Category Archives: General IT matters

One thing I noticed with the laptop and other products I bought at the weekend was that the packaging was all cardboard – easy to recycle. Is this a response to the Green push??   Share this post :   … Continue reading →

One of the things I like about Vista (and there are some things I don’t like) is how it remembers the settings for external monitors and projectors. I often need to be working on a few documents simultaneously so the … Continue reading →

The penultimate day of IT Forum and the last session of the day was very interesting. Microsoft have two frameworks: Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) which is based on ITIL and describes how IT Operations should run Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) … Continue reading →

Just came across this little gem of a story – see http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6656004430.html among others. Technorati Tags: Windows, Linux

If you want to see a good Silverlight example have a look at the TechEd It Forum on line brochure at http://www.mseventseurope.com/teched/07/itforum/content/Pages/Default.aspx Technorati Tags: Teched-ITForum

You couldn’t make this up!!! One "advantage" of Linux is supposedly its price.  Oh yeah.  See this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/novell_suse_overpriced/   Technorati Tags: IT

It is 25 years since the smiley  🙂 first saw the light of day.  Cor, its nearly as old as me 🙂 Technorati Tags: Smiley

Looks like Windows Server 2008 won’t RTM until Q1 2008.  Technorati Tags: Windows Server 2008

Looks like everything seems to be working properly now.  The disappearance of the ability to view comments and trackbacks directly on the summary page is a retrograde move.  As is the ability to toggle directly into and out of the edit mode. 

Looks like the statistics reporting has been messed up again with the new version of Live Spaces!