Jason Slater Weblog

There are many ways of making the Favorites items more flexible, for example using Google Bookmarks and once Favorites are imported into the new platform you may wish to remove the old ones. Deleting them one by one can be time consuming, fortunately there are ways of deleting them all relatively quickly. To do this click on the Start Menu, then right-click the Favorites item and select Explore. This will show your Favorites in the familiar Explorer Window. Check the Favorites are listed in the Explorer Window then select Edit, Select All on the [...] Continue Reading…

dID yOU eVER tYPE sOMETHING lIKE tHIS iN wOrd? then found that you had to delete it all and re-type it using the proper case. In Word you can highlight the text and press SHIFT and F3, it will cycle between lower case with a capitalised first letter, upper case and lower case. Did you ever type something like this in word? DID YOU EVER TYPE SOMETHING LIKE THIS IN WORD? did you ever type something like this in word? This also seems to work in Powerpoint and in the body section of composing an email in Outlook [...] Continue Reading…

There are several options for transferring files between AIX and Windows, including NFS, SAMBA, SCP and FTP - all have there advantages and disadvantages but a recent connection method that we have been using is to mount a Windows Share as a CIFS (Common Internet File System) VFS (Virtual File System). Trying to mount a Windows 2003 Share on an AIX Server (v5.3) using the CIFS virtual file system can be a bit tricky but extremely useful once implemented. Initially CIFS support may require installing unless it is already installed - you can check this by looking in [...] Continue Reading…

Technology moves apace however elements of a computer room, especially small ones, can often be overlooked or given a low priority in favour of processing, network, communications and storing units. These elements can often include elements within the physical room itself such as dealing with cables, raised flooring, static-free floor tiles, dust, cooling, and environmental monitoring. In this article I plan to talk about some of these aspects and how they impact our Computer Room Regeneration project. Trailing cables are still a necessity and dealing with them is a decision that needs careful consideration. Once placed, cables are often [...] Continue Reading…

I have a sense that mobile e-mail devices are set to dramatically increase the amount of email flowing around business, especially internal e-mail as users find the convenience of devices and the flexibility of short messages preferable to voice calls or SMS. Computing magazine recently reported (19 June 2008) that mobile devices were responsible for a huge increase in email traffic at a large insurance  provider. Two years ago I was regularly backing up 4GB of email data, last year this was 8GB, this year it is just over 17GB (double if you count the Mail Archiving) and getting [...] Continue Reading…