From the monthly archives:
November 2011
Quick post to let everyone know that the AuTechHeads are getting together for social drinks on December 3, 7pm after Infrastructure Saturday. We're meeting at the Villager in Brisbane.
All
AuTechHeads members are welcome, attending Infrastructure Saturday
is
not a prerequisite so please spread the word and RSVP ....
Hi All,
Quick post to let everyone know that the AuTechHeads are getting together for social drinks on December 3, 7pm after Infrastructure Saturday. We're meeting at the Villager in Brisbane.
All
AuTechHeads members are welcome, attending Infrastructure Saturday is
not a prerequisite so please spread the word and RSVP so we can book the
venue with correct numbers.If you're a new member or you're looking to meet some new people in the group please come along and introduce yourself.
If you're interested in sponsoring this event or future events please get in touch with any of the core team members.
Where: The Villager, 185 George Street, Brisbane
When: 7pm - lateWhat: Drinks (Beer & Wine) + Snacks & a lucky door prize all sponsored by TechSmith !
Numbers are limited
RSVP by November 30
AuTechHeads Melbourne MeatUp WrapLast night was the first AuTechHeads Melbourne MeatUp! At 7.30 a bunch of geeks rocked up to Squires Loft Steakhouse for a night of steak, wine, beer and chat.
Last night was (at long last) the first AuTechHeads Melbourne MeatUp! At 7.30 a bunch of geeks rocked up to Squires Loft Steakhouse for a night of steak, wine, beer and chat. We were fortunate enough to be joined by Microsoft staff Jeff Alexander, Catherine Eibner and Rocky Heckman, in addition to AuTechHeads James Bannan, Chris Brown, Jodie Miners, Ben Ball and Jerome Brown.
Much discussion was had about all things ranging from Xbox to System Center to Golf. Zune Music Pass was the subject of much attention, in the wake of its Australian release last week.
Hopefully last night is a sign of good things to come within the Melbourne end of the AuTechHeads community. If you're in the area, please sing out, we'd love to hear from you. Please don't forget to join the Melbourne Members group.
Thanks again to everyone who came along, we appreciate your support
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It’s that time of year again…for the first time. Monday
night will herald the first AuTechHeads Melbourne MeatupTM. We hope
you can join us for what is sure to be the first of many fantastic foody and
geeky occasions. There's a rumour floating around that the one and only Mr Jeff
"Jeffa" Alexander, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist, will be joining us
for the festivities. Please come along for a fun evening of geekery and eatery!
Yes, we know it's next Monday, and a school night, but
hopefully ...
It’s that time of year again…for the first time. Monday
night will herald the first AuTechHeads Melbourne MeatupTM. We hope
you can join us for what is sure to be the first of many fantastic foody and
geeky occasions. There's a rumour floating around that the one and only Mr Jeff
"Jeffa" Alexander, Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist, will be joining us
for the festivities. Please come along for a fun evening of geekery and eatery!
Yes, we know it's next Monday, and a school night, but
hopefully we will see you there!
Venue has been confirmed as Squires Loft City Steakhouse at
12 Goldie Place, Melbourne 3000, booked for 7.30PM. RSVP is mandatory for numbers reasons, so
please use the registration form below or tweet us. Please hit either @hjmcmanus or @chrisbrownie
up on Twitter.
Officical hashtag is #MelbourneMeatUp so check it out!
Link to map of venue here.
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The first in a belated series of posts about the HP cloud launch I attended in Singapore!
I was recently privileged to be the guest of HP in Singapore for their Cloud Innovation in APJ event, where they announced a number of new Converged Systems products and services. HP is making a big push toward the cloud in the Asia Pacific region, with some major investments in Cloud Centers of Excellence, and product suites to match.
One of my long standing thoughts on cloud services is that they often don’t consider the existing infrastructure, from the client site(s) all the way through to the cloud’s edge. I’ve always disliked the assumption that ‘everything’ can go to the cloud, and that the WAN or Internet providers in-between the cloud and its customers can deliver 100% availability. Neither of these can be proven true with any level of certainty – especially third party network uptime. You could argue that, in Australia for example, matters have improved significantly and will probably improve even further with the advent of the National Broadband Networ ...
Having issues with the battery life in your iPhone 4S? Take a read of these tips to try and improve your battery life.
If you had a read of my iPhone 4S review, you would have noticed my mention of the poor battery life. Since I posted, the battery life has hovered between dodgy and horrible. This has also been noticed by a lot of users - in fact there is a 192-page thread on the Apple forums about it, with plenty of suggested fixes. After trying a number of these, I *seem* to have nailed the problems. I won't guarantee these as complete fixes - as I'll detail later, I think there is more afoot than just a few settings. First, I'll bore you with a bit of history, my first day with the iPhone 4S.
After reading about the improved battery life in the 4S, I had a great first day with the phone. After actually getting it and turning it on from about 8:30am, playing with it for the morning, and then doing a full restore from my old phone. Apart from the charge while the restore was going on, I didn't charge it for the rest of the day. Played lots with it in the afternoon and had about 10% charge left by 11pm that ...