You can sign up for the Windows Home Server Beta. Looking forward to this one.
This little beast has been busy in the tree for the past couple of days – he can get really loud sometimes. Unfortunately he’s quite a way up, well camouflaged, its freezing cold yet bright outside and I’m at the extreme end of the zoom on the camera so the picture isn’t brilliant.
Not a beer (but you may need one after using this tool), but LUABuglight will help you to track down the issues with needing admin rights on a pc to run the application – my most recent example being Timeslips from Sage Software that needed power user rights
I’ve been doing a lot of research,reading and studying in improving my productivity and time management recently. This morning I came across the Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes document which really strikes me as an oxymoron. Notes seems to be the most counterproductive piece of software out there and it is not helping me in my productivity. So maybe I’ll get this document to see how it should be done.
One of the things that I picked up from one of the books was to use 1 calendar for everything which is ok if you are single and don’t have a spouse that also needs to see your calendar but they don’t work for your company and have access. As we both have google accounts, I thought that syncing the Notes calendar to google calendar would work as then my wife can see the google calendar and we could both use the calendars to ensure we didn’t doublebook events. I did find the Companion Link for Google Calendar software but it doesn’t work very well.
The synchronization takes forever (when it does work) and I’ve ended up with duplicate entries in google but with different times – 1 hour apart I could understand due to some funky dst issues, but these are a couple of hours apart. Recurring appointments are not supported (although recurring appointments that have been canceled appeared in gmail but active recurring appointments didn’t)
Still, at least I now have a base copy in Google calendar which I will hopefully be able to keep up to date.
Relient K’s new video for Must have done something right is up on Yahoo. I liked it even if it had a lot of football in it – I almost expected David Beckham to show up in it though.
It’s the “big game” tonight (what a stupid idea to not allow people to refer to it as the SuperBowl) and I was really looking forward to going round to some friends from church for a party. We actually got on the road and drove a couple of miles before turning around to go back home as the snow was starting to settle a bit too much on the road and we really didn’t fancy the drive back home afterwards in the snow. So I’ve still yet to actually go to a SuperBowl party.
So we got home and watched the first half. Most of the commercials were pretty good but I thought it was a bit crazy that there have been coca-cola adverts at every break, but it was the Pepsi half time show, with Prince (who seems to be no longer referred to as the artist formerly known as Prince). Although I don’t like Prince’s music I did prefer it to the Rolling Stones from last year.
My laptop power brick died on Friday – it took me a while to figure out why my screen kept going black after checking the power was plugged in at the wall and at the laptop. The weird thing is that the brick bleeps – it almost sounds like a ticking time bomb, even though it doesn’t provide power (or turn the green led on) We tried various psu’s at the office but it seems that nearly every type of dell laptop we have uses a different power brick that aren’t compatible.
Microsoft released the Windows Easy Transfer for Windows XP and Windows 2000 tool which is the new version of Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST) that came with Windows XP to allow you to move your settings to a new computer. I also got an email from laplink who have released their PCMover software which claims to be unique in that it also moves the programs too. Note that I’ve not used either of these programs.
It is pretty scary when a server component crashes when you press the help button – especially on the first day that a server is live – apparently it’s a Conflict of the psapi.dll
I’ve been doing a lot of work with cell phones and Windows Mobile 5 this month, installing about 6 devices. 1 device was purchased as I was struggling to get the previous phone working with Verizon’s wireless sync software and after about 5 hours it was time to purchase a Windows Mobile 5 which would sync directly to exchange. In the process of the switching of devices, there were some duplications of events and things and AntiDupe would have been handy to delete the duplicates. In fact it still might come in useful.
One word of advice – 5000 calendar entries is not a good idea and exchange WILL choke if you try to sync them.