Category Archives: General

Time flies

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been 10 days since I last blogged.   It’s a good job that I didn’t join in with BEDA (Blog Everyday in August).  Anyhow, I still have lots of stuff going on and I have some … Continue reading

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Changing Times

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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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 > … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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The Secret Mission of the Terminator

I’ve just seen this on Engadget today and thought it was pretty funny.

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