Monthly Archives: October 2009


Don’t stop yammering !

Introduced to this as part of a business arrangement  – Yammer is a private “twitterlike” service where you can sign up other members of your email domain and have private chats regarding matters of interest or importance. The Adobe AIR based windows client is probably the most common interface – after the web based vanilla […]


Can’t wait – the anticipation is killing me – where is Notes 8.5.1

Sounds odd but waiting for the latest release of the best kept software development secret is quite difficult. Despite some strangeness getting access to my downloads and having to get advice and direction from IBM’s Ecare team – I got to the point where I hoped I’d be download this – to give new functionality […]


The strange case of a Sata card and “not enough server storage to complete process” when mapping drives to shares

The backgound was a client had installed a sata raid card with two disks in a mirrored pair on a Windows XP SP3 machine. The machine in question had several folder shares on it and quite reasonably the user though that once the disks were raided on the new controller that the users who access […]


And finally .. WordPress moved

After much fiddling – I made the move to a new server and transferred my Blog in the process. The process was relatively straightforward and using Xampp for the platform made the whole thing feel quite packaged and smooth. I can highly recommend Xampp on windows as it is just point and click with some […]