Archive for May, 2007
BizTech: Announcing the Sydney Business & Technology User Group (SBT UG)
I’d like to announce the new Sydney Business & Technology User Group, commencing next Wednesday 30 May 2007.
For those who want to cut to the chase, go the web site here: www.sbtug.com
Who is it for?
The new group is designed for senior developers, team leaders, software managers and software company owners. As such the talks are [...]
VFP: Important announcement concerning the Sydney VFP User Group
This is a difficult one to announce, but I have to let everyone in the Fox community know that I’ve made a drastic change to the Sydney VFP User Group.
In this post I’ll outline the reasons why and the outcomes I am hoping for.
Firstly, I need to let people know that the Sydney VFP UG [...]
VPC: Mouse issues running W2K3 under Virtual PC 2007
Solution: Set Hardware Acceleration to Full
Problem: My mouse movement was really sluggish in a VPC running Windows 2003 R2 (but other OSes are fine)
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Paul Adare on the Microsoft Newsgroup for sorting this one out
Here’s the steps:
Right click on Desktop, select Display Properties
Settings Tab
Advanced Button
Troubleshoot Tab
Slide the Hardware Acceleration tab to Full
BLOG: Please update to my FeedBurner feed
Just wondering if you could do me a favour…
I’m trying to get a better handle on my readership, so I was hoping you’d be kind enough to subscribe to my FeedBurner feed instead of directly point to the Blogger URL.
All you need to do is point your RSS reader to this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CraigBaileysThoughts
If you are just [...]
OUTLOOK: Error 0×80040154
Bottom line: you need to completely uninstall and reinstall office!
As part of my re-install recently I had to reinstall Office 2007. Not a drama. But when I first started Outlook I made the mistake of not setting up an email account right away (silly me!). Well it turns out that Outlook didn’t really like this, [...]
BLOG: Please update to my FeedBurner feed
Just wondering if you could do me a favour…
I’m trying to get a better handle on my readership, so I was hoping you’d be kind enough to subscribe to my FeedBurner feed instead of directly point to the Blogger URL.
All you need to do is point your RSS reader to this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CraigBaileysThoughts
If you are just [...]
PICASA: Restoring Albums from backup
I love Picasa as a photo (and video) organiser. And I especially love how easy it is to put your photos on the web as albums (with no advertising!). It only takes a few clicks and a whole Picasa album is then available for friends and family to see.
And although I had backed up all [...]
PERSONAL: First the good news…
Well, it’s great to be back. The last few weeks of ‘increased productivity’ J have been due to my notebook’s premature death.
Not to worry, Magic Dave (Talman’s IT guru) got me all back up and running and in the process loaded Vista on my machine (the machine required a complete reformat and install).
And on the [...]
