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Internet Explorer text all in italics

Jun 10, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft ·

I opened IE this morning (this machine is IE7 on Windows XP) and nearly all the text on every page was in italic.
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Shutting down a Virtual Machine using PowerCLI

Jun 7, 2011 · 1 min read · powercli vmware ·

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VMware PowerCLI allows us to shutdown a guest operating system on a virtual machine (assuming VMTools are installed) but the command to do this- Shutdown-VMGuest -returns straight away. In a script we may wish to wait for the VM to power down before continuing, this can be done as follows.
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Hitachi Information Forum

Jun 3, 2011 · 1 min read · hitachi ·

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A couple of pics from the Hitachi Information Forum event at the Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal Football Club, yesterday.

Line counting in Windows batch files

May 31, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft windows ·

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In Linux the wc -l command gives a count of the number of lines in a file or pipe. Windows doesn’t have the wc command, but the same can be done using the built-in find command as follows:
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Microsoft Tech.Days UK 2011

May 25, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft ·

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A couple of pics from day 2 of the Microsoft Tech Days UK 2011 event at Fulham Broadway cinema yesterday. This was in the Hyper-V for IT-Pro’s track.

Turn off the pointing stick on a Dell E4310

May 23, 2011 · 1 min read · dell latitude ·

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I have a Dell E4310 as my work laptop at the moment and have been very pleased with it. The only niggle I have is that when I’m typing the cursor often randomly jumps back to the middle of a previous sentence.
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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 20 May 2011)

May 20, 2011 · 1 min read ·

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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 20 May 2011)

Some interesting or useful articles, blog posts, and other stuff I looked at this week……
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Quote of the Day- May 19th 2011

May 19, 2011 · 1 min read ·

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“The tastiest ice cream is always the hardest to scoop” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

Scheduled Tasks running every 15 minutes

May 12, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft windows ·

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In Windows XP, the Scheduled Tasks system only offers the choice of “Daily”, “Weekly”, “Monthly”, “Once” or when the computer starts or the user logs on. It’s possible, however, to schedule tasks to occur much more frequently, for example every 15 minutes.
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ASP.NET Drop-Down List OnSelectedIndexChanged not firing

May 11, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft visualbasic vb.net asp.net ·

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When using an OnSelectedIndexChanged event on a drop down list in an ASP.NET page, the event code wasn’t getting executed.
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