Dugie’s Pensieve

You heard it; Mike Neil gives a welcomed Hyper-V update at VMworld Europe.  During his interview, Mike mentions the Hypervisor is ~600K , and there [should] be an RC drop, and updates for the beta will come through Windows Update.

You can check out the interview with Mike on Virtualization.com:  http://blip.tv/file/699246  (Jump to 12:30 where Mike chats the Hypervisor.)

I have a huge backlog of blog posts sitting in my drafts that I haven’t finished writing/publishing.  So time to adapt and embrace the change I guess =)

Anyway, I have a huge backlog of posts, half written.  So I’m going to take a page from Mitch’s book , and a list of stuff stuck in my Procrastination Backlog:

1. Now that Windows 2008 is here, Windows 2003 and extended support is 2 years away;  I’ve been gathering some resources to help get preprod and QA environments in order
2. Virtualizing Exchange; pointers on implementation, getting support and other misc info.
3. Desktop power consumption; measuring, benchmarking, thoughts, and some home baked stats I’ve collected from the field
4. Recycling hardware; Some examples of what others are doing with their hardware
5. USB EDC; (EDC = Every Day Carry) An updated list of all the tools/material I carry on my 4Gb USB Key
6. Building a better POC; Some tips and guidance to get your proof of concept up and running faster, and get more out of it.

That’s it for starters, more posts to come.

Earth Hour is back again for 2008, and it’s wonderful Aussie initiative all about reducing our energy consumption, and making a difference.  The following snippet from the "Earth Hour website" says it nicely:

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2%.

So wherever you are in the world, join us at 8pm on the 29th March, switch off the lights, maybe even the tv and microwave.  …and if you don’t think it makes a difference, check out the photo NASA took last year during Earth Hour:

Pretty cool huh?