I know Office 2003 is “sooooo last season” but i get asked about this quite a lot thought i’d stick it on here When you open Word document attached to an e-mail the reading layout is displayed. Some users don’t actually realise the view is supposed to help them read the document on screen. What
The Sinclair Spectrum is 25 years old!
*-* Corrected after a comment from deKay Just saw this article on the BBC News site that reports on the 25 anniversary of the launch of the ZX Spectrum! The first computer that i could actually call my own was the ZX Spectrum +3 It has 128K of RAM and a built-in 3in floppy disk drive! At
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Create Overlay Failed Error in WinDVD
Just a small tip to pass on I had a customer who couldn’t play DVD’s on his laptop using WinDVD The error was “Create Overlay Failed” The program suggests lowering the screen resolution I had a look on the Intervideo support pages and found this Basically there is a list of three things to try but
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How Secure Is Your Wireless?
I was driving home from work yesterday and heard a feature on the radio about unsecured wireless access points in homes. It followed the arrest of two people who had been using someone else’s broadband via a wireless connection. I talk to lots of people through work and you would not believe the amount of
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Change Mail Redirection in VBScript – Exchange 2003
Was doing some housekeeping and came across a script i thought i’d share We had a customer who had a general information style email address (info@blahdomain.com) that due to job sharing two different people were responsible for checking the email and replying. To add to this these people were external to the organisation. They wanted the
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Dell Vista Express Upgrade Issues Still Going on in April!
** Update ** As always happens in these situations the day after i posted this the upgrade kit arrived in the post. My Dad is still annoyed that it took four months and probably wont buy anything from Dell for some time (if ever) ***** I posted a while back about how my Dad had bought a new Dell machine
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End of the road for FoxPro
I stumbled across a page on the MSDN website that announces that there will be no more version of Visual FoxPro. The current version (9) will get a server pack in the summer and that will be it! Mainstream support will end in January 2010 with extended support up until January 2015 I have done
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Interview with a legend
I’ve just read an interview on GamaSutra with the legend that is Jeff Minter, the creator of some of the craziest games i’ve ever played including one of my favourites “Revenge Of The Mutant Camels” He was also the creator of one of the only decent games for the Atari Jaguar, Tempest 2000 I didn’t realise
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Rthdcpl.exe – Illegal System DLL Relocation
This has been all over the newsgroups but since this is something i came across today i’ll just post about (also in case I need to remember!) Had a customer who called to say he’d done a windows update and after rebooted got the following message Rthdcpl.exe – Illegal System DLL Relocation The system DLL
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WEP Compromised Again
Please tell me your not using WEP for your wireless network? An article over on slashdot reports that the attack to discover WEP keys has been optimised even futher and that a 104-bit key can be discovered using only 40,000 captured packets. Even further the key can then be cracked very quickly (about 3 seconds!)