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No Internet......a blessed curse....
Three days ago I called my ISP to complain about very, very, very slow web page load times. While on...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/24/2008
Freaky Coolness....
A buddy of mine in SoCal (Thanks Luke!) sent a link to me last night. I have since watched the video...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/19/2008
Session Resources for current TechNet events....
If you are interested in downloading the slides used at our current TechNet sessions, you can grab...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/18/2008
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 09-12-2008
Infrastructure Development & Operations · Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/16/2008
Zune 3.0 Update available....
We announced the Zune 3.0 software update today and you can get the software over at Zune.net. I...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/16/2008
XP SP3 on Windows Update?
I had a question come to me in email that stumped for a bit. "Do you think that Microsoft made...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/15/2008
Looking for Motherboard suggestions....
I have several dual-CPU machines. Yes....these are true multiple-CPU machines, not multi-core...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/15/2008
It's the shoes, man.....
Now this is funny..... https://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/09/apple_declares.php Cheers!
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/15/2008
Can you sing?
The wife and I are heading out to our usual Saturday night Karaoke hangout - Damon's in Bellevue. It...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/13/2008
Metallica full album "Death Magnetic" released as Guitar Hero 3 Tracks....
Dudes and Dudettes..... I just decided to take a break, grab a bite to eat and bang out a few tracks...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/12/2008
Windows Live Search comes to BlackBerry....
Check out this story over on Bloomberg announcing the deal we made with Research in Motion to get...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/12/2008
Do you get it yet?
The latest in the Adventures of Bill and Jerry..... Cheers!
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/12/2008
The LHC Rap....
There have been a few news articles on the Large Hadron Collider lately. Plenty of news on TV as...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/12/2008
Well.....we're still here!
The Large Hadron Collider was brought online today and the first proton beams were sent around the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/10/2008
New TechNet Radio release....
There is a new edition of TechNet Radio online that is available to download in MP3 and WMA formats....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/10/2008
Rock and Roll and more of those little hidden boxes...
Last night I went with my wife and a friend to see Santana in concert (also why I missed blogging...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/07/2008
Have you seen these viruses lately?
I have seen more than a dozen alerts from Forefront this week notifying me of virus attachments. All...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/06/2008
The Death of Physical Media.....
I bought the HD-DVD Microsoft released for the XBox 360. I did so knowing the format may not win the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/05/2008
Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld commercial....
I don't have TV service so I had to wait till it hit YouTube. Not what I expected which is good. I...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/04/2008
Chrominess....
I downloaded Chrome and played with it a little over the past 24 hours. Then I uninstalled it....
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/03/2008
Maxed out one of my TeraStations....
Just tried to move some pictures from my Sony HD video camera over to my media storage server and...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/02/2008
2 Days Missed....
This is what my blog post from last night was supposed to say... Missed One.... For those of you...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 09/02/2008
Would you steal passwords?
According to this article over at IT World, the vast majority of IT staff would consider collecting...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/30/2008
Christmas in August......sort of....
Back in January I posted about a friend of mine, Robbie Sparks, who was doing some writing, acting...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/28/2008
Under the Hood: Windows Vista Performance...Need Answers?
I imagine most any ITPro that has worked with Windows in the past decade knows about some of the...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/27/2008
My Twitter Badge....
If you scroll down my blog, on the left side you will see what I have added a Twitter Badge that...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/27/2008
TechNet Radio: What's New in the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR...
<pssst....doesn't sound very TechNet-like to me> There is a new TechNet Radio session online...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/27/2008
The Worlds Smallest PC?
It runs Red Hat but I am ignoring that. The Space Cube is an interesting little device (Link to...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/27/2008
The Facebook walk of shame....
Can I take yesterdays post back? I logged in this morning thinking I would spend a few minutes...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/25/2008
One of my favorite weekends of the year.....
....is this weekend. Why? It's Fantasy Football Draft Weekend! I have played Fantasy Football for...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/23/2008
Desktops v1.0 from Sysinternals....
This little tidbit came across Twitter via @Carnage4Life (Dare Obasanjo).... Mark Russinovich, known...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/23/2008
Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 08-15-08
Infrastructure Development & Operations · Troubleshooting Windows Home Server Connector...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/21/2008
A blog about Microsoft product team blogs....
In my search for interesting things to post about, I ran across a new blog that tracks Microsoft...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/21/2008
My awesome laptop....times 2...
I have had a Lenovo T61p laptop for almost a year now. This is absolutely the best laptop I have...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/20/2008
TechNet Radio: Performance Improvements in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
The latest edition of TechNet Radio is now online. In this session we speak to Roni Karassik...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/19/2008
Twitterfone....
I managed to get a beta invite (I don't think it is that hard...) to TwitterFone and I just sent my...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/19/2008
Native Blu-Ray support in Windows?
While posting my previous article, my eye caught a link on the PCPro.uk site stating "Microsoft...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/18/2008
Find out if pictures are copyrighted....
I suppose I have walked a fine line with the pictures I have used in my blog. As I write I may think...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/18/2008
Some nice thunderstorms tonight.....
I am filming the lightning show with my HD camera tonight. I don't know how well it will turn out...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/18/2008
TechNet Tips of the week....
I forgot to mention! Recently I started recording a TechNet Tip of the week segment which will get...
Author: Chris E. Avis Date: 08/16/2008