Monthly Archives: July 2008

Windows Home Server

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Wayne Taylor

  I’ve spent the last couple of evenings playing around with my latest purchase, HP MediaSmart Server. I’m pretty happy with it, I bought the 1TB version. I’ve had a few issues with the setup.  The first being that I’m … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Surface Sphere

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Wayne Taylor

  This looks cool.. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HGfIy_zCI&hl=en&fs=1]

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The "Mojave Experiment"

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Wayne Taylor

  The “Mojave Experiment” This is part of Microsoft’s comeback marketing for Vista.  All we need now are these videos to be shown on TV for a period of a few weeks talking about Mojave and then reviled them that … Continue reading →

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SBS CAL Resets

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Wayne Taylor

  This has happened to me on a number of SBS boxes whit low hard drive space, generally on drive C: SBS resets the cal count to 5! We have just had a customer call and this has happened to.  … Continue reading →

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Error message when you connect to an instance of SQL Server: "Cannot open user default database"

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Wayne Taylor

  I received this on our SQL Server, which I had to fix this evening as I have a bust day tomorrow….. any how here’s the MSKB.

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My 64 Bit Nightmare continues…..

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Wayne Taylor

  VMWare player crashes when you try and run Virtual PC along side…. great.  When I try to open the VHD, it can’t convert.  So now I have to spend time installing Windows XP/Vista clients, which I already have into … Continue reading →

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