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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
New gadget
Monday, April 23, 2012
The changing life of social apps
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Windows 8 server
IT has loads of new and enhanced features. I am not going to list all of them however I would highlight a few of the ones that I will start looking at.
Specific aspects from the link above:
"Server 8 is also set to start breaking down some very important barriers by commoditising traditionally proprietary (and expensive) technologies and integrating them into the core OS. Long overdue features like NIC teaming join game-changers like deduplication, virtual HBAs and a thoroughly tested, enterprise-ready iSCSI target. Storage Spaces offers Drobo-like functionality, and Cluster Shared Volumes have moved beyond "Hyper-V only."
Be sure to read more on it Windows 8 server: the game changer
Monday, November 28, 2011
Migration of Response groups
and a second post on some of the changes: http://ucken.blogspot.com/2010/11/changes-in-lync-response-groups.html
Monday, November 14, 2011
Not complaining about the weather
while I am not complaining about this is seems that all the stores have their winter season clothing on sale for more than a month while the temperature outside is well over 12 degrees during the day. Yesyerday was a nice example - in the afternoon is was a whooping 18 degrees celcius and was wonderful to be outside walking during this time of year. The autumn leaves was also nice look at and my little son was joyfully playing with them as well.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Studies are over
Finally the exams are over - well for now anyway. Wrote 7 exams and while all of them we fairly OK I am conrened on the software development one. I think should I pass then it would be a just....
Anyway, so now its waiting for results. I certainly hope that I pass all as it was a tough year and I would not want to repeat all of them ...
Will keep u guys updated
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Research methodology
Just going through the module called research methodology. Although quite nice I find that sometimes the model answers provided are suspect. One such case is there the model answer states an answer and the explanation for it is "most likely". Now that would be an assumption and I cannot understand how that is provided as an explanation.
What the answer provided and something else that was based on the information provided and not on a most likely assumption....
Strange, however still going through all the materials for tomorrow. Wish me luck and will be back again soon.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Studying for exams
Been hitting the books recently and therefore had little time for updates here. I am currently completing the IT studies at unisa. Throughout the year the assignemetns were going fairly well. For all except the project module that is. The project module requires the full development of a project using any development language. I chose Java thinking it is the internet languiage and would be easy.
Boy was I wrong on that one. I realsied that it is by far much more advanced and integrated nowadays with additional tools like grails, ruby, IDE's, etc, etc. Sadly I had to drop that module as I did not have enough time to complete the program development. A disadvantage for me is that I was attempting this alone as compared to having a group which made the worload 5 times more. The positive news is that I have increased my programming knowledge at least 10 fold and will probably have another go next year.
I already wrote the first paper which was Information and Technology Mangement INT4 and I though it was quite OK. I prepared well and feel good on that one.
However I still have 5 more to go which seems at this stage as mega stuff to go through.
Speak soon
Friday, July 22, 2011
Nextplane
I was surprised to see that Skype was not included. Hope fuully now that Microsoft has bought Skype that will happen soon.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Cisco rumors on selling Linksys and Webex
Rumors about on Cisco selling Linksys and Webex
Rumor is that Cisco is planning to sell off Linksys and Webex. Cisco have not attempted to squash the rumour! Checkout the following links:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/18/cisco_linksys_sell_off/
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/73984
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2011/05/18/cisco-seen-near-sales-of-linksys-webex.html
Cisco wants to cut $1 billion dollars and they are doing that by reducing product lines and jobs. This is going to be crunch time for Cisco as according to Network world this could result in the elimination of 4,000 jobs!! – that would be the largest layoff in Cisco's history. Cisco is already offering early retirement to US and Canadian employees over 50 years old – so much for loyalty.