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Win 1 of 4 Tickets to Microsoft Tech·Ed Africa 2010 worth R6 150 each!!!

Venue:    ICC Durban

Date:       17th - 20th October 2010

All you need to do is take a photo of a Microsoft Tag in a really cool/funny/practical place and upload the picture to the Facebook competition page.

More details in the competition animated video here.

Full Competition Rules on our Facebook page.

Dates for Submissions & Announcements of Winners:

• 25 Aug 2010    -    Last Date For Submissions (week 1) (5pm)
• 27 Aug 2010    -    Week 1 Winner Announced
• 01 Sep 2010    -    Last Date For Submissions (week 2) (5pm)
• 03 Sep 2010    -    Week 2 Winner Announced
• 08 Sep 2010    -    Last Date For Submissions (week 3) (5pm)
• 10 Sep 2010    -    Week 3 Winner Announced
• 15 Sep 2010    -    Last Date For Submissions (week 4) (5pm)
• 17 Sep 2010    -    Week 4 Winner Announced

Submissions & Announcements of Winners:

• A new winner will be selected weekly.
• Last date for submissions for a particular week is 5pm Wednesday of that week.
• Winner for that week will be announced on the Friday.
• Submissions after 5pm will count towards the following week.
• Submissions which did not win in a previous week will still be considered in following weeks and need not be re-submitted.
• A person can only win once, thereafter all his other submissions will be ignored.
• You cannot submit on behalf of another person.
• Submissions are done by posting a photo to the Facebook page wall.

Terms and Conditions apply:

This competition is limited to Tech·Ed Africa 2010 entrance and does not include Travel, hotel or any other expenses. You will be required to help out at the Developers Community Lounge at Tech·Ed Africa 2010 for 3 hours a day if you do win. For Full list of rules please consult the Facebook page.

I have posted before about the great tool called WinImage and how I think it is brilliant! I have been using it on and off recently and decided to share some tidbits of information about it.

I am a fan of virtualisation, my comments on an earlier post about it being the future should be a give away. As such I have a “few” VHD's around and sometimes I have problems which the out of the box technology can’t cope with. A few of these are:

Virtualisation is the way of the future, be it for demos or testing or production systems it is the future, and that means VHD files will be everywhere. However VHD files grow and grow and never shrink because of the way they are designed to work.

As I approach the end of this series I want to highlight some of the technology that the hosting machine is built on and some of the experiences I learnt with that. These last few posts are much shorter than the earlier ones but hopefully provide some quick bite size info.

So if you have looked at standard HMC then add all the technology we have added to it, you would assume there is a building full of servers. The reality is the server room has got lots of space and isn’t that big. How did we achieve this?

Virtual PC is 2007 out, according to Memnotk (download link is there too).
The beta for this was the most bug free beta I've ever seen and definately will be getting the RTM today (especially since I am upgrading)