VMware Workstation
After evaluating the latest version of VMware Workstation 6 for my free month, I got out my credit card and bought a copy over the weekend.
Book recommendations
I bought Don Syme’s Expert F# book a couple of weeks ago. This is the definitive guide to a language that’s going to become an officially supported part of t...
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Screencasts
Scott Hanselman is working on a series of screencasts demonstrating the new features of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions. I watched his How-To Screencast on the MV...
FolderShare issues
Last week there was an issue with the FolderShare service, which may have inadvertently moved original files to the FolderShare Trash folder. This is detaile...
Upgrading Sky+ Pace 3100 Hard Disk
I’ve been having increasing problems with my Sky+ box over recent weeks culminating in programmes that would just hang during play back. I tried reinitialisi...
Home Server saves the day (again!)
There’s no two ways about it, Windows Home Server is cool. The backup system is excellent, especially the part where it only backs up identical clusters for ...
Updating file timestamps with PowerShell
I’ve recently copied over some Audible files from one PC to another. Had I used robocopy, I could have preserved all the timestamps but I just copied them in...
Rename-Item and square brackets in PowerShell (no -LiteralPath)
In the Managing wildcards in paths section of Windows PowerShell in Action (Part 2) on MSDN, it says:
Free data recovery software - TestDisk
I’ve copied across my IE favourites to a new PC knowing that I need to spend some time going through them and reorganising. There are things there that proba...
Ouch, hot keys!
I used to use WinKey to bind the Windows key on the keyboard together with another key to use as a shortcut. By default, the Windows shell has some “hotkeys”...
Blogging with Subtext
Once I’d made the decision to begin blogging again, I had a look around to see whether I should change the engine used to host my blog.
What’s new?
In the two years since I last blogged, lots of things have changed. I still work for Microsoft and I’m still part of the Application Development Consulting (...
I’m back!
You’d be forgiven for thinking that maybe I left for the PDC in September 2005 and never came back. The truth is work got on top of me and before I knew it, ...