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December 2004 - Posts
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Last weekend, I walked into my home office to see the notebook PC that I use for work (a Dell Latitude D600) rebooting and reporting that it couldn't find its primary hard disk. Not good news. I tried freezing the disk (see also 200 ways to revive a hard Read More...
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I don't normally bother to read about Microsoft's latest legal battle when yet another competitor cries out that nobody buys their product because it's free/cheaper/better/more widely available* (*delete as appropriate) from Microsoft, but yesterday's Read More...
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My current client has a large number of user accounts with names that are mostly numerical. We discovered that, no matter what the BIOS settings were, NumLock is off by default in the Log On to Windows dialog; however, it is possible to change this as Read More...
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December seems to be the month for high-profile corporate takeovers in the IT world! A couple of weeks back IBM sold its PC business . Then last week Microsoft bought an anti-spyware company . Now I've read that Symantec and Veritas are to merge in a Read More...
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Back in August I posted an entry on my private blog about the what you should know about spyware article on the Microsoft website. The article has since been replaced but I was interested to read about Microsoft's purchase of Giant Company - a leading Read More...
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I don't use Outlook Express personally, but I recently rebuilt my father-in-law's PC and imported his settings from the old disk. I didn't have a clue where Outlook Express stored its data, but came across an article on the iOpus website about backing Read More...
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(I went to Uni' in Wales, so I feel duty bound to publicise this for my Welsh-speaking friends!) Microsoft have worked with the Welsh Language Board to develop two new Welsh-language interface packs - one for Windows XP and another for Office 2003. They Read More...
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A couple of years back, I worked as a Project Manager in the IT department for a major fashion design, marketing and retail company. My main project provided a standard desktop operating environment, along with replacement mail and directory services, Read More...
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Back in July, I reported that Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) had been delayed until 2005 . I've just read that, a couple of days back, Microsoft released the first release candidate (RC) build of Windows Server 2003 SP1. Windows 2003 Read More...
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Last night, on my way home, I heard BBC Radio 4 reporting on IBM's sale of its PC business to Lenovo . So what! Another merger in the overcrowded PC manufacturing space. Well, absolutely, except that IBM invented the personal computer and were the third Read More...
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Whilst looking at the website statistics for my main website , I realised that many users were attempting to access pages that no longer exist on the server. Some may argue that old content should be left in place, but others will disagree and my preferred Read More...
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One of the features used in my main and family websites is custom error pages, which allow errors to be handled using a format that matches other documents on the site. Apache users can configure custom error messages using .htaccess . Once pages have Read More...
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When no default document is found on a web server, depending on the server configuration, users may be able to list the files in a given directory. For Apache servers, this may be prevented on a per-directory basis by adding add an IndexIgnore directive Read More...
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One of the features used in my main and family websites is server side includes (SSI). The SSI code allows my sites to include dynamic information which would otherwise require scripting that may not function correctly with certain browsers. SSI is pretty Read More...
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Under certain circumstances, it may be necessary to deny users access to various files on a web server. For example, some directives in an Apache .htaccess file may be considered a security risk and so access to the file may be prevented using the following Read More...
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My ISPs' Apache servers are configured for index.html and index.htm to be the default documents; however since implementing server side includes in my main and family websites I need index.shtml to be recognised. Fortunately, this can be achieved using Read More...
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A few weeks back, I updated my main and family websites (which run on my ISPs' Apache servers) to use various features which improve the experience for users of the site. These features include: Server side includes (SSI) . Changing the default web page Read More...
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