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I purchased a bunch of Seagate barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB drives a few years back when 1.5TB drives were the largest you could get. These drives always had issues - if you do a quick google on them, you'll find lots of entries complainign about their reliability and firmware issues.... I've basically had one die, on…
Continue readingSo ive heard rumours lately that MS might be reversing their fucked up decision to cripple video when using Lync with RCC.... maybe someone at MS saw the light? Or alternatively saw reality ? Anyhoo - just a rumour... we'll see with the next SP or version of Lync.
Continue readingIve had dealing s with a customer lately who has come out with the following gems: Comment : "We're a very risk adverse organisation" Real meaning: "We're scared of everything and live in conatsnt fear of anything and everything - so dont do anything, ever! I still get paid right.. ?" Comment: "there are 1000…
Continue readingI had my tonsils out last week - and have used the rest time very effectively - and finished off watching Star Trek: TNG. (and eating ice cream... mmmm ice cream) While i definately do like like star trek in general - i found by the end of it i was hanging out for some…
Continue readingSo i have got a number of invites to Google+ over the past week..... and well.... i spose i just dont see the point of being a member of another social networking site.... As per this register article - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/13/google_plus/ Google+ might be better than facebook, it may be x,y and z.... but i dont…
Continue readingI picked up an xbox 360 (slim with kinect) a few days ago - and have had an initial look.... The media centre functionality is quite good, it detected and ran with my PS3MediaServer and then, with only the download of a codec was ready to go. Wireless N helps greatly with the speed of…
Continue readingNew tool on the way from MS http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/05/coming-soon-pst-capture-tool.aspx Yes - PST's are the most evil creation of all time - and anything that can help relgate them to a distant memory is welcome.
Continue readingSo i still have a HTC TYTN II... with a replaced battery a few months ago, its still going strong... running and official version of Windows mobile 6.1 - i have never put a hacked rom of Win 7 phone on there.... as the current version works, i think Win7 will kill the hardware, and…
Continue readingA client pointed this article out after being unable to sync their windows 7 phone with the shiny new Exchange 2010 setup... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/exchange-activesync-considerations-when-using-windows-phone-7-clients.aspx Which follows on to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2464593 Now i definsately give credit to MS for at least stating it "It's important to note that Windows Phone 7 (WP7) primarily was developed as a consumer…
Continue readingThe west - particularly the yanks, are always banging on about free speech. Why is it that free speech only applies when "freely" discussing certain things? http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/20/3248665.htm Why when extremists (and they are extremists) decide that something offends them, can it not be discussed? Isn't that most sane people's issue with religion ? That discussion…
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