Today I rebuilt a PC with new drives and all seemed OK, but after 15 minutes or so it kept stopping (no nice shutdown), irrespective of what the PC was doing. I even swapped back the old disks all to no avail, hence I was stumped for a while.
The problem turned out to be it was a somewhat full case and a wire was …
Read More- The photo I have added to my blog's header is me at the Ripon Triathlon
Read More Thanks to Kimberly Tripp for pointing this out. Always nice to have the latest version of the SQL Server books online and the link below allows a "live" search format for accessing content. Using IE7 you can also add the online books as a search provider.
SQL Server Books Online Scoped Search
Read MoreWhen your try to remove the McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.5.0 agent using the command
frminst /remove=agent
you get an error "can't stop service mcafeeframework" if you are using VirusScan 8.5.
This is because VirusScan 8.5 has a new option under Access Protection that stops the McAfee services being stopped. So …
Read MoreThere seems to be a good deal of Microsoft stuff over the past few editions of Scientific American (SCIAM), and before you ask yes I do live in the UK, but I find Nature a bit too academic for me and New Scientist has too many job adverts. SCIAM is just 'popular' science enough to read over breakfast.
The March edition …
Read More- Well , I could not have predicted the last week. A great event on Thursday on Sharepoint , hot foot to the train station on the way to see my students compete in the UK Imagine cup. But I was in Linda's car and the Cam shaft decided to make a break for it out of the top of the engine. Thanks to the lovely AA I still …
Read More First a criticism of Microsoft , why oh why oh why do Microsoft send out the notifications about the MVP awards on April fools day. It's not like I would suspect foul play from the guys in the office but ....
More importantly a heap of thanks to the nice people at Microsoft for awarding me an MVP and even more thanks …
Read MoreIn case you missed it, you can now make submissions for presentation slots at DDD5.
Even if you don't want to present, keep an eye on the site for a chance to vote on what you would like to see and to register as an attendee.
Read More- I just realised that TeamPlain also makes external access easier for remote users outside your firewall. The problem with external access to TFS from VS Team Studio is that you have to open up the TFS server and the associated WSS 2.0 server ports in your firewall. Not a major issue but opening ports is something you …
Read More More detail will follow, but great news just in from Reading!
The Seedlings, a team of students from Hull University, mentored by Black Marble's Robert Hogg, have just won the UK leg of the Imagine Cup, and are on their way to Korea later in the year! The entry, a program to teach children to progam, MyFPL (My First …
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