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Friday, December 19th, 2008A slight deviation from the idea of “P2P”, this utility that runs on all platforms (Win/*nix/Mac), allows for users to share files with one another of any size and type. It also allows you to control the ammount of bandwidth being used, so that you don’t kill something (like your internet) in the process. FilePhil [...]
Emotional gMail
Monday, October 27th, 2008Further to the discussion about gmail’s Beta-state, I recently noticed they’d incorporated a new button for mail. I suppose this is a clear example as to why it’s still in Beta! In other news, we apologise for the slightly quieter state of this site; two of us are currently in exam / assignment mode, and [...]
Gmail’s Quirks
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008I logged onto my gmail this morning, and chuckled a bit when I saw my ‘Spam’ count: Spam: 404. Yes, hopefully you understand where the humour lies in that, if not – visit wiki. On another note: I wonder when gmail will no longer be in “beta”. I don’t remember the google search engine ever [...]
A week with the iPhone
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008So, I’ve had the iPhone for a week now. As I mentioned in my own blog I wasn’t exactly blown away by it. Don’t get me wrong, as a PDA its great, but it’s nothing that hugely unique. And in its crippled state (as is how apple ships it, and how it’s meant to be [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 5
Friday, August 15th, 2008Sit. Rep.: It’s all fucked. I’ve been doing all this testing on my local machine, which has been brilliant. We were then going to do some side-by-side scenario testing live, which meant prepping the servers.We don’t run th management console on the actual database server, obviously, so it gets installed on the terminal server so [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 2
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008There’s a fantastic feature in the Management Console that should have been there since the very beginning. I didn’t find it yesterday for reaons that will become apparent in a few minutes: Intellisense! Its about time. There were third-party plugins that did the same thing, but seeing as I don’t use the query designer to [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 1
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008First cab off the rank: Management Console. I’m interested to see the changes here, because this is to be honest, most people’s window into the SQL Server. Sure some people like to go hardcore and script everything, but more normal people use the GUI for day to day tasks. First task: Attach an SQL Server [...]
SQL Server 2008: Day 0
Monday, August 11th, 2008Not a great start. It took the best part of an entire day to install SQL Server 2008 on my Vista machine. The installation started well. It installed the pre-requisite Windows Installer 4 and .NET Framework 3.5. Requisite restart after Windows Installer. Sailed through a much more sensible configuration wizard, saw a few new features [...]
SQL Server 2008
Monday, August 11th, 2008Straight off the press and into my hot little hands is an MSDN copy of SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition. As soon as the installation for it finishes downloading a massive update for Visual Studio 2008 (! I know) I’ll (probably, if I can be bothered) post my findings here. One of the most promising [...]
Boffins
Friday, July 18th, 2008Back in 2003, when I had first moved to Sydney, I worked in a small computer store, selling PCs. As a salesperson I was good, as a mathmatician I was useless and as a techie I was very good. Then one day my manager said to me (probably after I screwed something up), “Mark we’re [...]
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