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Friday Afternoon–hardware time

Friday, November 4, 2011
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Friday Afternoon–hardware time

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/11/04/friday-afternoon-hardware-time.aspx'; I spend far too much time in meetings these days.  But I try to keep my Friday afternoons free of meetings – and often use this time to update my various servers and try out new configurations.  Today it is time to rebuild some of my storage: ... »

Another reason to virtualize (and an appeal for aid)

Wednesday, January 12, 2011
By Virtual PC Guy
Another reason to virtualize (and an appeal for aid)

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/01/12/another-reason-to-virtualize-and-an-appeal-for-aid.aspx'; The last couple of days have been very strange and stressful for me.  The reason for this is that my home town – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia – is currently being flooded.  Thankfully all of my family is safe at this point in time – but it has been a... »

Back from vacation!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011
By Virtual PC Guy
Back from vacation!

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2011/01/04/back-from-vacation.aspx'; After a relaxing December on vacation I am now back at work – and ready to start blogging.  Or, at least, I thought I would be ready to start blogging.  Instead – I found that I needed to do a spot of cleaning first. You see – somehow,... »

Taking some time off

Saturday, December 4, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Taking some time off

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/12/04/taking-some-time-off.aspx'; For years now – whenever I have taken some time off from work I have gone through this process: A few weeks before my vacation: “I’m going to get blog posts pre-written for every day of my vacation!  No one will even know that I... »

Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

Thursday, September 16, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Diagnosing hard disk failure with Hyper-V

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/09/16/diagnosing-hard-disk-failure-with-hyper-v.aspx'; Last week I had one of the hard disks in my Hyper-V server fail.  Having had to deal with this a couple of times over the last few years, I had little trouble working through the process of fixing my system, but I thought I would write up the details of my... »

I need to read my own blog more often…

Friday, July 9, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
I need to read my own blog more often…

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/07/08/i-need-to-read-my-own-blog-more-often.aspx'; Over the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with some new (for me) server technology.  This has been a lot of fun – and I have been learning a lot.  However, a couple of days ago things started to go wrong. Specifically I started seeing... »

Talking about Dynamic Memory at TechED US 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Talking about Dynamic Memory at TechED US 2010

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/06/01/talking-about-dynamic-memory-at-teched-us-2010.aspx'; Next week I will be hanging out in New Orleans.  As well as doing my share of booth duty – and walking around talking to people about virtualization – I will be presenting on Dynamic Memory.  Here are the details: ... »

Blog Engine Update

Tuesday, May 25, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Blog Engine Update

After a bit of turbulence, it looks like we are up and running on the new blog engine.  I am really happy about this – as it makes it a lot easier for me to customize the look and feel of the blog without having to hack things up too much. For the time being... »

The Big [re]Build

Thursday, March 11, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
The Big [re]Build

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/03/10/the-big-re-build.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house, and more recently I talked about trying to backup my Hyper-V server.  This discussion of backup was actually in preparation for a significant rebuild of my home Hyper-V server, that I undertook a week and a half ago.  There... »

Adventures with Hyper-V and Backup

Monday, February 22, 2010
By Virtual PC Guy
Adventures with Hyper-V and Backup

tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/02/22/adventures-with-hyper-v-and-backup.aspx'; A while ago I talked about how I use Hyper-V in my house.  One of the problems that I identified with my current setup was that I had most of my virtual machines (except for the Windows Home Server) running on the same disk as the system disk for the management operating... »

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