Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
I was discussing ‘googlability’ – a new word I made up meaning ‘the ability to find via Google’ – of our knowledgebase with one of the technical guys at work.It seems that we seldom get matches in Google searches (and the built in search is somewhat lame) – I was…
I was working on an old (classic) ASP page the other day. It was pulling data from an Access database file and using an ODBC driver to get the connection. It was working fine on a Windows 2003 server, but when I pulled the file into a local website on…
I ran into some trouble with Hyper V the other day – I had booted from a VHD into Windows Server 2008 R2 and was trying to start a VM – I got the usual ‘The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running” error.I had…
Yesterday as I was trying to install Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, I got a pretty strange issue. Everything worked well up till the ‘installing mailbox role’ phase – it seemed to fail pretty quickly when it got there. Subsequent retries also failed (quickly) with exactly the…
It is official, dual booting is now dead – Boot from VHD is the new king. On my flight to BoS2009, I was inadvertently reliving some nostalgic milestones from the past 10 nay 20 years. I had my Windows 7 laptop, booted from a VHD (see Scott’s great post for…
Recently I have been working with DotNetNuke. This is a superb open source CMS platform running on ASP.NET with a SQL back end, simple to install, easy to use and there is a thriving community around it. It is also available in a ‘Professional’ version which costs around £2000 per…
One of the things I (for I read we) have been working on recently (at my day job) is looking at the ‘Store Compression’ feature in Exchange 2010. Store Compression is a new feature in Exchange 2010 whereby some of the content of an email object is compressed as it…
Disclaimer: Screenscraping results like this probably contravening Google’s Terms of Use (or something) and I do not advocate that you do it – this is purely hypothetical, if I did want to do it, this is how I would go about it 😉 Further Disclaimer: The results page formats could…
Yesterday on Leon’s Blog, secretGeek, I noticed they had released v3.4 of TimeSnapper. One of the features that caught my eye was the ability to develop/add plugins to it. I love plugins, I’ve written plugins for Windows Live Writer, Outlook, dasBlog, and more. Everything should have an SDK or plugin’able…
After upgrading to Windows 7 on my laptop I found that I could no longer sync with my Sony Ericsson X1 (Windows Mobile 6.1) Phone. It didn’t even seem to be charging (over USB). Looking in the system Device Manager I found a missing driver for the ‘Generic RNDIS’ device.…