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November 2008 - Posts

Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista (SP2) has been a hot topic recently.  While Microsoft has not released an immense amount of information regarding this upcoming important update, some interesting stuff has appeared ( here and here , for example). Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:59 AM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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Self-writing code

If you do a lot of scripting for Windows, then you probably use VBScript (VBS) to do it. With VBScript you can easily retrieve information about pretty much anything that is in your computer, or connected to the network, which is what makes it a good Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:30 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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A bigger Sky

Out of the blue the SkyDrive team have announced that they are extended the storage limit that we'll have on our SkyDrives from 5Gb to 25Gb! That's a 5-fold increase which is going to come in handy for everyone. A few other changes being made are: The Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 11:01 AM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Big fat TechNet discount

Want a 20% discount on your new TechNet subscription or renewal? A rather rhetorical question actually as I am sure that you do! Just click here to buy it online, and use the promotion code: TNPAN09 . The offer expires on the 30th of June 2009 , and is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:18 PM by Daniel Oxley | 3 Comments
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Job/Life/Reputation protector 2.0

Back in January I posted some simple VBA code for adding an “are you sure?” type question to the Reply To All button in Outlook. Since then I have received a few suggestions for improving the code, one of the most common of which was to add to the question Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 12:58 PM by Daniel Oxley | 4 Comments
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A good and bad end to the Formula 1 season

Yesterday the Formula 1 season finished with quite a nail-biting last 20 seconds, I really thought Felipe Massa had won (even the commentator had started congratulating Massa as well) until Hamilton stole it in the last possible second. The good news Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 6:41 PM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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