I ran into some trouble with Hyper V the other day – I had booted from a VHD into Windows Server 2008 R2 and was trying to start a VM – I got the usual ‘The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running” error.I had just had a BIOS failure [...]
Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category
Workplace Productivity Tip 2
August 8th, 2008
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This is the second in a series of tips about Workplace Productivity. If you want to get noticed, promoted, a pay rise or simple get out of the door quicker at the end of the day then these may be helpful. Understand the definition of your success. Mike is told by his boss to get [...]
Workplace Productivity Tip 1
August 7th, 2008
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This is the first in a series of tips about Workplace Productivity. If you want to get noticed, promoted, a pay rise or simple get out of the door quicker at the end of the day then these may be helpful. Get a system in place for recording your task list / projects / todo. [...]
A couple of handy scripts
January 29th, 2008
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I have been updating some of my ‘magicwords’ for SlickRun recently. This a great tool for getting focus on a particular task. Instead of having to mess about opening folders, word documents, web sites all in preparation for a task you can enter one ‘magicword’ and have it do all that work for you. For [...]
Todo.txt scripts
January 28th, 2008
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I’ve been spending a bit of time at LifeHacker recently, there is some pretty good tips over there (it’s where I found the PointUI for windows mobile 6). One of the posts I came across was this http://lifehacker.com/347269/lifehackers-exclusive-line-of-productivity-software. The Todo.sh command line tool caught my eye, as I always have a todo.txt hanging around on [...]
The killer UI for Windows Mobile
January 8th, 2008
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I am totally blown away by this. This is (IMHO) exactly what Windows mobile has been waiting for. I have downloaded and am using this on my HTC TyTN II (Kaiser) – works like a dream, very easy to use and responsive to finger touch / navigation.There are a number of known issues with it [...]
Automating Installs
August 27th, 2007
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I was spending far too much time installing OS’s – virtual machines, lab machines etc. In order to automate / streamline this I wanted to look at not just the Windows tools as well as other options. Remote Installation Service (RIS) and unattended.txt files go so far, but during my investigations I came across ‘Unattended‘. [...]
Consuming or Producing
August 13th, 2007
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I am was sitting on a plane (to Boston) writing this. In front of me is a laptop (obviously), my Creative Zen Vision:M mp3/4 player (complete with around 10 episodes of dot net rocks and 4 of hanselminutes), a pen and blank paper, a couple of work documents that I have committed to reviewing. Of [...]
Current and Planned Reading List
August 13th, 2007
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Books I am currently reading : Code Complete (Second Edition) by Steve McConnellThis is the second edition of the classic ‘software construction’ guide. It has been updated to bring it into line with current developments in the software construction arena. It serves as a great reference, with some very easily understood topics, some excellent insights [...]
