Windows 10 and the moving goalposts (or Start Menu)
zulfikar Microsoft have decided to create a new Operating System designed for users! Yup, plain old folk like you and me. Now that is cause for celeberation. Windows 8 was a…
HP Microserver N40L bargain & the 16GB RAM confusion
The last few months the HP Microserver offering, the N40L, has been hitting sales highs due to a £100 cashback offer from HP. This effectively made the whole unit available…
Hyper-V on VMWare Workstation
Hyper-V has 2 core hardware requirements - DEP & CPU Virtualization - of course it has other requirements too for it to work optimally but that is not the concern…
Microsoft Products (non-mainstream)
There are a number of Microsoft Products that provide plenty of value add but most people have never heard of them or do not know what they are useful for.…
MySQL – dropping multiple tables – Joomla
Ever tried to DROP multiple tables from a MySQL database which all start with a specific prefix? For example, a default Joomla install adds in a number of tables all…
RIP www.dimdim.com
What can i say? For once I am genuinely surprised and taken aback by a news story. DimDim has been one of my favourite websites for a few years...why? because…
ML115 the first generation
The HP ML115, i'm talking about the 1st generation model here and NOT the newer G5. It is clear that this system has some serious BIOS issues, although it claims to…
Broadband speeds
Thought I'd post my broadband speed up here, we were talking about it briefly on the show last night where we kinda joked about the 'upto' speeds as compared to…
Windows Server 2008 training (free)
Yup, i've restarted in Server 2008 flavour similar courses to those I delivered in the year 2007 (at that time it was on Windows Server 2003!). Again it is completely FREE,…
64 bit or not…
A lot of ppeople have been asking m about 64 bit recently. Most are confused by it. Just wanted to point you to a cool tool called securable.exe, download it…
2008 R2 and existing 2003 R2 Domain
Been trying to add a 2008R2 server to a 2003R2 SP2 Domain, it works OK. Will be putting Exchange 2010 on it and adding it to a customers production environment,…