About a year ago we did a fileserver migration as the hardware is about to die on the existing server Everything went well and we got the data across with shares and permissions as they were previously However, we were told after the event that several users used the offline files feature in XP for
Christmas comes early in the parkes household
Earlier this week i placed an order for this 20Mb broadband from VirginMedia When i first moved into my current home about three years ago i tried to get cable service (NTL at the time) but they weren’t operating in my area I wanted cable as i had concerns about the distance to the exchange
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Online Presence
Not entirely sure when i haven’t done this before but today i got myself a domain name www.andyparkes.co.uk at the moment it just redirects to here but it’ll make things easier in the long run this also means i have an email address to go with it! andy@andyparkes.co.uk đ
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Joining the majority
Sometimes there are things i just dont get straight away Twitter, MySpace, Facebook are good examples I’m not saying i don’t see the point. I just don’t usually see the point for me! My other half and a couple of friends have been asking me when (not if!) i’ll be getting in on the act.
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SBS 2003 SP2 Best Practices
Just a quick one The official SBS blog posted a link to a KB article with best practices for install the service pack There isn’t anything that hasn’t been mentioned elsewhere but it’s nice that it brings it all together in page you can easy bookmark (or even print out!) It also mentions the printer SNMP
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Death of the tabloids?
While i’m not expecting newspapers (tabloids or otherwise) to disappear anytime soon a post on the TelleBusillis blog backed up my own personal behaviour I can’t remember the last time i actually went to a shop to buy a newspaper. With the 24/7 access made available by the Internet why bother? It’s out of date
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Read at your own risk to productivity
Desktop Tower Defense has been updated!! New features “What’s New: New Ink, Snap & Boost Towers, New Morph & Dark Creeps, New Trickle, Random, 15 Tower & Splash/No Splash modes, 10K mode is now 100 levels, Bash tower improved, Improved Interface, New Sounds – Enjoy!” Had a couple of goes and the new feature certainly
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Vista Sidebar Gadgets Location
Mainly a reminder for myself but if your looking for the folder where the sidebar gadgets are installed C:\User\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets Each .gadget file is a compressed file that contains all the files that make up the gadget Currently i have the following gadgets on my sidebar Gmail Checker – Nice gadget that lets you know when
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Blind leading the blind
I’m about two thirds of the way through the Visual Web Developer book i got this week I’ve just created a site map file, enabled security trimming in the web.config file but couldn’t get one of my menu entries to only appear when logged in Normally i read it first, then create it myself instead
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Just a little tip for your mobile phone
Don’t get Powerade on it  đ I play five-a-side football and last night i picked up a drink from the vending machine as i always do My brother asked if he could have a sip so he popped open the sports cap, had a drink and handed it back. I put it straight into my