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Just stumbled across this product today, looks pretty slick. It’s a backup/copy tool inspired by robocopy but can utilize VSS to snapshot live files, and then copy the snapshots.
What is HoboCopy?
HoboCopy is a backup/copy tool. It is inspired by robocopy in both name and in functionality. It differs greatly from robocopy, however, in […]

Top 10 bad tech ads

Steve Ballmer sells Windows 1.0

Don’t Copy that Floppy

Ellen Feis Apple Switch Ad

Commodore 64 Commercial

MS-DOS 5 Promo Video

Movie Piracy is a Crime

Parody of Movie Piracy is a Crime

Atari Pole Position

BT Slimtel

Kevin Costner Apple Ad

Amstrad Ad

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Overall I had hoped the event would be more technical.  It was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.  This picture is looking outside from Moscone West.

 
The sessions were good but didn’t really go as in depth as I would have liked.
On Tuesday I sat in on the following presentations:

VMware Infrastructure 3 […]

Back from VMworld 2007

What a trip, really good event - I think I heard there ended up being about 12,000 attendees.  Unfortunately I missed the opening speeches where ESX Server 3i was unveiled - although this had been a rumor for awhile now.
Speaking of 3i that was one of the items in our gift bags, a USB stick […]