Monthly Archives: August 2011

Tada …..

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A client wanted a shared mechanism for dealing with a project. Tasks would be added and as completed they would be marked off. A number of staff needed to be informed of the status as new tasks were added or completed. It needed to be simple and quick. So I pointed them to Tada List […]

When 14 = 64 ?

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64 bit support for office was not available in Version 12 or 12.1 of Paperport. The new version 14 release finally gives us back integration with Word , Excel and baest of all Outlook 2010 64 bit. It took two calls to Nuance to confirm this before installing and removing the old version. Upgrade was a […]

Next ?

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Had the “pleasure” of trying to order a giftcard from the Next online site recently. I’d say the pleasure was all someone elses but it was a lesson in customer care and staff confusion. I thought it would be a straightforward option. Select  the gift card from a friend’s daughters gift list – pay the […]

Nagios 3.3.1 upgrade – nice

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Had cause this week to upgrade a veritable old installation of Nagios running as a vm on Ubuntu. I had planned to create a brand new instance but I had some specialised tests that I was going to redo. So instead – after cloning the VM I decided to give the manual upgrade from 3.0.3 to […]

Great news re Lotusphere 2011 content

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Ever wanted to go to Lotusphere but couldn’t persuade the powers that be ? Bill Malchisky – who I’ve seen at ILug presenting the Domino Linux stream blogged here about the availability of the sessions from LotusSphere 2011 Joyce Davis helped fight the good fight for the Lotus Community and we won. Today, her team […]

Get your game on

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When I qualified in Computer Science – game programming was not even an option for students. Over the years though it has become front and centre for courses to have an element of the development of games and the principles required to write these games. However all is not lost if you want to dip your […]

Hp 3800N not allowing tray to be changed when printing? Go Universal

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Had a client with this issue – a HP 3800 driver on an SBS 2008 server printing via the network. Problem was that they were unable to change the default printer  port. After some investigation it seemed like the driver was not detecting the printer correctly and specifically the trays attached. The  solution was to […]