Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1 (RC1) has been made publically available. A huge number of updates are included in this service pack and complete list of these updates (and deployment guides for,overviews of, changes to and enterprise guideance for) Microsoft Vista SP1 can be found here .

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I would advise reading through the article that Alex Eckelberry has published on the SunbeltBlog site. Here is the link: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2007

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I suppose I should have included this in the previous entry, but, as I have been accused of being biased, here is how to resize a Microsoft Virtual Server virtual hard disk.

Microsoft Virtual Server does not come with any tools to allow you

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I was asked by a colleague the other days how to expand a virtual machine hard disk, so, here it is.

You can increase the size of the VMware virtual disk that you have a VM running on using the command line tool vmware-vdiskmanager. This tool will allow you to, amongst other things, resize a virtual hard disk.

There are a couple of caveats before you use

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ThinkGeek.com have done it again. They have looked at people working in IT and asked the question  "What do these poor souls need?" and as usual have come up trumps.

Introducing the Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, Wi-Fi Signal Status for You and the World!

"Here at ThinkGeek

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The much anticipated Apple iPhone launches in the UK today, so the queues of people waiting for the last couple of days outside the Apple store in Regents Street in London can finally go home and take a shower. The levels of interest that this story is generating are massive, even the BBC website is getting in on the act (following extract from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology

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