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This year is computer upgrade year at home, and one of the first steps I undertook was to replace the 17” Philips CRT screen I have owned in the past few years (107S51) with an Acer 17” LCD (V173). Best screen I ever owned. The old Philips sat in the corner and gathered dust, until…

When I was still at school, most of the early personal computer platforms were proprietary. Apple. Commodore and Tandy were among the big names in development at that time, each with its own hardware platforms developed in house. That soon changed with the development of the PC platform by IBM which became open when it…

It seems like a long time since I studied to be a programmer. In fact it was back in 1999 that I completed my Dip BC in the programming stream at CPIT. A stint of Access development over some holidays convinced me I was not cut out for that line, and when I returned to…

It was just a year ago that I blogged about our progress in the direction of migrating to Exchange Server 2007. One year on, we have just finished uninstalling that server after migrating everyone for a second time, to Live@Edu. What changed our great plan to run our own in-house Exchange server? Exchange 2007 is…

One of the useful features of Windows 7 is XP Mode, but hitherto it was only available for computers which had hardware assisted virtualisation. This meant I couldn’t use it because even though this PC is only 2 years old, the Intel CPU is a model that doesn’t have vT support. MS has recently changed…