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I purchased a Nokia Lumia 930 approx. a month ago now, moving up from my HTC Titan. I found the HTC titan to be quite good overall, but the camera wasn't the best - and now with a child and a dog doing funny things all the time, I found myself wanting a 1/2 decent…
Continue readingSo far, everything has been pretty positive.... I've found one thing that could possibly be a bug - a pretty minor one. I normally set/raise my task bar to be "two" levels high, this seems to be set ok, but on next logon, it reverts to "one level" high. Offline files - after realising I…
Continue readingI have been using Windows 10 enterprise tech preview for a few days now - and here are my initial thoughts The new eval centre from where the eval is downloaded is odd. Apart from having to sign in multiple times, the download progress is not shown anywhere A fresh install (which I opted for)…
Continue readinghttp://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2994331 In our last large project we had a situation where there were two forests with no trust, one forest housed the primary business network and the other forest housed the operational machines which ran a certain utility for our state. This CU contains the following option... This cumulative update introduces a new registry entry…
Continue readingAn announcement over at http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2014/09/30/windows-10-enterprise-management-with-sc-configmgr-and-intune.aspx 3 things of note: Windows 10 will be delivered in a way that allows for more choice and flexibility for businesses Oh shit - here comes a product which is going to limit choice and flexibility and force me down a specific path for something I previously could make a…
Continue readinghttp://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/09/30/announcing-windows-10/ features etc. have been consistently leaked, so none are a surprise, the main quandary is - what was wrong with calling it Windows 9? I was/am still keen for this, no matter what the name is. I was one of "those" who placed windows 8.1 in the "its a good OS under the covers…
Continue readingDear Microsoft - Logging on to outlook.com or a service which uses a Microsoft/Live ID from a different IP address does not fucking constitute "unusual activity"; subsequently blocking access to the account with security measures that a) are invasive b) don't fucking work (the text messages only sometimes come through and when they do…
Continue readingAs per the title - I've been playing Far Cry 3 - not a new game I know, but instead of buying new games (such as elite dangerous) I'm trying to actually play some of the games I have already purchased - generally in steam summer sales. I know I am not alone in this…
Continue readinghttp://stealthpuppy.com/work-around-for-getting-file-transfer-manager-to-download-from-technetmsdn/ direct downloads are normally a good thing - and download managers normally suck, but in the case of TechNet/MSDN downloads - where the download sizes are large (up to 6gb generally for me) - Microsoft File Transfer Manager is great. I think why I like it so much is that it performs basic functions…
Continue readingRecently we had a client who diligently updated their 2012 R2 DC's to U1 as part of their normal patching cycle - and found afterwards that their 2003 servers were experiencing some "odd" behaviour. After having a look, sure enough, networking was fine, RPC was fine, all services were fine, but when trying to connect…
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