My new toy

I'm now the owner of a chumby: a sort of web enabled alarm clock.

Here's my virtual chumby:

Open Source Chat Server

Openfire Chat Server

We currently use IBM's Sametime Chat server. We have quite an old version and the chances are that another solution will be needed in future.

Converting VMware Images to Hyper V ones

I found this in a newsgroup posting: have not tried it yet but it seems an elegant solution. The excerpt below is from a posting by Steen Kirkby.

Running VMware Images and Hyper V Images on the same box

I was asked to do this the other day and it can cause you a lot of headaches. So hats off to Steve Graegert who has a nice solution in his blog, see link for details

Lotus Notes and McAffee Anti Virus

If you are running notes clients and McAffee anti virus on workstations you will need to ensure that you make exclusions in scanning and on access policies to make sure that notes files are not scanned.