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Herein you will find the thoughts of Dave Webster of Microsoft EMEA. I am a Developer Evangelist based in the UK but interestingly enough I work in Europe Middle East and Africa but NOT the UK. You may wonder how this is done, as do I. I used to work as a Principal Consultant in New England US, but I reverse emigrated to the UK in 2003. I spend a lot of time on the road around EMEA talking to people about Microsoft Technology. However the most interesting part of my job is discovering what people are doing out there in the real world with our tools and platform.

December 2006 - Posts

Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:04 PM

Bent pin on an IDE disk drive

It turned out that Santa had brought my son some PC games and as his machine was basically in bits on Christmas Eve I started to put it all back together. Unfortunately I was a little too fortified with Christmas Cheer (Camel Valley Sparkling Wine) and

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Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:40 PM

Christmas PC Shenanigans

Well the weather here in Cornwall over Christmas was pretty horrible - no flying during the holiday. Still I was able to build a new machine for my sister (even more demanding than J9) ,check out Laurie’s new box up at the airfield, and wreck my son’s

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Filed under: Windows Vista

Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:10 PM

Lauries machine goes VISTA!

I mentioned in my last post that I was rebuilding Laurie’s machine – a good friend and a flight trainer in Perranporth flying club. Laurie frequently does Radio Telephony exams as part of the private pilot’s license. This entails linking two machines

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Filed under: Flying, Windows Vista

Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:35 PM

My Wife's machine goes VISTA

I have just inadvertently installed Windows Vista on my wife, J9’s, machine. Now this is the machine that I have solemnly promised not to install any Beta version of anything or otherwise mess around with her ‘stuff’. She uses this box for all her Ebay

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Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:05 PM

Linux on a stick

After a brief chat with Hans Verbeeck I decided (well Hans suggested) that I mess around with some 'competitive' technology. We chose a small Linux distro (SLAX popcorn). Now the idea is to boot from a memory stick and get the exact same environment on

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Filed under: linux