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“If everyone rode a motorbike before they drove a car we would lower the road toll.”

Dale November 22, 2013 0 Comments

“The late Phil Irving, great engineer, wrote a wonderful, typical sort of Irving theory, he said if everyone rode a motorbike before they drove a car we would lower the…

Quotations

“If you are going to make a speech …

Dale November 21, 2013 0 Comments

Stand up so you can be seen. Speak up so you can be heard, and Shut up so you can be appreciated.” - Ian Menzies.  (source: via Sydney Institute Podcast…

How To

How to expand a VMware Workstation Virtual Disk.

Dale November 20, 2013 0 Comments

Three step process VMware Knowledge Base: Increasing the size of a virtual disk (1004047) Now increase the partition size of the guest operation system. If you are going to use…

Utilities Windows 7

Running applications with separate “Admin” account privileges

Dale November 19, 2013 0 Comments

We have normal logon accounts, and then we have “Admin_” accounts for doing things, such as user account password changes & Group Policy management. It is, to say the least,…

Hardware How To

Finding device drivers with the PCIDatabase

Dale November 18, 2013 0 Comments

Imagine you have a “No name brand” Ethernet card, without a driver disk or CD. You plug it into your computer, and Device Manager can’t find the drivers for it. …

How To

Cable management trick

Dale November 17, 2013 0 Comments

One of my previous housemates did this.  It’s a neat way of hanging a cable plug, and I would never have thought of doing it in the proverbial million years.

Web links

Saturday Link Roundup

Dale November 16, 2013 0 Comments

How to Understand Your Users with Personas SQL SERVER – Shrinking Truncate Log File – Log Full I shrunk a 100GB log file to 1MB. The inevitable goodbye that must…

Pets

Pet loss articles and support links.

Dale November 16, 2013 0 Comments

Articles By Martha M. Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC A Bill of Rights for Grieving Animal Lovers Why does pet loss hurt so much? Anticipatory Grief Sorting it out: Spiritual beliefs…

Code Cutting How To

VS2010 & .Net 2 Framework Selection

Dale November 15, 2013 0 Comments

.Net 2 is not the default framework option …  No, you get .Net 4.  To change it, you select Project / <your project name> Properties / Compile / Advanced Compile…

Utilities

Removing lots of empty directories easily.

Dale November 14, 2013 0 Comments

I could have written a .Net application to recursively loop through and delete all 12,000+ empty directories I had. But instead, a decided to do a Google Search, which turned…

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