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My Life in the Rift 4/13/2014 Today I took a flight in GiantSlayer! (An Anti-Gravity timed race through rings with giants!) I really liked this demo, it has a great sense of speed and weight. You get that great Oculus Rift feeling of motion and size as you fly through rings and past a nice …

My Life in the Rift 4102014 For my Rift Experience today I tried the following two demos. The 3 Worlds & HypercastVR The 3 worlds is an older demo that I guess I missed, but it’s still a good little experience. It lets you roam around a cool little island with some medieval structures and …

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Today, I’m the fish.  Let me explain … I’m a fan of Sonicwall firewalls, that’s pretty plain to see if you have read much of this blog.  And I have been something of a fan of their wireless extensions, the SonicPoint’s and the SonicPoint management built into the firewalls.  What really got me going on …

My Life in the Rift For my Rift Experiences today I decided to try out the following two demos. Experience/Japan (Teaser Trailer) Page Link This is a demo for an upcoming virtual tour through Japan. I have tried a few of these virtual tour movies before and I really like the concept of “virtual tourism”. …

0x80070005 issue Activating Office 365 I often run into this activation issue at clients and the first thing they always check is their Office 365 Licensing portal. If you are on the right plan Microsoft Office should be activated when you download and install it from the portal. So it’s a little odd when it …

For a small company (10 people), itgroove sure pours on the coals so I get to thump on our drum a little today.  I’m pleased to announce that as of today (April 9, 2014) we have 3 certified Microsoft Office365 Professionals on staff – Colin Philips, Louis Warren and Stephanie Kahlam – as well as …

A customer of ours had an issue with the out of the box photo rotator in SharePoint – every few minutes it kept prompting them for credentials.  After some inspection, I noticed that pretty much every rotator solution would always change the image by swapping between two <img> elements, and changing the URL of the …

Hey, Uncle Rob!  How do I decide if I should go with on-premise servers or Office365?  I’m confused! Well, that’s a good (if loaded) question and I’m glad you asked.  I’ll do my best to give some sort of coherent answer. The first determining factor is “Can my data be stored outside of my national …

I haven’t written about ESXi in quote some time as I’ve been concentrating on Hyper-V but ESXi still creeps in to my builds every now and then (and there still is nothing like vConvert that is easily available in the Hyper-V world outside of System Center).  I hit a small problem this weekend while trying …