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Pinch to Get an Overview of All Your Android Home Screens

Jun 20, 2011 · 1 min read · android ·

When you’re on the home screen and you want to head to a screen that’s more than one swipe away, it’s probably faster to get an overview of all your screens and tap on the one you want. To do this, just pinch in on the home screen
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PowerPoint poisoning

Jun 16, 2011 · 1 min read · powerpoint ·

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Dilbert PowerPoint Poisoning Eleven years on this is still one of my all-time favourite Dilbert cartoons.

VMware Forum 2011 - London

Jun 16, 2011 · 1 min read · vmware ·

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A couple of pictures from yesterday’s [VMware Forum in London]. In the last few years the event has been held at Chelsea Football Club and the ExCeL Centre. This year it was held at Wembley Stadium.

Internet Explorer text all in italics

Jun 10, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft ·

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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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