May, 2008


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May 08

New job – Vizioncore

Well, I had my last day at Clariti/S Central on Friday.  Finished up with farewell drinks and a BBQ, in true Clariti style.  In a couple of days I start my new job – Australia/NZ Systems Engineer for Vizioncore.  Should be a lot of fun.  Vizioncore have some great products for virtualised environments.

Don’t be surprised if my blog gets Vizioncored all of a sudden!


10
May 08

Any tools for local PC service monitoring?

I’ve got an HP multifunction printer (Photosmart 3310), with terrible drivers.  It works fine except for one issue – periodically the corresponding services on my PC spin up to 100% CPU, and stay there until I restart the service or reboot my PC.  If this happens when I’m not plugged into power it really eats the battery on my laptop.

Does anyone know of a tool I could use that monitors Windows services and restarts a service if, say, it’s been at 100% CPU for a minute?


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May 08

Getting Things Done with Outlook

I’ve recently become a big fan of the Getting Things Done methodology (GTD for short).  Simon Guest has a great writeup on how to implement GTD with Outlook 2007.