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Inspired by Richard Tubb ’s remarks , I’m Twittering . You can follow me at http://twitter.com/Tim_Long . If you know me and you’re twittering then I want to follow you. Please drop me a PM or comment here and I’ll add you. I’m not sure about twitter, its one of those things that I can’t really see the...
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Remember a month or so back I was waxing lyrical about my new broadband provider . I just thought I would run a few quick tests today to see how they were doing. Here’s my speed test result: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/122080020459968828836.html Demon Internet (aka Thus Plc) on...
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That’s it folks, the next version of Windows Small Business Server is finished. The code has RTMed and evaluation copies will be available within a few weeks. Official availability is 12 November. Time to start training! The resources have been appearing on Technet for some time now, so lets do...
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Tim Long
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08-22-2008
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Filed under: Dear Diary, IT, SBS, Small Business Server, Beta Testing, Small Business, Microsoft, Windows, SBSC, Technology, Business, Emerging Technology
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I’ve been having an issue with my blog since we upgraded to Community Server 2008. CS2008 uses a new filing system on the server and when posting entries containing images, the new filing system is confusing Live Writer, the result is that old images get overwritten, so old blog posts suddenly have their...
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TiGra Networks is having a broadband upgrade this week so we'll be offline for perhaps a day while that happens. We'll be completely off the air for a while and there will be a bit of disruption while we install the new equipment and update our DNS records and stuff like that, so if you visit...
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I'm proud to announce that Microsoft has renewed my Most Valuable Professional award for 2008/9. Once again my competency is Windows Server System - Small Business Server. There are currently (as of today, according to the MVP web site) about 55 such awardees worldwide, 2 in the UK and I'm the...
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Move over Minesweeper! I received a link to this from my MVP lead and I'm hooked, despite the blatant advertising. The cleverly done retro-chic "plinky plonky" music, chunky graphics and office politics takes me straight back to the early 1980s, Sinclair Spectrum and BBC Micro (model "B"...
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My ClustrMap has just been archived, which means that my site usage will look a bit empty for a little while until you all pay me a visit. ClustrMaps does this annually to stop the image turning into a read smear. I've suggested to the team at ClustrMaps that they use a rolling average instead of...
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Our blog/forum/file/photo gallery server, based on Telligent Systems' Community Server , has just been upgraded to Community Server 2008. We had a few initial teething problems that seem to have been caused by outdated/missing binaries in the Upgrade package which meant the MetaBlog API threw exceptions...
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Today is Wales' day. I've lived here since 1981, a total of 27 years, so although I was born English I feel a little bit Welsh now. I think they will forgive me if I wish you all a happy Saint David's Day . Have a pint of Brains Dark in our honour.
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I attended a seminar a few days ago that explored current and emerging uses of technology and communications in business. The event was hosted by Rhondda Cynon Taff Business Club . There was a presentation by Light Age Communications on what's currently available for businesses in technology land...
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I've spent most of today at the London Hilton attending Microsoft's partner pre-launch for servers & tools. Grace and I were lucky enough to get a front row seat just 6ft away from Bill Gates as he gave the keynote speech and held a Q&A session with Scott Dodds. I don't usually go...
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A funny thing happened today. I was installing AsteriskNow (a VOIP virtual PBX based on Linux) in a virtual machine within Virtual Server. I was viewing the virtual machine's console within the Virtual Server web application (using the VMRC component) from a remote machine. The Linux hardware detection...
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As my caving friends sometimes say to me, "I've been a long time dead". Having fixed up my mountain bike last week, I finally took it for a tentative test drive today, a staggering 1.2 miles. Not as hard as I expected, either, though 1.2 miles is not even enough to go aerobic (I seem to remember it takes...
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No-one would have believed, in the last years of the twentieth century, I was a fit, active outdoors person. My passions were caving and cycling. Then I injured my knee while caving and moved to America, land of the hamburger. Since then I've been on a slippery slope into increasing weight, decreasing...