http://www.expta.com/labels/Microsoft%20Exchange%202003.html
This guy has some good stuff around exchange and MOM - very useful A++
Monday 17 December 2007
Theres no business like snow business
Its winter again, and unusally this year its snowing very heavily in the alps. Its time to go snowboarding!!
Wait a second though.. im an it contractor, if i dont work i dont get paid - any broken bones are seriously going to mess with my income.. Also I have to take must have technical equipment with me so i can keep in touch with the world back home. Plus the digi camera and ipod of course..
What insurance policy covers all this? Answer - none... Why cant I find an insurance policy to support the self employed when they go skiing?
Wait a second though.. im an it contractor, if i dont work i dont get paid - any broken bones are seriously going to mess with my income.. Also I have to take must have technical equipment with me so i can keep in touch with the world back home. Plus the digi camera and ipod of course..
What insurance policy covers all this? Answer - none... Why cant I find an insurance policy to support the self employed when they go skiing?
Saturday 21 July 2007
Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind
Patrick Hogan, NASA World Wind
World wind is like google earth, but has an api so we can use it in code..
World wind is like google earth, but has an api so we can use it in code..
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
An old one but a gold one.
Pop quiz hot shot. Your reinstalling Windows XP on one of your machines (because none of your drivers support Vista and also all your legacy programming wont work on vista...)
Which power toys do you add?
Answers:
a: Clear type tuner - without a doubt
b:Alt-Tab replacement
c: Raw image thumbnailer
d: Tweak UI
e: Color control panel applet
f:Image resizer
g: open command window here
Thats right - most of them!
An old one but a gold one.
Pop quiz hot shot. Your reinstalling Windows XP on one of your machines (because none of your drivers support Vista and also all your legacy programming wont work on vista...)
Which power toys do you add?
Answers:
a: Clear type tuner - without a doubt
b:Alt-Tab replacement
c: Raw image thumbnailer
d: Tweak UI
e: Color control panel applet
f:Image resizer
g: open command window here
Thats right - most of them!
Monday 16 July 2007
Caunce O'Hara :: Home Page
Caunce O'Hara :: Home Page
Personal indemnity insurance, contractor insurance, blah de blah. Part of working for yourself is taking risks so spending money on insurance seems pointless. Although.... Hmmm ok, maybe i'll check these guys out...
Personal indemnity insurance, contractor insurance, blah de blah. Part of working for yourself is taking risks so spending money on insurance seems pointless. Although.... Hmmm ok, maybe i'll check these guys out...
cpCommerce - OpenSourceCMS
OpenSourceCMS
Try before you dont buy.. A great site for trying out the various CMS (content management system) installs that are available in open source software. Fantastic idea, saves a lot of time setting up systems in order to trial them.
The way the site works is simplicity itself, a selection of open source systems are setup with admin passwords available for you to try them out. The site has a countdown of 2 hours in which you can play to your hearts content - once the two hours is up all the CMS reset back to standard build, ready for everyone to play again.
Its not all heart - the site offers reasonably priced hosting services as well so once youve chosen the CMS that works you can go on and deploy it.
Downside - I dont see any dot net CMS systems...
Try before you dont buy.. A great site for trying out the various CMS (content management system) installs that are available in open source software. Fantastic idea, saves a lot of time setting up systems in order to trial them.
The way the site works is simplicity itself, a selection of open source systems are setup with admin passwords available for you to try them out. The site has a countdown of 2 hours in which you can play to your hearts content - once the two hours is up all the CMS reset back to standard build, ready for everyone to play again.
Its not all heart - the site offers reasonably priced hosting services as well so once youve chosen the CMS that works you can go on and deploy it.
Downside - I dont see any dot net CMS systems...
Wednesday 27 June 2007
Welcome to Toppy.org.uk
Toppy.org.uk
A toppy is a topfield hard disk recorder for digital terrestial broadcasts - e.g. a freeview box!
toppys are great devices as standard, a nice looking bit of kit with twin tuners so you can record two programs at once and watch another (if its on the same mux) or you can watch one record one.
What makes it a great bit of kit though is that if you go to toppy.org.uk you can download countless apps which you can install onto your toppy to make it even better.. one such app is my stuff, my stuff is an enhancement to the epg guide which comes as standard with the topfield, it adds icons for the channels to make it more like sky plus and it makes it easier to set series recordings and key word recordings.
Ideal to make sure you dont miss dr who......
A toppy is a topfield hard disk recorder for digital terrestial broadcasts - e.g. a freeview box!
toppys are great devices as standard, a nice looking bit of kit with twin tuners so you can record two programs at once and watch another (if its on the same mux) or you can watch one record one.
What makes it a great bit of kit though is that if you go to toppy.org.uk you can download countless apps which you can install onto your toppy to make it even better.. one such app is my stuff, my stuff is an enhancement to the epg guide which comes as standard with the topfield, it adds icons for the channels to make it more like sky plus and it makes it easier to set series recordings and key word recordings.
Ideal to make sure you dont miss dr who......
Create .NET documentation with Microsoft's Sandcastle
http://www.sandcastledocs.com/Wiki%20Pages/Home.aspx
Sandcastle is a documentation tool for dot net, document your code as you go??
Sandcastle is a documentation tool for dot net, document your code as you go??
Tuesday 26 June 2007
Ringtones
Your a cool headed type of guy who is capable of running around solving problems left right and centre whilst ignoring the fact that yet again your daughter is getting her self into major trouble... If someone needs to call you, you need a ring tone that make sense - You need - the 24 ringtone
As an alternative to this -found out your girlfriends cousin is using this ring tone - jack bauer no longer has geek chiq?? You need - the broadsword calling danny boy ring tone!!
http://www.whereeaglesdare.com/default.php?section=8&page=1&id=1&country=72
As an alternative to this -found out your girlfriends cousin is using this ring tone - jack bauer no longer has geek chiq?? You need - the broadsword calling danny boy ring tone!!
http://www.whereeaglesdare.com/default.php?section=8&page=1&id=1&country=72
Interview tips
Not for taking them necessarily but if you have to interview someone its sometimes hard to think of what to ask - you need a list of questions right? this is what i found when i last was interviewing..
http://www.businessballs.com/interviews.htm#interviews%20tips%20-%20for%20interviewers
http://www.businessballs.com/interviews.htm#interviews%20tips%20-%20for%20interviewers
stories, analogies and fables for business, training and public speaking, wedding speeches, best man speeches
stories, analogies and fables for business, training and public speaking, wedding speeches, best man speeches
Business balls indeed - some of these are quite amusing- i particularly like the dam story for example.
Business balls indeed - some of these are quite amusing- i particularly like the dam story for example.
Mobile web browser for mobile internet - Java browser for wireless web - bitstream.com / wireless & internet
Thunder, thunder, thunder, thunderhawk??
Desktop browser on your mobile phone????
Three problems
1. my mobile phone screen is tiny, i would need a magnifying glass to use it like this
2. my phone refuses to talk to active sync any more so i cant install this
3. it seems like you have to subscribe - if it does work theres a bit of a risk of liking it so much you getting hooked into paying for something - i thought surfing was free man?
no thunder fucking way....
Desktop browser on your mobile phone????
Three problems
1. my mobile phone screen is tiny, i would need a magnifying glass to use it like this
2. my phone refuses to talk to active sync any more so i cant install this
3. it seems like you have to subscribe - if it does work theres a bit of a risk of liking it so much you getting hooked into paying for something - i thought surfing was free man?
no thunder fucking way....
PC World - PC World Downloads - AM-DeadLink
PC World - PC World Downloads - AM-DeadLink
AM deadlink - if you still use favourites this deletes the ones that no longer work - if like me you use multiple machines in multiple locations may i suggest google toolbars favourites instead??
AM deadlink - if you still use favourites this deletes the ones that no longer work - if like me you use multiple machines in multiple locations may i suggest google toolbars favourites instead??
Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Initially im intrigued, still working out what half of it is about though so writing on here to remind me to have another look...
Bits of it ive found useful are:
Link to validation sites - it will submit the page you are looking at to be validated so you can see what youve done wrong (again)
Resize to screen res's see what it looks like when its not in widescreen
clear cookies just for the page you want to clear cookies for
A ruler to measure bits!! surprisingly useful.
Web resources ive found are:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/05/10/Internet-Explorer-Developer-Toolbar-_2D00_-Get-It-Now_2100_.aspx
Mainly people moaning that it isnt as good as firefox, there may be something useful in this eventually...
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/070208.htm - 15 seconds is good - but i must read slow cause this took me more like a couple of minutes to read....
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar
Initially im intrigued, still working out what half of it is about though so writing on here to remind me to have another look...
Bits of it ive found useful are:
Link to validation sites - it will submit the page you are looking at to be validated so you can see what youve done wrong (again)
Resize to screen res's see what it looks like when its not in widescreen
clear cookies just for the page you want to clear cookies for
A ruler to measure bits!! surprisingly useful.
Web resources ive found are:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/05/10/Internet-Explorer-Developer-Toolbar-_2D00_-Get-It-Now_2100_.aspx
Mainly people moaning that it isnt as good as firefox, there may be something useful in this eventually...
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/070208.htm - 15 seconds is good - but i must read slow cause this took me more like a couple of minutes to read....
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar
Quick License Manager - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
Interactive Studios Quick Licence manager
How to handle licencing? Its the age old question - do you write a bit of code to handle it yourself, or do you farm it out to someone else? Heres an example of farmed out code that looks useful
Quick licence manager seems to tick all the boxes, it enables you to create computer bound licence keys - bound to the name of the computer. It enables you to create evaluation keys with date bound expiration
Its only $69
Its probably easily hackable by the code kiddies out there but it will be enough to stop average jo from cheating you out of your money....
Its less life consuming than writing your own and watching that get hacked as well
nuff said, im going to try it, i'll let you know how it goes.
How to handle licencing? Its the age old question - do you write a bit of code to handle it yourself, or do you farm it out to someone else? Heres an example of farmed out code that looks useful
Quick licence manager seems to tick all the boxes, it enables you to create computer bound licence keys - bound to the name of the computer. It enables you to create evaluation keys with date bound expiration
Its only $69
Its probably easily hackable by the code kiddies out there but it will be enough to stop average jo from cheating you out of your money....
Its less life consuming than writing your own and watching that get hacked as well
nuff said, im going to try it, i'll let you know how it goes.
Sunday 13 May 2007
Diagnostic check for the body
http://www.lifescanuk.org/services/index.php
A full CT scan to find out if you have heart problems, cancer, etc for £650.. its a lot of money but then again you only get one body?
A full CT scan to find out if you have heart problems, cancer, etc for £650.. its a lot of money but then again you only get one body?
Printing forms using C#
This is a tiresome part of the new dot net language, not being able even to print a simple form...
Anyway, this code helps..
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/PrintForm.asp
Wow..
Anyway, this code helps..
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/PrintForm.asp
Wow..
Sunday 29 April 2007
Javascript for putting a cookie and retrieving a cookie
Someone asked me the other day how to save a cookie via javascript, then retrieve said cookie to display the users name..
Simple right? I couldnt remember javascript at all to be honest - but i found this article:
http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/functions.html
Suddenly it all made sense again!
Its easy when you know how..
Simple right? I couldnt remember javascript at all to be honest - but i found this article:
http://www.webreference.com/js/column8/functions.html
Suddenly it all made sense again!
Its easy when you know how..
Source code versioning and sharing - simply?
Well.. I need to implement some kind of source control - im working on a project which will require the input of a team of two, sharing files over adsl connection -
http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion is what im looking into.
Id like to make it portable and scalable as im fed up of managing installs again and again - so im going to build a virtual machine to host it.
Technologies that im going to use:
VMware,
Redhat linux fedora core,
Subversion.
Coding environment that im aiming to support:
Asp.net (vb)
Html
SQL server 2005
Users:
One person coding
One person carrying out html design changes
Articles and useful links:
A useful article on interfacing with dot net http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/file_diff_and_webreports.asp
Another useful article on interfacing with dot net
http://morph.telspace.co.za/docs/SVN4VSdotNet.php
Subversion toolset for interfacing with dot net
http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/
Looking at how to interface SQL with subversion (not 2005 but i will look at that later)
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/ScriptDB4Svn.asp
Stage 1:
Downloaded and installed: VMware server (free from www.vmware.com)
Linux - red hat fedora core 6 dvd from www.redhat.com - again free. This takes days to download...
Created a new virtual machine - settings were:
Memory 192mb (this was reccomended)
Disk drive 8gb (default - can change this at a later point) - one gotcha that caused problems at first was that you have to make sure you choose the lsi logic scsi option, i used the default and then was told by fedora core installer that the disk couldnt be recognised.
Once the machine created i pointed the cdrom at the iso image of red hat fedora downloaded as above and then started the machine. At this point the install for fedora started running through.
I'll keep you posted on how it goes...
http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion is what im looking into.
Id like to make it portable and scalable as im fed up of managing installs again and again - so im going to build a virtual machine to host it.
Technologies that im going to use:
VMware,
Redhat linux fedora core,
Subversion.
Coding environment that im aiming to support:
Asp.net (vb)
Html
SQL server 2005
Users:
One person coding
One person carrying out html design changes
Articles and useful links:
A useful article on interfacing with dot net http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/file_diff_and_webreports.asp
Another useful article on interfacing with dot net
http://morph.telspace.co.za/docs/SVN4VSdotNet.php
Subversion toolset for interfacing with dot net
http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/
Looking at how to interface SQL with subversion (not 2005 but i will look at that later)
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/ScriptDB4Svn.asp
Stage 1:
Downloaded and installed: VMware server (free from www.vmware.com)
Linux - red hat fedora core 6 dvd from www.redhat.com - again free. This takes days to download...
Created a new virtual machine - settings were:
Memory 192mb (this was reccomended)
Disk drive 8gb (default - can change this at a later point) - one gotcha that caused problems at first was that you have to make sure you choose the lsi logic scsi option, i used the default and then was told by fedora core installer that the disk couldnt be recognised.
Once the machine created i pointed the cdrom at the iso image of red hat fedora downloaded as above and then started the machine. At this point the install for fedora started running through.
I'll keep you posted on how it goes...
Saturday 3 February 2007
FAQs | FAQs | Dirt Worker - dirt worker portable pressure jet washer
FAQs FAQs Dirt Worker - dirt worker portable pressure jet washer
Very american, but what a great idea if you go mountain biking.. I want one of those.. Portable jet wash for the car, you can fill it up before you go out and then clean the bike before putting it back in the car..
Very american, but what a great idea if you go mountain biking.. I want one of those.. Portable jet wash for the car, you can fill it up before you go out and then clean the bike before putting it back in the car..
Wednesday 24 January 2007
New year planning
Its the new year, time for new changes. Its easy to drift along, however you arent necessarily going to get where you want to go. So, i thought id put a bit of structure behind my planning for my new years resolutions.
Below are a list of the articles Ive found to help me with this and my comments on them.
Basic Overview of Varous Strategic Planning Models Some useful models showing how businesses might approach planning - This is useful for the long term game plan.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/ A useful approach for changing ways - maybe? I'll try and incorporate this into my plan for anything I identify that requires a major effort to change.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=76 tips on career planning
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=78 more tips on planning
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=80 and more
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=82 and more...!
Topics that will be included in the planning:
Overall game plan
Where do I want to be in 3 months, 6 months, a year, 3 years, 5 years.
Mission statement
The overall plan will then be decomposed into objectives for the below categories.
Finance
Hope someone finds this useful
Below are a list of the articles Ive found to help me with this and my comments on them.
Basic Overview of Varous Strategic Planning Models Some useful models showing how businesses might approach planning - This is useful for the long term game plan.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/ A useful approach for changing ways - maybe? I'll try and incorporate this into my plan for anything I identify that requires a major effort to change.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=76 tips on career planning
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=78 more tips on planning
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=80 and more
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=82 and more...!
Topics that will be included in the planning:
Overall game plan
Where do I want to be in 3 months, 6 months, a year, 3 years, 5 years.
Mission statement
The overall plan will then be decomposed into objectives for the below categories.
Finance
Relationships
Career
Education
Exercise
Hobbies
This is a work in progress which I will update as i flesh the plan out further.
Hope someone finds this useful
Thursday 4 January 2007
The future of phones has arrived...
I want one of those...
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WIP320-Wireless-G-Skype-iPhone/dp/B000JI5L02/sr=1-5/qid=1167839314/ref=sr_1_5/104-9443546-3074306?ie=UTF8&s=pc
The iphone - WiFi skype and yahoo messaging.. How cool is that?
Anyone got one yet?
http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WIP320-Wireless-G-Skype-iPhone/dp/B000JI5L02/sr=1-5/qid=1167839314/ref=sr_1_5/104-9443546-3074306?ie=UTF8&s=pc
The iphone - WiFi skype and yahoo messaging.. How cool is that?
Anyone got one yet?
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