One the great things I love about reading blogs is the things you stumble across Dave Overton had a blog post today about software we rely on What software could you not live without – tell Windows Vista Magazine? – David Overton’s Blog Other than the Microsoft stuff he mentioned a program called EZDetach I
Month: July 2008
Mojave Experiment – My Thoughts and consumer perceptions
I stumbled across the Windows Mojave website on various blogs last week (I think I saw it on Steve Clayton’s blog first) Here’s one description “Microsoft last week travelled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and
We’ve Got Wheels
I’m certainly not the first person to have done this but couldn’t help post about it We’ve had an awful lot going on here recently I posted a couple of months ago about our latest recruit. The main plan was to get him up to speed on how we work and develop his role to
SharePoint, Incoming Emails, Automatic Workflow’s, SORTED!
Yesterday’s post talked about how I’d tried to apply the Infrastructure Update for WSS so that I could get workflow’s to start automatically from incoming emails (history here and here) and I ended up killing my server! This morning I applied service pack 1 and then the update (after taking a complete backup of course
Lucky Lucky Boy!
Yesterday I was supposed to be spending the day thinking about SharePoint at an event Combined Knowledge were running (Vijay posted the details here) I did spend the day thinking about SharePoint but for different reasons First a little bit of background We run two SharePoint sites internally that pretty much run our business There
BT Investing In Fibre
Two words on this one WOO HOO! Here’s the story on the BBC site There had been rumblings a while back about BT not wanting to invest in the infrastructure and get fibre into the “last mile” While this isn’t going to happen overnight (2012 from what I can see) it’s a step in the
Some News
I know this has already been done but after the day i’ve had i don’t care! A few weeks ago i briefly mentioned i’d had some big news This is it Baby number two on the way! Picture is from the 12 week scan and we got to see the little one kicking it’s legs
HP ML350 G5 Resetting on Power Failure
We learnt quite a lot on the last SBS install we did recently Normally when we’re putting in a network we try to ensure we’re only working with equipment we know and trust. Normally this isn’t a problem as we recommend certain hardware to the client they just decide which specific items they want On
Landline? Not me
I spotted an article over on Ars Technica a couple of weeks ago that i’ve only just gotten around to blogging about Landlines? One quarter of Europeans go without I’ve one of them I cancelled my landline about six months ago as i couldn’t really see the point in keeping it. I get my broadband
Bitter? or just a difference of opinion?
I just found an article on the BBC News site titled, It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars As I started to read down this I thought it was a journalist with a Microsoft grudge who hadn’t done his research and it wasn’t until I got to the end that I realised this wasn’t exactly