If you like a bit of classic rock you have probably tuned to Planet Rock (http://www.planetrock.com/default.asp) from time to time. It is the only music station I have ever listened to on a regular basis (well, Jazz FM I liked but it shut down the week I got my only working DAB radio!). Most stations are too varied for me - although I have an eclectic taste I am not tolerant, one track I don’t like and I tend to turn off. Planet Rock has a narrow enough range that although it doesn’t play everything I like, I like everything it plays (near enough).

Anyway if you like Slash there is a free download available at http://www.planetrock.com/Article.asp?id=1745507&spid=35830 (I couldn’t find a link from the planet rock homepage, just had to google the site). I say free, you do have you enter your email and reply to a confirmation mail so you may end up with loads of junk mail.

I put Duff in the title as it refused to play in my VB based MP3 player wot I wrote. I dropped it into Audacity and exported it again and no problems. There must be some new MP3 format not supported by my old player (based on the media player object you can import into VB4 if anyone is wants to tell me more).

Oh yes, it also has Duff in the title because the track features Dave Grohl and Duff McKagan - do you see what I did there?

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/mar10/03-18DesktopVirtPR.mspx

Or just google microsoft virtualization for reports like http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871741/Microsoft-Citrix-Partner-in-Virtualization-Technology-Blitz.htm

Seem to say MS is giving some new push into virtualization.

RemoteFX  is supposed to deliver serious graphics like You Tube (did I say serious? well serious in client / server graphics) remotely. My understanding is that currently whilst simple graphics run on the host and the GDI commands are pushed to the client to draw locally, video requires the client to run the graphics processing, not what a thin client is built for. This new technology is what MS bought Calista for and could be good stuff if it does what it says on the press release.

MS servers will also be allocating VM memory dynamically - der, is that hard? I had assumed that was one of the benefits of client server computing but apparently servers apportioned the max memory a client could have and reserved it from start up. So if you had 1000 clients who all might need 2G of memory for 10% of the time you needed 2000G most of which wasn’t in use most of the time!

Dynamic allocation could make a real difference to server requirements - 900 clients are using 1G only 100 are using 2G you just saved 900G .  Imagine all the PC’s in your office / organistaion could swap memory at need:
“Can I just borrow a Gigabyte for an hour? I need to run the coffee-rota spreadsheet, you can have it back when I go back to ebaying later.”

Of course this is assuming all the clients don’t need there max memory at the same time - like when a really amusing You Tube video is released.

Or not, or at least it would do if I could upload them to this blog spot.

I’ll try again later but trust me it was a good pair of pictures from abroad trip!