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Roger Zandes SMS Client Spy tool, troubleshoot and manage SMS 2003 advanced clients (force inventory, show execution history, show running executions ..)
I had a look at this, and it has to be just about the most comprehensive client tool around. It also comes with an automation DLL.
Definately recommend a look,
He's made several other tools, check out his profile on SourceForge for a list
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I found this on BoingBoing, a VERY good insight in to P2P and audio\video piracy.
A media pirate -- someone who sells pirated DVDs and CDs for a living -- complains that P2P has put him out of business. People might be willing to buy legit music online even though P2P exists (hence the iTunes Store, whose biggest business challenge isn't convincing people to shell out for tunes, but rather to shell out for crippled, proprietary, iTunes-locked tunes), but they won't buy from pirates in the face of P2P.
The music industry likes to lump P2P and hard-goods piracy together, but they're not the same thing at all -- in fact, they're dire enemies. Piracy's biggest competitor is P2P.
According to Tony, the first 2 hours of every Saturday and Sunday morning at the local flea market always proved the most exciting. “We’d take 60 cases of CDRs down in the van and as soon as we got there a crowd would swarm around us. We had no competition and it was obvious the punters had no other suppliers. Inside 30 minutes, 90% of the stock would be gone with some customers taking 2 or 3 cases each, presumably to sell on. After 3 hours we were cleared out and on our way home, always with huge amounts of money.”...
Tony is very clear about why his rags to riches story has gone back to rags again. “File-sharing, P2P - call it what you like. When you asked a customer why he wasn’t buying anything, 9 times out of 10 it was ‘BitTorrent this, LimeWire that’. Add that to the fact that huge numbers of PC users have burners and fast broadband and its obvious why I had to get out and earn a living another way. We had it good for a while but I don’t think those days are coming back.”
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I put a Poll up in the SMS2003 Forum about how you go looking for your next contract.
I wanted to use the Poll feature of Community Server, but it will be insightful to see how you all vote on this one
http://wmug.co.uk/forums/thread/179.aspx
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If you've not upgraded to SMS2003 SP2 yet then this is an interesting read on the issues fixed by SP2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899738
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These are the most amazing, life like, scary and interesting sculptors i've ever laid eyes on. Kudos to Tom.
http://www.tskuebler.com/
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I stumbled on to a google video about Ghosts on the London Underground system earlier today. It piqued my interest so i googled for any amateur sites carrying info on the London Underground, and came across this site run by Hywel Williams. There are tons of pictures he's collected of the rooms and areas inside some of the stations that have been closed for many decades.
Hywel has a great 1929 map of the London tube system, awesome looking back in time to how it was then.
So many times as the tube has gone through tunnels, i've peered out in to the darkness and noticed what looked like stations, illuminated by the sparks from the lines. Obviously must of been some of the stations mentioned on Hywel's site.
Also here's a Wikipedia link for more London Underground info
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You can down a VHD and play with it in their virtualisation software
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/try/vhd/default.mspx
Currently only these products seem to be available:
Windows Server 2003 R2
Exchange Server 2007
SQL Server 2005