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Aug 29

1 TerraByte disk drives

, , david, Friday, 7:26 am
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I remember the great excitement of buying a 1 GB disk drive. People asking “how will you ever use all that space?”. Now we’re using 1 TB disk drives at work! (Haven’t got one in my machine yet, but soon I hope.)


May 16

Driving and Drinking

, , , david, Friday, 9:28 pm

and eating.
Had the Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 ship party today. Driving carts on the Auckland Luge and drinking, the perfect combination ;-) Responsibly we did the driving before the drinking. We had a nice meal at the Long Bay Restaurant too.

The photo is thanks to Michael. As you can see I was having a great time. Pity you can’t see have fast I was going!


May 6

Ghost Solution Suite 2.5

, david, Tuesday, 7:16 am

We released Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 today.

New features include:

  • WinPE is now included – and is the default pre-OS
  • DeployAnywhere for hardware independent restore
  • Hot image creation
  • Secure decommissioning
  • VMDK support – create and restore
  • Native Linux versions of the tools
  • Linux pre-OS included as an alternative to WinPE and DOS
  • PQi and V2i support
  • Re-orderable task actions
  • Better support for running scripts
  • Better support for Sysprep

This presentation describes the new features in more detail.

It will be interesting to see how GSS2.5 is received, especially for me the new Linux tools. I see Microsoft recently added Linux support to their MOMS product as well.


Apr 10

Fire alert

, , , david, Thursday, 11:32 am

The air conditioning system at work started belching out smoke resulting in a full fire alert.

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Jan 9

Did you know?

david, Wednesday, 8:42 am

Ghost stands for General Hardware Oriented System Transfer. (Obviously a backronym.)