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Windows server backup OpenVZ and TimeDicer
Setting up Ubuntu 10.04 Virtual Machine with OpenVZ Installing and Setting Up OpenVZ Backups are an important part of any IT Technician’s life, the good ones anyway, and so I began setting up a backup system for our clients and … Continue reading
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How to: Recognise Laptop Memory
It’s well known that the cheapest and easiest way to give your old laptop a new lease of life is to bung some extra RAM in it. In most laptops it’s as easy as turning it upside down, unscrewing a … Continue reading
Posted in How To, Technobabble
Tagged DDR, laptop upgrade, memory, RAM, SO-DIMM
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Domain Names(I): Dumping btconnect
They should have gone out with the millenium fireworks, but, like the Dome, ten years later, they’re still with us. You’ve all seen them, on the sides of expensively paintworked vans and adorning smart business cards everywhere, the jarring ‘myprofessionalsuccessfulcompany@btconnect.com’ … Continue reading
Posted in Rants, Technobabble
Tagged btconnect, domain, domain names, email, email address, hosting, hotmail, Outlook, Thunderbird, tiscali, website address
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I love Google Street view
I admit it, my awareness of spacial relations is pretty bad. I can read maps, but sometimes have problems relating what I see on the page or screen to what is there in front of me. When going to see … Continue reading
Top 5 essential pieces of equipment for mending PCs and laptops
I’m not including the usual stuff everyone has, like power meters, test screens, screw drivers etc., because that would be both obvious and boring. What I’m listing here are the things that all those years ago, as I opened my … Continue reading
Posted in Lists, Technobabble
Tagged bead tray, iPod opener, laptop repair, mend laptops, mend pcs, nail varnish remover, pc repair, post it notes, pry tool, solar powered light
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Wanted: 16GB iPhone 4
Did you know that there are absolutely no iPhone 4s in the North West? Yup, I wasn’t surprised either; especially after walking past the queue of at least fifty people coming out of the Preston O2 store at 8.13am on … Continue reading
Posted in Rants
Tagged 16GB iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, O2 Store, O2 Website, Preston O2
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Domain Renewal Group – scam letters
Have you received a letter from the Domain Renewal Group? It will look like a regular invoice a busy business might pay without thinking about it and, if you read further, there is a lot of scary text saying that … Continue reading
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Tagged domain registry scam, domain renewal group, domain renewal scam, domain scam, internet scam, website scam
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How to access search folders for shared mailboxes in Outlook 2007
I spent some time fiddling with this today and have finally solved it. Took a while to find something useful on Google, so I will note it here for my own reference and any Google refugees… I wanted my PA … Continue reading
Posted in Technobabble
Tagged access search folders, outlook 2007, outlook shared search folders, search folders, shared mailbox, shared mailboxes, shared search folders
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