I haven’t had chance to post much of lot as a lot has been going on. Unfortunately at this time I can’t speak about it just yet. Most of my time has been consumed with family affairs and working on a ASP.NET web application. I will blog more about the experiences that I have had …
Category Archive: General
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Jul 16 2010
iPhone 4
I haven’t purchased an iPhone 4 for two reasons. 1. 24 month contract 2. The antenna issue. I don’t want to commit to a 24 month contract when apple will almost be refreshing again next summer and why would I want to purchase a expensive phone which may be faulty from the go? So it …
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Jul 05 2010
iTunes HD TV Series Cost Against Blu-Ray
My wife and I wanted to purchase The Vampires Diaries, Sesason1 which has just finished airing here in the UK. So took a look on the internet and this is what I found. The blue ray version is £8 more expensive than that of iTunes. I tunes is £29.99 which is pretty good in my …
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Jul 04 2010
How To resolve a sub domain internally with SBS 2003
If you have created a A record called remote (for example) on your domain name to make it easier for users to access RWW (remote web workplace) from home, you will notice of course that this doesn’t work internally. This can cause issues with Exchange Active Sync devices that you may have configured to connect …
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Jul 01 2010
Various
I haven’t blogged for a few weeks, so I thought I would today. You may noticed the addition of Google Ads on the left hand side. Sorry guys, I have to fund this site some how. This is my first post using the new Windows Live Writer, looks nice with the ribbon. I did purchase …
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May 06 2010
DCOM got error “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”
I was getting a lot of these errors in the system event log on one of the servers we maintain. This thread put me on the right track to resolving the problem, http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread39730.html 1. Go to Start > Programs > Administrative Tools > Component Services 2. Expand the Component Services > Computers > My Computer …
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May 05 2010
MS SQL resetting the auto increment
DBCC CHECKIDENT(‘test’, RESEED, 10001) ; where ‘test’ is the tables name we want to reset. There is a trick if you already have some date into your table your next inserting will start from 0. I’ve tested this and it work a treat. Found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/stoianbucovich/archive/2008/03/03/ms-sql-resetting-the-auto-increment.aspx Enjoy
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May 04 2010
The Secret Mission of the Terminator
I’ve just seen this on Engadget today and thought it was pretty funny.
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Apr 29 2010
What’s this?
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