ZTE MF627 and Windows 7

Just a quick one! I recently acquired a 3 Mobile broadband dongle The specific model of the dongle is ZTE MF627 When i ran the installer program on my laptop (which is running Windows 7 Professional) everything seemed to install ok but it refused to pick up the modem I tried it on my netbook

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Spreading the word

Slightly off topic but I haven’t posted in a while so why not I’ve become quite familiar with the inner workings of WordPress recently. This blog runs on WordPress but I’ve also done a couple of installations for my wife (who is amazing by the way!) Photo Blog (www.bryonyparkes.co.uk) This is pretty self explanatory. Bryony

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Principal "username" is not able to access the database "db" under the current security context.

Just to remind me because I always forget about it I was trying to do some maintenance on the SQL database that I use for one of my sites. I used SQL Management Studio to connect ok but when I tried to expand the database container I got this error (with username and dbname being

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Road to Gold!

Slightly off topic but it’s my blog 😉 Even though the London Olympics wont be here until 2012 did you know British athletes are competing in an Olympic event at the moment? Even better they actually stand a chance of bringing some gold medals home! Athletes from 60+ countries from around the world are currently

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Small Business Server 2008 – Installation, Migration and Configuration

A book review! Small Business Server 2008 – Installation, Migration, and Configuration by David Overton While there are some great books for anyone working in the SBS space I’m of the opinion there aren’t enough written in the UK so it was with great anticipation I awaited the release of this book once I’d heard

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