This weekend marked two months since I last wrote anything here. It’s not exactly by accident. In my 2013 round up post I mentioned there had been some very bad news in the wider Parkes family. It took a little while for this to fully sink in but it made me think about exactly what’s
Error When Installing Windows Server 2012 R2
I was setting up a new virtual machine in Hyper-V and got this error after selecting the operating system (in this case Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard) "Windows cannot find the Microsoft Software License Terms. Make sure the installation sources are valid and restart the installation." From my very brief search it looks like there
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Farmageddon 2014
Around this time last year I did my first obstacle race. I’ve done a couple of different events since then and two weeks after the Warwick Half Marathon I was back in Melton Mowbray for my second crack at Farmageddon. Not wanting to make things easy for myself this year they were offering a 20k
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Network Scanners and Windows 7 Shares
I was visiting a clients remote office earlier this week doing some PC replacements. They have a multi-function printer that has “scan to folder” functionality and it previously worked quite happily on the Windows XP machines they were replacing. The end user presses a button and the scanned document ends up in a folder on
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Achievement Unlocked: Warwick Half Marathon 2014
Oh my poor legs…. Last year I wrote about how I’d taken part in a 10km obstacle race called Farmageddon. I did a couple more of similar runs during 2013 and had some great fun along the way. One of my friends who also ran with me decided he was going to do the London
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The Case Of The Missing Windows 7 Boot Logo
Had a bit of weird problem this week I wanted to write down somewhere in case it happens again! A call came in from a client to say the laptop wouldn’t boot. On starting the laptop the usual Windows 7 boot animation was missing. The screen was black apart from a series of coloured lines
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Reading List For 2013
This will be last post about stuff from last year…honest…maybe. It’s safe to say i was very happy with trying to hit my target of trying to read at least one book a month for 2013. According to GoodReads I’ve read 44 “things” in 2013. I’ve recommended quite a few of these to various friends
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Geekmas 2013
My family are always pretty good at getting me great gifts (an Amazon wish list is great “inspiration”) and this year I was pretty pleased! Star Wars – Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side A very fancy case reveals a book that I can only describe as a kind of Sith Bible. Here’s
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2013, Done and Dusted
Happy New Year! Summing up the previous year has been a tradition here for quite a while. It’s always a useful thing as it helps me mentally review what was good, what was bad, any successes, achievements or failures and help let me know where I want to go in the next twelve months. There
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Lumie Bodyclock Starter 30
I’ve had my Lumie wake up light for a couple of weeks now and since I’d tried to do as much research as I could before getting this I thought I’d share my experience in case it’s of use to anyone else. First up what is it? Quite simply it’s
