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My thoughts on Surface RT

After a week, here's my thoughts on my Surface RT so far ...

Speed up your Surface ...

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Windows 8 RT Phone - what do you plan?

It slices! It dices! It will clean as it blends! Or will it?

Nature of the Beast

How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you explain an idea like AuTechHeads?

Here be dragons - AuTechHeads v3.0!

AuTechHeads is 3 years old .. and the website is now at v3.0!

How to add your KMS keys for Windows 8 and Server 2012

Get your KMS Server ready for your new Windows 8 clients and Server 2012 OS's!

AVM Fritz!box 7390 – the ultimate home or small business router!

What's red and silver all over, and does everything for you, bar the dishes?

Top 5 Office 2010 features

This blog entry is not meant to be an IP transfer nor a thought provoker; rather this is more of a "did you know you could...." kind of blog.

Consolidated list of Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Hotfixes

An updated list of hotfixes for DPM servers, consolidated into a standard list of hotfixes for Win2k8 R2 SP1!

AuTechHeads 1st Anniversary Party - Registrations Open!

It's time to get your registration on. We're ready to party - are you?

Multiple Xbox 360 consoles and the Xbox Live Family Pack!

I was very lucky and privileged to have the help of some great AuTechHeads members in getting an Xbox 360 S. I've had fun getting it up and running with...

Empty users’ Recycle Bin with PowerShell and GPO

Want to force-empty domain user Recycle Bins (sounds like a Jedi power)? Can be done with PowerShell and GPO.

Windows Home Server 2011 Review

In which I install WHS 2011, and try to work out who Microsoft's target market are ...

The Case for Breaking Up TechEd Australia 2011

Teched Australia 2010 has just ended, but is having 3100 delegates in one place just too much of a good thing?

Fixing the Blackberry Enterprise Server Administration Service

Lost your ability to administer Blackberry Enterprise Server? Here's a way to gain access, and a heads up on a bug ...

SMBiT Professionals Brisbane Spotlight - GPO and RDS

Posted Friday, 21 October 2011 8:45 PM By HiltonT (profile)

Geekin' Out At The Chalk - SMBiT Professionals Brisbane, in association with Alan Burchill and Bryce Telfer, present:

Sunday Spotlight Streaming Session 10:00 - 17:00, 23 October, 2011

G'day All (and anyone else listening in),

Just a heads up to let you know that SMBiT Professionals Brisbane is running a Spotlight Session this coming Sunday (2011-10-23) at the Chalk Hotel in Woolloongabba where we're delving into Group Policy with Alan Burchill and Remote Desktop Server with Bryce Telfer as related (in particular) to an SBS 2011 environment.

The event will be streamed live for financial SMBiT Professionals members in our SharePoint site, under the Brisbane sub-site.

For everyone else, the event will be streamed free (of cost, password, however not advertisements) at:

http://www.justin.tv/hiltont

http://www.Ustream.tv/channel/SMBiTPro-Brisbane

So, feel free to get your geek on with us this weekend - the show starts around 10:00 AM and will be over just in time for us to watch the Rugby Union final! :)

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Single, Dual and Triple Channel RAM

Posted Thursday, 27 January 2011 12:30 PM By HiltonT (profile)

In response to an article by Mark about how he's configured his new Mac Pro for TTFN's video system, I posted the following comment. I figured, after reading it, that it has wider appeal than just in that thread, so I have re-posted it below. Please note, Mark had configured his Dual CPU Mac Pro with 4GB, 1GB, 1GB modules per CPU, which is what prompted my reply. Also, the following information applies equally to Intel-based Mac Pro systems (and possibly other Mac systems) and Intel-b ...

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G'day Mark,

I need to bring you up to speed on how RAM performance works with Intel chipsets and Nehalem/Westmere CPUs as it seems you're a little confused here.

Without knowing exactly what chipset is in your Mac Pro (or which CPUs) as there's no mention of this information in your article, I'll need to be a little more general than I could if I had more of this information available about your particular system.

The exact type of C ...

SMBiT Professionals (Brisbane) and the WIIN Seminars So Far

Posted Friday, 12 November 2010 4:06 PM By HiltonT (profile)

The aim of the SMBiT Professionals "Future Directions of Technology" seminar series is to generate discussion between the small to medium business owners in our target regions and their existing IT consultants around utilising Virtualisation, Cloud, Communications, Green Technology and Remote Workers with the objective of improving their bottom line through better utilisation of resources and technologies available to them. As these seminars are not tech-focussed, they do not contain much technobabble that makes business owners’ eyes glaze over – it is a much more business-focussed “how this may be able to enhance my business” seminar.

Well, we've delivered our "Future Directions of Technology" seminars to Brisbane, Alice Springs and Darwin so far. The feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive, which is great! :)

We've pretty much got our presentations down pat now, so should only be getting better as we head to Cairns on Monday 15th, Mackay on the 16th and Toowoomba on the 17th November.

If you know any business owners in these regions who are interested in learning more about Virtualization, Cloud, Communications, Green IT and Remote Workers and how these things can result in a better bottom line from better utilization of their IT budgets and resources, please pass the link above to them as we'd love to have them register and attend.

The aim of the seminar series is to generate discussion between the small to medium business owners in our target regions and their existing IT consultants around utilising Virtualisation, Cloud, Communications, Green Technology and ...

My thoughts on Surface RT - AuTechHeads Blogs

Yep, I wasn't especially clear on that. I am aware there's an ability to work around this (and assume this is the reference). I meant a 'supported' configuration option, perhaps one that optionally submits sites for review to include in the official whitelist...

-- Matt Marlor

You can add sites to the flash whitelist, There is a whole thread on the xda forums about it. I tested it myself and it does indeed work. How long the loophole stays open for is the big question

-- Si

Speed up your Surface ... - AuTechHeads Blogs

It was late at night, so this post probably wasn't the greatest/most coherent .. but changing the page file minimum and maximum setting to Recommended definitely seems to have made a substantial and noticeable difference, and I've now had a few confirmations...

Windows 8 RT Phone - what do you plan? - AuTechHeads Blogs

I agree Matt. The push towards "If you can't do something in Metro, just switch across to Explorer" will fail horribly on a touchscreen tablet or RT device. I can't imagine running OS X on an iPad, it would be terrible. But for people that want a device to...

-- Nigel Wadsworth

Coalface Tech Episode 29 - Eh? U TechEd! - AuTechHeads

that is hillarious. Thanks for letting me sub in on the show and chatting!

-- Rick Claus

thanks for the shoutout guys. And Rick, at least you got to do the AD session in NZ, and you got the better evals this year - share the joy! ;-)(and I did mention what the 31st bit was for during the AD session!) :-P

-- Pete Calvert

Tips for First-Timers - AuTechHeads Blogs

Thanks for this post. I too was debating if it was worth bringing my laptop along to the sessions, good to see I won't be alone when doing so.

-- Rebecca Adamson

How to add your KMS keys for Windows 8 and Server 2012 - AuTechHeads Blogs

Is also worth noting that you MUST have SP1 installed. Because our KMS server was on a dedicated VM, it somehow got missed on our patching cycle (we basically forgot it existed). We soon found out when we got the "This update is not applicable to your setup...

-- Colin Smith

Windows To Go - AuTechHeads Blogs

It's actually an SSD drive with a USB interface. I dare say that supporting any USB is too risky due to the high failure rates of crappy USBs, which in turn won't look good for Microsoft.

-- Adam Fowler

I wonder why they've "locked it down" to those two USB keys ? I have a perfectly good 64Gb key I could use...

-- moldor

thanks.. my 3rd teched this year and almost forgot the business cards!!

-- Brent England

Awesome post Brownie. Much wisdom.. wish I was going :-)

I'm really going to miss it this year. Some great sessions, great products, and of course the party.

Yeah, I like to use a laptop for a) furious tweeting and b) taking notes. Occasionally a bit of c) keeping up with work emails (still on the clock!).Good point about the wireless!

-- chrisbrownie

These are great tips! This is going to be my first TechEd and I've been wondering whether people are actually going to bring their laptops in during the sessions and whether there are charging stations etc. I'm also gonna bring my D-Link mobile companion...

-- Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com

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