Monthly Archives: August 2012


Fancy some free fonts

Adobe have made some fonts available for download – you might want to try these out There are twelve  fonts in total. The arcticle about them is here http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/files/ 0


IE not starting ?

A user mentioned a problem to me where IE was not starting on an XP PC. On checking the app appeared to start but nothing was displayed and the process had to be  killed.  On trying starting Internet Explorer with the -extoff switch still had no effect. However looking at the process table in task […]


UKLUG agenda out

As the 3rd of September rapidly approaches and thoughts turn to the UK Lotus User Group event in Cardiff – its time to take a look at the agenda which you can find here. The problem I find is that there are bound to be several items at the same time that you want to […]


Seems iffy (UeFI) to me

The latest in a catalog of efforts by Microsoft to keep  other players out of the operating systems field takes another leap for with the software giants attempt to tie the use of hardware to an operating system (which they certify). The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface  (UEFI) is a specification that defines a software interface […]


A virtual battle begins – Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator Release Candidate announced!

Microsoft has been hoping to steal some of the thunder from VMWorld announcements so heres the latest Announcing the Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Solution Accelerator Release Candidate! Download The Release Candidate We are very excited to announce the release candidate of Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter. Clickhere to join the connect program. If you have already […]