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Brian Boyko over at Network Performance Daily mentioned in passing that Network Instruments now have a blog.
Well worth a read… oh, and Network Performance Daily is well worth a read too!
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I thought I’d provide a small taster of what you can expect to find in the PowerShell support for PowerTime.
PowerShell includes the ability to treat various resources as if they are akin to a file system. We figured that this would be an interesting way to deal with a time series database.
New-PSDrive -Name ptdb -Root [...]

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Well, technically it’s afternoon but the reference to Whoops Apocalypse wouldn’t have worked otherwise.

The tests for PowerTime have been green before, but the tests and therefore the functionality, have now progressed a lot further. There’s still plenty of way to go…but at least we’re getting closer. Things have progressed far enough to allow Dean [...]

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A couple of months ago or so I lamented the fact that the raw temperature data from the UK met office is not publicly available.
I’ve just received some further feedback from the Met Office.
I was partially wrong, there is a lot more information available than I thought. Here’s a quote with a list of resources:

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…it’s not AI.
Funny.
Just ran across a great paper written by Eve Phillips documenting a history of artificial intelligence. Well worth a read. The title made me smile because my first job in IT was writing an expert system and it most certainly didn’t work. Must have been AI then.
The above paper [...]

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I complained in my recent Microsoft mypopia post that Microsoft had failed to support the main unit testing framework inside Visual Studio.
Happily, I’ve found a solution in the form of a Visual Studio add-in called TestDriven.NET. Now I can execute and debug my NUnit tests all from inside Visual Studio.
Just need a bit [...]

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After a brief two week hiatus on the website (it was only supposed to be one) I am now back onto writing Power Round Robin Database with Dean.
I am currently in the never never land of broken builds and failing unit tests struggling for the time when everything just works again.
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Great post by Chris Sanders on ARP poisoning for protocol analysis. Well worth a read.
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Are you wanting to get into OpenNMS but are struggling to get started? OpenNMS are running a series of training courses in Europe during May.
The introductory course titled “OpenNMS - A Day in the Life” will serve as an introduction to get you started with OpenNMS.
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Well, one anyway…a follow up on the first part of the Atari story by Landon Dyer detailing his experience on the Atari ST project.
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