Just last week, Citrix announced a cutback which would lead to 10% of the workforce being laid off. This resulted in approximately 500 to be forced to leave. Every section of the company was required to follow the 10% rule.…
What is the difference? With VHDs, it is a classification of virtual drive. The other two types have already been covered and now it is time to briefly cover what makes the difference VHD disk interesting. Why does it exist?…
The VHD format is becoming more popular based on common use by Microsoft. It has been said that Windows 7 will have built in support for VHD and will even allow a VHD to be booted. As has been said…
One aspect of volume management is knowing which clusters are free and which ones are used. This is typically something managed solely by the operating system but it is sometimes possible to get a glimpse of how things align.…
Blue Ocean Strategy is a book written by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Unlike some of the previous business books written about, this one was selected by me. There were a few different conversations about it at work which…
This topic presents an interesting problem. A disk is made up of sectors which are arranged as clusters by the file system. Both NTFS and FAT use a cluster model to clump together sectors into bigger chunks. The cluster model…
It can be frustrating when the right information is not available. In Windows there are tools designed to help determining disk configuration but for whatever reason, they are fairly hidden. Perhaps this is intentional to protect the system from the…
Things are rolling along today. After determining that the Intel program was a bit heavy for just figuring out whether or not Intel VT is there, it was discovered that the CPUID instruction could be used. Intel has documentation about…
There is a common problem where it is difficult to determine what your CPU can really do. Given the widespread addition of features in the last few years, it is often a mystery what your system can really accomplish. One…
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