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Lotuslive is finally Smartcloud

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Lotus Live Engage Smartcloud on May 28, 2012 by HAL

Annual renewal time for Lotuslive has come round but as part of that the name on the license now reflects the Smartcloud moniker. Not much else has changed but it at least standardizes the name across all the smart branded services. I have been a little disappointed by the lack of further development of services […]

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Going for a drive across the internet

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged NetDrive WEBDRIVE on May 24, 2012 by HAL

During a piece of research work I was looking for a solution similar to Webdrive which I have mentioned before – most recently here. In this case though I wanted a webdav client that could map a network drive. I came across this application Netdrive – which matched the requirements exactly. The developers say With NetDrive, […]

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Two problems – one answer. Very long file and folder names causing problems ?

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Long file names Long Folder Names Shareprep on May 21, 2012 by HAL

Investigating a problem for a client led to a review of file and folder names as the client was hitting issues where the combined file and folder name length was in the region of 250 chars or more. This specifically led to issues when folders were being cut and pasted from one directory tree to […]

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Do they know where they are googling – sorry I meant going ?

This entry was posted in Comment Interesting and tagged Google on May 9, 2012 by HAL

Even the mightiest companies get it wrong some time. When they do get it wrong it gives an insight into their thought processes. This is a simple example of no-one bothering to check the logic. So when it goes wrong – it really goes wrong As I was planning a trip from Belfast to Dublin […]

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Still waiting for Pi ?

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Interesting Internet and tagged MagPi Raspberry PI on May 2, 2012 by HAL

The Raspberry Pi success story runs and runs. Patiently hopeful recipients out there wait to get their hands on the tiny computer on a card which heralds a change in the potential for kids, students, hardware hackers and the general public to get their hands dirty with homebrew computing at its best. Well while you […]

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I take it back – twice as quick

This entry was posted in Interesting Internet and tagged Virgin on April 25, 2012 by HAL

After a recent painful outage on a Virgin Media cable connection I was pleasantly surprised to get an email saying that they had completed upgrade preparations and that the current 50MB speed was being updated to 100 mb effective immediately. I was glad to see that they had dropped the nonsense idea of looking to […]

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WordPress 3.3.2 update

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Wordpress on April 18, 2012 by HAL

Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins. SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash content, and may still be in use by plugins and themes. WordPress 3.3.2 […]

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OMD distributed monitoring

This entry was posted in Interesting Monitoring Software and tagged Nagios OMD OMDISTRO on April 9, 2012 by HAL

Been working on an enhancement to a current Nagios monitoring system by adding Check_MK to the mix. Its quite interesting to see how easy it is to add multiple remote monitoring hosts to a central control host using the OMD’s built in distributed monitoring. In fact its really a case of – installing the OMD package […]

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