April 2009 - Posts

MMS and Wolfram Alpha
Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:30 PM

Lots of folk posting about MMS, some great stuff happening in the ConfigMgr space, cannot wait for the beta :>

Also, I cannot way for this to launch ... new search engine toy, woohoo! May time!

 

 

Replaced my Mountain Bike
Monday, April 27, 2009 11:33 AM

Bought this puppy on the weekend:

http://www.cycleworld.co.uk/product/17860/Gary_Fisher_Wahoo_Disc_2009_Gunmetal

Rides nice ... lightweight, disc braking system, it responded well by soaking up a lot of feedback from the trail\road. Was actually really easy to navigate around at slow speeds rather than stalling and getting too twitchy like my old heavy framed bike did (which rode on hut off in to the big bike yard in the sky). Just need to find the time to take it out often!

Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition - Facing off with Star Trek
Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:46 PM

Another "worth a read link"!

Bit of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition face mining from 67 Star Trek episodes ... you can see the face recognition in action with a clip from that classic Star Trek episode "from Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Looks like they are getting that tech real tight, was cool watching the software adjusting the bounding boxes around Kirk and Spocks face as they shifted about the cardboard scene and dodgy primary school props hehe, and how it was trying to figure out the folk in the background ... impressive.

Bit of Bill
Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:34 PM

Got a couple of links for my "worth a read" list on Our Lad Bill (sourced ./)

Bill Gates the younger's growing pains from no other than Bill Gates Sr, and some photos from the Gates family album on the Wall Street Journal website.

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World Digital Library
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 5:04 PM

Stumbled upon this earlier, if you love reading ancient history, right up your street ...

Mission

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to:

Promote international and intercultural understanding;
Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Click here to visit

I found this on there, http://www.wdl.org/en/item/49/ - British Empire Throughout the World Exhibited in One View - By John Bartholomew (1831-1893) - Amazing to think we can access stuff from the 17th Century via the web!

And a lots of stuff on America here - http://www.wdl.org/en/search/gallery?ql=en&a=-8000&b=2009&c=US&r=NorthAmerica

And if you are in to your major league baseball history - http://www.wdl.org/en/item/29/

Awesome resource, hope you enjoy stumbling on it like I did

 

 

 

 

Got a MAC? Are you part of the iBotnet (only if you are a dodgy pirate!)
Friday, April 17, 2009 12:12 PM

Interesting story over on ZDNET (I originally sourced this on Slashdot) about Apple MAC's and what's being called iBotnet ...

MAC's may be so crippled that they don't get turned over by web based drive-bys, but they are not invunlerable to the invasion of the botnets!

What's even funnier about this is that if you are a part of this botnet, the chances are high that you pirating some dodgy MAC software from a P2P network! haha talk about being exposed!

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157

 

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Citrix and Application Virtualisation links
Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:22 PM

A colleague passed me a link to his blog of sorts a few weeks ago, meant to post it on here ... contains lots of links about Citrix and Application Virtualisation. If thats your thing, then go pick through his links, see if there's anything that tickles your fancy.

Arthurs netvibes

SMS / ConfigMgr Callback Information and Resources website
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 10:16 PM

Useful troubleshooting jump off point for when you need to raise a support case with Microsoft CSS. It's called the SMS / ConfigMgr Callback Information and Resources website

Even if you are not raising a case, its worth being bookmarked for the tips and links off in to the ConfigMgr documentation library

http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrcallback/default.aspx

Flight Control for iPhone
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 1:45 PM

I've got this game for the iPhone (yes apologies for mentioning the Apple beast here) called Flight Control. Has to be one of the most addictive games I've played in a long time. My fiance has same type of phone, and we have play off's once in a while, which is real geeky but great fun, especially since she never plays games!!!

Essentially using gestures you swipe the screen on an airplane and draw it's flight path to the runway. Four different types of craft, helicopter, twin-prop, normal airplane and jet airplane. Screen gets real busy in waves, awesome idea, so simply!

I'm currently at a score of 155, if you can beat that then drop a comment in the blog below!

Here's a link for more info on the game: FireMint - Flight Control

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