Microsoft Project Natal and Future

On May 20, 2010, in Games, internet, software, by sirslur

Project_Natal_Camera

Tuesday, while listing to Microsoft Technical Evangelist John Westin, I learned that  Natal for the Xbox will cost under $100.  This is a great price point in my opinion for the experience a person will have.

Microsoft is not just letting the Natal interface stop with the Xbox.  They are taking it and and the Windows 7 multi-touch to all devices.  There is a video at OfficeLabs that shows what Microsoft thinks will be the future in the next 10 years.  Everything in the video is a working prototype with the exception of the leg room on the Boeing 787 mockup.  My favorite product from the video has to be the newspaper.

Sir Slur

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Windows Server 2008 – Missing Drive Space

On February 6, 2010, in SharePoint, software, by sirslur

WS08-R2_v_rgb The story begins with me needing more drive space on my backup drive.  I allocated the extra space from our SAN.  Then I went into the server and told it to expand the drive with the extra space.

This is where it gets weird.  I could see the new space everywhere except in explore and chkdsk.  They were both telling me that no addition space had been added.  I could not find a way to get the server to recognize the extra space, not even a reboot worked.

 

This is when I took to the Internet.  I could not find anything that talked about this and Windows Server 2008.  I did find something about this for Windows Server 2003. The article talked about a DISKPART function that is not readily documented.  It is extend file system.

It worked like a champ.  Within a second of running this command, the server could recognize the addition storage.

Here are the commands to run once you are in DISKPART:

 

DISKPART> select volume 1 

DISKPART> extend filesystem

DiskPart successfully extended the file system on the volume.

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

 

Here is a link to the article for Windows Server 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832316

 

Sir Slur

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