My Virtual Business Card

Ok...here is my first try: Virtual Business Card

Any comments are welcome, positive AND negative ;-)

Yeah I know...I'm still working on a "about-me" that I can live with...

Ode to my cat

Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature.
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents.
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
Oh Tigger, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array,
And though you are not sentient, Tigger, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

71-693 - Pro: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator

At December 14, 2009 (12 AM EST) the registration for the Microsoft beta exam "71-693 - Pro: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator" will become available for registration.

If the post with the promotional code will become available to the general public, be fast to register... be very fast!

The last time the "71-659 - Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualisation" became available it was full within 3 hours!

Just to get something out of the way: I WILL NOT GIVE YOU THE PROMOTION CODE!
The official announcement will be done by Microsoft at the blog of MSLearn.

Why I will not give you the promotional code? Take a look at this blogpost from MSLearn.

More information to follow (including some great sites with study matterials for this exam!)

The power of punctuation...

An English professor wrote the words:
"A woman without her man is nothing"
on the chalkboard and asked his students
to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote:
"A woman, without her man, is nothing".

All the females wrote:
"A woman, without her, man is nothing".


Punctuation is extremely powerfull ! ! !

Mistakes when configuring a virtual clients environment

I came across some interesting tips on things to consider in a virtualized environment by Greg Shields (Consultant and Microsoft MVP).
They are non-issues (or settled issues) on physical environments and you might overlook them when making the transition to virtual machines.

Here's a summary to get you interested:

*) Screensavers
*) Managing from the console
*) AV on VM disk files
*) Power options
*) Cluster Failback
*) RAM availability
*) Backup for CSV
*) Number of processors

Here are the links to the actual articles:

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1365989_mem1,00.html
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1372408_mem1,00.html

You only think you know...

*\ Quote from Donald Rumsfeld:

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.

Microsoft Security Essentials - Free Anti-Virus for genuine Windows users ! ! !

For all you guys/girls that didn’t know : You can download Microsoft Security Essentials for FREE and use it if you are a genuine Windows user!

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Microsoft Security Essentials is an anti-malware service that helps protect consumers against viruses, spyware and other malware.


I've been participating in the beta-program of the Microsoft Security Essentials product and I must say that it is a very easy-to-use application, but also quite good in it's job!

To download it, go to: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

You can specify the language, operating system and bits-version (x86 and x64) at the download page.

Have fun!!