Interesting article on The Register today about the economics of replacing the copper network in the uk with fibre. This is something i’d really like to see but i wont be holding my breath. I’ll be making the move to cable (Virgin Media as it is now) in July when my current ADSL contract expires. I
Activate Remote Desktop Remotely
Just a small nugget as i have used this a couple of times but always forget which registry key it is! If you have a pc your trying to Remote Desktop into but it isn’t enabled, use the remote editing features of regedit to change the following HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\fDenyTSConnections Change it from 1 to 0 and
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Tipping the hat
Just thought i’d “big up” someone elses blog today Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog is primarily a programming blog but it covers a wide variety of topics is well researched and entertains. I throughly recommend you take a look A good example is his latest post on the wheel mouse and it’s origins. I personally can’t
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Easing Myself Back In
Well the wedding went really well and we had a nice relaxing break in Edinburgh. It’s such a great city (even if the weather was rubbish!) and the people were so friendly As i expected i’ve come back to a large pile of stuff to catch up on so thought i’d post something simple to
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I’m off for a week
I got married on Saturday so posts are going to be limited until next week.. We had an amazing day and my new wife did some amazing things to make it extra special which just reminded me of why i was marrying her!
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Just a bit of closure
I posted a week or so ago after my frustration with some work we were quoting for. I got some good comments from Nick including a follow up post here which gave me the sort of feedback i was looking for. Nick thought that maybe we were coming in a bit high while the competition were
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Am i losing business for doing a proper job?
I’m putting my neck on the block a little with this but wanted to ask the opinion of others We’ve recently quoted to do a new server installation We have both quoted for the same hardware and software (HP Proliant Server, SBS Premium) but we have been told we’re being beaten on the amount of days
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Useful / Useless link of today?
Just clicked a random link in my dashboard and stumbled across this “Real Time HTML Editor” Enter some code in the top frame and it gets rendered in the botttom Guess it might be useful for trying out quick little things or if your learning HTML I thought it was pretty cool So thanks to
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Am i getting the wrong end of the stick?
The is a post over on SBSDiva about tool for moving profiles to a new domain Stop me if i’m completly missing the point of this tool but can’t you already do this When you run the connectcomputer wizard you already get option of moving profiles to new user accounts From the SBS 2003 Administrators Guide
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Good ol’ Vlad
I love reading Vlad’s blog because he says it as he sees it which is a quality i like as you always know exactly where you stand. My business partner is exactly the same but he wont be blogging anytime soon! His latest post is the second in the “Vlad’s school of customer service” observations I’ve been