One of our clients recently made the move to Office 2007. While they have been getting on with it ok i was asked a question the other day i couldn’t immediately answer They have a subcontractor who uses Office 2004 on their Mac and wanted to be able to open documents. I asked what they
Fasthosts, Stupid or Smart?
Fasthosts aren’t having an easy time of it at the moment. It was discovered in October their user database had been comprised. They did a couple of things to resolve the problem including getting in touch with their customers to inform them of the problem. At the same time they were asked to change their
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High Definition Future
I’ve recently ventured into the high definition video arena when i picked up the HD-DVD add-on for my XBOX 360. I love the extra quality i get with my games so moving to a better film experience appealed to me. I’ve got gripes with HD formats but i’ll get onto that in minute First up
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Putting in the effort
I’m still digesting the information from the Forum last week. However, a couple of posts over on Coding Horror got me thinking (here and here) Jeff”s first post talks about how he feels there are two types of programmers he splits them into the 20% group and the 80% group The 20%ers are the leaders, trailblazers and trendsetters who
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Weird Printing Problem – Port Monitors
Just thought i’d quickly share this. One of our clients has a couple of photocopiers they installed before we came on board. We made sure that we had the information to connect to them when setting up new PC’s so we new what driver to use, which options to select, tray types, etc Last week
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Westcoast Small Business Forum…..the aftermath
I’ve been home a couple of hours now after the Susanne’s event at the Microsoft campus in Reading. She and her team did a fantastic job with the whole event and from my viewpoint it was very valuable and worth taking the time to attend. As far as i could tell this applied to everyone there
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Westcoast Small Business Forum Next Week
I was having a chat with Susanne earlier today about the upcoming Westcoast Small Business Forum (Thursday 29th November) She’s been putting an awful lot of hard work getting this event ready and I for one am really looking forward to it. If you haven’t registered i think they might still be able to squeeze you
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Expert Advice
If your a regular reader of this blog you know i don’t really go in for scathing attacks….but bear with me on this one Last week i needed to go see a client to change a suspect hard disk. I took an IDE drive with me as i had new one in the office which
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Kaseya Seminar (Birmingham)
Kaseya are holding a seminar at Villa Park on Tuesday 20th November to show off their current offering It was fully booked but i’ve just been told they have managed to get a larger room If anyone is interested in attending please let me know asap and i’ll pass your details on to get registered
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Server 2008 Virtualisation thoughts
Microsoft this week announced details of packing, licensing, etc for Windows Server 2008 The part that initially passed me by was this, (trimmed down for brevity) Microsoft Hyper-V Server, a hypervisor-based server virtualization product, complements the Hyper-V technology within Windows Server 2008, allowing customers to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server. The estimated manufacturer’s