OK, for forever and a day, as long as I can remember in the Windows world I set-up servers with a system partition and an appropriate slice of separate data…
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I spent some time in Herm a couple weeks ago with friends and actually got to meet Prince Charles (as well as consume some beer). Quite a change from the…
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Here's another issue I found after porting my sites to Windows 2012. Each page of this site was taking between 2.5 and 6 seconds to load. This turned out to…
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Having replaced my home server with Windows 2012, I found despite having the proper keys, I could not activate it. The product would not in fact let me enter my…
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Looking for an easy way to add those search sites to your FireFox search box? I was looking for the .UK version of Google. A simple enough request, but something…
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Ever wonder if it would be more efficient to save compressed versions of your strings for storage in databases etc? I wanted to check several variations on this recently, so…
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What does a highly stressed IT chap do to get away from it all for an hour or so a week? For now, I'm giving growing grapes a try. Having…
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Evernote is a great piece of software when it works, which is most of the time. It does have a couple issues I've come across. Having just rebuilt both my…
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This is a utility I wrote the first version of many years ago. At work, we have a need to remove old files from sometimes very deep directory structures. This…
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