Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category

Hands-On Labs Gear (2009-2-24)

I have to be honest, I thought that I stopped being excited by hardware, but it turns out I haven’t.
Check out the picture I took today of all the equipment being used to power the hands-on labs.
I must say I got a little tingle.

Extending Boot Partitions (2008-11-10)

So you”ve used DiskPart many times to extend data drives, but are irritated at the limitation of not being able to extend boot partitions.  Well no more, Dell have a utility that can extend all partitions, including boot partitions.
The utility is called ExtPart and can be downloaded here, with the release notes being available here.
It [...]

VMware SRM Documents (2008-6-27)

I’m sure that most people are either aware of these documents already or would have stumbled across them at some point.

Intel Nehalem – What’s The Big Idea? (2008-6-26)

I was looking for an article that gave me a breakdown of the technology of the Nehalem. I didn’t want a techno deep-dive, but what I did want can be found here.
It shows that technologically the Nehalem effectively brings back HyperThreading by allow dual execution of threads simultaneously. Everyone knows that this doesn’t [...]