Before reading on, please see this post first http://ramberlinggeek.co.uk/2010/01/ipad/ Ok, welcome back. I’ve had a change of heart or I’ve been sucked into Steve Job’s reality distortion field. The problem is, I love my iPhone. The thought of having a bigger iPhone to use whilst sitting in the living room appeals to me because using …
Category Archive: General
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Mar 22 2010
Installing Windows XP onto a SATA drive
So you come to install Windows XP on a new’ish laptop and you find that Windows XP can’t install because it doesn’t ship with any SATA drivers. The laptop has no floopy disc and you can’t use a USB drive because XP setup or text mode doesn’t know what USB pen drives are. So at …
Permanent link to this article: http://ramblinggeek.co.uk/2010/03/installing-windows-xp-onto-a-sata-drive/
Mar 18 2010
Speed Difference
In the office we have 8Mb broadband and at home I have 4Mb. Here’s the really difference, same file, same time of the day… All be it different providers and areas. 8Mb Download 4Mb Download
Permanent link to this article: http://ramblinggeek.co.uk/2010/03/speed-difference/
Feb 07 2010
Blog Move
This blog started life being hosted on the Word Press servers for ease. I’m now getting to a stage that I want to do move stuff and their restrictions are stopping me. So last night I found a host namely www.tsohost.co.uk , which is only £14.99 for the year! £1.25 a month I’ve been updating …
Permanent link to this article: http://ramblinggeek.co.uk/2010/02/blog-move/
Jan 29 2010
iPad
I’m not impressed with the iPad. I think I’m going to wait for the HP Slate to be released and then compare. At the moment thou, I think I would prefer the HP.
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Dec 17 2009
Windows Updates
This server has been updating now for about an hour and still going and the updates have failed. Is this acceptable for a server?
Permanent link to this article: http://ramblinggeek.co.uk/2009/12/windows-updates/
Dec 03 2009
Blackberry Simulator
This is for developers really however having access to a blackberry device on the desktop can be useful if you are supporting a blackberry device and don’t have one. We are looking at a Blackberry device running simulated/emulated/virtualised the window on the left hand side is the MDS, this allows the device to connect to …
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Nov 24 2009
Why Windows Activation Needs to go
Virtualization is the reason why. I booted a image created inside Windows Virtual PC using Sun’s Virtual Box and this is what you get when you boot up. Will Microsoft allow multiply activations of an OS? It’s just silly and doesn’t help with the promise of disaster recovery with the activation non-sense.
Permanent link to this article: http://ramblinggeek.co.uk/2009/11/why-windows-activation-needs-to-go/
Nov 23 2009
Exchange ActiveSync Error
A customers Windows Mobile Phone stopped syncing e-mails, etc, looking at the server we could see this error within the logs. Event Type: Error Event Source: Server ActiveSync Event Category: None Event ID: 3005 Description: Unexpected Exchange mailbox Server error: Server: [servername.domain.local] User: [user’s e-mail address] HTTP status code: [400]. Verify that the Exchange mailbox …
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Nov 04 2009
iPhone Screen shoot
Have you every seen an screen shot from an iPhone and thought how is that done? It’s really easy, press the home button and the power button at the same time and a screen shoot is taken and the image is added to the camera roll.
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