Technical
Anything of the tehnical nature can be found here. This includes hardware, software updates and networking.

I have moved hosting a few times in the last 2 years, however the lastest move is possibly the most exiciting since Diago.co.za and all my other sites, including the Eskhaleni corporate sites and my wifes blog HoneyB.co.za is now hosted on a VPS supplied by UltimateHosts.

There seems to be a big twitter frenzy around desktop configurations lately, and I have spent some time getting mine tweaked to exactly what I need everyday. Doing some small changes and using the right software, you can get a complete minimalistic desktop quickly and easily.

I have come to realize there is confusion around what is required for running 64Bit guests virtual machines. I put together a wiki entry at work on this topic recently and decided to publish it on my blog as well.

While working at a client I noticed some interesting items on his desktop, and he introduced me to Yahoo Widget, available for Windows and Mac.

Acer has released official drivers for some models of their range of hardware. This is long overdue but finally unlocks the true potential of Windows Vista.

I downloaded and installed the official release of Vista, and althought I am very happy with the operating system, the lack of driver support from Acer is shocking considering that they are selling computers listed as Vista ready.

When developing software for Windows Mobile there is a way to connect ActiveSync to the device emulator in Visual Studio for testing.