Back then, the ideas of unified messaging and comms were just ‘nice to haves’, possible enhancements to what we had (and were at the time satisfied by) but by no means vital.

Today, the prospect of moving on to an org without these tools is like some kind of scheduled amputation - it’s safe to say I’m going to miss it.

At my current firm I’ve resisted the use of Social Networks, the idea of them makes me cringe on many levels (excluding Twitter, that’s a bit different) so it was interesting to hear from some firms about the use of sites such as LinkedIn to find and research candidates.

So, I’ve taken the leap and signed up, if you get spam from me apologies in advance!

Time: 7pm BST (GMT+1)

Marco Shaw, PowerShell MVP will be talking about /n software netcmdlets

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Rumors are coming from all directions, starting with O2 UK discounting the 8Gb unit by £100 and subsequently running out of stock to AT&T telling their staff they can’t take leave in a 4 week window from mid-june and execs from several firms giving “off the record” hints of a 3G device.

As June also brings the big 2.0 software update it makes sense that there would be some 2.0 hardware - I’m guessing the features between v1 and v2 will only really differ when it comes to UMTS/HSDPA so I’m not entirely fussed, but I have a few friends who are already working out if they can bear the cost of cutting their existing contracts short…

My commute is pretty easy so the data connectivity side of things isn’t of particular interest, EDGE is fine for reading the odd blog as I travel - in fact the only positive for me is that all the 2.5G haters will hopefully suck it up and buy one and hopefully increase the draw/demand to create decent stuff for the app store

Remoting is working (requiring a separate download of WinRM 2.0 (also a CTP).

From the official blog:

 

This release adds a plethora of new features. PowerShell remoting now allows a one-to-one interactive experience. Thought about partitioning and organizing PowerShell scripts? Use modules to create self-contained and reusable units. This release introduces transactions support in PowerShell engine and APIs along with an update to the Registry provider to support them. We introduced eventing support in Powershell engine for listening, forwarding and acting on management and system events. Support for multiple parameter sets in script cmdlets bring them to par with C# cmdlets. For the adventurous folks…. application developers can host PowerShell in IIS to support multiple remote PowerShell sessions in a single process. These are just a few of the new features we have packaged in this CTP2 release. Additionally this CTP2 includes some simple updates… like new parameters to several existing cmdlets. More feature descriptions and details are in the Release Notes and in the “about” topics included with the installation.

 

As with the previous release I’ve got to stress that this code isn’t even at beta stage yet and shouldn’t go ANYWHERE near a production system. Everything *should* be backwards compatible but V1 and V2 can’t coexist so this could really break things if you’re unlucky.

Download Powershell V2 CTP2

Download WinRM 2.0 CTP (needed for remoting)

Link: Official Blog

An NDA must have ended at 12:00 PST or something as it’s not common for game sites to elect to put new content out when most folk are asleep, gamespy are the first to break silence:

Hands on
Death Knight info
Videos
5-man and raid instances 

I know a few folk are considering straying to the likes of Age of Conan and Warhammer at the moment, with AoC releasing this month I’m thinking the timing of this barrage of news isn’t a coincidence

Update: WorldofWar.net have posted their take on the preview info here and a separate piece on death knights here.

Source: WoWInsider.com

Well, another one has appeared on the horizon aka ‘xobni’ (it’s inbox, backwards).

As I’m happy to be the software equivalent of the crash-test dummy I need a couple of kind folk to click the below so that they’ll “move you [me] to the top of the beta list and send you an invite code (usually within a few days)!“.

Why does that sound like “yes, please rush me my free catalogue of detritus monthly? Hmm.

Anyhow, clicky ->>

From the WindowsServer blog:

As I write this, I’m in the room where it all happens; in building 26, better known as the ship room. Ten minutes ago Windows Server 2008 officially RTM’d. Also in here with me are my colleagues who have been working on Windows Vista SP1; also RTM’ing today. We’ve all been working towards this day for the past 3 years and over 5,000 people have contributed to this release.

A separate post on Vista SP1 RTM’ing is available at the Vista Team blog here.

Technorati Tags: Powershell, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Vista, Vista SP1

They offer a neat Wordpress plugin which once installed adds the necessary code to ‘Crank’ an image, for any images you want to prevent being tagged (the header here on TT is a good example, I wasn’t keen on the idea of random comments appearing there) just add crankstate=”false” to the img tag.

So, good idea? Bad? Here’s something to get you started:

 Yes, I know, LOLCats=BAD but after the recent release of the LOLCat compiler for the CLR I just had to. Sorry.