 25

Windows NFS: Don’t Forget .maphosts

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I recently mentioned that I was trying out NFS Services on Windows 2003. It actually has been working quite well for me – faster and less CPU than NFS to my OpenFiler server, in fact. OK, to be fair, the OpenFiler server is a bit older and running a pair of hyper-threaded Xeons while the …

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Jul 23

I Want Some Tab Candy

I was starting to fear that only Google was innovating in the browser space, but this Tab Candy intro video shows that Mozilla is definitely still in the game. Check it out: An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Jul 18

A Quick Look at Soluto

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It has been a long time since I last looked at software to improve boot speeds (“Windows Startup Tuning” from December ‘08). A new option recently crossed my radar though and it has some interesting wrinkles. For starters, Soluto is probably the prettiest little startup manager you’ve ever used for Windows. Definitely a non-traditional GUI …

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Jul 15

Read Errors

The final (?) note on the ESXi / HP saga (part 1 / part 2). This is too much of a downer to continue documenting! I’ll start with a quick tip: If moving data to NFS shares seems slow or gives you frequent timeouts look to your network gear. I was having issues getting ghettoVCB …

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