Networking Events? Why Bother?

I’ve tried to write this post three or four times and given up as I wasn’t really sure if I was getting my point across, thought I’d have another go at it! Vaughan Shayler from Accredit UK posted this on Twitter a while back Interested in comments on Alan Sugar’s opinion of networking – http://on.fb.me/fyfNDz

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Book Review–Halo Evolutions (Volume 1 and 2)

One of the things I really enjoy about the Halo series of games is the back story and for Halo fans there has been plenty of fiction thrown up which I’ve been more than happy to read! So when I saw Halo Evolutions and Halo Evolutions Volume 2 on Amazon I ordered them straight away.

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Community looks great on the CV

I had a hard time thinking of a title for this post and I’m not entirely sure if it’s applicable…but it’ll do! Yesterday I read a post called “Dropping my MVP” The post from David Woods who was until very recently an MVP in developer security. David isn’t happy with his experience of the MVP

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0x0000007b Stop Error When Installing Windows XP

Yeah you read that right – Windows XP. We’ve been installing some new PCs for a client recently and we needed to install Windows XP (the reasoning behind this is best saved for a separate discussion). So we inserted the Windows XP installation CD, booted from the disk and waiting while Windows setup loaded. The

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Book Review–Gridiron

I’ve just finished the second book from the gifts I received at Christmas (though I somehow missed this off the original post!). I’d completely forgotten I’d added it to my Amazon wish list so it was a great surprise, especially when I discovered it’s out of print so I appreciated the effort taken to track

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SBS 2008, Windows Update and BITS

Just following on from my last post about SBS 2008 setup hanging while expanding and installing files. I mentioned in the last post that since it appeared to be Windows Update causing the problem I was hoping the update got stuck would be downloaded again when I manually ran the updates. So I started the

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SBS 2008 Setup Hang while Expanding and Installing Files

How very annoying this was. I’m setting up an SBS 2008 server for a client and the setup process got to the “expanding and installing files” part. It was running in the background whilst I was doing some other bits and pieces but I noticed it had seemed to get stuck right at the end

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