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Changing the Upload Limit in SharePoint Services 2.0

Oct 3, 2011 · 1 min read · sharepoint microsoft ·

The upload limit in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 is set to 50MB as default. The following instructions show how to increase or decrease this.
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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 29 July 2011)

Jul 29, 2011 · 1 min read · android ·

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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 29 July 2011)

Some interesting or useful articles, blog posts, and other stuff I looked at this week……
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Deploy with Group Policy error

Jul 1, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft group-policy active-directory ·

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When deploying a printer by Group Policy using the Windows Server 2008 R2 “Print Management” application on a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory the following error may appear.
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Pinch to Get an Overview of All Your Android Home Screens

Jun 20, 2011 · 1 min read · android ·

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When you’re on the home screen and you want to head to a screen that’s more than one swipe away, it’s probably faster to get an overview of all your screens and tap on the one you want. To do this, just pinch in on the home screen
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PowerPoint poisoning

Jun 16, 2011 · 1 min read · powerpoint ·

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Dilbert PowerPoint Poisoning Eleven years on this is still one of my all-time favourite Dilbert cartoons.

VMware Forum 2011 - London

Jun 16, 2011 · 1 min read · vmware ·

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A couple of pictures from yesterday’s [VMware Forum in London]. In the last few years the event has been held at Chelsea Football Club and the ExCeL Centre. This year it was held at Wembley Stadium.

Internet Explorer text all in italics

Jun 10, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft ·

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I opened IE this morning (this machine is IE7 on Windows XP) and nearly all the text on every page was in italic.
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Shutting down a Virtual Machine using PowerCLI

Jun 7, 2011 · 1 min read · powercli vmware ·

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VMware PowerCLI allows us to shutdown a guest operating system on a virtual machine (assuming VMTools are installed) but the command to do this- Shutdown-VMGuest -returns straight away. In a script we may wish to wait for the VM to power down before continuing, this can be done as follows.
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Hitachi Information Forum

Jun 3, 2011 · 1 min read · hitachi ·

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A couple of pics from the Hitachi Information Forum event at the Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal Football Club, yesterday.

Line counting in Windows batch files

May 31, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft windows ·

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In Linux the wc -l command gives a count of the number of lines in a file or pipe. Windows doesn’t have the wc command, but the same can be done using the built-in find command as follows:
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