http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave chris rue's headquarters for truth, justice & mobility Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:44:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For anyone interested in Essential Business Server, the EBS team is offering a limited amount of free exam vouchers to sit the 071-654 – Windows Essential Business Server 2008, Configuring exam. Here’s what you need to do to get in on the action… Navigate to http://www.prometric.com/Microsoft/default.htm Select Schedule/Reschedule Schedule an appointment Select your ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/08/free-voucher-for-essential-business-server-exam-beta.html That’s right folks. Black Warrior Technology has become an official member of the Microsoft Small Business Racing Team. Which means The Arrowhead of Awesomeness can officially appear on the #00 Toyota Camry driven by Michael McDowell for Michael Waltrip Racing. Why? Because there is no type of sport that does more for its sponsors ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/welcome-to-the-funcar.html The first of my speaking engagements at Worldwide Partner Conference went smashingly well yesterday. That was the Windows Mobile keynote in room 372 BCEF talking about Mobility in Small and Medium Sized Businesses. The room was full, and I don’t remember anyone leaving during the session at all. Despite the fact that my own ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/one-down-one-to-go.html You’re prolly hearing lots about WPC 2008, even from people who aren’t anywhere near the conference. Which means they missed the world premier of a brand-new rap sensation. A-Fresh in tha hiz-zay. Jea-lous? Peace. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/our-homegirl.html There’s no single more important thing to the long-term health of any network system than accurate time. Without accurate time, there is no way to assure than any transactions flying in that environment will maintain fidelity. In other words… There’s no way to know that databases, Active Directory, file systems, or anything else that ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/a-matter-of-time.html While checking in this morning at WPC, I did not bring a printout of the final confirmation e-mail I had received earlier this week. And I actually did that on purpose. That e-mail contained a barcode which could be scanned at the regstration desk, and would make checking in a breeze. But ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/save-a-tree-at-wpc-with-windows-mobile.html Unrepentant FaceBook junkie that I am, I’ve got a photo album rolling for WPC 2008. WPC 2008 FaceBook album Come check it out and see if you, or someone you know, has been immortalized yet. Obviously, the patented Funcave Smart-Aleck-Captionator has been activated. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/worldwide-partner-conference-2008-in-pictures.html There have been plenty of great female action stars on the big screen over the years… Marion Ravenwood Lara Croft Every character played by Michelle Yeoh and even… Dora The Explorer Pixar just gave us another one… A long long time ago, in a lifetime far far away (20 years to be exact)… I was in a session at a writer’s ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/the-next-great-female-action-star.html Yet another one for all the troubleshooter homies in the house… First person to post the correct answer gets an assortment of swag from WPC. Enjoy! http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/07/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-2-2.html and I’m a Facebook addict. Sweet Mother of Moses. There’s gotta be a 12 step program I can join for this one. 99% of the blame for getting me hooked on Crackbook rests squarely with Microsofties and the upcoming WPC in Houston in a couple of weeks. Alright…I’m off to rob a liquor store to support my ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/my-name-is-chris.html The officially official version of Hyper-V just hit the download site today at noon Pacific time. In an amazing feat of time-warping, this post was sent back in time to coincide with the exact moment of Hyper-V’s release. Before you go all crazy downloading and installing Hyper-V, remember that upgrading your virtualization ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/hyper-v-just-shipped.html It’s officially official. I’ll be part of two sessions at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston next month! In a stunning development that should shock no one… Both of them have to do with mobility solutions AKA Windows Mobile. Here are the official session codes and titles. I’ve even included links to a pair of .vcs files ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/at-worldwide-partner-conference-in-july.html E-Cycling Day was recently included as part of an Alabama Public Television feature on green initiatives in our state. The entire show is available online from the APTV.org website. If you just want to catch the section on E-Cycling Day, start at the 26:27 mark. And for the record…uncontrollable laughter. That was the reaction from Running ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/e-cycling-day-featured-on-alabama-public-television.html With the public release candidate of Small Business Server 2008 floating around and about, there might be a few folks who want to stand it up inside of Hyper-V RC1. When configuring a virtual machine to run SBS08, you’ll want to remove the native adapter that is configured by default, and add a Legacy ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/installing-small-business-server-2008-in-hyper-v.html OK… So this is really just a tease shot, yes. Instead, think of it as a whetting of your appetite. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/three-pretty-servers.html It’s officially unofficial… My primary focus is shifting to Essential Business Server. Well, not that SBS was ever really a focus for me. Still don’t know how that happened. But it doesn’t take a badge to push information that matters, right? First up… Virtualizing Essential Business Server (posts tomorrow) http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/essential-business-funcave.html For all you troubleshooters out there… First one to post up the right answer might get a prize from the infamous Funcave prize stash. Unless your last name is Stanfill. Or you have a pink blog. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/whats-wrong-with-this-picture-2.html Note to self… Never yank memory out of a server that was just running multiple servers in Hyper-V and maxed out on memory. At least not without something to put them down on…fast! I guess they don’t call them heat spreaders for nothing. Owwwwwwwwwww. Time to go ice my tech pimp hand. Totally worth it to see this ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/memory-is-hot.html Trust me on this one. NEVER make this setting change on a virtual machine… Unless you really don’t care how it runs, or if it runs at all. Or if you just want to see what it would be like to run Small Business Server with the processing equivalent of a Sinclair ZX ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/the-hyper-v-setting-of-doom.html Seriously… It’s pink and it’s awesome. Not because it’s pink mind you, but because it has one of the absolute sharpest minds in the drawer powering it. Beatrice Mulzer’s SBS TeeKlatsch Add it to your feeds list. Bookmark it. Have a flunky print it and put it in your chair each morning. Whatever. She’s been ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/the-best-pink-blog-you-are-not-reading-but-should-be.html You have to see this. Watch closely at the start of the video, to see what lights this candle. Office Worker Goes Absolutely Insane - Watch more free videos That’s right, someone knocking over a stack of papers. Here’s the last half, in color and with sound. Office Worker Meltdown Second Angle - Watch more ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/losing-more-than-it.html My next phone… No kidding, I’m drooling as I type this… Damn, that is hot. HTC Touch Pro. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/06/great-googly-moogly.html Weird weird issue on the normally kickass server here at the Funcave, which just so happens to be named Charlene. As in… The name of this server is CHARLENE, SIR! Tried to copy a 45GB VHD file to our girl… A file which came courtesy of someone who just so happens to have a pink blog… No matter ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/where-has-all-the-memory-gone.html Thanks to everyone who was in New Orleans earlier this month, and who took the time to fill out the mobility survey. Some awesome info there. Erick “Pimp Mastah” Simpson happened to uncover a weird little something today. Prolly having to do with the curious interaction of permissions that allows the ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-survey.html NOTE: This is another information transplant from the now-deceased Funboard. DISCLAIMER: This information is provided as-is, with no warranty or liability assumed from your use of it. Here's the sequence of steps used by the robot horde when upgrading any Windows Mobile device. There may be device-specific instructions from the particular device OEM/operator that overrule this ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/applying-rom-updates-to-windows-mobile-devices.html   As the announced upgrades to Windows Mobile 6.1 roll in, this post will keep a running list of links to those upgrades. No idea if the upgrades will be time-limited as many of the Windows Mobile 6.0 upgrades were, but it’s almost a given that you will have to sign-up or ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/windows-mobile-61-device-upgrades.html   NOTE: This is the first information transplant from the now-deceased Funboard. Thanks in a large part to MS offering Windows Mobile 6 free to OEMs & mobile operators for the purpose of creating upgrades for existing WM5 devices, there have been a slew of new upgrade announcements lately. This post will keep a ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/windows-mobile-60-device-upgrades.html Let me come right out and get this review over with in one sentence, for those of you who have important things to get done… The new Indiana Jones movies TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY SUCKS! Yep, I said it. Don’t waste your money on this tired old gasbag of a movie. In fact, I won’t waste your ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/say-it-aint-so-jones-say-it-aint-so.html I am. And I hope to see you there! Man, is this my shortest post ever, or what? http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/are-you-going-to-wpc.html And man…do I deserve it. In response to the post on pirate ROMs, and how I handled declining to answer a question on how to do it at the NOLA conference, I used the analogy of being a drug user (possession), rather than a drug dealer (distributing), Daniel took me out ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/daniel-koster-just-kicked-my-ass-and-with-good-reason.html Yes, I just had one of those when this come in over the transom… Eileen Brown (eileenb) is now following your updates on Twitter. Not only that… eileenb @chrisrue - thanks for the advice - the nasties are just growin - we're looking at a full format now :-) 24 minutes ago from ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/total-it-fanboy-moment.html Everyone in New Orleans last weekend who was in the final session about the community prolly heard me talk about the very real side that most people don’t want to hear about. All most people ever hear about is how great, grand, and wonderful the community is. And you know what? That ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/tech-community-iso-leadership-must-be-glutton-for-punishment.html A lot of interesting things happened in NOLA last weekend. Some of which I’m at liberty to discuss, some of which I’m not. But by far, the most disconcerting had to be the number of people who said to me at one point or another during the conference… Oh, I saw that you ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/how-would-i-know.html But maybe I can tell the future. [EDIT: But I completely forget the link. Doh!] Been preaching the mobile device revolution was the next big thing for a couple of years now. And decent web browsing would be the key. Honestly, there’s no magic. You can see what’s coming, as long as you are paying ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/no-i-dont-have-a-crystal-ball.html And with this being the big day for LT, I especially wanted to give a big shoutout of thanks to the LT Program Chair this year, the always amazing Pam Smith! She and her team did an amazing amazing job with LT this year, and I know all of my classmated ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/a-quick-shoutout-for-pam.html Today is the final class meeting for the 25th anniversary class of Leadership Tuscaloosa. This afternoon, we graduate. I’m feeling…really overwhelmed by it already. When I applied for Leadership Tuscaloosa, I knew it would be great. Even Running Antelope knew how important it was to me. When my acceptance letter came, I ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/today-is-a-big-day-for-me-and-39-good-friends-of-mine.html Again…let me tell you how astonished, humbled, and amazed at how many of you got real, tangible value out of the talk on Mobility I delivered in New Orleans this weekend. I appreciate EVERYONE who has already filled out the Mobility Survey. I will be responding to each of you individually about ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-the-war-on-roms.html I want to say BIG HUGE thanks to everyone who has filled out the Mobility survey so far. I am truly, honestly, and utterly amazed, humbled, and grateful at all the fantastic response from those folks who attended my talk on Mobility at the SBSmigration conference in New Orleans this weekend. I ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/lets-be-a-choir.html Folks are starting to respond to the Mobility survey I posted for NOLA conference attendees. Which is awesome! Thanks to everyone who’s responded so far. If you haven’t responded yet, please do! And if someone you know was at the conference, please remind them to fill out the survey. Gracias! You can get ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/mobility-survey-responses-are-coming-in.html Sorry for the long long delay in getting this info posted up here. I know that I announced to all the attendees at the NOLA conference that the survey would be posted by EOD. Unfortunately, some unforeseen logistical snafus kept me from getting this posted during the conference itself. Here’s the dealio… I ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/mobility-session-survey-available-now-for-nola-attendees.html This weekend’s conference in New Orleans really seemed to go well for a lot of folks, both from the perspective of having fun and getting valuable info. And I’m glad, because the best way to get value out of any conference is when said conference is both fun, and eye-opening. I was involved ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/so-how-was-the-nola-conference-for-you.html Today’s the day, kiddos. I’m already in the glorious swampland known as Louisiana and putting the finishing touches on my presention about Mobility in SMB. The gloves are coming off, and it’s being recorded for posterity. Here’s hoping I don’t fall on my posterior, and that everything’s real horrorshow. Wish me luck! http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/talking-bout-mobility-in-new-orleans.html It’s official. The Funboard AKA the FB has been permanently shuttered. This would be the official notice. Not planning to send anything about the closing via e-mail to any of the 650+ folks who registered for the FB, let alone its 17,000+ anonymous visitors. Certain info may make it out of the wreckage, but no ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/death-of-the-funboard.html Come get your slobber on! HTC Touch Diamond. There is no substitute. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/lust-defined.html If you’re interested in getting familiar with Windows Mobile without having to shell out any of your hard earned cash nor becoming a total vendor whore to score some free hardware, then Device Emulator could be the answer to your prayers. I could go on and on about the many many ways ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/05/chris-rues-device-emulator-guide-getting-started.html April’s Action Pack drop has just about the most new stuff I’ve ever seen from the mothership in any AP release. Check this out… Dynamics CRM 4.0 (all 3 of its users will be so happy) Exchange Server 2007 Standard SP1 Accounting Professional 2008 (U.S. only. Everyone else can start their whining now) OneCare Trial System ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/04/if-youre-like-me-you-like-to-be-near-the-action.html And here I thought I had found the answer to my More Mobile Than Mobile quandary…namely, the problem of carrying all the associated stuff. Big ups to Engadget for finding this. I think. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/04/so-close.html During his talk at MVP Summit last week, after he stressed the importance of communication and responsiveness from Microsoft employees to their customers… You think I was gonna pass up the chance to send Steve Ballmer an e-mail? Heck, I typed it on my trusty Treo 750 and fired it off before he had even left the stage. Yes, I tried ... http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/04/yes-i-got-a-response-from-ballmer.html Don’t ask me how Elisabeth Vanderveldt’s name keeps getting picked up by celebrity gossip aggregators. I’m thinking Nick & I were darn lucky that neither of us had to punch out any stalkerazzi at MVP Summit. Oh well…there’s always next year for socking some scumbags! http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/04/little-did-we-know.html Worst.Video.Evar And when talking about marketing debacles from Redmond… Being the worst is actually an accomplishment, of sorts. http://www.chrisrue.com/funcave/2008/04/somewhere-the-boss-should-be-suing-someone-over-this.html