Tim Long

Forever in Electric Dreams
The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

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Windows Live Writer and Community Server 2008
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...
Scheduled Broadband Upgrade
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...
Microsoft MVP renewed
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...
ServerQuest: eighties retro chic
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...
A Clean Slate
My ClustrMap has just been archived, which means that my site usage will look a bit empty for a little while until you all pay me a visit.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...
Upgrade to Community Server 2008
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 We had a few initial teething problems that seem to have been caused by outdated/missing binaries in the Upgrade...
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant
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...
Business Communications into the 21st Century
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...
Heroes Happen at the Hilton
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...
Through the Looking Glass
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...
I'm back (from the dead)
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...
Posted: May 23 2007, 09:03 PM by Tim Long | with 3 comment(s)
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A New Day for Tim
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...
Posted: May 12 2007, 07:06 PM by Tim Long | with 4 comment(s)
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When is Free not Free?
Answer: when it is free software . A few days ago I wrote about "free software" and said that I disliked the terminology. An article on the IMPACT blog looks at the rise of open source software and I'm pleased to note that they also consider the name...
Rock and Roll in Kent
I love geology, especially the messy, dangerous kind. I'm just fascinated by the processes and effects of our planet going through its normal cycles. Of course these things happen on such a large timescale that we often only notice the rare remarkable...
Where's Tim Today?
If you have Google Earth installed, you can double-click the attached file to see where I am.
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