Tag: Windows
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Long shot
Guys, I know this is a long shot but I thought, what the hey, it is worth a try! I have a friend who booked time in a data centre for tomorrow to upgrade his server from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition. Unfortunately, his supplier hasn’t come through with the media…
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Riya's discriminates financially against Mac users – cannot qualify for remuneration!
I have written about Riya here several times recently and it seems that it will be a very cool application. I am one of the lucky ones selected to be an alpha tested of Riya but unfortunately that doesn’t do much for me because I am Mac based and the uploader for Riya is Windows…
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Microsoft 2.0? Yawn.
The online world is buzzing with the news of Microsoft’s conversion to Web 2.0! Tim O’Reilly is quite positive about it: Overall, leaves me with a lot of optimism that Microsoft is fully engaged with the right problems, and we’ll be hearing a lot more from them. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch said: After what I…
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How to rid a PC of viruses and malware
My parents have asked me to look at their neighbours PC – it has started ‘acting funny’ and “they think it might have a virus”, I was told. “Uh oh”, I thought. Here we go again. If you are the local IT guru you know this feeling well. And, is it just me or is…
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ISA Server error 12217
A client was having an intermittant error on websites he is hosting on one of his servers. The error was occurring only on some pages and only some of the time. The error message displayed was “The request was rejected by the HTTP filter. Contact your ISA Server administrator. (12217)”. He asked me to have…
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Security center could not change your automatic updates settings
I was working on a friends PC the other day. It had Windows XP Home on it and several viruses! After cleaning out the viruses, I updated the PC to XP SP 2 to get the security advantages that the service pack confers. However, on re-starting the PC after the install, the Security Centre gave…