Category Archive: General

Aug 09 2010

Changing Times

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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 …

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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

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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

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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

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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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Jun 06 2010

Mac OS X (10.6) Installing and running inside Virtual Box

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What’s required:- Licensed copy of OS X. Oracle Virtual Box EmpireEFI V1.085 (The latest and greatest Empire EFI with support for AMD and Intel) Running on an Intel Core i7 920, 8GB Ram. More to follow soon on how to do this, with video….

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May 06 2010

DCOM got error “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”

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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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This is a 4.4 Meg Hard Disk in 1956.  In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD).  The HDD weight over a ton and stored 4.4MB of data.  Now think of that little 4GB stick in your pocket.

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