It still remains to be seen how useful and popular Windows Live Skydrive will become, but if you happen to have an MSN account you automatically get 25Gb of free storage at your disposal, which in my case is enough to backup all of my important personal data - documents, photos, etc (the photos of [...]
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Connect Skydrive as a Windows mapped drive
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D-Link DWA-131 and Ubuntu
I recently bought this wireless-n USB adaptor for use with Ubuntu as I had read it was "Linux compatible", or at least as compatible as a wireless card can be with Linux. It proved tricky to get working, so this post may help others who are thinking of attempting the same thing. There are basically [...]
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Configure a non-enterprise Blackberry handset for Exchange
Some users in our organisation had purchased Blackberries from their favourite mobile phone retailers, with the expectation of them working with our Exchange email. Being retail BB's, they would not provisioned or licensed for our BES server, meaning we would not be able to remote wipe or do other useful stuff for them. Blackberry do [...]
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Upgrading bugzilla from 3.0.x to 3.4.6
A few weeks ago I updated a 3 year old installation of Bugzilla to the most recent version, and made these notes along the way. The Bugzilla online documentation is pretty good and my plan was formed using their docs as a guide. Send advance warning to users Log on to site, edit params and [...]
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Compile your own droid – Part 1a
Here's a confession. My inner geek woke me up the next morning at 3:00 wondering whether my android build had completed. In the end sanity took hold again, and I went back to sleep. Quite lucky really as when I checked in the morning, the java compiler had crashed with a meaningless error. An exception [...]
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Compile your own droid (for HTC Sapphire) – Part 1
I thought I'd have a go at building Android 2.0.1 from source for the HTC Magic (AKA MyTouch 3G and HTC Sapphire). Mine is the 32B board from UK Vodafone - Google branded. Current most recent firmware from HTC for the device is Android 1.6, although Android 2.0.1 source code is available from Google. Android [...]
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Google Wave invite, anyone?
I just joined Google Wave this week and I have 8 invites if anyone wants one ... leave me a comment or get in touch via Twitter (@ben_stokes) with your email address and I'll send one over. Personally I am not that amazed with it, not sure if it will catch on ... I think [...]
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The thin client project
On our small remote sites we use HP thin clients to connect to applications using Citrix. The thin clients are Linux based, with 1Gb of flash memory for storage and running an HP customised version of Debian. The distro is basically a cut down Gnome desktop with Iceweasel (Firefox), and some HP branding and tools [...]
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Managing multiple PuTTys
I don't have any Linux cluster servers to look after but do manage 2 Linux server farms. They are similar to clusters in that they are both groups of RHEL servers that all have to have an identical config. The larger of these farms is 12 RHEL 5.3 servers, and to roll out changes to [...]
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I’ve had it with Vista.
My Vista computer is configured to automatically update every Tuesday at 5:00pm. Today it downloaded and installed the following patches: - Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - August 2009 (KB890830) - Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [August 2009] (KB905866) - Security Update for Windows Vista (KB973540) - Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 [...]
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