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Yep, that’s right! The Virt Exam (071-652) has been posted on Trika’s Blog, on a pure First-Come-First-Serve basis… which is the type of action of “Act Fast!”

Trika’s Post on 71-652 Hyper-V Beta Exam

Seriously, run don’t walk on over to Trika’s blog for this opportunity to partake in the Hyper-V beta!

I personally am on hook to take it in a few weeks… Already signed up with Prometric! :)


(Inline are the details copied from Trika’s Blog!)

*** Update!***

Special thanks to Priscila Silva in MCS for links to the E-Learning for Virtualization (Trika Comments!)

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=84700
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=92459

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I’ve had this particular site tagged for quite a while, but never got around to letting people who didn’t know about it (yet read this) know about it.

Manybooks has quite an assortment of books, available in a number of formats!

The typical way I would work with this site is, download a bunch of files into a directory, slap in one of my SD cards, and then copy the files down to the SD card – Put it into my Kindle and BAM! I now have all of those books available and ready for me on the Kindle!

Very little work on my part, it’s a win-win situation all around!

This site has an amazing assortment of books, including most if not all of the Project Gutenberg library as well. I highly encourage you to check it out, whether you have a kindle, iphone, pc or any other method in which you’d like to read an assortment of books – You may be surprised at what is available!

Yep, that’s right!
So, I said that the Kindle was $399.00 before, well that story has changed! PRICE DROP!

Feels like the iPhone a bit! (So much that, I have contacted the Kindle folks to see if those of us who were early adopters are entitled to Kindle-Credit!) I’ll let you know if I see anything happen out of that.

Nonetheless, the further validation of this device as a useful and wonderful bookreader and more has been made by the market with a lowering of price! I’m sure competition, economics, recession and a number of things are to ’cause’, but it primarily says “We got something good going here and it works, so we can lower the price tag to make adoption even easier!”

Those of you who haven’t checked out the Kindle before, I encourage you to give it a shot and check it out!

If history has shown us anything, it isn’t going anywhere, and it’s only going to get better!

So, be sure to check out the Kindle here!

Fusion-IO has released the ioDrive rather recently, and apparently is backordered! oh my!

This thing looks cool on the surface!

Although it has tiny sizes of 80, 160 and 320gb, nonetheless the possibilities seem rather cool. This can definitely be a great boundary for high-speed disk for small data-sets.

Certainly I have initial concerns around the raid-ability of the disk and the potential losses, albeit it does predict protection from moving disk components – Nonetheless if you’ve never experienced solid state disk failures (As I have) you’re likely to find them to be a realistic problem to need to address.

I’ll personally be watching this one going forward, as they seem to be breaching a boundary of availability and feasibility in the SSD market, especially with the practicality and the sizes of SSD being even easier to deploy (and cheaper!)

If their product works as well as it is proposing to operate, I don’t imagine they’ll be able to survive on the open market for long without getting snatched up!