Merry Christmas all! This year my kids unpacked an Anki Overdrive: Fast and the Furious race track and associated parts – all anticipated of course. What is Anki Overdrive? Anki: Supported Devices We celebrated the day at our new “offsite” location (holiday home) in a part of New South Wales […]
Musings
Hi All, It’s been a while since I last posted – mainly distracted by the events of life.. and starting a new job. I’ll have some more content up soon, particularly a focus on completing the Enterprise Integration series. There will also be some more cloud computing coverage. R
Status Update
Reliability or luck? That’s a good question to ask. I’ve been buying Dell laptops almost exclusively for over a decade, and this is why. As of September, 2015 I own four working Dell laptops which span over a decade and a half in age, i.e. 1999-2015. Only one has a […]
A history of Dell Laptops
Well, I’ve finally managed to assemble the dream – a proper work space for working on servers, workstations, laptops and the like. It’s been years since I’ve been in a position to put something together, but a few weeks ago I managed to finalize the installation. Aside from the home […]
Repairs Workbench
I originally wrote this article about my now former employer, CGI Solutions and Technologies, back in January 2014 when I was lamenting what appeared to be the apparent demise of the company which I had originally joined in late 2011. Unbeknownst to me at that time, I was to be […]
Reflections on CGI
I found the wording of the Team Foundation Server post-install to be a tad demanding: “The following package installation requires an immediate restart of the machine: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.51.”: R
User notification du jour…
On Tuesday, Australia’s Liberal and National parties (“the Coalition” – in opposition to the governing party) released their alternative policy for the National Broadband Network (NBN) which was created by the current majority party, the Labor government. Their plan is to deliver a broadband solution to the Australian public sooner, […]
Comparing Australian Broadband Blueprints
Pardon the off topic post.. I’ll return to technical posts in a little while. For those not in the know, I’m on annual leave at the moment. This is usually a time to recharge the mental batteries and return fresh and animated. However, since this is my first big trip […]
Notes from my Holidays
1 Follow me on Twitter @ausrob maybe? At 12:30pm today, with green band on my arm (and extra swag in the conference bag), a group of helicopter flight winners made our way to the side of the convention building to await the promised chopper. We were split into groups of five, […]
TechEd 2012: Five if by air
We officially took off from Canberra at 8:30am winging it to the Gold Coast via Sydney airport. The one major advantage for me was being able to test out my Bose QC15 noise cancelling headphones. Success! What a difference, although I found that, initially, they did play a bit of […]
En Route
This evening I finally got around to checking out TechEd Australia’s session builder app online. It was honestly a real pleasure to see so many talented friends and former colleagues on the speaker’s list. This year, although the majority of the Level 400 sessions are infrastructure related, there’s enough Level […]
Presentations and TechEd Australia 2012
Regular readers of Sanders Technology will know (by now) that I’m not much of a user interface person. I started off in UX about 13 years ago, but gradually migrated into back-end systems like databases, data access design and web services. Does this disqualify me from passing judgement on user […]
Microsoft and Windows 8 Rebranding
Well hello there. Today I had a funny notion, wanting to determine just how long I’ve been writing technical blog articles. Don’t ask me why, I just became curious. So I had a look at my earliest entry – 17 October 2006. Well, you might think this is old enough […]
Random Blog Anniversary
I’m introducing a new category now – “Tech Meme” – which is going to be used more frequently for short, pithy articles usually highlighting something absurd, such as the following: I was trying to install Server Virtualization templates for Visio, when I was prompted for PIA assemblies: In a funny […]
Redundant UI
Recently I conducted a mini-audit of some of our less used servers and virtual machines, mainly hunting for some candidates to participate in load testing (hosts for Test Agents). Upon one server I was *amazed* to find a virtual server which had been running for 1,862 days! We’re talking over […]