This article describes a bug that dramatically reduces file copy performance on Windows systems. I cannot provide a fix (not having access to the Windows source code), but I have found a workaround. Continue reading ‘The 30 Second File Copy Bug, or: EFS = Bad Performance?’
I wish all my friends and readers a merry christmas and happy new year!
I hope you like sepago’s annual Christmas comic. Continue reading ‘VXI: How a Customer With Real Scalability Problems Uses Virtualization’
ChromeOS seems to be the talk of the day. Why not? It is an interesting concept. But will it be successful? That is the wrong question, actually. It should be rephrased to: When will it be successful? Continue reading ‘My Take on ChromeOS? It will be Successful when End Users can Manage their Photos and Music in the Cloud’
DiskLED is a small tool that displays performance counter data using an animated system tray icon. The new version 1.1 comes with a graphical configuration dialog that lets you choose from all performance counters available on the local system – you can monitor network throughput just as easily as hard disk activity or memory usage. In this article I am going to show you how to do that. Continue reading ‘How to Easily Monitor System Performance with the new DiskLED 1.1′
What would Joe, a Citrix admin, put on his Christmas wish list? Here are some guesses in no special order. Continue reading ‘Citrix Products 2010: A Wish List’
I just returned from my first CTP (Citrix Technology Professional) meeting and thought I might share a few experiences.
The meeting took place in one of Citrix’s headquarter buildings in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The meeting itself ran over two days, which means that most attendees were away from home and work for four. While that is certainly nice to know, the question you probably have is: “What does actually happen during such a meeting?” Continue reading ‘What is a CTP Meeting all about?’
Although humans in general and members of its subspecies “marketing manager” in particular tend to treat currently “hot” topics as new and revolutionary, they only rarely are. In fact, “new” should be considered as in “new wine in old bottles” rather than in “did not exist before”. Take virtualization. Although the topic of the day seems to be cloud computing, virtualization can probably still be called “hot” (especially since a cloud also is a kind of virtualization). But is it new? Judge for yourself: Below I have compiled a list of boring old technologies that employ virtualization. Continue reading ‘Virtualization – Old Hat?’
