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« Previous EntriesMount Disk Images using virtual cd controlpanel
Monday, March 8th, 2010Have you ever tried mounting an .iso image (a CD or DVD image) on Windows XP ? You end up needing 3rd party software, you’ll most likely have to reboot since it installs a driver, and you end up allocating a huge chunk of memory to what is really a very simple task.
I’ve just been [...]
Synchronise Lotus Notes with Google Calendar
Monday, January 11th, 2010There’s a lot of software for synchronising various webmail or MS Outlook Calendars with Google Calendar. However, there’s not that much around about synchronising Lotus Notes calendars….
At the moment there are three methods that I have used or know of.
goosync
I use a Nokia N95. It synchronises it’s calendar with Lotus Notes using the [...]
Wordpress 2.9 notes
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010Batch Plug-in Update in Word Press
When Word Press introduced one click upgrade for pluggins, it was like Christmas in July. But this time maybe on the actual Christmas or perhaps slightly earlier with the release of Word Press 2.9, we will now be able to upgrade multiple pluggins with one click from our WordPress Admin [...]
Generate MD5 Checksums on Windows
Saturday, November 21st, 2009How do you know, for sure, that the file you’ve download has been transferred correctly ? The UNIX (and by extension, internet) standard has, for years, been checking the md5 hash. Now, there’s plenty of info on the web about creating or checking MD5 or SHA-1 checksums for UNIX or Linux users, but not [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisCelebrating 30 years of mainframe support
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009You may know that CSC hit the big 50 this year. A local 30 year milestone has been reached as well.
In 1978 the Port Kembla steelworks (then called Australian Iron and Steel or AIS, now owned by Bluescope Steel and supported by CSC Asustralia) received a water cooled IBM 3032 mainframe with [...]
10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog
Monday, May 11th, 2009With WordPress so popular these days, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers, so securing your blog is more and more important. The catswhocode.com provide 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog.
They have a large array of useful WordPress tips and tricks, including another recent one about 10 awesome .htaccess hacks [...]
testing mods to Alex King’s twitter tools
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009I’ve made some modifications to my copy of Alex King’s twitter tools plugin.
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisFree Microsoft support for Windows XP, Office 2003 ends next month
Thursday, March 26th, 2009OK, so Microsoft will end official free support for Microsoft Office 2003 on April 14th. Obviously, this doesn’t mean that the help center or help programs on your computer will stop working, but you won’t be able to get free answers to your questions from Microsoft anymore. You will be able to pay for extended [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisGen Y: Slackers or Looking for Mentors ??
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009According to AccountancyAge, there is a new breed of employees who job hop and are unwilling to volunteer:
Generation Y also have little job loyalty.
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‘There can be a sense of “I am better than that” or, somehow, what you asking is beneath them. …. They don’t volunteer, or the ones that do really stand out,’ complains [...]
Build Your Own D*I*Y Planner
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009You can walk into any Post Office or stationery store and buy a paper planner. There’s also heaps to choose from online.
But a do-it-yourself planner brings customization and scalability. Examples of this are when you don’t want to have to order a new set of custom-print pages from your store-bought planner’s manufacturer every time [...]