In my previous post about getting Windows 7 onto the fantastic Dell Mini 9 I talked about solving things like the driver issues and antivirus. This time I’m going to cover how I installed Windows 7 onto the 8Gb SSD version of the Mini 9.

Interestingly, Windows 7 will actually install in about 8Gb. However, when I tried …

On the same day as the Alt.Net event I am organising there is a community event at TVP 'WebDD'09 - With all the latest stuff from MIX 09'.

We are spoilt, there is so much choice in the community events at this time of year

I am please to be able to announce that there will be an Alt.net Open Space Conference in Bradford on the 17/18th April this year. I had mentioned my intension of organising such an event at the last London conference, but it has taken a bit longer than expected to get sorted due to problems with getting the venue.

The …

At todays Azure event I heard a new word for my occasional buzz word posts.

Marketechture - an architecture designed by marketing for use in Powerpoint

You can now register for SQLBits IV in Manchester on the 28th March, hurry if you want to attend as these free conferences do tend to full up quick

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The Developer & Platform Group at Microsoft are bringing their cloud based Azure Services Platform Roadshow to …

Thanks to everyone who voted for my session 'Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System', it was successful in the selection process and so will be on the agenda at SQLBits IV on 28th March 2009 in Manchester

Hope to see you there.

The steps in this article were figured out with Windows 7. However, they should work just fine with Vista for anybody having the same issues. Note that whilst this is written for ATI hardware, it may be the case that NVidia gear suffers from the same problem and this solution should help.

Background first. I spent a …