Thoughts On The Book “The End Of Mr. Y”
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I bought the book “The End Of Mr. Y”, by Scarlett Thomas, as a Christmas gift but for a number of reasons I ended up reading it and I am glad I did, in fact …

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The Mac vs PC debate
Friday, 22 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

Many a time I’ve been swept up in the great Mac vs PC debate.

We operate a design studio as part of our overall business process and this is very much a PC based design studio. …

Laptop Management Part 1
Friday, 22 Jun, 2007 | One Comment

One of the more complex and definitely more taxing duties I have to carry out is Laptop Management. On the surface it’s a simple five step process:

Establish the requirement
Specify then order the machine and related …

Buzzword Bingo
Friday, 22 Jun, 2007 | One Comment

Buzzwords, Buzzword, Buzzwords. You can’t escape them and yet life wouldn’t quite be the same without them. My favourite two buzzwords at the moment are Unified and Virtualization - they seem to pop up so …

Questions to ask when assessing a system
Friday, 22 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

I often visit reference sites to assess potential systems and, whilst each visit is unique, common questions often come up during the visit. I have listed some of the more common ones here in case …

Time and Attendance/Access Control
Thursday, 21 Jun, 2007 | 3 Comments

I am in the process of reviewing our current Time and Attendance/Access Control System. Our current system still uses the old mag-stripe swipe cards and is very limited when it comes to extending the system.
Migrating these …

Blogging
Wednesday, 20 Jun, 2007 | 5 Comments

It seems everyone is blogging these days and I hear a lot more talk about it in the last few months than ever before - even some of my family have their own blogs now.
I …

Exchange 2007 OWA
Wednesday, 20 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

Recently I’ve been having problems with Exchange 2007 and OWA. Everytime I click on an item I get and today I have started receiving the following error message.
Client InformationUser Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows …

Microsoft Sharepoint
Wednesday, 20 Jun, 2007 | One Comment

I’m back from the Sharepoint half-day Seminar feeling somewhat worse for wear after facing the wrath of the M6 in both directions. I got jammed between J18-19 for over an hour on the way out and …

Cobol revisited
Tuesday, 19 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

The migration to ServerExpress v4 seems to have gone very well, better than expected in fact. I was expecting problems due to the huge leap we made but hats off to Micro Focus their product …

Useful Tools
Tuesday, 19 Jun, 2007 | No Comment

I’ve updated the list of useful tools and utilities. You can find it here, it’s also on the nav-bar under Useful Links.