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July 2008 - Posts

The Client Transition from 32-bit to 64-Bit

I have been working on 64-bit adoption for many years now (some say too many), first with Itanium and then more recently over the last 4 years with X64. Clearly there has been a shift from 32-bit to 64-bit on the server for obvious reasons, with some Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:42 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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The “Mojave Experiment”

This is an interesting experiment that was conducted around Vista. They asked a number of people that had not installed Vista to try our our latest Windows 7 product. ( http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/ )   There are a few comments on why it was not Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:31 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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How Can You Slipstream IE8 into a Vista Install Image?

So if you ever wanted IE8 to be integrated into your Vista Install Image, how could you do this? In this really quick 8 minute screencast, Matt Hester shows how you can do this pretty quickly on EDGE . Click on the image to see the screencast. Slipstreaming Read More...
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 2:59 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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PowerTools PowerShell Commands for OpenXML Released

Eric White on the team has just released his PowerTools PowerShell cmdlets for OpenXML onto Codeplex. The PowerTools for Open XML is sample source code and guidance for developers showing how to build PowerShell cmdlets that can create and modify Open Read More...
Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 3:51 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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The Front Fell Off

I normally keep my blog pretty much on track with Technical Stuff, but this video caught my eye as something pretty funny and very typical of other scenarios in the IT Industry. Take a look     And yes, it is flash... Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:33 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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Excel running in a HPC Cluster

Wenming has just created a cool demo which shows how Microsoft Excel can be configured in a Windows HPC Server cluster so that different parts of the calculation can be executed on different nodes and the results brought back to the user ( in this can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:15 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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