http://oem.microsoft.com/script/contentpage.aspx?pageid=551794

Items from gates keynote to follow up on

Linksys media extender

Xbox Extender

Creative nuvo slim 256 & Zen micro – I river H320 – Samsung – Real Carbon hdd device - Dell Pocket DJ 5Gb -

- portable media centre -

 

Toshiba – http://www.qosmio.co.uk/

 

Entertainment centres

HP Digital Entertainment Center Launch 2004

Gateway Media Center PC 500 Series

 

 

HP removeable drives & photo printer

 

Dell AX50 

 

The Dana Owens Album– music

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/default.aspx

http://oem.microsoft.com/script/contentpage.aspx?pageid=551794

Items from gates keynote to follow up on

Linksys media extender

Xbox Extender

Creative nuvo slim 256 & Zen micro – I river H320 – Samsung – Real Carbon hdd device - Dell Pocket DJ 5Gb -

- portable media centre -

 

Toshiba – tablet

 

Gateway and HP music centres

 

HP removeable drives & photo printer

 

Dell AX50 

 

The Dana Owens Album– music

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/default.aspx

http://www.abbyy.com

ABBYY PDF Transformer is a powerful but easy-to-use PDF conversion utility that transforms any types of PDF files into editable formats without retyping and reformatting.

• Process PDF files from any source, including scanned PDFs and PDFs generated from within computer applications
• Open PDF files directly in Word and Excel for immediate editing
• Export to Microsoft Word, Excel, HTML, and TXT formats.
• All formatting elements (tables, columns, lists, and graphics) are replicated and can be edited
• Process an entire PDF file or selected pages
• Supports password-protected PDFs
• Runs either as a plug-in from your favorite Microsoft Office applications or as a stand-alone wizard which guides you through the entire conversion process.

http://www.acronis.co.uk/diskdirectorsuite.asp

Reorganize your PC for better performance and data protection.... Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 brings together the most popular disk management functions in a single suite: Partition manager: Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing your data; Boot manager: Create dual boot and multiboot environments; Disk editor: Edit hard disk manually; Partition recovery: Recover lost or deleted partition. Supported operating systems: Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT (including Server) / 2000 (including Server and Advanced Server) / XP / 2003 Server. See here the list of supported operating systems for multibooting. After installation Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 lets you create a bootable diskette or CD to manage partitions on a computer with any operating system.

This took place in the Grandstand and Phyliss Court Club, Henley.  A donation to the William Yeoman Cancer Care Trust was made for over £500.

Entertainment by "Soul Purpose" Jazz band made up of musicians from Local Marlow Schools

Caberat by Mr Graham P. Jolley - Mysticist !

It was my pleasure to attend this event at the Complete Angler in Marlow with my wife, Nicki and Reg Senda and Lady Anne Redgrave.  A good night was had by all.

http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Internet_Phones/4520-9140_16-5131535-1.html?tag=glnav

BBC News Halo 2 leaked onto the internet

Bungie Studio (Authors of Halo 2) Gold release article and a "wired" look behind the scenes in the offices of Bungie. Windows Media Hi Res Version

Whilst storage capacities ever increase and the pressure of the amount of data requiring to be stored increases along side, Numerica has been implimenting SAN and NAS technologies.  Whilst this sorts out the capacity side of networking accessing this data has always been via our front end servers using the traditional UNC connections ie \\servername\share.  Therefore we have implimented Microsoft DFS. Although DFS has been around since Windows 2000 our first attempts are its use with replication brought our wide area links to thier knees and so was abandond.

The Windows 2003 implimentation seems much improved.  Using a NAS box with Windows 2003 Storage Server we have implimented Domain wide DFS (published to Active Directory) and established DFS roots by discipline.  ie \\DomainName\Discipline. This means that we dont have to worry about which server has what on.  We can enable multiple local linked replica servers for load balancing and if we move applications between servers or need to take a server offline for maintenance systems are still online and accessable.

Long live \\numerica\it\common

By Monday morning some file reorganisation will be have been carried out to give us some more disc space.  In order to not worry about which server has what on and then be able to moved the storage around with new servers or SANs or NASs etc.  I have enabled Domain wide DFS.  (Currently there is no replication, only single links)

\\numerica\it will give you the full list of shares available, however the following are enabled as of this moment.

\\numerica\it\bugfixes
\\numerica\it\development
\\numerica\it\common
\\numerica\it\video
\\numerica\it\audio
\\numerica\it\cabsbackups
\\numerica\it\domainutils

I have also rationalised \\numerica\it\common slightly to try to put software under the manufactures name.  If this causes huge problems, like the installation location of office then it can be changed, however as it has moved servers this change would have to be made anyway.  Now we are using DFS this change should only need to be made this one last time. 

Lastly there is a directory called:
\\numerica\it\common\Archive or move items in this Folder
which has things in that should really be removed or put on a different share.  Please check these out if you are responsible for them.

An Introduction to Programming Outlook 2003 Using C#

How To Build an Office COM Add-in by Using Visual C# .NET

How to use the Microsoft Outlook Object Library to create an Outlook contact in Visual Basic .NET

Bring the Power of Visual Studio .NET to Business Solutions Built with Microsoft Office

Whilst successfully writing some simplel addins for OLK2003 using the PIA's doing things in more details requires some reading material. Here are the book references Ive found so far

Devices which detect speed cameras are to be banned, the Government has revealed.

The Department for Transport said it would seek to ban the dashboard devices as soon as possible because of fears motorists were using them to break speed limits without being caught.

Devices that use satellite-positioning systems to give drivers early warning of a speed camera will remain legal.

http://www.ukspeedtraps.co.uk/banned.htm

ISA 2004 has VPN quarantining. This is the ability to check a VPN clients patch level, and antivirus version before it is allowed onto the network. If it doesn't meet the requirements the client is moved to a safe area (quarantined) while said patches and AV updates are installed. I think it's actually a function of Windows, but massively updated in ISA 2004.

whitepaper for further perusal