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Here’s a snapshot of my current office desktop: So, what’s on it? Microsoft Surface Pro 128GB – My main work machine. I’m a big fan of this- I can use it like a desktop when I’m at my desk but then pick it up and go to a meeting room or datacentre and still have all my applications and data at my fingertips. Targus USB …
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Our Lifecycle Management of desktop hardware sometimes turns up some gems, today we had a venerable Dell Optiplex GX620 ultra small form factor desktop PC returned for recycling. This has to be one of the more unusual desktop computer designs, the small size is made possible by the use of an external power supply of …
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When using Outlook 2013, the Calendar conveniently displays the current weather and temperature at the top of the pane. The location can be switched using the drop down on the weather itself (for some reason my English-UK Office setup decided that I was most likely a New Yorker following installation) but changing from …
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Some interesting or useful articles, blog posts, and other stuff I looked at this week…… New business range from Dell- more of the same from the Optiplex range, until you get to the Touchscreen. A new office chair- I must persuade the boss that we need these in our office. We got our first look at Windows 8.1 And …
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As any Hoopy Frood will know May 25th is Towel Day and to celebrate you could sit down with the book, or watch the TV show or the movie, or you could just read a towel. But instead why not dust off the 1980’s text adventure of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. To save you finding an old 486 and dusting off those …
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Whilst trying to update firmware on a Dell EqualLogic PS6500 I received the error FTP: Permission denied: recv failed. It turns out that this was down to a Java problem on my Windows 7 workstation, rather than the EqualLogic. The solution was to install a Microsoft HotFix. Once this was installed, and the workstation …
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Microsoft DreamSpark is a great resource for staff and students in Higher Education- it gives you access to many Microsoft packages for free, so if you haven’t already got access then I’d recommend looking into it. One request that I often face is from students who have downloaded Windows 7 from DreamSpark via the …
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Held at the De Vere New Place near Southampton this was a very different experience to the other Microsoft events I have been to in the past. Firstly the audience was much smaller, more like 60 than 600 attendees. Also, this wasn’t in a lecture room or a darkened cinema, but the room was arranged with us sat at …
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