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Yesterday evening, the latest WMUG event took place at the Microsoft Reading Campus.
We had a great turnout, lots of questions asked of the MS Speaker (Paul Collins) who overviewed the System Center product range, and Gordon Mckenna who as usual, spent most of the Recap of MMS 2008 allocated time talking about Operations Manager!Unfortunately, David Scambler, who was going to shore up this discrepancy by talking about the best product in the System Center range, Configuration Manager, had to leave urgently for family reasons just before he was expected to get up and present. Oh well, at the next event we'll throttle Gordon back (quota of 2000 words or less? hehe!) and give you the real-deal on Configuration Manager.
We had some great feedback about what kind future content you want to see at the next event. Some even ventured the idea of presenting a subject ;-) You know who you are! This is entirely possible as our goal is to get the community communicating with the community (I like that sound bite!). Soon we'll be putting up Polls on the website, to enable us to provide you with the ability to directly shape the content of the next event. Worth noting, that at our future meetings we'll be aiming to get VM's configured and setup in a Lab area, as well as using them as part of a presentation so that as we discuss things we can demonstrate the point being made or highlighted.The great thing about WMUG is that's it's completely open to influence by the Community, and we were all very impressed with the turnout, the questions asked and the interest you all expressed.Again thanks to all that attended, for taking the time out to turn up, it was a real pleasure to meet up and talk.
Keep an eye peeled, we'll announce our next event very soon and begin polling to shape the content!
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Well, Cliff Hobbs has beat me to the post on the announcement that HP have snapped up EDS. Fair enough, considering Cliff works at EDS; It would have felt bad stealing his thunder so to speak ;-) So instead here's something I found today,
Microsoft Launches WorldWide Telescope Sourced from SlashDot:
WorldWide Telescope, developed by Microsoft's research arm, knits together images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and others. Windows users (only) can browse through the galaxy on their own or take guided tours of different outer-space destinations developed by astronomers and academics. The application allows viewing from different wavelengths such as X-ray, visible light, and hydrogen-alpha radiation. Business Week has a review and some background on the project, which has been in development for years. Google Sky beat them to the punch but Business Week opines that WWT's interface is superior."
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Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD
More pictures of the HDD's with the platters showing ;-)
Good news around a sad subject. But an amazing data recovery that led to completion of a physics experiment.
This may be showing up on MyITForum now, so, howdy and I hope as I blog I hit a subject that interests you :-)
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This review has been moved to the followig location:
Review of Snowsoft Snow Inventory tool