RunningWithBulls.com - The curse of Sanfermin

Slightly tongue-in-cheek but true nonetheless.
I spent today at MSHQ attending the “Active Directory -Maximizing Performance and In-Depth Replication Troubleshooting” organised by Colm Torris of Microsoft Technet Ireland.
The seminars speakers were John Craddock and Sally Storey of Kimberry Consulting based in England.
TBH, I was slightly worried it was going to be a strange feeling, but I […]

The WebIreland event is on. As everyone knows Mister Marc Canter will be there, along with lots of other people.
You have a chance (well number of chances) to get a great free aspoke.com skin for your laptop there.
What is an aspoke.com laptop skin?
Aspoke is about making things special. In a world of mass-produced, inexpensive goods, […]

Richjard Waghorne writes on beginning a blog. Most of the points are correct and worth listening to, especially:
8. Engage with comments, but selectively. Most comments will be informative or otherwise useful. Repay the effort by replying, you’ll get a lot out of it. Where someone is looking to cause a row or has demonstrated poor […]

Finally EQO have released a Treo client. Excellent news.
EQO brings your Skype contacts to your mobile phone. You install the EQO app on your computer (currently PC and Mac support) that talks to Skype (which of course needs to be installed and running as long as you want to use EQO). EQO tells Skype how […]

[UPDATE:22GMT] Jack leaves a comment mentioning Greg Reinacker, founder and CEO of NewsGator has posted about the outage.
In the short of it, the MS SQL DB managed to write GBs of log files, take up 100% hardware capacity, and take the whole DB offline. Instead of failing over to another cluster node, the cluster goes […]

Well it looks like NewsGator is back up and running. Finally.
Thanks to Jack Brewster of NewsGator Technical Support for leaving a comment for me.
He didn’t go into too many details, but I’m sure the guys there are busy.
Anyway, thanks Jack.

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[UPDATE 2:] Newsgator have now changed their maintenance page to something more useful.

Honesty is the place policy guys. Or at least as close to honesty as you can go!
[UPDATE:] Ok, I think someone noticed, not sure who, but someone did. They also noticed all these people too
Ok, so NewsGator have put up some scant […]

This is ridiculous. Mobile operators sell (or at least give access to) subscribers data to third parties on the grounds of giving location based services to “protect” children.
Firstly the details about this service. Top Security, a security firm that offers physical security guards, and recently IT security are to release a service using mobile phones […]