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Help! My Install won’t run!!

Sep 18th, 2009 | By Mark
Help! My Install won’t run!!

So I had to install this here application. Specifically, something called BroadVision Command Center, a front end to manage web content basically… though much more if used properly. Anyhow, every time I ran the Setup.exe file… nothing happened… Well after much searching and probing about into windows files I really had no right being in, [...]



8 Cell Battery Packs – Dell Mini 9

Sep 10th, 2009 | By Mark
8 Cell Battery Packs – Dell Mini 9

Well, still getting on OK with the Dell Mini 9. Upgraded OS-X, upgraded the BIOS from A00 to A05 and re-ran DellEFI … what do you know, no more issues when trying to wake up from sleep mode. Sometimes it just wouldn’t, but others, it did so, but with no mouse pointer anymore… either way, [...]



Sony PRS 505 (Portable Reader System)

Aug 10th, 2009 | By Mark
Sony PRS 505 (Portable Reader System)

I have for many years been a fan of eBooks (as you can probably tell from a few previous postings. As a result I have [...]



Dell Mini 9 – Inspiron 910

Jul 24th, 2009 | By Mark
Dell Mini 9 – Inspiron 910

As those of you who have been reading this site may know I have been looking into netbooks for quite a while now.
After a lengthy period of research (or procrastination…), I had narrowed things down to a couple of possibilities, neither of which I ended up with (figures – ED), and here’s why.
Turns out that there [...]



Love your Helpdesk….

Jul 15th, 2009 | By Mark
Love your Helpdesk….

Having worked various service desks in my career, I have used a lot of Help Desk/Ticketing systems. From Bugzilla to Remedy, from Royal Blue’s offering to CA-Unicenter’s AHD software. I also have been to many mind numbing demos, and shown new wizzy bits’n’bobs that the sales guy’s software can do, and I can honestly say, [...]



Installing Ubuntu Linux v 9.04 Desktop Edition

Jun 17th, 2009 | By Mark
Installing Ubuntu Linux v 9.04 Desktop Edition

OK, so I needed to test a Linux distro, why? Because, I am looking into a new shiny net-book, and a few happen to come with Linux… Now there are a lot of flavours out there, so where to begin. Well actually, not such a hard issue, since the ones I have been looking at [...]