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  • My new laptop: ASUS Lamborghini VX2s

    I'm doing quite a bit of development from home at the moment, and using my old laptop with its single core 1.2GHz processor and 1GB RAM just wasn't productive as I spent more time waiting for Windows to page memory from the swapfile than I did actually working. Of course, it doesn't help that it was running Vista Ultimate which consumes the best part of 1GB of RAM without even having any...
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  • SAN configuration for BizTalk 2004/2006

    The most important performance factor in a BizTalk environment is the SAN and the way it is configured. I’ve tuned a few enterprise BizTalk systems and in most cases the ultimate (and usually unsolvable by this time) bottleneck has been the disk write queue length on the database disk volume(s). Using slow disks, too few disks, an unsuitable volume configuration, or the wrong RAID level will come back...

  • When naming servers, please name them sensibly!

    At my house I have a bit of a north pole theme with my hardware naming conventions. The laptop I'm writing this on is called ICECAP, my media center is called GLACIER, and my desktop is called ICEBERG. Even my wireless network is called AURORA BOREALIS. Now this is a bit of fun in a home environment because there aren't many computers, it's only me who has to remember which is which, and...
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  • My new Media Center PC

    This is my first post directly to the new Community Server 2007 platform for this website; previous blog entries from the old site will be migrated as I get the chance. So as it's a new platform I thought I'd do something I haven't done before and post a non-technical entry about the new Media Center PC I've just built to replace my old one, which died an untimely death. A major problem...
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