The Ramblings of a Geek…

Yesterday I saw a tweet from @appleboyy with a screen shot of a iPhone’s Siri function displaying Windows Phone as the best selling phone.  I tried this myself and it indeed did the same. Today that it’s now change for different response, but doesn’t query wolfram Alpha any longer. Demo of the change functionality of …

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I said in the blog post The Great Windows Phone to iPhone switch (back) that I would post why I switched, this is that post, it’s taken some time for me to write, sorry for the wait. I really want Windows Phone to succeed, yes even now.  I can develop already using Microsoft’s languages, so …

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Microsoft today have announced the local client download, think dropbox, for Windows and Mac OS X Lion.   They have also announced reduction of the free 25GB to 7GB, existing users can claim to keep there 25GB, Click here for Microsoft site for me details.  Sign in now to claim it before you lose it.   Login …

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I thought I would post an update as I’ve be fairly quite of late.   I do intend to start blogging more in the near future. I’ve been looking after my son for the past couple of months, spending some quality time with him.   Any spare time that I have found I’ve been using to go …

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  I tweeted about this a while back.  Looks like Microsoft actually seen sense and allowed the BBC to put this on the Xbox without the need for an XBOX Live Gold Subscription.  Which means it’s free to all.  Which is great. Now all we need is for the whole country to have access to 10mb+ broadband connections.

Windows 8 HyperV requires support for SLAT (second level address translation).  Check you BIOS as it can be enabled disabled from within. Download CoreInfo from the Windows Sysinternals website, here. Open a command window with admin rights and type coreinfo –v, if an asterix is displayed next to EPT row then your Intel processor supports …

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The Want To switch back to an iPhone from Windows Phone (another post coming here to explain the reasons). The Problem Cost The Windows Phone is supplied by my Company. Didn’t want to carry two phones around, have two numbers. The Solution(s) I didn’t want to sign up for a two year, eighteen or 12 month …

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I was going to blog about my thoughts on Windows 8, then I thought I didn’t want to re-blog, what Microsoft was blogging, I see little point.   Instead I thought I would wait for the Beta or as Microsoft is calling it, the Consumer Preview.  Once I’ve has chance to play around, I shall blog …

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Open Exchange management shell and enter the following: Get-MailboxDatabase "<insert database name>" | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort totalitemsize -desc | ft displayname, totalitemsize, itemcount

For Windows 7 Open an Windows Command Prompt and enter the following to disable: – sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi sc config mrxsmb20 start= disabled To enabled, enter the following: – sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/mrxsmb20/nsi sc config mrxsmb20 start= auto For Windows Server 2008 Run "regedit" on Windows Server 2008 based computer. Expand and …

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